This is what happens when you have someone who thinks it’s cool to be President because he wears his hat backwards or has some stupid Office of the President-Elect. You get some stooge who like every other Joe Q. Proletariat, uses the brilliant tactic of hindsight to get the results they want, but in the end they’re just a some schmuck who knows nothing at all.

This is why you have Leon Panetta as the head of the CIA…Leon Panetta…are you crapping me Obama?? Clinton’s ex OMB Director is going to run your CIA? The closest thing I can see that could remotely qualify him is work on the President’s Commission of Foreign Language and International Studies and was Lieutenant in the Army (hey, it’s from Wikipedia, so IT has to be true).

And yet, another brave Clinton pick from Hopey McChangey Pants.

I heard about this on the ol’ radio earlier this week and I really shouldn’t be surprised that one of the most banal members of the Senate would come up with such an inane idea.

TEXT messaging is a wonderful business to be in: about 2.5 trillion messages will have been sent from cellphones worldwide this year. The public assumes that the wireless carriers’ costs are far higher than they actually are, and profit margins are concealed by a heavy curtain.

Senator Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin and the chairman of the Senate antitrust subcommittee, wanted to look behind the curtain. He was curious about the doubling of prices for text messages charged by the major American carriers from 2005 to 2008, during a time when the industry consolidated from six major companies to four.

For a man who made his millions and then sold out the family business, I always chuckle when Herb Kohl talks about profit margins. Afterall his little basketball team, while not setting the world on fire (since the 80’s that is) is supposedly worth $260 million.

Now being a supporter of capitalism, I certainly don’t begrudge the man from making money and owning a basketball team, but the problem with Herb Kohl is this incessant haranguing on other’s “profit margins” all the while charging the people of Milwaukee exorbitant ticket prices for such an inferior product.

So Senator Kohl, what about the average profit margins for a game for your Milwaukee Bucks? It’s apparently $6.50 for a bottle of MGD…six dollars for a bottle of something you could get six of for the same price from the grocery store? On top of the hundreds of dollars it costs for a decent ticket?

No wonder basketball is third and falling..in my book anyway.

With the likes of Michael Newdow, it’s no longer professing a belief in their faith that there is no God, but just being a litigious douchebag who should be worrying about his patients and clients (if we’re to believe his bio).

I’m sure in the brand spanking new 2009, people like Michael Newdow will be given a fair shake now. Afterall, the Messiah is about hope and change and maybe, just maybe, he will give hope to all the atheists out there who have been wandering the desert for so very long.

Maybe then they can be like a lot of people who just keep their beliefs about God or whatever they believe is happening in the universe to themselves.

But I suppose even that requires more faith…

I’ll say from the get-go, I was never enamored with Colin Powell and no, it’s not because he endorsed the phony Messiah. If we would not have listened to him in 1990, we would’ve never had to have gone back to Iraq…probably. But that’s besides the point. 

But this clip makes it more seem like a man who is trying to get back into the good graces of the media by trashing the ONLY person that did anything for the McCain campaign.

Funny how that goes. Someone who goes against the grain or dares to call the media out is targeted for destruction. We know more about Sarah Palin’s wardrobe than we ever will about Blago’s ridiculous hair or which party he’s from.

Here’s to more destruction of the “mainstream” media and their prevaricating ways. And the destruction of “compassionate” conservatism. Can’t tell anymore what we’ve gotten ourselves into and too many people have fallen for the government wanting to help them when the government is the one causing all this misery.

“Corrupt Illinois Politicians”

Chicago sure is looking good to get that Olympic Games bid.

The Daly politicial machine, Dan Rostenkowski, the mob trying to destroy Good Humor, Al Capone and now Blago. What a freakin’ podunk banana republic.

This is the kind of politician that runs amok in Chicago and now he’s been indicted. But of course, don’t look at his party affiliation, that doesn’t matter.

Just another lesson for America…Don’t Trust Any FIB.

*Former* Representative Joe Knollenberg proves why.

Cavuto asked Knollenberg: “When the housing industry CEOs come to you and say, ‘You know, [if] we go under and all the ancillary businesses – the dishwasher manufacturers, the washer-and-dryer manufacturers, the Lowe’s and the Home Depots that vastly depend on our being alive and vibrant – if we go under, there’s hell to pay. And then the textile manufacturer comes to you and says, ‘If we go down, there’s hell to pay.’ And on and on and on we go. Where do you draw the line with our money?”

