To Virginia Democrats modern Africa is still 'Deepest and Darkest'

I've now gotten two mailings from Democrat state senate candidate Libby Garvey talking about her Peace Corps service in Africa.

The backgrounds on both were old-time "Deepest, Darkest Africa"-style maps of the then-colonial continent, despite the fact she was there in 1977.

Are savages and jungles really the images Democrats conjure up when they think of Africa?

Democrats propose connecting diverging points by subtracting from flat number, adding to skyrocketing number

Why do we have a budget gap?

Well, total U.S. net worth fell from around $65T in 2007 to around $54T in 2009

Per capita gross domestic product fell from around $48,000 to around $47,000.

Liberals shriek revenues fell because taxes are too low, but the numbers clearly show revenues fell because the tax base shrank.

Spending, on the other hand, grew at a kudzu pace, from $2.73 trillion in federal outlays in 2007 to $3.107 trillion in 2009.

So the tax base is shrinking, while the tax consumption in accelerating.

In fact, just the debt run up by Obama alone, $6.4 trillion, completely outstrips the combined net worth of every billionaire on the planet, $4.5 trillion.

Government spending isn't just growing while the available tax base is shrinking, you could confiscate the entire earnings and possessions of everyone on the planet and still not have enough money to pay off the kind of spending Democrats propose.

That’s how you expand the gap.

The liberal solution to close the gap between the rising number and the shrinking number?

They want to subtract from the shrinking number and add it to the growing number, claiming it will make the two numbers closer together.

That’s like trying to get rid of a pothole by blasting it out.

'Accuse your opponents of what you yourself are doing.'

"The problem," Obama said, "is that we've got the kind of partisan brinksmanship that is willing to put party ahead of country...nowhere was that more evident than in this recent debt ceiling debacle."  

Says the man who refused to offer a plan, pushing us to default, because details would hurt his party in an election.

Buffett tax hike call would let him gorge on tax dollars

Why is Warren Buffett calling for higher taxes on billionaires?

A) He's structured his own compensation package so most of his billion-dollar fortune isn't subject to those taxes,

B) Much of his billions are invested in municipal bonds and tax-funded energy projects.

By jacking up taxes on billionaires he pumps his own pockets with cash he avoids income taxes on.  He's playing you for a chump.

Alec Baldwin: $9.5M luxury condo is 'middle class'

Alec Baldwin, star of the wildly successful "The Shadow."

Alec Baldwin, star of such films as "Pearl Harbor," "Mercury Rising" and "The Adventures of Pluto Nash," says he made the tremendous sacrifice of living in a $9.5 million dollar home in an exclusive high-rise because "it seems more middle class," entitling him to lecture others on the plight of the poor as a liberal activist.

The media are suddenly silent about the 'gender gap'

Remember during the Bush administration how the media obsessively reported on polls showing he was less popular with women than men?

CNN/ORC poll, August 1, 2011
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president? 

Men: Disapprove 52%, Approve 48%
Women: Disapprove 54%, Approve 44%

Not only is Obama's disapproval higher among women than men, his negative approval gap is wider five times larger among women than men.

Where are the clucked-tongue stories from the media on this?

Eat the rich! (And starve)

Liberals love to shriek that we could pay off the debt if we just raised taxes on the rich. 

That's a delusion. 

You could confiscate the entire net worth of every billionaire on the planet ($4.5T) and it wouldn't even cover the debt Obama has racked up ($6.4T.) 

The problem with Obama's neophyte socialism is we have indeed run out of other people's money.

Mitt Romney is right

I hate to defend Mitt Romney (Ron Paul 2012!,) but he's right. 

Corporations ARE people. 

“Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people. Where do you think it goes?,” Romney elucidated in Iowa. 

And who know who the majority of those people are?  The mindless union parrots who squawk that corporations need their profits confiscated.  Most of those eeeevil corporate shareholders just happen to be union pension plans. 

In the words of condescending liberals, "they're voting against their own interests."

I say give union drones their wish.  Confiscate half of all corporate profits -- their retirement funds.

He also called for the construction of the first-ever "transcontinental railroad"

Robert Reich claims the economy is faltering under Obama because he hasn't proposed stimulating the economy through a "bold plan" of government spending.  

He then asked the post office to stop forwarding his mail to the rock he's been living under for two and a half years.

Two more 'I'll beat Cuccinelli' mailers from frantic Dems

Just went to the mailbox to grab yesterday's delivery.  Two more mailings  from candidates in the Democrat state senate primary, all of whom vow to defeat Ken Cuccinelli (FYI: Ken Cuccinelli is not their Republican opponent, or even a state senator.  He is Virginia's attorney general.) In fact, every mailing I've gotten this month is all about Cuccinelli.

