Snark of the Day: Tea Party

Your Mortgage is not My Problem.

Unknown member of the Tea Party, via A.J. Strata, Strata-Sphere

Eric Holder, the reprobate who thinks he is Attorney General, has called his country “a nation of cowards.”   Lisa Fristch, National Center for Public Policy Research,, thinks that Holder darn well knows what a coward look likes, as he see one in the mirror when he shaves:

For a black man who just became the nation’s top legal official in an administration headed by a black man, to project racist notions on the rest of America is irresponsible and cowardly.

If there is anything to talk about regarding race in the country, how about that nearly half of black children are missing their fathers?  How about that, although blacks make up 12 percent of the overall nation, they account for almost 40 percent of the prison population (in 2005, as compiled by the Justice Department)?

The most siignificant cause of the black socio-economic disparity is a pathologically defective black culture.   It is a culture from which Holder escaped and of which is too cowardly to address.

Street scene snippet:

Me: Its a ducky day.

Other guy:   Gonna turn sunny    I just did a Navajo rain  dance.

Or words to that effect.

Mother Nature is  sexist, WESH:

According to a recently released study, alcohol consumption may increase the risk of cancer for women, but some local women said that the findings will not change their lives.

Researchers at the University of Oxford in Great Britain have released a study that suggests that even one glass of wine with dinner every night could increase the risk of cancer in women.

Real life continues to conform to demands of gender feminists.

The Wit and Wisdom of James, Best of the Web

Let’s hope the Obama administration is learning that conflicts between the U.S. and “the rest of the world” have not been merely, or even largely, the result of George W. Bush’s bad attitudes, but usually reflect fundamental differences in interest or ideology.:

The Obama administration may, or may not, learn, but they will never admit.

Tea Party pictures, Glenn Reynolds. Instapundit.

Eric Holder, the reprobate who thinks he is Attorney General, has indicated that he, and the Obama administration, will ignore federal law, San Francisco Chronicle:

(02-26) 20:00 PST San Francisco — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is sending strong signals that President Obama – who as a candidate said states should be allowed to make their own rules on medical marijuana – will end raids on pot dispensaries in California.
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Asked at a Washington news conference Wednesday about Drug Enforcement Administration raids in California since Obama took office last month, Holder said the administration has changed its policy.

There is no known medical use for marijuana and therefore no such thing as the so-called medical marijuana.  The Obama administration is also reported to being willing to wink at needle exchanges.   The Obama administration, change on which you can get stoned.   If Holder is not comfortablke upholding the law which it is his duty to enforce, his only honorable option is to resign.    Then honor would be strange concept to a reprobate who kidnaps children.

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 Our government seems intent on setting on the same path as Fidel Castro sent his nation back in the 50’s. As a result they’re still driving the 50’s cars they had then. Advice? Get a great vehicle, one that will last, because by the time they get down in DC nobody will be building or buying new ones.

• Follow On: I guess I ought to start here:  Billy, I should have mentioned in my argument last night, that I think your reading of the SOLO crowd to be dead nuts on. My only point in the discussion of the last few days is what I see as a misidentification of the problem we both see. I should also point out, while I have you,  that I found your post on finding who ended up with your LPC  quite touching. I don’t intend equating these two situations, but about as close as I can come to that experience is finding a guy in Ohio who was, last I knew, still using the little Apache Chief pop up camper our family used as I was growing up. Thing’s coming up on 50 years old, now, and it’s still going strong. Amazing.  I spent a lot of happy summers in that thing. The point I’m making, here;  It’s a rare thing, when bits of our very personal history revisit us… rare that we get a glimpse of what’s happened to what were once landmarks… very large parts of our lives, and encouraging to know that they continue to exist, for reasons I don’t think I have the words for. 
• Caption this:  A second place at OTB’s caption contest.
• Some further Wurzelbacher:  A couple thoughts:
  •   When we as a nation came out of the depression, we conservatives were told that we had to hide that conservative light under a bushel, as it were; we had to be seen as being more like liberal Democrats. More intelectuual, and less bound by principle. And we did become just that.  The direct and undeniable result of following that advice, was our political exile for 40 years. It was only when Reagan came along and started actually being conservative, and reliant more on our principles than our smarts,  that Republicans started making headway. The ‘moderates’ led us astray, both then, and more recently.  These are, of course the same folks that the press and the left (but I repreat myself) consider the smarter among us… at least until they get elected.
  • When Democrats moderate their stated positions in election seasons they tended to do fairly well. When Republicans moderate their stated positions in election season, they lose their backsides every time. What does that tell you?
  • It interests me that we’re getting so very much traffic on this conversation… both BitsBlog and OTB; both of which are getting comments from readers at a rate neither of us have seen recently. It tells me, for one thing, that Wurzelbacher has struck a nerve… and harder than I had estimated when I wrote my posts on the subject.
  • Marco, a commentor here, says on the subject:
    

    Which is why Fred Thompson – serious, real, not anti-intellectual – was the logical standard-bearer in ’08

    Well, yes, exactly. The party leadership didn’t see it that way, alas.I wonder if we might prevail on them to rethink that point? Will it really require another McCain-type loss to get their attention, I wonder?