“It is not your money,” said Knollenberg.

Cavuto screamed back, “It is! It is taxpayers money!”

Can the party “leadership” explain to me why people would want to vote for Republican right now when there’s barely a dimes worth of difference between them and the Democrats?

Could the party “leadership” explain to me why the Senate’s most liberal Senator managed to co-op the lower taxes issue from the GOP?

Could the party “leadership” explain to me why they allowed their primaries to get taken over by ne’er-do-wells who took them over to get Bob Dole 2.0 to the head of the ticket?

Could the party “leadership” explain to me why they’ve allowed the Democrats to get the upper hand on EVERY damn issue since 2006?

If this party doesn’t get its act together, that mythical permanent progressive majority running this country for decades may still come true.

Oh joy of joys…President-elect Obama has FINALLY received some good advice he really, really should follow:

Dear Mr. Obama:

My thoughts/hopeful ideas

Already, it’s off to a flying start… Read the rest of this entry »

Hope I’m not offending any Libertarian viewers out, but seriously, maybe the LP should have had some actual WIN’s before telling anyone else how their party should be run.

What’s the best the LP has had? Ron Paul? Bob Barr? They are/were Republicans. The departed Harry Browne who blamed the United States for 9/11?

From “Reason”:

Consider David Brooks’ most recent column in the New York Times, where he outlines what he sees as the GOP dividing into two warring camps now that they’ve been thoroughly defeated. It’s the Traditionalists versus the Reformers. Reagan versus Teddy. Old Party power versus moderate centrism. But in reading Brooks’ analysis, one is left wondering if there isn’t another direction the GOP could head in order to return to power.

Excuse me, but David Brooks WANTED John McCain. His guy lost, big time and he lost big time. He shouldn’t have any power right now to tell anyone what they should or should not do.

There were a lot of us who thought McCain wasn’t going to win precisely because of what David Brooks was espousing. Being Democrat-lite meant nothing to the average GOP voter and it was only when he picked Sarah Palin that a lot of people got behind him and to a certain point, he was beating Obama. But his stammering and incoherent economic policies were front and center and the war hero candidate was that of Bob Dole. People shrugged their shoulders at him. But they did reach out for the potential of Sarah Palin.

Brooks believes that the Traditionalist will win in the short term—led in 2012 by Sarah Palin—but that Reformers will win out in the end as the GOP continues to lose. He argues that once the GOP suffers more defeats, the Reformers “will build new institutions, new structures and new ideas, and the cycle of conservative ascendance will begin again.”

Like I’ve said before, put Sarah Palin and David Brooks up at two rallies and see who turns out for whom. And what institutions will these “reformers” build or what new ideas will they bring forth? Besides pontificating about us rubes outside the beltway, what have these Republican elites ever built?

And I have to keep hammering this point: The David Brooks/Frum/Noonan cabal WANTED John McCain because they believed that his “centrist” cred would bring in new voters to the GOP. It did not work. And if it weren’t for Sarah Palin, the election results would be even more staggering.

Sure, let us get together on issues we share. But next time, pipe down when you want to wag your finger at the GOP for the past two elections. You haven’t exactly done much to inspire anyone with your election results since your inception.

If this keeps up, I’m going to go forward with the modest proposal. The hell with all political parties.

Originally found at The Corner.

From the comments at Newsbusters..numero uno to be exact:

I only want Obama to lose on election day.I don’t want him to die.

Barack is going down.

Trust me

I agree with the assertion, just like with Bill Clinton. I thought the man was lying scumbag who did whatever he could (triangulation comes to mind) to get what he wanted and was an utter disgrace, but I wasn’t going all crazy ass hoping something happened to Bubba. Same thing goes with Barack Obama. I wish him no ill will and I don’t wish anything to happen to the man. But just like he’s the only one bringing up racism towards his campaign, his supporters seem to be the unhinged ones who can’t stand he might not win Tuesday.

As for some fat stupid gay talk show host to hope an average citizen should die just because he asked Senator Obama a question…that’s insane man. INSANE.