Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
The findings suggest that public opinion has hardened in advance of the 2010 elections, making it tougher for Democrats to translate their legislative successes, or a tentatively improving U.S. economy, into gains among voters.
Republicans have reassembled their coalition by reconnecting with independents, seniors, blue-collar voters, suburban women and small town and rural voters—all of whom had moved away from the party in the 2006 elections, in which Republicans lost control of the House. Those voter groups now favor GOP control of Congress.
“This data is what it looks like when Republicans assemble what for them is a winning coalition,” said GOP pollster Bill McInturff, who conducts the survey with Democratic pollster Peter Hart.
He said the Republican alliance appeared to be “firmer and more substantial” than earlier in the year.
Mr. Hart noted that, to his own party’s detriment, a series of major news events and legislative achievements—including passage of a sweeping health-care law, negotiating a nuclear disarmament treaty with Russia and making a quick arrest in the Times Square terrorism attempt—has not measurably increased support for Democrats. “A lot has happened,” he said, “but the basic dynamic of the 2010 elections seems almost set in concrete.”
A big shift is evident among independents, who at this point in the 2006 campaign favored Democratic control of Congress rather than Republican control, 40% to 24%. In this poll, independents favored the GOP, 38% to 30%.
It would seem someone has “squandered” some “goodwill.”
The pattern will continue because of, not in spite of, “passage of a sweeping health-care law, negotiating a nuclear disarmament treaty with Russia and making a quick arrest in the Times Square terrorism attempt.” The health care bill is a turkey, disarmament is nothing but ostrich diplomacy, and the whole Times Square thing is a scandal that ought to involve a massive purge from our government’s highest offices and maybe a guillotine. Once again terrorists were thwarted by their own inept bomb-making.
We are so lucky to have Obama be our President right now! Really, we are. If we have to have Him, I’m so glad we’ve got Him when the terrorists seem to have started sucking at their jobs.
I can just see the terrorist boss right now, pacing to and fro in his cave in Pakistan or wherever: “Come on you shitheads, we’ve only got six months left before our window of opportunity closes! Let’s get hold of some decent fuses here and use ’em right!”
Back in ’94, I made a special point to bring in an extra special dinner on election night so I could watch the returns come in and thoroughly enjoy myself. This year, I think I’m going to call a caterer. No matter how it turns out, we need to look past it, onward into the future and ask ourselves the question that really matters: How do we make sure we never need to learn this lesson again? How do we talk to our young people, with their dwindling attention spans, and get the message across to them that government does not exist to give you an emotional high or to keep that high sustained; it is there to butt out where it doesn’t belong, to make responsible decisions where it does belong, and that freedom and opportunity are much more important than more & more nanny state programs?
Obviously, the first step is going to have to be a conservative coalition that sticks to its knitting, and doesn’t make the mistake of acting like a rancid rotten incumbent power when it’s been an incumbent power for awhile. But you can’t stop there; all of the blame doesn’t go there. The voters have to take some of the blame.
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The Republican establishment is just awful. The leftists behind the throne understand very well they need some time behind RINO cover to digest their gains. It is obvious that this prospect does not concerned them in the least.
- jamzw | 05/13/2010 @ 09:15