LEE RODGERSBIG GOVERNMENT = SPENDTHRIFTS ...
ECONOMIC FAILURE AS CAMPAIGN ISSUE ...
BIG BAD BOB'S "F"-WORD FALLOUT ON FOX
ECONOMIC FAILURE AS CAMPAIGN ISSUE ...
BIG BAD BOB'S "F"-WORD FALLOUT ON FOX
It's connect-the-dots time, with a brief reminder of political fundamentals ...
Democrats love big government. Big government breeds big tax-supported bureaucracies. These bureaucracies, by their very nature, exist to spend taxpayer money.
Often they are unable to resist the temptation to dip deeply into the cookie jar for personal enjoyment, hence such scandals as the current GSA affair illuminated by organizer Jay Neely's statement that , "I know I'm bad ... but why not enjoy it while we can? It ain't gonna last forever."
Always remember and never forget: Nothing is more fun than spending other people's money, and that's what politicians and their appointed bureaucrats do all day, every day.
How can I put this subtly? Okay ... let's try it this way: Anybody who forgets these facts is stupid.
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This must be disconcerting for Obamunists. This is from the liberal Washington Post's report on the liberal New York Times/CBS poll ...
"A slightly larger share of voters said they would do worse economically if the president is reelected; 40% of parents say they have had to alter expectations for the type of college they can afford; 40% of Americans say they are falling behind financially; 60% say the country is on the wrong track; and half of all voters say that the future of the next generation will be worse."
Yet Obama's in-crowd persists in a pose of confidence in public. What's that old saying about "whistling past the graveyard?"
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Was it an "Oopsie" or a revelation? That's the question now that Florida's Senator Marco Rubio has said, "I'm going to have the chance to contribute to that as a United States Senator. I'm excited about that prospect. Three, four, five, six, seven years from now, if I do a good job as a Vice President -- I'm sorry, as Senator, I'll have the chance to do all sorts of things."
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Victor Davis Hanson points out in National Review Online that sometimes presidential campaigns, like love, are lovelier the second time around ...
"Romney is a more experienced and better candidate than he was in 2008. That often happens after a run or two. Nixon was tougher in 1968 than in 1960 in the way that Reagan was wiser in 1980 than in 1968 and 1976, and George H. W. Bush was better in 1988 than in 1980.
"Romney is going to be a lot tougher on Obama than was McCain in 2008. For all the complaints against his moderation by the tea-party base, they will slowly rally to him as he makes arguments against Obama of the sort that McCain was perceived as unable or unwilling to make. Romney knows where McCain’s magnanimity got him in 2008.
"It is no longer 'cool, the thing to do, neat, or making a statement to vote for Obama. The 2008 lemming effect is over; no one believes any more that he will lower the seas or wants to believe that he can."
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In calling attention to the blatant hypocrisy of Democrats attacking Romney's wealth, while I did point out both JFK and John Kerry having unearned wealth, I neglected to mention Al Gore's family fortune, which was largely built when Daddy Gore was a Senator from Oklahoma and somehow got loaded with loot while tight with the big oil interests there.
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Reader Andy observes ...
"If Ann Romney can't comment on the economy because, "she never worked a day in her life," then Barack Obama can't comment on job creation because he never created a job in his life."
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Predictably, the use of the "F"-word on Fox News channel by the repulsive Bob Beckel has stirred some annoyed conservatives to ask why the FCC hasn't intervened, illustrating again that many people don't recognize the difference between broadcast television and cable television. Fox News is not an over-the-air facility; it is delivered only via wire.
Despite the common usage of the term "on the air" by cable personalities, it is NOT, in fact, "on the air".
Cable programming is not broadcast over the public airwaves and thus is not subject to the same restrictions as over-the-air TV. You may likely be receiving broadcast TV via your cable system, but that's because the cable operation is picking it up via an antenna for delivery to you -- likely with a better picture than you'd get from your own antenna.
Tomorrow we will devote similar space to explaining baseball's infield-fly rule.
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Ann Coulter gets in the faces of gun-grabbers ...
"We don't know the facts yet, but let's assume the conclusion MSNBC is leaping to is accurate: George Zimmerman stalked a small black child and murdered him in cold blood, just because he was black.