It must drive them insane to know he has a +18 approval rating.

Liberals attempt rationalize away Cuccinelli's broad popularity by saying he only has a +18 approval rating because voters don't know his positions on guns, abortion and "climate change."

Really? When have the media ever mentioned his name outside those contexts?

The fact his approval rating is growing as he pushes those issues is what is freaking them out and driving them sink to increasingly desperate depths to attack him.

Union fail: Recall targets INCREASED their margin of victory vs. 2008

The union bosses are still insisting they "won" in Wisconsin because the vote totals against winning Republican incumbents prove their support diminished. 

That is yet another lie. 

Two of the four had opponents in 2008, giving us numbers to compare.  Both of them got a greater percentage of vote in the Democrat-led recall than they did in 2008. 

Sheila Hasdorf was elected in 2008 with 55 percent of the vote.  Despite being outspent in the Democrat-led recall she INCREASED her margin of victory to 58 percent.

Alberta Darling was elected in 2008 with 50 percent of the vote.  Despite being outspent in the Democrat-led recall she INCREASED her margin of victory to 54 percent.

How does your opponent INCREASE their margin of victory in an election you led and outspent them in?  This continues to be a total faceplant by the union bosses.

I'm listening to a guy call into a radio show to complain that no one is using overpriced union labor to produce cars and electronics anymore. 

More specifically, he's speaking into a cell phone while listening to a satellite radio program in his family's second car, none of which he could have afforded 30 years ago.

Their spin cycle is off balance

Despondent Dems are claiming their Wisconsin loss was a victory because they beat two "unbeatable," "safe" Republicans.

That's yet another lie.

Hopper won his seat with 50.05%, Kapanke with 51.38%. Hopper narrowly lost after cheating on his wife with a capitol aide and Kapanke after using a lobbyist's charity to pay off personal debts.

Apparently Ken Cuccinelli is running for state senate in Alexandria.

I now have a fifth mailing from a Democrat claiming he or she is running to beat him in November. 

Too bad for them his statewide approval rating is +18.

Union bosses failing in Michigan recall as well

Despite collecting fewer than half the 807,000 signatures needed to recall Governor Rick Snyder by the Aug. 6 deadline, the effort to oust the first-term governor will continue, the Lansing State Journal reports.

The Committee to Recall Rick Snyder is now retooling for a new Sept. 29 deadline, which would put the recall question on the February ballot, said communication director Tom Bryant.

Union bosses in union stronghold Michigan may fail to even petition for a recall, and are all but certain to lose even if they manage to. 

Usually to miss your target that badly your name has to be Garrett Gilbert.

Before conservatives start gloating about Wisconsin being a bellwether election, remember your recent history. Democrats won five of six special elections in 2009 and 2010. Special elections are not reliable indicators, the 14 months between now and November 2012 are nine political lives and Obama's team know how to organize and turn out (as you should, too.)

Dems using debt crisis to shake down campaign contributions?

Harry Reid named Patty Murray to the debt Super Committee today, naming her Co-Chair. 

That would be the same Patty Murray whose job it is to leverage as much campaign money as possible for Senate Dems.  The Committee will have power to make proposed changes to tax law.

Democrats continue to cheer London riots, repeat calls for U.S. violence.

More proof that, at its heart, liberalism is a religion of hate with violence and mayhem as its sacraments.

ZombieHorde: "Rape is horrible; looting is wonderful."

coalition_unwilling: "When the urban proletariat resists (as is the case here), we quickly adopt the language and forms of the ruling classes to marginalize, demonize and ostracise said resistance."

nadinbrzezinski: "Decades of individualism, competition and state-encouraged selfishness – combined with a systematic crushing of unions and the ever-increasing criminalisation of dissent – have made Britain one of the most unequal countries in the developed world.  Images of burning buildings, cars aflame and stripped-out shops may provide spectacular fodder for a restless media, ever hungry for new stories and fresh groups to demonise, but we will understand nothing of these events if we ignore the history and the context in which they occur."

WarrenStupidity: "what is going on in Great Britain is a widespread uprising, a massive outburst of violent discontent, and I refuse to condemn that."

GliderGuider: "I don't need to find their actions admirable to see them as necessary. I think it's an essential expression of the rage and disempowerment of an entire class of human beings. This is the only avenue they have open to get to a microphone. I don't care if they don't overtly politicize their actions. To brand them with the hot iron of the word "recreational" is a colossal failure of empathy. It betrays a culturally imperialist disdain that averts its gaze from the harder, uncomfortable truths that underlie their rage and jubilation...Whether or not their actions are "admirable" to our tongue-clucking North American sensibilities, and no matter how many of us are prepared to dismiss their rage with the epithet "recreational", I'm completely in favour of what they're doing."

