Money Bomb for Mark Rubio

Senator Jim DeMint is running a money bomb for Florida Senate candidate Mark Rubio.  This is important for two reasons.

1 – Mark Rubio is running against a classic RINO in Charlie Crist – the current governor of Florida.  While Mark has gone ahead in the polls, we need to keep the pressure on for him in order to block andy comeback by Charlie Crist.

2 – Jim DeMint is getting a lot of pressure from the Republican Party mukety-mucks about his support of Mark Rubio.  Charlie Crist was the “chosen one” by the Senate Republican Committee – and the fact that one of their own is going against the Party leadership means that we need to support Jim DeMint in order to show him and the leaders that we are not going to put up with RINOs any more.

Please give what you can – and I have myself.

Republicans Need To Stay Away from Obama’s BiPartisan Healthcare Meeting

Why?  Oh maybe because the whole thing is some kind of kabuki theatre where nothing they say will actually be used, but will then give the Democrats cover to continue nationalizing the health care in this country.  Proff?  How about the Secretary of Helpless Hopeless and Stupid:

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Monday that President Obama is willing to “add various elements” to health care legislation suggested by Republican lawmakers during an upcoming bipartisan meeting on the topic. But he won’t change the entire plan and he is “absolutely not” hitting the reset button on the legislative process, the former Kansas governor insisted.

That statement alone should let them know that proudly being the party of NO to this monstrosity is a good thing.

Democrats and the Filibuster

Sometimes the world turns out right.  To read the weeping, wailing, and knashing of teeth from the left now about the filibuster in the Senate almost causes me to weep with joy.  Some of the most recent examples include Vice President “Plugs” Biden:

Moments after administering the oath to Brown, Biden held court with reporters outside the Senate chamber, in which he had served for 36 years. He said he has tasked his staff to study the constitutional history of filibusters, to determine what steps could be taken.

“I’ve never seen a time when it’s become, sort of, standard operating procedure,” Biden said. “You want to get anything done, you have to have a supermajority. And I really mean this, unrelated to whether or not Barack and I are sitting down in the West Wing now. Any president in the future having to move through anything he or she wants, requiring a supermajority, it’s not a good way to do business.”

Wendy Kaminer (some extremely shrill left-wing kook covering the US for a Marxist UK website) – her bio says shes a lawer, writer, and free speech activist.  “Mommy when I grow up I want to be a free speech activist”:

So by voting as an impenetrable bloc, a minority of Senate Republicans representing a minority of voters have managed the effective shutdown of Congress, while shifting the blame for legislative stasis (and the failure of bipartisanship) to Democrats, who are at least nominally in charge.

Thomas Geohogan at The Nation:

Let the filibuster be the filibuster. If it is an obstructionist tactic, let it obstruct. If the Republicans want to shut down the presidency, make them shut down the Senate. If you take on this battle, you will have the country behind you. For the majority of Americans–yes, even Mr. Smith–want the government to work.

one of may from the Dummy Underground:

As difficult as ending the filibuster may appear, if it has become enough of a threat to the things the White House values, then it has certainly become a major threat to things other powerful Democrats value. And, once it becomes a major threat to something the party values, then the party leadership becomes increasingly likely to join in an effort to defeat it. At this point, it seems to me that many in the party leadership are waiting for the grassroots to start building this movement, so they can jump in later on.

Just remember how eager they were to filibuster anything and everything related to George W. Bush just 2 years ago?

Payback is a b*tch

Nanny Insanity – Remove Your Doormats

I guess this is a preview of coming attractions – but from the UK we get:

Housing officials have ordered tenants to remove welcome mats from their doorsteps – claiming they are health and safety hazards.

Residents received a letter saying the mats were potentially dangerous and were being banned, amid fears people might trip over them and sue for damages.

The note read: ‘(Doormats) being left in communal areas is a serious health and safety issue and is a fire safety risk.’

At what point does this insanity end.  Should everyone be bubble-wrapped?  I love the government excuse given:

Guy Cresswell, director of housing services at Great Places Housing Group, said: ‘Government legislation requires us to carry out fire risk assessments and to comply in full with recommendations made.

‘This work has been carried out for us by expert independent assessors. Our fire risk assessor recommended that doormats outside of people’s homes at Gaskell Rise should be removed because people could trip up over them.

The people living there think its insane, but they have no recourse.  So the mats go.

They Were Here Just A Minute Ago

The State of Florida is looking for something.  18,000 buildings that it owns, but doesn’t seem to be able to put their hands on right now:

The State of Florida is looking for help finding something you’d think would be hard to lose: approximately 18,000 buildings, owned by the taxpayers of Florida, that state officials can’t quite put their fingers on. What’s more, state officials say they don’t have the people to hunt them down, so they want to use tax money to hire an outside company to find each building Florida has misplaced.

Could there be any better example of how government has gotten too big?  And this is just 1 of 50 states.  And if the Federal Government were asked to produce a list of all the buildings it owns?

But remember – government is short of money – they always, always, always, always need more.

The First Rule of Holes?

I think this pretty much sums up the nutroots advice to President Oprompter following the Masachusetts election:

Ignore the pundits and reporters.

