posted May 20, 2010 10:16 AM         

The title is supposed to be:

No Joy in Mudville - Mighty Casey Has Struck Out

Casey at the Bat:

"Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville — mighty Casey has struck out."

That's right, and there's no joy in the White House as Barack "Casey" O'Bomber grits his teeth...because he's struck out again.

He struck out in Virginia.
He struck out in New Jersey.
He struck out in Massachusetts

Now, he's struck out in Pennsylvania.

Even the one most people would think O'Bomber won..the district 12 House seat in Pennsylvania was a gross repudiation of every one of O'Bomber's policy initiatives.

The winner, a Democrat won but he won by running against every one of O'Bomber's most cherished legislative initiatives. He sounded a hell of a lot more like Ronald Reagan than Barack O'Bomber.

The republican establishment got it's ass kicked too and it couldn't have happened to a more deserving bunch of RINO republicans.

The American people are reasserting the principles upon which this country was founded. The people are in charge and we will not be ruled. We will give sufficient power to govern using Constitutional principles but we will not be ruled without our consent, not by anyone.

I wonder if Valarie Jarretts's words on national television are bouncing around in the empty craniums in the White House...including O'Bomber's empty cranium.

"Obama is ready to RULE from day one."

Not so fast O'Bomber!

May 19, 2010
Another Very Bad Night for Obama, Democrats, and the Media
By C. Edmund Wright

The U.S. dollar and good news for Democrats have a lot in common these days. No matter how much of either liberals print, the absolute value keeps declining.

To be fair, the Jurassic media is actually half-right in their groupthink analysis that yesterday's elections were more evidence that the prevailing mood in the country is simply anti-Washington. But the half they get wrong is very wrong indeed. As such, they were losers yesterday.

The biggest winners were Rand Paul's campaign and the Tea Party movement/philosophy. The biggest losers were Barack Obama and the current far-left Democrat Congress and their notion of a large and intrusive government. Other losers include the political thinking of George W. Bush, Karl Rove, John McCain, and Bill Clinton.

As for the major parties, consider that the continued rebuke of "reach across the aisle" and "new tone" Republicanism is good news for a GOP that is rather rapidly finding its way.

Conversely, the rebuke of a sitting president and Congress -- not to mention the entire governing philosophy of the Democrats -- is potentially catastrophic for them. It was an awful night for liberals.

Anti-Washington, you say?

It is true that there is fierce anti-Washington fervor. But pundits are dead wrong in claiming that this means both parties are affected equally. Washington is a liberal Democrat city -- and not only by the standards of the current makeup of the administration and the Congress, though that is very true.

It goes deeper. The very notion of Washington as a control center and hub of intellectual power and great solutions is by definition a liberal ideal. Washington is Mecca to the Democrat liberal base. By contrast, the city and all it represents are anathema to progress and prosperity for the Republican base voters...you know, the tea party types. Yesterday was another sound rebuke of Washington as defined by liberals and thus another big day for the mindset of the tea party movement.

Best Name of 2010: Rand's a Winner in Kentucky

Liberal pundits like Mort Kondracke and David Goodstein have said that Rand Paul's primary win is more evidence that the Republican Party is imploding. They could not be more wrong. Paul -- armed with perhaps the perfect first name for a politician in 2010 -- is the quintessential Tea Party candidate. A fierce defender of limited government, the younger Paul and many of his supporters seem unburdened by some of his dad's most unconventional thoughts, yet he was able to tap into some of the Ron Paul cult support system.

More importantly, opponent Trey Grayson was a McCain-type candidate. He seems to have borrowed the worn-out phrases from Kay Bailey Hutchinson's tired campaign in Texas. Grayson's ads touted his ability to "get things done" in Washington by "working with people." I think Grayson would have lost to a blank space with such a tone-deaf campaign.

No, Mr. Kondracke, the party is not imploding. It is healing, and this means getting rid of cancers like Grayson (and Bennett and Crist). Rand Paul will win the general election, as will Marco Rubio in Florida and a Republican in Utah.

Specter's Spectacular Loss

Arlen Specter's final chapters as a senator are object lessons in what is wrong with Washington generally and what is wrong with moderate Republicans as a concept. The most devastating turn in this campaign was the release of an ad featuring kind words from Bush 41 from days when Specter was a Republican.

