Monthly Archives: December 2009

Harry Reid Thinks Susan Collins is a Racist

Oh, that Harry Reid. Apparently according to the Senate majority leader, people who oppose the government takeover of health care are the same as people who opposed ending slavery. Yes Virginia, if you oppose ObamaCare you’re essentially a racist. And while I anxiously await all the serious journalists at NBC News and the NY Times (as opposed to the fake ones on Fox) to call on every Democrat to denounce Reid the same way they’d call on Republicans to denounce Glen Beck, I take solace on the general rule of thumb: when you have to resort to the race card, you’ve lost the argument.

I can only assume he’s speaking specifically at cats like Senator Tom Coburn from Oklahoma. The equation usually goes white + male + southern + having a different opinion from a liberal = racist. Damn all those radical white southern conservative who are standing in the way of the President doing what he wants like…um, Joe Lieberman and…SUSAN COLLINS?!? But she’s a squishy moderate RiNO?

That may be the case to some, and while she did support the stimulus bill, apparently she has the audacity to oppose HCR (specifically the Trojan horse to a single payer system public option) and even gives and example why. It failed miserably when they tried it in her home state of Maine…

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Music Monday: Konstantine

The Ten Commandments of Romney

I’ve admitted being a fan not only of Mitt Romney, but also of his “Stone Cold Steve Austin” approach to campaigning where he runs in, drops a few stunners, flips off the camera and leaves. So while Mike Huckabee is catching heat for a clemency, while Tim Pawlenty is repeating the same mistakes Romney made in 2008, and while Sarah Palin is…well, Sarah Palin, our man M-Ro appears when we need a grown-up to discuss issues.

Take last week as an example. President Hopeandchange held a “jobs” summit with supporters and his employers in the labor unions to discuss how to save or create the jobs that have been lost a) since he took office, and b) since his stimulus bill would have prevented the unemployment rate from hitting 8%. It’s current at 10%. But good news, it’s down from 10.2% last month.

There idea is…wait for it…a government jobs program which does nothing to help the small businesses who are responsible for most of the employment in this country, and have been struggling to create or save any new jobs; mainly because they have no idea what tax increases are coming their way. Romney has a different idea. Ten of them actually…

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Bob McDonnell and Conservative Purity

I had a lot of people asking me my thoughts on the “RNC Purity Test” (google it), which is a cockamaime idea that 3 out of 156 members of the RNC came up with that has no support from the house, the senate, moderates, or conservatives, but because the media takes their marching orders from the Obama Campaign they’re willing to push it as a distraction from his falling numbers. To me, the best way to respond is to call it what it is, “…a joke. Now let’s talk aboot the Republican alternatives to health care reform you lie to the American people aboot us not having.”

But enough people took it seriously, so I think a better example of it’s cockamaimeness is to take a look at the recent victory in Virginia by Governor-elect Bob McDonnell. His close to twenty point victory should be the roadmap for how a principle conservative can win with conservative solutions, not with a purity test, but simply by not being an asshole.

From a recent interview he did with Jen Rubin

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Country Muzik Tuesday: Right Path