Dear Readers: Today’s title comes from one of the worst movies I have ever seen, but seems apt in light of a quote from Bob Turner, winner of NY-09′s special congressional election last night: We have lit one candle today. It’s going to be a bonfire pretty soon.
As Tammy Bruce would say — blame the JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS.
It looks like that is going to be quite the conflagration. Obama is under 50% in California. With news like this, perhaps it is time for the President to consider Charles Caesar’s advice!
First Lady Michelle Obama isn’t helping the cause that much, either.
…First Lady Michelle Obama apparently showing extreme disrespect to the American flag at a ceremony in honor of the victims of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. As police and firefighters fold the flag to the sound of marching bagpipers, a skeptical looking Mrs. Obama leans to her husband and appears to say, “all this just for a flag.” She then purses her lips and shakes her head slightly as Mr. Obama nods.
Left Coast Rebel is tracking the NY-09 victory and what it means for the 2012 election. While it is exciting to have California go from a slightly more pale shade of blue, I am hoping that we keep Team Obama distracted along the coast so there are larger margins of victory (to cover the Chicago-style fraud) in the other 57 states. Anna’s Clue Tank has a wonderful graphic in line with this news!
Hat-Tip: Anna's Clue Tank
Speaking of California, Beers with Demo is covering the dual problems of no money to fund elite projects AND over-regulation in the Golden State.
Perhaps someone should report all of this to Obama. Apparently, his team has started-up another big-brother-report site, AttackWatch.com, that is being treated with the same amount of respect as the previous versions of this inanity have been (hat-tip, B-Daddy).
Back to California and San Diego: Shane Atwell had a marvelous comment about last week’s big blackout that I had to share: Every time there’s an outbreak of salmonella or even speculation of some minor crisis in an unregulated market, the statists come out of the woodwork to discuss ‘market failure’ and the need for more regulations. But when a heavily regulated industry fails–an industry who’s regulations were supposed to make it cheaper, more efficient and safer–those statists are silent.. Read the full piece; it is excellent.
While New York seems to be sending a good message, California’s Assembly was busy at work servicing themselves: The California Legislature’s last-minute bill binge upended the state. The battle in the Legislature wasn’t just about improving California’s financial stability. It was about establishing Democratic dominance and control over nearly every aspect of Californians’ lives. The way this dominance was accomplished was using massive redistribution tactics. More information, which as another must-read, is HERE!
Concluding with the “Bonfire of the Vanities”: Bruce Willis was the best thing about that film. Turning now to a favorite scene from a far better movie, here is a clip you can report to AttackWatch.com!
Another entertaining and amazing post! Thanks for the link! I went out on the proverbial limb, but that is sometimes where the truth is.
“First Lady Michelle Obama isn’t helping the cause that much, either.”
..there is a sound argument that what is ascribed to MOOCH-ELLE may not have been what she actually said. I get the feeling that — failing the uncovering of a tape recording (a la The Nixon Tapes) — we will NEVER know for sure. However, at the very least, her scowl, smirk, and glower were not mannerly nor reflective of the solemnity of the occasion.
Her body language — well, facial expressions, actually — were those of a petulant child who would have preferred not to attend. (Maybe she was longing to be on yet another one of her lavish vacations.)
You would not see this sort of behavior from Laura Bush, Nancy Reagan, Rosalyn Carter, Patricia Nixon, Lady Bird Johnson, Jackie Kennedy, Mamie Eisenhower, etc.
Hell, you would not have seen that behavior form Hillary Clinton!
Leslie, thanks so much for the link. Grreat SLOB round-up!
OK. Bonfires did leave much to be desired which made it that much more difficult for me to handle as I am a huge fan of both the book and its author Tom Wolfe.
The Rev. Bacon looked just like Al Sharpton!
Nice picture of the Texas A&M bonfire which was an annual tradition each Fall until the tragic accident in 1999. I’m sure Rick Perry is down there near the base of the stack somewhere. These were typically over 100 ft. high, stacked with four to five levels of freshly cut logs. Impressive sight.
Thanks, Sammy. I was going to identify that bonfire photo, also.
I live in a rural area of that county.
No way to describe being there at bonfire……they were Just. Massive.