TheKentuckian: "They need a change of venue to the neighborhoods of the wealthy and the political class.  They don't care if we burn our own out, take it to them so they have "a stake"."

ndiscriminate violence. It is not protest. It will change nothing for the better but will bring misery to the lives of people who live in the places being looted and burned. It doesn't touch the wealthy corporate class. "


coalition_unwilling: " Mao: "All oppression breeds resistance". There is nothing admirable about what 30+ years of Thatcherism have done to the UK's urban proletariat either. When the urban proletariat does it you call it 'looting' so what do you call it when the ruling class does it?"

Any more irony and Justin Ruben will suffer liver failure

MoveOn.org sent a professional e-mail to their list Sunday morning instructing liberals on how to blame the Tea Party for the downgrade.   No actual facts, statistics or numbers were provided, just a link to a snarky graphic.

They then got back to claiming the Tea Party should be dismissed because it's a well-funded centralized organization comprised of people who just repeat talking points that were sent to them from a main office.

Democrats cheer London riots and arson, call for U.S. violence

At its heart liberalism is a virulently hate-filled cult that believes mayhem and violence are perfectly acceptable forms of "social justice."

Let Democrats explain their violent tendencies and their steadfast belief arson and assault are useful tools of political expression in these posts from Democratic Underground.


London riots: Twitter users face arrest for inciting looters

GillesDeleuze: "Defenders of private property love to equate it [burning down your home] with human suffering      The tweets were about protest action. If it offends you as much as the police, id say you have some interesting allies."

saras: "Destroying property is often justified..."

Rioting Again in London - Hackney this time

GillesDeleuze: "Support the London Looters!"


Police Cars Attacked After Tottenham Shooting

LetTimmySmoke: "The brits put in austerity a year ago, and now they're seeing the effects."

russspeakeasy: "sounds reasonable to me..."
With the unrest in London, is it time

socialist_n_TN: "With the unrest in London, is it time for the political wing to take advantage and call for a general strike and further political demonstrations? Although it looks like a lot of this is "criminality" (surface only analysis and only for some), there are political elements to it already. Sometimes it pays to take advantage of what you're given. "

readmoreoften: "The political alchemy is a revolutionary vanguard capable of organizing the strike.  There are certainly people already on the scene who are large enough to fulfill this function. The SWP, for one. Organizers and agitators with a unified plan will be what's needed soon. I suspect it'll take awhile."

nomb: "The local neighborhood leadership has almost entirely shifted the focus to criminal elements.      Reports are starting to build that Social Networking caused an almost "Warriors" movie type of gathering by usually antagonistic gangs from all over London to come and riot/loot.  I'm afraid this teaching moment is lost all ready."

Have you heard people you wouldn't expect talking about a revolution?

OffWithTheirHeads: "not yet, They are still too comfortable      I on the other hand, while still comfortable, would like to see some heads chopped off.

I guess its hard to get turnout numbers down in a bunker

Dems are claiming they lost in 2010 only because turnout was lower than usual, especially among Democrats.

That's a lie.

Not only was turnout 1.2% higher than the 2006 election they won, partisan identification was virtually identical.

They lost because they turned independents against them.

'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.'

Democrats spent 2009 screaming Tea Partiers were "racist."

Democrat poll numbers dropped.  They lost governorships in New Jersey and Virginia, Barack Obama's own U.S. Senate seat and Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat in indigo-blue Massachusetts.

Democrats spent 2010 screaming Tea Partiers were "presidential assassins."

Democrat poll numbers dropped even lower. They lost six governors, a record 680 state legislative seats, six U.S. Senate seats and 63 U.S. House seats, the biggest midterm House loss in 72 years.

Democrats are now spending 2011 screaming Tea Partiers are "terrorists."

Where do I donate to keep this up?

Major League Soccer. Minor League Officiating.

I'm usually very deferential to game officials.  I understand judgment calls and even will accept sometimes an obvious call is blown because the official simply had a bad visual angle.

But there is no excuse for Jasen Anno's utter incompetence and failure to control a match.  This wasn't an honest mistake or his having to make a judgment call in the rush of a match.  This is was just a total lack of awareness.

"China says debt financing unlikely 'to save' US, EU"

You know things are bad when Chinese Communists understand our economy better than the President does.

"The only way the Americans have come up with to improve economic growth has been to take on new loans to repay the old ones," a blistering commentary published on the official Xinhua news agency said.

"To eat May's grain in April, however, will never be a permanent solution to a problem," the report said.