  • As an adjunct to this, Rasmussen is reporting that 60% of Americans think government is the problem, not the solution. And isn’t that point at the heart of Wurzelbacher’s message?

   

• Here’s Newt in your eye:  James Joyner says Newt Gingrich was at CPAC this morning, and has details. Newt makes my case for me as regards there being a major difference between Republican intelectuals and CONSERVATIVE intelectuals.
• BEEP BEEP: BBCT to Boortz, who offers us a nifty little bumper sticker: (Does anyone even say nifty anymore?) If Boortz isn’t on your reading list, he should be.
• Admiral, they’re laying a smoke screen: Yes, I saw the showboating vote on the ‘Fairness Doctrine’. Trust me, this is a smokescreen. Look up the word ‘localism’.
• The Fed Buys the Citi:  By now, you’ll have noticed that the federal government now owns about 40% of Citibank. We have written about Citi and their political connections several times previously. What’s happening here is that the Democrats who have been in Citi’s hip pocket for decades… or is it the other way around… are not about to let Citi fail because of that relationship. Bottom line: this is political payback for political support.  Doesn’t it feel good to know your tax dollars are going to political payback? Oh… should I mention their values had dropped 20% by noon?
• More Tea, Vicar?  Chuck Simmins is doing a bang up job trying to list all the Tea Party gatherings. If you know of one he’s not listing, drop him a line.

Barack Obama may not exactly be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but at least BO is not a total moron.  The Obama adminitsration does good and tells the United Nations to shove it:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will not attend a United Nations conference on racism that critics say will be a forum to criticize Israel and will no longer attend planning sessions for it, a U.S. official said on Friday.

“We will not attend,” the official said.

The Obama administration will not attend, but we will applaud.    Anti-racism is simply UN diplo-speak for bushing Israel.

Barack Obama doesn’t like freedom, democracy, or dissent.    As further evidence,  BO has hired one Carl Freeman, Israel Matzav:

What the left is unable to do is defend Freeman’s views on China, where he unapologetically supports the bloody crackdown on democracy activists who dare protest in the streets of the capital, and Saudi Arabia, which as far as Freeman is concerned is something like Berkeley in the desert

Needless to say, Freeman is no friend of Israel.

Eric Holder has misplayed his hand and revealed BO’s inttentionns, all for naught, Mike Soraghan, Hill:

 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tossed cold water on the prospect of reinstating the assault weapons ban, highlighting Democrats’ reluctance to take on gun issues.

Attorney General Eric Holder raised the prospect Wednesday that the administration would push to bring back the ban. But Pelosi (D-Calif.) indicated on Thursday that he never talked to her. The Speaker gave a flat “no” when asked if she had talked to administration officials about the ban.

Moe Lane, Red State, takes good steady aim and levels Holder:

Eric Holder was on today announcing that the Obama administration was going to bring back the “assault weapons” ban. As Purple Avenger of Ace of Spades notes, this is the same guy who called for making armor piercing bullets (“cop-killers”) illegal…

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…while being apparently blissfully unaware of the fact that they already are.

 Meanwhile Allah Pundit, Hot Air, offers a warning:

Clearly, Madam Speaker doesn’t think she has the votes.

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Presumably they’ll revisit the issue after the midterms if they pick up a few more liberal seats in the House.

BO doesn’t like freedom.  No populus can remain free while the state has guns but the citizens do not.

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 This is the ‘Because I can’ edition.  Well, mostly, because, well, you know.  And also, because that seems Obama’s attitude about spending our money. And our kids’ money. And our grandkids. And our great grandkids.