Ironically, this would have been as devastating in a GOP primary as it was in this one. Bush's endorsement of Specter was a centerpiece in Rove's philosophically vacant "permanent majority" strategy. The era of Arlen Specter -- and of the "new tone" -- is over.

Now Pennsylvania will get a choice. Liberal Joe Sestak will run against Conservative Republican Pat Toomey in November. And yes, there is indeed more "than a dime's worth of difference" between those two.

Rush Limbaugh Democrat Wins Murtha Seat

You know it's bad night when a win is actually a loss. Perhaps the worst news of the night for Team Obama was the Democrat win in the special election in Pennsylvania for Jack Murtha's seat.

Huh? Yep, Mark Critz is a "Rush Limbaugh Democrat" who campaigned against almost everything Obama and Murtha support. Frankly, he was more conservative than the McCain campaign of 2008 and more apt to criticize Obama than is, say, Lindsay Graham. Republican Tim Burns had no one to run against, and the district is heavily Democrat by registration. This was hardly a race that can be celebrated by the Democrat leadership today. Critz is the type of Democrat that Nancy Pelosi was hoping to lose in November.

Lincoln Troubles Symbolic

There is no clearer symbol of the trouble Obama is in than Blanche Lincoln. She is a sitting U.S. senator and has the strong endorsement of the two most popular Democrats in a century -- Obama and Bill Clinton -- and she is barely hanging on in her struggle to win a primary.

Lincoln is about 1% ahead of Bill Halter (as of this writing) and will face a runoff challenge. For an incumbent to be rejected by 60 percent of her party's voters is startling. This is a net loss for Obama and for the Clintons as well, not to mention an entire party that would readily admit that those are the biggest names in their arsenal.

The Takeaway

If it was embarrassing -- and instructive -- for George W. Bush's machine in Texas to get wiped out in their campaign for Hutchinson, it is even more so for Teams Obama-Clinton yesterday in Arkansas. Once-powerful national machines are now losing intramural contests on their home fields.

So what does this mean? Does it mean that people are simply fed up with Washington and all elected officials? Not exactly, though there is an element of truth in that analysis.

The real meaning is that people are fed up with this president, this Congress, their party, and the attempt to destroy a country and an economic system that have done more for freedom and good than any other country or economic system in world history.

Moreover, people are also fed up with any kind of namby-pamby opposition party that is little more than a low-calorie version of the statist Democrats. And this is not new. This wave has been building since Rick Santelli had his tea party rant over mortgages in February of 2009. It built through the tea party rallies in the spring of 2009 and into the town hall meetings of the summer of 2009.

The wave rolled in the fall through stunning elections of '09 in Virginia and New Jersey, and then later in Massachusetts with Scott Brown. It rolled after the health care debacle, and it rolls today, fueled by brave conservative leaders like Chris Christie and Jan Brewer.

A lot can happen between now and November's general elections, but make no mistake: Yesterday's elections were definitely an extension of the conservative ascendancy that is taking hold in this country. As such, it was yet another bad day for liberal America and a good day for tea party-supporters.

posted May 20, 2010 05:40 PM         

That statement came after he declined to say he supported the act in interviews yesterday on NPR and MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show. In both those exchanges, Paul explained that though he personally abhors discrimination and believes it should be banned from government-funded programs, he disagreed with the provision in the Civil Rights Act that also banned discrimination by private businesses. Paul, along with many libertarians, believes that the federal government should have a very limited role in the every day lives of Americans.

But after a firestorm of criticism today, Paul told Ingraham that it was a "poor political decision" to go on Maddow's show and declared that he supports both the ban on public discrimination and the ban on private discrimination.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100520/pl_ynews/ynews_pl2171#mwpphu-container

He should just stand by his statement. There is nothing wrong with being honest.

Maybe he has a point. If businesses want to discriminate, let them. They will be just a minority any way.

I wouldn't want to be where I am not wanted, so I would stay away from those type of businesses. I would be in only business establishments that don't discriminate. That's just plain common sense.

I am grateful that I was born in the 1970's in the Northern part of the USA. I wouldn't want to be born in 1929 like my stepfather nor in 1940's in the Southern part of the USA like my father.