The conventional wisdom that Democrats are doomed is wrong. But if they accept its premises (as too many have done), Democrats solidify it. So they need to remember that they’re still in charge. Democrats have the White House and large majorities in both houses of Congress. They get to set the agenda

Of course, they are trying to govern expressly against the will of the people.  But they are still IN CHARGE!  And being in charge menas they need to:

Get health care done. The first thing Democrats have to understand is that they already passed health care; they own the legislation. If there is an actual health-care program – however it got passed – then they can start talking about what it actually does. Sure, it will be a tough fight at first to convince people of health reform’s benefits. But once those benefits actually become law, people will see that their grandmothers are not, in fact, being turned into Soylent Green.

The people don’t want it, support for it goes down every single day it continues as people learn more about what it means, 80% of the people are happy with their current coverage and realize you are going to take that away for something less while taxing them to pay for people who won’t work – but get that health care done!

The second reason to pass health care is that no matter what, Republicans will be turning out in force in November. If health-care reform dies, the Democratic base will remain in the pit of despair in which it now resides. Progressives won’t bother going to the polls to support what they’ll rightly perceive as a collection of pathetic, ineffectual wimps.

Now we are getting closer to something like reality.  If we don’t put government in charge, then our totalitarian base supporters won’t come out and vote for us, so we can then try again to put government in charge of more of their lives, so they will vote for us, so….   With the Democrats getting elected in order to get elected again is what its all about.  And those blankety-blank Republicans are already riled up so we need to keep our losses to a minimum.

The last reason to pass health-care reform is this: It’s the right thing to do. We all know that if it dies now, it will be a long time – a decade or more – before we have another chance at reform.

Its the right thing to do because we have the votes to go against the will of the people and just do it?  What a wonderful version of representative government these people are.  I mean think of the seething mass of bureaucrats who are just waiting to spend the rest of their semi-working lives attending commissions, writing rules, implementing rules, changing rules, undercutting other rules organizations, and doing all the hard, useful work of government.  Should we make them wait another decade or more?  Spare the thought.

Forget about bipartisanship. If Democrats get the urge to reach out to their colleagues across the aisle, they need to remind themselves that Republicans have no incentive — or desire — to do anything other than obstruct any and all legislation the Democrats might seek to pass.

Isn’t physically locking Republicans out of the room where bills are being considered and implementation of this advice?  This is what Democrats have been doing since 2006 – and what they always do.  What has been remarkable is that wets like Collins and Snowe held with the Republicans in the Senate and denied them the cover of “bipartisanship” for the monstrosity they have produced so far.

Try to get the unemployment rate down. The truth is that for all the talk of “jobs, jobs, jobs,” only so much can be done in the course of the next few months to help the economy and its most visible indicator, unemployment.

So lots of talk, no actual results.

Show some guts. It would be nice if for once in their careers, Democrats were guided by something other than fear.  Democrats are afraid they won’t be able to find a calm spot within the shifting eddies of public opinion, when they should be asking what they can do to move public opinion.

I think this is the one where all the lefty bloggers miss the boat completely.  These politicians are only interested in getting re-elected – and doing as much damage as they can to America on the way.  However, they are much more sensitive to the fact of what will or won’t get them re-elected.  They will try to do all the destruction, but if it means re-election or destroying the economy – re-election will always come first.

It always happens when the leftists get put into office when the Republicans screw up (as all political parties will do when in office for a long time).  They then fell like they have been given a “mandate” and start doing all the things that they kept hidden from the American public when trying to get into office.  And then the Americans have to yank the reins and get them to stop their obvious slash and burn tactics.

Personally, I don’t mind if the Democrats follow this advice.  The November hole will be so deep maybe none of them will get out of it.

John Edwards Comes Clean

NPR’s Answer for Air America

OK people, time to get a clue.  National Socialist Radio has a story about Air America’s demise and gives lots of excuses like:

Each new management wanted to put their mark on the company by changing the program line-up, which is death in radio. Stability is everything.

The latest management blamed the economy and declining ad revenue across the industry.

It’s hard in general to get anything off the ground in radio, regardless of what your format is.

But come on guys.  NPR has shown you the template for keeping liberal talk on radio.  Grab that great big government teat and hang on for dear life!

“Tase the Baby”: Father of the Year Uses Infant as Human Shield

clipped from www.cbsnews.com Cops say Florida resident Jorge Garcia tried to use his baby as a human shield when an officer drew a Taser on the ranting dad during a traffic stop. “Tase the baby,” the 39-year-old from Delton, Fla., just north of Orlando, reportedly yelled at police. Police did not tase the baby. Garcia was one of more than 10 people involved in a street corner argument Friday afternoon, a sheriff’s report said. When deputies arrived on the scene, they were told by an onlooker to check a vehicle involved because it might contain a firearm, according to the Daytona News-Journal. When deputies stopped the vehicle, which was not Garcia’s, he showed up on the scene and began yelling and acting irrationally. Deputies tried to arrest Garcia, but he got back in his own vehicle and refused to come out, according to a Volusia County Sheriff’s warrant. When one of the deputies pulled out a Taser, police say Garcia tried to use his infant child as a human shield, reportedly saying “Tase the baby.”

Sculptures

clipped from www.dailyartpress.com Sculptures By Valay Shende Valay Shende – sculptor from India. Born in 1980. In 2004 received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of Fine Art’s city of Mumbai. Participant of many exhibitions around the world.