• The Pic: I chose this graphic because it struke me that Rambler… American Motors… was the one automaker that fell during a  previous liberal Democrat’s administration.  Consider the implications.
• Yes, really:  Oh, comon, Billy… that’s an easy one. The Constitution calls out a design involving limits on governmental power. So what we’re talking about, here, is the principle that government needs to at minimum be limited, with it’s powers both enumerated and limited in nature;  The princiiples on which the traditional American philosophy is based… the one that teaches that government must be limited in power if Individual Liberty is to be safeguarded.  The reason you only find the word ‘freedom’ used once is also a simple one; The document doesn’t seek to grant freedoms to the people… It’s authors recognized they hadn’t the power to grant freedoms. The Constitution seeks, rather, to limit the power of government, in order to protect those freedoms, and thereby the lion’s share of it is taken up with that single purpose… limiting government.   I would particularly draw your attention to the ninth and tenth amendments.  Now, as I suggested yesterday, you may disagree with the principles it lays out, saying that government needs to be eliminated outright, but that’s a seperate matter altogether from the question of principles being expressed in the Constitution. .    I say to you again: The Constitution as such, and for that matter, the principles it expresses, don’t have a damn thing to do with any of what we’re seeing in DC these days. What we’re seeing there is pure pragmatism, totally divorced from the constitutional design and  it’s principles of limited government.
• Stored rail cars: As a railfan, I can confirm this  Wall Street Journal story:
  

  …Tens of thousands of boxcars are sitting idle all over the country, parked indefinitely by railroads whose freight volumes have plummeted along with the economy.
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  Railroads, which have seen shipping volumes drop by double-digit percentages in recent months, face a particularly vexing problem. The nation’s five largest railroads have put more than 30% of their boxcars — 206,000 in all — into storage, according to the Association of American Railroads. Placed end-to-end, the cars would stretch from New York to Salt Lake City

  Traffic is in fact down, and has been for a while. The problems described seem a little overblown, though. One droppoff in traffic we’ve noted around here; There’s not nearly as much in the way of Ethonol Unit trains as we’d seen a year back. Fuel prices going down, of course. The auto rack units are getting shorter, too.

• Must be all that fact checking they’re doing… elsewhere: Another nail in the coffin of the New York Times.  In the words of he who doesn’t need the links, Faster, please. With superglue, yet.
• That ends the argument:  Jen Rubin At Pajamas Media nails it:
  

  …President Obama’s speech Tuesday night should put to rest the argument as to who he really is. He revealed plans so sweeping and so expensive that, if they came to pass, we would permanently refashion the role of the federal government in the lives of every American.During the campaign certain Republicans and libertarians tried to convince us Obama was a moderate, a sort of Bill Clinton “third way” reformer — and certainly no radical as conservatives claimed. Conservatives remained skeptical. Then during the transition, the debate as to Obama’s political philosophy continued. He sprinkled his cabinet with sober figures and experienced economic gurus. So perhaps he was moderate in outlook and restrained in ambition.

  Next came the stimulus plan. Yes, he delegated the entire enterprise to Nancy Pelosi and the liberal draftsmen in Congress. But perhaps this was an error in judgment, a departure from what he “really” wanted in order to achieve a stimulus plan.

  Well, the mystery has been solved. Obama is an unalloyed and extreme liberal. He does not intend merely to slay the recession. He intends to remake the country’s education, health care, and energy policies, with a hugely expanded and enormously powerful federal government directing vast swatches of American life and industry.

  I’ll tell ya, lady…I’ve never had a doubt in my mind for one minute about which way this thing was going. And this thing is, It’s going even beyond THOSE wild dreams, because however bad Obama is, congressional Democrats are even worse.  And he can’t control their spending habits. Or, won’t. It’s why I’d always held that bad as he was, McCain was a better choice for the country than Obama.

  The plain truth is that Barack Obama has spent, near on $33BUSD/Day since taking office. His proposals involve trillions… yes, that’s with a T… Trillions more. He knows it’s not having the effect of stopping the recession. In fact, the evidnece is already starting to come in that it’s making things worse. Yet he still wants MORE. The bovine excrement he’s spreading about cutting the deficit in half, now that he’s busted the bank, and the world economy with it, isn’t helping either. Now, admittedly, he could prove me wrong, by using the veto pen on anything with earmarks on it. But you and I both know that won’t happen.

  Word on the wires this monring is that the budget Obama’s putting forward will amount to… are you ready, here?… $4,000,000,000,000,000.00 That’s 4 trillion dollars. Or, if you like, around $12,000USD for ever living soul in the country.  And you know as well as I do that budget will get far far bigger when the Democrats in Congress get ahold of it, and adds their pet projects to it. Oh.. and don’t forget the Obama cabinet members adding theirs, too. Ah, yes, we’re in the best of hands, we are.

