Yes Labels
[Guest post by JD]
Ladies and gentlemen, I present you an absolute tour de force.
Click the link. You are welcome.
It is not the case that the average of right and wrong is always or even usually a good outcome. And the bias of such averaging always seems to be a bigger role for government.
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We need to decide if we will continue moving toward ‘social democracy’ or back toward American constitutional limited government. Little else matters.
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Compromise has almost exclusively ratcheted up the size and intrusion of the state, with few historical counterexamples, and there are powerful forces that will likely make it so going forward.
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Compromise is a wonderful thing at times, but a disastrous thing at other times. For example, “Johnny, you split that last cookie with your sister Sally,” is often a good compromise. Munich (I’m thinking 1938 but really any compromise related to Munich) was a bad compromise. Sometimes arguing and fighting is a more wonderful thing than compromise and “getting something done.” Here are six examples of the things I think require more fighting and less compromise:1) We do not need to compromise on spending; we need to spend less.
2) We do not need to compromise on taxation; we need to tax less and tax with less complication.
3) We do not need to compromise on regulation; we need to regulate less and with less political correctness and nannyism. We need to end the giant, super-powerful government bureaucracies that are not only costly but get “captured” by special interests and then add to cronyism; such bureaucracies are, in their essence, anti-liberty in their wide powers.
4) We do not need to compromise on the amount of crony capital that goes to politicians’ friends and to politically correct industries; we need to let everyone stand or fall on merit.
5) We do not need to compromise on how much of the people’s personal judgment we replace with government authority; we need to let grownups purchase whatever soda size they want and let parents be in charge of their own children. If that leads to imperfect outcomes for some, well, nobody ever said freedom was sugar-free.
6) We do not need to compromise on the Second Amendment (or any enumerated right of any citizen). We need to retain it not only to protect ourselves and our families, and certainly not only for “hunting” (an epic straw man), but most importantly as a hopefully never-used bulwark against tyranny. We may differ on what would constitute such unbearable tyranny, but surely every American has some limit. Leftists may feel horror when they see rednecks armed with AR-15s — horror they feel at the existence of both rednecks and AR-15s — but they need those armed rednecks on that wall. Of course, this right to arms has to be limited at some point, as my needed rednecks on that wall don’t need nukes (there’s a “Nukes of Hazzard” quip in here somewhere), but I fear any compromise today would explicitly ignore the prime purpose of this, and other, enumerated rights, a particular danger of compromise at times of great emotional trauma.
This guy is good.
—JD
I choose labels.
Comment by JD (b63a52) — 3/7/2013 @ 8:26 pm
yes yes I love it when people unapologetically give short shrift to stupid social con issues this means they’ve been paying attention and it makes one hopefully that there’s a light at the end of Team R’s dark dark tunnel
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 8:27 pm
*hopeful* I mean
it makes one hopeful
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 8:28 pm
Yep, he’s good.
Comment by SPQR (768505) — 3/7/2013 @ 8:31 pm
Clarity about the issues and what is and is not a crisis that something “must” be done. Thank you for this list.
Comment by dunce (15d7dc) — 3/7/2013 @ 8:37 pm
David Frum is McCain of journolistas.
Comment by JD (b63a52) — 3/7/2013 @ 8:37 pm
Let me be clear.
Make no mistake.
We can’t wait.
Comment by Elephant Stone (816b12) — 3/7/2013 @ 8:50 pm
Mark McKinnon runs a PR firm in Austin to spread progressive ideas. Yes, his company has been used by some “right-thinking” Republicans.
Regardless, the whole “No Labels” organization is nothing more than another lefty front trying to appeal to conservatives to be “reasonable.” What reasonable means to them is “stop being, you know, conservative.”
No Labels is nothing but useless hacks that should be ignored.
Comment by Ag80 (b2c81f) — 3/7/2013 @ 8:57 pm
Herein lies the problem, the left doesn’t care about any of that, they use ‘force majeure’ circumstance to invalidate contract law, like the Chrysler bondholders, Red Liz’s bogus research to promote Obamacare, and Dodd/Law, the Levick Grp/CCR to force the release of Gitmo detainees, the ‘hockey stick’ to destroy the basis for anything beyond single proprietor economic activity, every is a sham, or a lie,
Comment by narciso (3fec35) — 3/7/2013 @ 9:01 pm
john mccain can suck my ‘hockey stick’
bobby orr this you cowardly jagoff
this michael walsh Mr. instapundit links is a very perspicacious person
gack he makes me sick. Like to where I could puke atkins shake all over my university of minnesota gophers shirt. Then I would have to change shirts. That’s how sick John McCain makes me feel in my stomach.