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Raymond

Supporting the Neurodiversity Movement

posted May 20, 2010 09:39 PM         

If you can find a video or transcript, I'd like to see it.

All I've been able to find..so far are comments "about" what he is alleged to have said.

From what I've been able to find, Paul talks about being against institutional racism but apparently...and I say...apparently, not necessarily against private individual racism.

posted May 21, 2010 09:56 AM         

i get that he is saying hands off to the government but he seems to forget (of course he was not old enough to remember either) what it was like before the government re-defined the "equal rights" clauses.

posted May 21, 2010 11:14 AM         

What the petri dishes of a couple days ago showed me is that irregardless of sector, or the color of the state, voters have a little [what I call] loose cannon syndrome. Now you can either fault or praise swingin' tea bags on one hand, or the Palinites on the other hand, but unless a non incumbent seeking elected office shoots him/herself in both feet, either through scandal or their own mouths, they are likely to get elected.

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Some videos I watched were sound bites of 4 min or so, your really need to watch the full 19 min.....or not, if that might be too excruciating.....I ran a few charts on astro.com whilst I listened. There is text of
both recent interviews w/Maddow-Paul

The 19 minutes I am posting came from crooks n liars . com

I also found it interesting that Mr. Paul said this->

The morning after he declined to endorse the totality of the Civil Rights Act in his much-discussed appearance on the Rachel Maddow Show, Dr. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) copped to feeling regret -- not over his comments, but rather his decision to be interviewed by Maddow in the first place.

quote:

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"It was a poor political decision and probably won't be happening anytime in the near future," the Tea Party endorsed Senate candidate said on the Laura Ingraham show on Thursday morning. "Because, yeah, they can play things and want to say, 'Oh you believed in beating up people that were trying to sit in restaurants in the 1960s.' And that is such a ridiculous notion and something that no rational person is in favor of. [But] she went on and on about that."

Blaming the messenger is a tactic often used by politicians when the message itself is to blame

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Huff`n`Stuff source

posted May 21, 2010 11:28 PM         

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posted May 22, 2010 03:38 AM         

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though i'm not sure we have time to wait for the 70s crowd to get the job done...obama would be pluto in virgo and most of the people in washington are his age or older.

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posted May 24, 2010 09:24 AM         

It's far too late for that.

Mark Critz, who won Murtha's House seat in Pennsylvania, got away with running against every one of O'Bomber's favorite Socialist legislative initiatives...but Critz didn't have any voting record at all. Critz was a member of Murtha's staff, not an elected representative. So, Critz could say he WOULD have voted against O'Bomber's Socialist agenda.

But, for elected demoscat House and Senate members who are up for reelection, what they did is going to carry a lot more weight than what they're saying now.

The American people told them in no uncertain language not to vote for O'Bomber's Socialist agenda.

They've made a huge mistake thinking the American people would forget how they voted by November 2nd.

May 23, 2010 – 11:15 p.m.
Freshmen Run Away From Obama
By Jennifer Bendery and Steven T. Dennis, CQ-Roll Call

The House Democratic freshmen who rose to power riding candidate Barack Obama ’s coattails in 2008 are now eager to strut their independence heading into the midterms.

Some rookies opposed Obama’s cap-and-trade climate change bill; others rejected his health care plan. But even those members who backed all of the president’s signature initiatives are ready to show that they can win their first re-election bids without leaning on Obama’s star power.

posted May 24, 2010 09:39 AM         

Djou wins U.S. House seat
The GOP trumpets a victory on Obama's home turf, while Dems promise to regroup
By B.J. Reyes
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, May 23, 2010

The celebration at Hawaii Republican Party headquarters was barely 15 minutes old as Charles Djou, the GOP's newest darling, had already moved past the historic victory and turned his sights toward the general election in November.

"I know there are going to be pundits out there who are going to try to minimize the significance of tonight's election," Djou told a crowd of jubilant supporters after winning the special election to fill the vacancy in Hawaii's 1st Congressional District.

"These pundits are going to say the only reason this evening occurred is because of unique political circumstances," he added. "These pundits are going to tell you to ignore the results of what happened here tonight. We're here to tell them they are wrong."

Djou won with close to 40 percent of the vote in the mail-in special election, beating Democrats Colleen Hanabusa, with 31 percent, and Ed Case, 28 percent.