Brief History of Bad Things...

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Afternoon Alarm...

I'm going to try and wrap the day up quick as I'm traveling back home and don't intend on being sober for much longer. Anyway, a bit of hilarity from an article over at the New Republic:

Representative Virginia Foxx, Republican of North Carolina, said that former President George Bush’s signature tax cuts in 2001 had created years of growth but that the nation’s problems started when Democrats regained majorities in Congress in the 2006 elections.

All stupid aside... anyone else think her name would fit nicely on the back of a porn DVD?

A Little Bit from Everywhere...

Thoughts on the stimulus bill and the strategies of both sides from all corners of the internets:


Michelle Malkin:

No bending over today... 


Adding, "This crap sandwich is all your Dems. Own it. Embrace it. Swallow it."

There's a sadistic quality to that sentence that intrigues me.

Jim Manzi:

American consumers are awash in debt, drowning in it. This is the fundamental issue with the stimulus proposal. We're trying to borrow our way out of debt. Unfortunately, we need a recession. That is, consumption must decline because for some time we have been consuming more than we produce or have reasonable prospects of producing. Monetary policy has been used to inflate a series of bubbles to avoid the consequences of excess debt, and the more we try to hold it off, the worse it's going to be. Bourbon works as a hangover cure, but only for a while.

Afternoon Alarm II...

More hilarity from Joe Klein who sounds like he wants Obama to fix everything and fix everything now!

There has been a casual, slightly confused quality to these first hours of the Obama Administration. The executive order on torture needed to be accompanied by a strong, firm statement on the part of the President, making clear that the Army Field Manual is the operating standard now, and that the deviations from that standard in the last Administration were reprehensible.


Also needed was some clearer guidance on the economy. I know the Economic Team is working through the regime for the implementation of the next $350 billion of the bank bailout--but with the banking system teetering, and home foreclosures mounting, there was a need for a clear statement of defining principles--a headline, a soundbite, something for the worried people of the country to talk about at dinner tonight. Ditto for the stimulus package.

You've got to love journalists...

Quote of the Day II...

"When I was kid, I always thought it was weird how much white racism, basically, revolved around keeping white women from having sex with black men. I'd be reading some book on black history, where people would be devoting, say, the right of black people to vote. And, inevitably, some white segregationists would say something like "If we let them vote, they'll be marrying your daughters!!! And they'll take over the country!!!" And I think, "Whaaa??" Talk about your non-sequitur.

But then I was talking about this with Kenyatta this morning, and it all suddenly made sense. She nodded to Barack Obama and laughingly noted, "They were right."

- Ta-Nehisi Coates

Quote of the Day II...

"It's the perfect day for that... staying inside where it's warm and watching the George Bush comedy hour for the last time to hear him explain to everyone that all this time he was just misunderstood."


- The guy behind the counter where I bought my cigarettes about an hour ago..

Afternoon Alarm...

She. Just. Won't. Stop. Talking...


"Bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie annoy me....I'll tell you, yesterday the Anchorage Daily News, they called again to ask — double-, triple-, quadruple-check — who is Trig's real mom. And I said, Come on, are you kidding me? We're gonna answer this? Do you not believe me or my doctor? And they said, No, it's been quite cryptic the way that my son's birth has been discussed. And I thought, Okay, more indication of continued problems in the world of journalism."


I... I'm just going to get some coffee now...

You Can't Fix Stupid...

I tried my hardest to avoid her but I really couldn't find anything else. So... Sarah Palin everybody!

"I've been interested to see how Caroline Kennedy will be handled and if she will be handled with kid gloves or if she will be under such a microscope," Palin told conservative radio talk-show host and filmmaker John Ziegler. Clips from Ziegler's interview were posted on YouTube this week.


"It's going to be interesting to see how that plays out and I think that as we watch that we will perhaps be able to prove that there is a class issue here also that was such a factor in the scrutiny of my candidacy versus, say, the scrutiny of what her candidacy may be," Palin said.


In a news release issued Friday, Palin's office said the governor was dismayed that her comments in the Ziegler interview were being taken out of context in the media "to create adversarial situations."


Regarding her remarks about Kennedy, Palin said: "I was not commenting at all on Caroline Kennedy as a prospective U.S. senator, but rather on the seemingly arbitrary ways in which news organizations determine the level and kind of scrutiny given to those who aspire to public office. In fact, I consider Ms. Kennedy qualified and experienced, and she could serve New York well."

You Can't Fix Stupid...

Harry has conveniently located his balls after he lost them a few years ago:

Reid stated, "I don't believe in the executive power trumping everything... I believe in our Constitution, three separate but equal branches of government."

"If Obama steps over the bounds, I will tell him. ... I do not work for Barack Obama. I work with him," he said.

That has to be at least an eight on the unintentional comedy scale.

You Can't Fix Stupid...

While comedienne Ann Coulter is always good for a chuckle, her shtick may as well be considered satire at this point. Hugh Hewitt is just a bad sure but unlike Ann, I think he really believes the bullshit that comes out of his mouth:

Like Lincoln, he picked commanders and followed their recommendations until overwhelming evidence of failure could no longer allow him to do so, and then he changed commanders. As with Lincoln, this approach to command led to some defeats on the battlefield. … Bush is deeply loved by the military. In wartime, that is among the most important measures. […]


But his greatest admirers will be Americans, and perhaps Afghans, Iraqis, Israelis, Indians and Africans a century or more from now who read about his record and resolve in so many efforts will marvel at his restraint and credit his faith and his family for a remarkable service to freedom.

That last part... man... that's just rich.

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