A Small Corner of Sanity

Harry Reid: “Only 36,000 Lost Their Jobs Today”

Time for the rubber room. Ah, and now President “I am going to lower the oceans” has chimed in. From The Hill: (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin) President Barack Obama boasted Friday that his economic recovery efforts were showing results after the national unemployment rate stayed at a steady 9.7 percent for February. Obama, touring a small business in [...]

Obama and Dems Rapped and Hip-Hopped in New Parody Video

Like about 99% of Americans, I could care less about rap or hip-hop. However, the video below, produced by OTP (for One Term President) is very clever, well written and well performed. Take a look for yourself: Hat Tip: BigGovernment.com

More White House Sleaze – Judgeships Now for Sale

And we thought Clinton selling the Lincoln Bedroom to Hollywood friends and selling missile guidance technology to the ChiComs for filthy campaign lucre was the end. Well, we have a new topper when it comes to the sleaze, graft and corruption that makes up 100% of the Democratic Party leadership. And now sleazy backroom deals [...]

Summit Disaster Notwithstanding, Dems Plan to Push ObamaCare Bill Next Week

To quote a commenter from Hot Air today, “It’s almost like a personal vendetta against the American people at this point for the Democrat leadership”. How true. From Politico: After a brief period of consultation following the White House health reform summit, congressional Democrats plan to begin making the case next week for a massive, Democrats-only health care [...]

Brits Catching Tea Party Fever

Being England and all, it should be the Afternoon Tea Party. In any case, good to see that the disaffection with the usual budget busting, irresponsible Leftist policy is starting to bubble up from under the surface even in Old Blighty. From Daniel Hannan’s Telegraph Blog – Hat Tip: ASPF) The inaugural British Tea Party will take place [...]

Russell to Seek Murtha’s Seat in Special Election

As announced via a Russell email update from this morning: “Since the Governor has announced that the Special Election will be held on Primary day, May 18th,” said Russell, “it makes perfect sense to also be a candidate in the special election. It’s a move that makes sense for the voters and will simplify the process [...]

The Tea Party movement and the honing of civil discourse

As American citizens, we each have a constitutional right to petition our government for redress of grievances. And down through the ages, since the beginning shot of the Revolution, to the last verbal barrage launched at a Tea Party gathering, Americans have engaged in this practice time and time again. But, for the last 150 years [...]

Air Pelosi: Bi-Partisan BS For Haiti

What have Haitians done to deserve this? Isn’t one earthquake enough? From USA Today: (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin) Pelosi leads bipartisan delegation to Haiti House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she is leading a 12-member congressional delegation to Haiti today. She said the trip is designed to “demonstrate the ongoing American commitment to the Haitian people – that they will [...]

NostraBiden: “Iraq could be one of Obama’s ‘greatest accomplishments’”

Maybe there is something to those rumors that Michelle Obama’s vegetable garden is laced with all sorts of nasty chemicals. And if true, then it looks like Plugs Biden must have had one heaping, honking big bowl of veggie soup and probably went back for seconds in order to utter maybe the stupidest thing [...]

A Finger Lickin’ Embarrassment for NBC: Black History Lunch Features Fried Chicken

As the old saying goes, Karma is a female dog. An angry and ironic one, that is. Well, the self-anointed closet racists at NBC (home of the All-White Network, MSLSD) have stepped into that dog’s societal poop yet again. and in a deliciously ironic way. Needles to say, if this has been any GOP, conservative group [...]

Rubio Surging, Crist Slumping, Meek Slumming

The tide of the Tea Party and the Town Hall that bubbled to the surface over the past year is starting to reach epic electoral heights: From Rasmussen Reports: Former state House Speaker Marco Rubio has now jumped to a 12-point lead over Governor Charlie Crist in Florida’s Republican Primary race for the U.S. Senate. A new Rasmussen [...]

Uhhh..Harry Reid. Why is Mark Kirk Still Voting in the Senate?

I suppose between the thrill of the Saints-Vikings game over the weekend and the audible thud of the President’s State of Confusion “lecture”, one very under reported, but very important news item has slipped by. WHY THE HELL IS MARK KIRK STILL CASTING VOTES IN THE SENATE? Massachusetts law is quite clear on this issue. When Brown [...]

New Debt Limit: $14.3 Trillion

But don’t worry, we’ll save a few billion by cutting back the number of paper clips the IRS uses. From the NY Times: (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin) The Senate on Thursday voted narrowly to increase the government’s borrowing authority to $14.3 trillion, which would allow the Treasury Department to continue servicing the country’s spiraling national debt [...]

This Week: A Trifecta for Liberty; Strikeout Number 3 for the Left

Just when you think it cannot get any better, along comes two more good pieces of news. One small, one huge. From Pipe Line News: (Hat Tip: Free Conservatives) January 21, 2010 – San Francisco, CA – PipeLineNews.org – In a remarkably powerful way the U.S. Supreme Court has struck a huge and far reaching blow in [...]

Democrats Officially Put on Endangered Species List

Amazing what a little reality and butt-kicking can do to knock political inflated egos down a notch or a hundred. Doing my best Marlin Perkins: “Hello and welcome to Wild Kingdom. Today we have a great show. Democrats and Leftists in the Wild – Survival Edition! Hear their cries of anguish when their natural diet of taxpayer [...]

Call him Senator-Elect Brown

First there was the Music City Miracle almost exactly 10 years ago. Buffalo Bills fans to this day still grouse about what they thought was a game stolen from them. And now a decade later, in a different venue, we have the Massachusetts Miracle. Only there is no doubt about this one: Full results can be [...]

Massachusetts Senate Race Update

So far, so good. No major fraud reports have come out (yet). Turnout is heavy. WBZ is reporting heavy traffic at the polls. (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin) In contrast to the light turnout for the party primaries last month, there are several signs of a heavy turnout. Election officials in Boston said there have been more than twice the [...]

Voinovich to Become 60th Vote?

Cannot saw that I am too surprised. These are desperate times for the Democrats and the White House, so they need to pull out what little they have left in the bag. And so they drag out Venal Voinovich to maybe blubber his way to becoming 60th vote for MengeleCare. As reported by Nate Nelson over [...]

Just One More: Final PPP Poll Shows Brown Ahead By 5

And to top off the night, one more poll that give Brown a solid lead. From PPP: (Hat Tip: Legal Insurrection) Scott Brown leads Martha Coakley 51-46 in our final Massachusetts Senate poll, an advantage that is within the margin of error for the poll. Over the last week Brown has continued his dominance with independents and [...]

Cook Gives Brown Advantage; Obama Insiders Throwing in Towel?

Even Charlie Cook is giving the edge to Brown. Considering Cook has long had a liberal bent when it comes to calling races, this is petty significant. From Newsmax: “This past Thursday, Jan. 14, The Cook Political Report moved the open Massachusetts Senate seat rating from lean Democrat to toss-up, having moved it from solid Democrat to [...]