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2010 Never Happened

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As I read the newspaper and look at certain polls or listen to liberal media types, I begin to wonder if we inhabit alternate universes.

Did I hallucinate and only dream that the GOP won back the House with some 60 plus seats in 2010, plus governorships of Virginia and New Jersey in 2009, a Senate seat in Massachusetts and overwhelmingly capture state legislatures? Was I the only one who saw angry people fight Obamacare and confront their legislators? The only one to marvel at the long lines of people coming out in support of Chick-fil-A? The only one who saw people respond to Clint Eastwood at the RNC convention by putting out empty chairs on their yards on Labor Day?

The rot is so deep in the media, that they can’t see the truth when they stumble over it. The media has completely forgotten all of that, so in love are they with Obama. The polls they point to with excitement all use the model of the 2008 election with Democrat advantages of plus 5, plus 7, plus 9. They don’t stop to ask themselves how these models failed to present themselves in 2010. Do you think we feel any differently now?

It’s amusing to look at today’s newspaper with these headline howlers: “Better Off 4 Years Later? A Mixed Bag of Answers” (income down, employment down, businesses closing; the bag has a hole in the bottom); “3rd Party Hopeful May Hurt Romney” (quick, can you name who they’re talking about?); “Bill Clinton Works Hard for Obama” (hard knifing him in the back); “We Must First Admit Our Race Bias” (so biased we elected a black man president); and “No Matter Who Wins, Let’s Unite” (Otis Sanford only means it if it’s Obama).

But the best one of all is this: “A Win Can’t Change GOP Path to Ruin.” In your dreams! So deep are they in the muck that they’re telling us victory is bad. They even pull out this gem and enlarge it: “This year’s conflicting circumstances mean that…either Obama or Romney can yet win.” As opposed to…? Carl P. Leubsdorf of the Dallas Morning News would have us believe that Romney will take us back in time to another century and can never get minority votes. I guess that’s why we have Marco Rubio in Florida, Gov. Susana Martinez in New Mexico, soon to be senator Ted Cruz in Texas, and ahead-in-the-polls Mia Love in Nevada.

Oh, there’s the usual keening about the bad economy Obama inherited and how we’re disliked around the world because we are Americans in his article. There’s the fear that Romney would take us back to times when women had few rights, i.e. couldn’t get abortions. Mr. Leubsdorf, did you notice women are flocking to Romney, by the way?

The article reminds me of one written by Zack McMillin in July 2010, also on the front page of the Commercial Appeal, how Republicans were going to lose big in the August elections. We went on to sweep almost all the city wide races.

The media has conveniently forgotten that we heard Obama when he said “you didn’t build that.” We didn’t like that. They refused to tell us that just the other day Obama told us “voting is the best revenge.” We ask revenge for what? We’re not supposed to notice that Greece and Europe are closer than ever to anarchy as their economies collapse. Or that the attack in Libya was not caused by a YouTube video as Obama told us, but allowed to happen by the president.

Funny enough, American people don’t and haven’t forgotten these things. You may have, but we haven’t. Time to man up, media. Time to put on your glasses and look at the real world, not the one you manufactured.

2010 and all these things did happen and 2012 is about to, too.

National Empty Chair Day

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Yes, it’s Labor Day, but today has been dubbed “Empty Chair Day.” It coalesced swiftly after Clint Eastwood’s act at the RNC convention. William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection describes, “Through the efforts of Prof. Glenn Reynolds, Michael Patrick Leahy of Breitbart.com, Michelle Malkin, Twitchy, and many others in the right blogosphere, National Empty Chair Day has spread far and wide in about 24 hours.”

A.F. Branco has created this logo for it:

Here’s my favorite, from Iowahawk, aka David Burge. He says it’s a picture of Karl Marx with President Obama.

Here are some others from around the country as collected on Legal Insurrection:

This one says “When somebody is not doing his job, we have to let him go.”

This one has the flag with its field of blue upside down, indicating distress.

Final Thoughts from John Ryder

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After explaining the Republican primary process to members of the Midtown Republican Club Tuesday night, RNC member John Ryder gave some thoughts on the whole presidential process.

Now that the primary has effectively ended, Ryder talked about what it means to have a presumptive nominee and how it changes everything. “It’s important because” money can now flow. We can release fund raising. Secondly, we can integrate the operations. The convention is August 27 through August 31, so we come into the Labor Day weekend with about sixty days to the election. When you think that early voting can begin 30 days before the election, people can vote in some areas within six weeks of the election.”

Now Romney can begin to discuss what differentiates him from Obama instead of taking aim at our Republican candidates. The debates turned off some voters, Ryder acknowledged, and many Republicans thought there were too many. “Actually, there were two fewer this year than in 2008,” he said. “They got huge viewership, which was a good thing. And what’s wrong with that? As a Republican, I liked finding out about the candidates.”

Many viewers chafed at the questions asked and the tone of the moderators during the debates. “The moderators were not our friends,” Ryder agreed. “But the debates are almost impossible for us to control. We have no leverage. We are looking at an NFL type approach; that is getting a package deal to broadcast them. My preference would be to limit a debate to four candidates, each with 15 minutes to answer why they should be president, then a rebuttal. I want a thoughtful answer, not a bumper sticker one.”