• Welcome to the campaign season: Apparently after the SOTU speech, Americans have decided that it’s not to early to start thinking about replacing Obama in 2012.
• Democrat notices we’re still at war: So, Panetta’s busy saying there’s still a war on terror? Hey… Don’t tell US, Leon… tell your boss. He’s still trying to let our enemy out of out of jail.
• Gee.. less must really be more: Hey, Mayor Bloomberg; Explain this to me; How does cutting down on the number of available streets to drive on reduce congestion? Before you do this, you’d better ask the folks in DC what happened after the roads around the White House were closed. Clue: It doesn’t reduce congestion, it just puts it elsewhere. Moron.
• Word from the bookstore: It appears not everyone is in hard times. Sales of Atlas Shrugged are through the roof, says Reynolds. Wonderful if true… and a touch late.
• Dinosaur Press trying to ignore Sheets? Ya know, it’s funny how the Byrd comments about Obama’s power grab that I mentioned here yesterday,  have fallen off the Dinosaur radar.  Can’t imagine why that would be happening. Postulate such a comment coming from a Republican with as much time in as Byrd, and such comments being directed at Bush. Do you suppose it’d be anything less than wall to wall mode for a week with the thing? As it is, it didn’t even last the full cycle. Hmmm. Perhaps the broadcasters are worried about their operating tickets being pulled, huh?

James Joyner points to an article at Next Right I noticed last night.

Patrick Ruffini decries the “Joe-the-Plumberization of the GOP.”

If you want to get a sense of how unserious and ungrounded most Americans think the Republican Party is, look no further than how conservatives elevate Joe the Plumber as a spokesman. The movement has become so gimmick-driven that Wurzelbacher will be a conservative hero long after people have forgotten what his legitimate policy beef with Obama was.

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Conservatives should not need Joe the Plumber to prove their middle class bona fides. We are naturally the party of the middle, and we don’t need gimmicks to prove it. Demographically, Democrats rely on being the party of the upper sixth and the lower third, while Republicans tend to do better with everyone in between. When we start losing the middle class and the suburbs, we lose big like we did in 2008.

Put another way, Republicans thrive as the party of normal Americans — the people in the middle culturally and economically. This is true of our leadership as well — we have a history of nominating figures who came first from outside politics. Our base is the common-sense voter in the middle who bought a house she could afford and didn’t lavishly overspend in good times and who is now subsidizing the person who didn’t.

Of course, they didn’t appoint Wurzelbacher as VP as they did with Sarah Palin.  The two are of a piece:  A faux populism that comes at the cost of alienating the intellectuals and serious leaders of the movement.

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I’m becoming increasingly non-plussed with the assertion that Joe represents an ‘unserious’ move on the part of the GOP. It’s that attitude, disaffection and condescension of the Republican rank and file, that led us to the nomination of John McCain, for example, wherein we saw the crowds running much larger for Palin than McCain.

As that mess demonstrated clearly, the bigger danger is in the alienating of the rank and file. I’m amazed that message hasn’t been heard.

James comments:

I’m writing this from the CPAC convention and judging from the speakers, there’s not a whole lot of recognition of the need to update the intellectual platform to accomodate a changed era.  It’s as if Jimmy Carter’s still in the White House and Roe vs. Wade was just handed down.

Yeah, well, Look, James… and Patrick, for that matter; I’m less than convinced that what we have before us, ISN’T Jimmah Carter in blackface. Add to that, the issue of the GOP needing to return to it’s roots… the values it’s intellectual leaders spent so long ignoring… and the mood you describe seems to be an exact fit to the situation at hand.

I almost told Pat this last night when he posted his piece… with considerable effort I ignored it, in favor of putting time into the point by point on the SOTU address… but with James jumping on this one, I can’t resist replying.

If Pat really thinks, as he says, that the “Republicans thrive as the party of normal Americans — the people in the middle culturally and economically”, then how is it that the only ‘serious’ candidates are those of the intellectual class? The connection Pat’s never made, in my sight, is that such a middle class party doesn’t feel the need of intellectual leadership… a beholding to an advanced inner circle.

I described this a while ago in my Pajamas Media article on Obama Worship and the Herd Mentality. I dare to suggest that holding the intellectual crowd so high is a herd mentality, one that Republicans simply do not subscribe to. It’s one major reason McCain got clobbered.

