Nightly Ramble Returns 2-8-11

Rome, NY– As this is posted, I’m in the old Griffith Air Force base.  They’re using a whole bunch of the old base being used for industry, these days. One of the industries is a Family Dollar distribution center, to

He Hu laughs last, China’s President Hu Jintao laugh all the way back to China, from Doug Powers 2 Michelle Malkin:

The Washington Post has given their Worst Week in Washington distinction to China’s President Hu Jintao for enduring

No Loughning matter, from Kim Strassel,Wall Street Journal:

One of the tragedies of tragedies is that some politicians just can’t resist the urge to use them for political gain. The Tucson shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords first

I have very few conclusions to draw about this entire sordid Loughner affair, but there are a number of things that should be commented on.

There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that Jared Lougner is a nut case.  

Crying Clyburn, James Clyburn is hearing voices, yet again, from Michael O’Brien, Hill:

Clyburn said that Palin didn’t grasp why such rhetoric was so troubling, regardless of the motivations of the alleged shooter. The No. 3 House Democrat

Lurch Left, John Kerry lurchs to the left, from Pete Kasperowicz, Hill:

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) warned incoming Republicans Tuesday morning against cutting back the size of government so much that it cannot contribute to U.S. productivity.

“Do

Slapping down the left, the leftosphere since the murder of Cristina Green and others have been trying to push the idea that hate some exclusive province of the right.  There have been several notable rebuttals.  However the tour de

The KKK is gone, the Kennedy Kongressional Klan is gone.  Free at last, free at last.

Class envy, from James Carroll, Boston Globe:

If a just society is defined by the relationship between the well off and

Dumbo underestimated political cost of Obama Care, from Daily Mail(UK):

Barack Obama today admitted his controversial plans to overhaul the healthcare system have proved more costlier in political terms than he anticipated.

In a TV interview, the President also

Billy says:

At Faceboook, McPhillips had written:

“As best as I can tell, Republicans spent the day rapidly falling behind the curve of their own success last night. I expect that by January they will be suited up in the

Keith Olbermann, Eric opined:

David has been rightly chiming in on the Keith Olbermann business. It’s kinda like observing a train wreck.

But I have to tell you that I look at this situation and have to wonder if

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

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

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

Libtards don’t know history, from Sister Toldjah:

This is absolutely positively too priceless for words.  In a speech to Tea Party supporters in Nevada on Monday, Sarah Palin told the crowd that they shouldn’t “party like it’s 1773?