Like most of us, Ryder said “I really believe this is the most important election of our time. As a lawyer I hate Obama’s disdain for the Constitution. His recess appointments to the National Labor Relations board when the Senate was still in session, Obamacare and other things are wildly unconstitutional. His duty is to uphold and defend the Constitution, but he has instructed his Justice Department not to support the Defense of Marriage Act that was passed by Congress. He told Homeland Security regarding immigration to act in ways that don’t support the Constitution either.”

Ryder sees the June 5 election challenge to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker as a “race that will set the tone for the presidential election. If you can send Walker $20, do it.”

Words Heard Last Week

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Labor Day this year seemed to bring out the strong language.

Jimmy Hoffa Jr. worked up a lather when he spoke at a rally in Wisconsin and then introduced President Obama. Hoffa called for a war on the Tea Party, urging “let’s take these son of a bitches out!” Harsh words, but ungrammatical, too. I was more shocked that he did not properly say “sons of bitches” than that he wants to lay a hurting on us. If you’re going to curse, at least do it grammatically!

The AFL-CIO leader didn’t let it rest, though. He continued his anger and abuse of the English language when he was interviewed later. Hoffa referred to talk show host Rush Limbaugh as “incidiary.” Rush wondered “is it a cross between insidious and incendiary?” When Bush misused words or created them, he was lambasted by the media and dubbed a dunce. Maybe people are too afraid of the Hoffa history to challenge his wordsmithery.

After Obama’s jobs speech, Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin called his plan “sugar high economics.” He explained that it would give people a burst of activity at the start of the stimulus only to give them a drop later. Such a plan would be short on nutrition – economically speaking – a situation Michelle would not approve.

Everyone’s “favorite” conservative at the New York Times, David Brooks, saw the speech and reacted differently. He said the president was a “convener in chief,” explaining that he would get other people to contribute ideas and then compose a plan. Or do we call that idea shoplifting? I guess it’s different when you work at the New York Times.

Easy as 1, 2, 3

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Ace of Spades blog asks questions I have wondered about myself.

When Obama comes out with his after Labor Day labor plan a lot of gullible and desperate people will swallow it. It sounds as if it will be the same old prolong the payroll tax, extend the unemployment time, tax corporations more and start infrastructure jobs (did you ever see one product of that stimulus spending?). Still, Republicans will need an answer.

As Ace of Spades says, “the new spendulus bill is designed to be rejected by Republicans. Why are we not pushing our own such offers?

“Obamacare is unpopular. It always has been. It helps us to demand its repeal. It helps us to always make the repeal of Obamacare a concession to be extracted in exchange for anything Obama might ask for himself.

“It does not hurt us to ask for this. It helps us because the public wants it repealed.

“Here’s a question: Is there any one sentence legislation that can do the following:

1. Reduce the uncertainty and fear factor among businesses and hence stimulate the economy.
2. Save a trillion in spending.
3. Add a half trillion to Medicare without costing the taxpayer a dime.

“I know one – repealing Obamacare.”

Instead of getting deep into economic theories, we’d do well to keep it simple like this.

Dog Days for O

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Talked About Like a DogA bunch of us guys were lifting a few at the Hydrant, our favorite bar. The bosses had given us the day off since Labor Day means a backyard barbecue and some of us can’t hold our meat. (Did they really miss that rack of ribs I took last year? How was I supposed to know it wasn’t for me?)

Anyhow, the television was on and all of a sudden Barack Obama was on the screen. I hear him say “they talk about me like a dog.” All the woofing stopped at once and every ear in the place perked up.

“Son of a …” the usually quiet Akita started before the Scotty stepped in.

“Stop right there! Don’t talk about our moms like that,” he said. “Besides, maybe he really meant to say ‘dogged’ or ‘they talk doggerel,” he suggested.

“No,” said the poodle, who was still burning over the Tony Blair lap poodle analogy. “He means it in a negative way. These people are so politically incorrect I could barf,” he said.

“Take it easy,” said Splash. “Don’t get your leash in a knot. My boss Teddy was called a horn dog and I think he liked it. Although I kept his leg away from me whenever I could.”

“Just thank God you’re not Bo,” said the shepherd. “How’d you like that gig? The guy can’t even walk a Portugese water dog,” he said as he lapped his Heineken.

“Why even the Dog Whisperer’s jaw drops seeing that you know you’ve got a bigger problem than saving the House in November,” added the chihuahua. “And you can kiss those Blue Dogs there good-bye, by the way.”

“That Barack better hope he never gets stuck in a well or an avalanche,” said the St. Bernard. “What rescue dog worth his kibble would go help him out after this? And by the way, I need another brandy, the cask is running low if you know what I mean.”

“Like the economy,” said the lab, who never missed a chance for a leap in the conversational pool.

“Well, the way it’s going we won’t have him to kick around anymore in two more years,” said the cocker spaniel.

“If I were Bo I’d watch my back,” said the lab. “Remember what happened to Buddy? Not long after Clinton left the White House Buddy was ‘impeached.’ Right on the front of a car.”

“If he knows what’s good for him he’ll slip out of the House the next time the Missus is on vacation,” said the dachshund. “And we know that could be any other day,” they chortled.

“Better go home and rattle some cages,” said the terrier. “Besides this place closes in a few minutes. Meet you all back on Hump Day.”

“This time let’s keep that TV off. Or at least on Animal Planet. Next thing you know they’ll be saying the country’s going to the dogs.

“They should be so lucky!”