I agree, Wurzelbacher’s meme is overblown by his supporters… but why? The very reason that Wurzelbacher gets elevated to the degree that he does is because his end of the party has been ignored for far too long, and they’re latching onto him, because finally, someone’s listening to them. What you’re seeing is the Republican rank and file getting it’s first clean breath in years.

That oughta be a clue as to which way we should go.

Update: (Bit) INSTALANCHE!

Also blogging: Dan Riehl

Good evening. I’m Bobby Jindal, governor of Louisiana.

Tonight, we witnessed a great moment in the history of our republic. In the very chamber where Congress once voted to abolish slavery, our first African American president stepped forward to address the state of our union. With his speech tonight, the president completed a redemptive journey that took our nation from Independence Hall to Gettysburg to the lunch counter and now, finally, the Oval Office. 

Regardless of party, all Americans are moved by the president’s personal story — the son of an American mother and a Kenyan father, who grew up to become leader of the free world.  Like the president’s father, my parents came to this country from a distant land. When they arrived in Baton Rouge, my mother was already 4½ months pregnant. I was what folks in the insurance industry now call a “preexisting condition.” 

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You know when a lawyer is lying?   When his lips are moving.   Alas, if it were but true:  Mail(UK):

Abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has worsened sharply since President Barack Obama took office, a lawyer has claimedAhmed Ghappour, who represents some of the detainees, believes prison guards are ‘getting their kicks in’ before the camp is closed.

According to the human rights lawyer, abuse began to increase in December after Obama was elected

I am pretty sure that what Ahmed Ghappour believes, or claims to believe, has little if any relationship to the truth.    Ghappour boldly proclaims a change, but scant reason to explain any cause.   I mean, military guards did not become sadists, simply because BO got elected.

OK, I know that by now a lot of you either saw or read though this speech of Obama’s, and so it’s old news. But I’ve seen nobody rip through this thing point by point. I can understand why… with my work and family schedule it took me most of a day to get this in, which is why it gets posted so late on the day afterward. (Chattering classes my butt, Chuckles…)

There is some degree of repetition in this document.  A document of this size can hardly help reiterating certain points.  That said, I’ve tried keep that to a minimum.  I warn you in advance, this is a 10,000 word document.  An ambitious project to be sure.  Particularly, given that I succeeded in kicking it out in a little less than eight hours of effort.

I’m sure that there will be some who consider this document partisan.  So be it.  I’m sure that there will be some who will consider this document overly negative.  This respectful.  And many more complaints that I’m not even going to bother pondering.  I don’t care.  The bottom line is, then I will speak my mind in this as I do all things on this site.  The moment I start pulling back, the moment I start in effect lying on this site is the day that I shut this place down and go plant tulips or something.

So, with PBO in blockquotes and me in the clear, here’s my point by point rebuttal to last night’s state of the Union sales pitch:

Madame Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, and the First Lady of the United States:

I’ve come here tonight not only to address the distinguished men and women in this great chamber, but to speak frankly and directly to the men and women who sent us here.

I know that for many Americans watching right now, the state of our economy is a concern that rises above all others. And rightly so. If you haven’t been personally affected by this recession, you probably know someone who has – a friend; a neighbor; a member of your family. You don’t need to hear another list of statistics to know that our economy is in crisis, because you live it every day. It’s the worry you wake up with and the source of sleepless nights. It’s the job you thought you’d retire from but now have lost; the business you built your dreams upon that’s now hanging by a thread; the college acceptance letter your child had to put back in the envelope. The impact of this recession is real, and it is everywhere.

But while our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken; though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this:

We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before.

Fine rhetoric. Following through is the task, and has been since the election. Obama, however, seems back in campaign mode. This doesn’t seem to bode well.

The weight of this crisis will not determine the destiny of this nation. The answers to our problems don’t lie beyond our reach. They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our factories; in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth. Those qualities that have made America the greatest force of progress and prosperity in human history we still possess in ample measure. What is required now is for this country to pull together, confront boldly the challenges we face, and take responsibility for our future once more.

So, what you’re saying is, the answers lie not in the power of this country’s government, but in the power of it’s people. We agree, based on your words. Your actions, however, give lie to this idea, since the solutions you’ve offered to date, only involve the power of government to tax and spend, which history clearly shows us has always and invariably crippled our economy.

Now, if we’re honest with ourselves, we’ll admit that for too long, we have not always met these responsibilities – as a government or as a people. I say this not to lay blame or look backwards, but because it is only by understanding how we arrived at this moment that we’ll be able to lift ourselves out of this predicament.