I was listening to KPFK this morning, and wound up sending them this letter:
I’m listening to the shoe Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod, its a roundtable, and I caught some remarks from Tom Hayden.
I just thought that the initial point, that the unemployment numbers are understated, is a huge point for me, too.
His solution bothers me, because it sounds like he wants to issue some sort of command to somebody somewhere, to “make more jobs” and that will happen. After the sad experience of the old Soviet Union, and the utter failure of The Stimulus, I’ve been looking around for something else.
Do you know that there is another group of people who are very concerned about the high unemployment rate, and also how understated it is? And that our minority middle class has lost nearly all the ground it had gained since the ’60s? And, they are saying that there is economic data that shows how to get our unemployment numbers down? They say that a very effective way of stimulating the economy to reduce unemployment is to reduce the drag of the government on the economy.
And, they point to the way the recession of 1920 was handled, as opposed to the way the recession of 1939 was handled, and I can see that they have a point.
They say the government spending is a drag on the economy. I agree, but I also think there are some things only a government can produce, and a big country does require a big, complex government. There is no doubt about that in my mind. Surprisingly, when I put it in those terms, they agree.
But right now, they say, today, we have a government that is drawing so hard on private resources that it is causing our economy to cavitate. This is dangerous, and it is prolonging and deepening our unemployment problems. I have to agree. A government that threw away half a billion — billion, with a “b” — on a known dog of a company for the sake of a photo-op, is not competent to create anything. And they have proved it, with the dismal economic response to The Stimulus, which they said would right our unemployment problem as of nearly two years ago.
I think there is strong, substantial agreement between you and the Tea Parties about what we want, but they have a different prescription on how to get it. As usual, I am in the middle on all the rhetoric, but right now I think the Tea Parties have the right idea — merely leaving money in the hands of the people who make it, and let them buy whatever goods and services they want. By doing so, the employment problem will right itself faster than it ever will if we try to force the government to make jobs through government spending. The difference is efficiency between consumer-directed and government-directed spending is real, and it is really that great.
I’ll be looking to you to help identify what what shouldn’t be trimmed.
Good Luck, and God bless,
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Is there somebody in the LA area that is willing to talk to these people on the air? From the remarks I heard, I suspect they have no grounding in either economics or numbers, generally.
Still, the point that the Tea Parties have the exact same goal, lowering unemployment, but by different (effective) means, should be made to them, over and over. And we should try to find a way to reach their listeners.
Mut thank you for the linkage. Buy the bumper sticker. Help the disillusioned Left wake up from the Obama nightmare.
NY-09 is massive. A seat the Democrat Party held since 1922 now has a Republican. To paraphrase Carville who said many Democrats in Congress are in a panic, what needs to be said to the rank&file Democrats is “Its Obama stupid.” He has the anti-Midas touch. Scott Brown, the 2010 House landslide, now NV-02 and NY-09. The verdict is in, Obama is an umitigated disaster.
Henry Waxman[Slime-CA] had the nerve to accuse the Jewish voters in NY-09 of voting Republican because they want to keep their money. Acutally Henry We the People want to keep Our money away from you and your friends. We know better than to invest $535 million into a company like Solyndra because we undersand when it costs more to make a product and the company is not addressing that issue they will go under.
As for Debbie the Schnauzer, sorry to insult dogs but her entire package reminds me of a yippy Schnauzer, what a tool. She said that NY-09 was always a tough seat for Democrats. Really? That seat gave us Geraldine Ferraro, Mondale’s VP candidate, Charles Schumer is now a Senator, and most infamaously Anthony Weiner. All are Democrats.
If the Democrat Party does not wise up I predict tough times for them. Like all of Solyndra’s red flags the Democrats are ignoring the red flags indicating their doom. I wonder if they are the bitter clingers who love their power or simple hubris in that they can’t believe what has always worked before does not work now. If the latter then their inability to come up with new ways proves they are the party of the Dodo, stuck in a behavoral rut and incapable of change. Doomed to political extinction. Just hope they don’t drag the rest of us down to their doom.
“Debbie the Schnauzer”
LOL
I call Waxman “Henry-the nostril aliens have landed-Waxman”.
Too long, I know, but I think it every time I see a photo of him.
Maybe there are little alien ships docked up in those holes.
Sorry….got carried away.