"If that were true, every black person in America should get a gun and join the National Rifle Association. "Apparently this has occurred to no one because our excellent public education system ensures that no American under the age of 60 has the slightest notion of this country's history."
"Gun control laws were originally promulgated by Democrats to keep guns out of the hands of blacks. This allowed the Democratic policy of slavery to proceed with fewer bumps and, after the Civil War, allowed the Democratic Ku Klux Klan to menace and murder black Americans with little resistance. (Contrary to what illiterates believe, the KKK was an outgrowth of the Democratic Party, with overlapping membership rolls.)"
-- Entire article at Townhall.com
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Are any Democrats embarrassed that their party came thisclose to placing the lying and otherwise contemptible John Edwards a heartbeat from the presidency?
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Wes Pruden, editor emeritus of the Washington Times, reflects on the Secret Service Colombia scandal ...
"This is a particularly sad episode for the Secret Service, which has been trying for four decades to live down a reputation for drunken malfeasance on the night before John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, for partying until 5 in the morning at the Fort Worth Press Club. One of JFK’s agents later told author Edward Klein ('The Kennedy Curse') that 'drinking, partying and sex became part of traveling with the president.'”
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Why are the taxpayers still paying for Secret Service protection for Newt Gingrich? Even he admits his presidential candidacy is virtually hopeless.
Don't Secret Service personnel have better things to do? (Please: hold the Colombia hooker jokes.)
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So Obama was a youngster when he ate dog. But he wasn't a kid when he wrote about it, expressing neither regret nor revulsion at a practice most Americans find detestable. So is THAT "off-limits" for discussion and macabre jokes?
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"Romney put his dog on the roof of his car...
Obama put his on the roof of his mouth." -- Jim Eason.
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And they just keep coming ...
This from reader Phil about Obama's favorite songs ...
"Wok the Dog" ... "How much is that doggie in the window?"
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The American Spectator's Jay Hornick has observations on the reports of rapidly increasing numbers of Americans renouncing their citizenship and resuming their lives in other countries ...
"People look around them and what do they see? Decay and demoralization. The space program has been outsourced to Russia and the only people getting married are gay. Achievers are being castigated for acting superior and hoods in hoodies are being lauded for acting inferior. The private sector has lost its heart and the public sector has lost its soul.
"Our soldiers are dispirited and beginning to misbehave. Washington bureaucrats are fiddling while Rome burns and shooting video as they ease on down the road paved with good intentions. Members of the Secret Service advance detail are entertaining us with the details of their advances.
"Israel can do no right and Muslims can do no wrong. It is evil to smoke but virtuous to pull the plug on disabled people. The government insists on watching our calories but refuses to watch the voting booth."
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Just asking ...
Does anybody buy timeshares anymore? Resales at huge discounts seem to glut the market.
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How did we reach such a point of illiteracy that many people are unable to distinguish between the casual greeting "Hey" and the substance fed to livestock, "Hay?"
Tip to employers: Never hire an applicant who uses "'coz" as an abbreviation for "because"; you'll regret it.
Also ... "affect" and "effect" are different words. The former applies to the cause, the latter to the result.
With the growing illiteracy quotient, it's predictable that at some future date Americans will be communicating with grunts, screeches and gestures.
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Even in the Wall Street Journal ...
Reader Chris caught the use of CACHE when CACHET was the correct word. Cachet (Ca-SHAY) refers to prestige ... cache (CASH) is a storage place.
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And which do you prefer -- likable or LikEable? Dictionaries disagree.
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In some sort of perverse way, it's simply ingenious the way manufacturers can forecast the lifespan of their products so accurately. A part of my pool's operating system just gave up after ten years and two months. The warranty was good for ten years.
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Distressing news from South Dakota, where a convict is suing the hospital where he was born and circumcised on grounds that the procedure deprived him of his sexual prowess.
He also wants his foreskin restored.
(Now, where did we put that thing ... )
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The Sky-guy strikes again ...
A man goes to visit in the nursing home his 84-year old father. While there he notices the nurse is giving his father hot chocolate and Viagra.
The man asks, "Why are you doing that? I mean, at his age what will it do for him?"
The nurse explains, "Hot chocolate will help him sleep."
The man says, "And the Viagra?"
"Keeps him from rolling out of bed."
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."