Yes, by all means, let’s be honest; You say this to shift the blame off of the left and it’s policies, Mr. President. And I note that you place governent first. It’s little telltale signs like this that make us worry.
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Bacack Obama campaigned on a promise of Hope.   Well just thirty days into the Obama administration, Americans are losing hope, Washington Post:

A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows Americans’ feelings of financial insecurity have risen significantly since mid-September, as fears about making mortgage payments have spread and more now see the economy as in a long-term, serious decline. 

The more BO talks, the more the markets tank.   Oh sure the drive-bys still love BO, but the investors sure do not.

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OK, Yeah, I know. the state of the Union address. As you read this, I’m straining my fingers to get that promised point by point SOTU breakout to you. Sometime tonight, I promise. As of this morning, my editor told me I was at around 8000 words, and I’m only half done, so bear with me, please. This Ramble will be a shorter one than usual, as a result.

• Billy:
  

  Anyone with a decent grasp of history must understand that what you’re seeing right now is a final fulfillment of constitutional design together with the advent of Pragmatism in action over the past century or so.

  Comon’, Billy…. Now, you’ve got me a little annoyed. Your arguments are usually so seamless that the huge hole in this one is something of a shock to me.  So, which is it then? Pragmatism, or Constitutional design?  It simply cannot be both; they are mutually exclusive.  You may disagree with the principles expressed, of course and we’ve had THAT discussion before… but there it is;   The Constitution expresses principles.  Pragmatism, meanwhile, seeks a way around those principles, even to the point of ignoring them outright.  (Which is why, for example, leftists tend to consider the Constitution a ‘living document’, and why I’ve always told you that if we as a nation reverted to the Constitution, shedding all the extra-constitutional nonsense we’ve taken on in the last 100 years or so,  you and I would have far less to argue about. )  What we’re seeing in our government now is pragmatism, pure and simple.  The Constitution, and for that matter, the principles it expresses, don’t have a damn thing to do with any of what we’re seeing.  That divorce of principles from the power of government, has always been my biggest fear with liberals being handed that power. Bruce gives us a recent example of such.

• The Money speaks:  The market reacted to the State of the Union speech last night by shedding another 200 points. They know a power grab when they see one and they know it will be destructive..  It came back some, as there was some backtracking today on some governmental positions. But it’s amazing how the market is reacting not to market conditions, but rather hanging on every word of the government… and falling on every word of the government.
• Sheets, speaks, too… Even Bobby KKK  Byrd… a Democrat’s Democrat… sees it a power grab, and has publicly identified it as such.
• Bank Customers…. Seems Citibank Customers aren’t too happy about Obama’s plans, either.
• … and most of us…In fact, Rasmussen is saying that 54% of people don’t want anything to do with this ‘stimulus’.  They also report investor confidence is at a record low. Well, you start preaching anti-wealth, did you really think the market was going to do anything less?
• Now Democrats start dissing ‘stimulus’: From Tennessee comes word that the Democrat Governor there may reject the stimulus money, as Bobby Jindal did for his state. It should come as no shock to you that Granholm of Michigan has her hand out for the money being rejected by other states. Once again, we come to the difference between pragmatism and principle. And, given the relative condition of each state, the results of that difference.
• Meet the new boss, worse than the old boss: Word from Cuba that abuse at Guantanamo has worsened since Obama took office. Maybe we oughta just rendition all those morons to the airbase at Bagram, where Obama’s justice dept has decided they don’t have any rights, huh? I’m waiting for someone to point out that this is all Bush’s fault.
• The Olberman Circus: Another example of the slimepit that is MSNBC, anymore. I hope Michelle grabbed that down to MP3 from her TiVo, as I suggested to her, when she mentioned it, last night.
• The voices from the Pit: The Disnosaurs, of course, about ran out of spit with the pre-written toungebath they gave Obama.
• And the echo…. I saw Jindal’s reply. I’d say so-so. My take is he was over-coached, and nervous as a direct result of that. But as I told Joyner; If the Dinosaurs were offering pre-written and very slanted reviews of Obama’s speech, why are we not assuming that Jinda;s speech reviews were similarly pre-written and similarly slanted?
• And the clueless:  Ya know, maybe the reason nobody messes with Joe is nobody’s quite sure what planet he’s on.  What number???!?!!!??  Yikes. I’m now convinced; Biden needs watching.
• And the corrupt:  Yeah, I know.. Gary Locke to commerce.  But as Michelle tells us,what we have here is yet another ethically challanged Obama appointee.  Change we can…. ummmm what, again?

I’ve gotta get back to the State of the Union thing I’m working on.