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 9:07 pm
The problem lies when they accept the left rationale, on guns, on cap n trade, on campaign finance reform, lets stick to that, McCain, Graham, and Ayotte, make a big deal about Benghazi, but then they vote for Hagel and Kerry, and lavish largesse, on the protector of at least one of the more prominent terrorist networks, operating in Libya,
Comment by narciso (3fec35) — 3/7/2013 @ 9:23 pm
campaign finance reform was Meghan’s coward daddy’s way of getting the media to cooperate in his campaign to redeem himself after his sleazy Keating dealings were found out
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 9:30 pm
I’m sorry, happy. I may agree that McCain can disappoint mightily, but he is no coward nor disgrace to the country regardless of Mr. Walsh’s opinion.
I know you dislike McCain, but there is no reason to disparage his service.
Comment by Ag80 (b2c81f) — 3/7/2013 @ 9:31 pm
i disagree
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 9:33 pm
he was a daddy’s boy taking the easy path
that’s who he is
that’s how he rolls
hyper-entitled to the core and pouty when he doesn’t get his way
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 9:34 pm
I know you do, just saying.
On the upside, global warming stopped a new ice age.
So there is that.
Comment by Ag80 (b2c81f) — 3/7/2013 @ 9:37 pm
Mr. 80 I do not mean to be offensive
this is a matter in which in my heart I have conviction
I believe the moment you try to parlay military service into power over others you forfeit something
and you raise the bar by which your character is subsequently measured
and that’s a test meghan’s coward daddy has failed
dramatically
like oh my god what a joke
what a disgrace
grandpa fail needs to go away he’s just drooling on himself like a senile codger anymore
the senate is held in low enough repute without this man’s antics exacerbating the situation
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 9:40 pm
Yay global warming!
Comment by JD (b63a52) — 3/7/2013 @ 9:40 pm
Yay labels!
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 9:44 pm
happy, I am not arguing whether he is right or wrong politically. I am saying he was a brave Navy pilot and also a POW.
He did honor to his service as a citizen.
What he has done with that honor afterwards can be a subject of debate as long as his service is recognized.
And I’m really surprised at you for going for the old folk gambit.
I’m as mad at him and Graham as you are for his transactions, but I do still hold his service in respect.
Comment by Ag80 (b2c81f) — 3/7/2013 @ 9:52 pm
yes, lets not take the left’s tack, which is just short of calling him a war criminal, as they did in 2008, and challenge his actual policy decision,
Comment by narciso (3fec35) — 3/7/2013 @ 9:56 pm
I have no beef with you holding his service in respect
but I don’t
I just don’t
if I said I did I would be lying
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 9:57 pm
he’s been dining out on that service crap for DECADES
longer than I’ve even been alive maybe
he’s sure as hell had ample time to prove his character apart from this much-vaunted “service”
and he hasn’t
simple as that
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 9:58 pm
Ag80,
Some of these commenters may be on “our team” in a political sense, but they are ultimately just the snarky right wing flip side of Jon Stewart—they don’t respect military service any more than Stewart, Colbert, Saturday Night Live, or The Nation magazine.
Naturally, a military service record does not entitle one to political power or a free ride for the rest of one’s life, but by the same token, a guy’s political foibles today (what McCain said to undermine Rand Paul) should not retroactively “stain” his honorable military service which took place 40 years ago.
I think Obama is the worst President, and I think what McCain and Graham said to undermine Rand Paul today was awful, but that shouldn’t elicit anyone to mock McCain’s honorable service in uniform.
Only a jerk would suggest that being a fighter pilot in wartime is some sort of “daddy’s boy” way of climbing the ladder.
Comment by Elephant Stone (816b12) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:00 pm
mocha chocolata ya ya I think
sacred cows make the best fajitas
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:02 pm
OK, happy. You have a major jones about McCain. I understand why.
We will just have to part on this and remain political allies on other things.
Comment by Ag80 (b2c81f) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:04 pm
Right, remember that Sid ‘Vicious’ Blumenthal, wretched nazgul that he is, tried to challenge George HW Bush’s heroism, the Nation went after Bob Dole, suggesting he didn’t deserve medals for what he did in Italy,
Comment by narciso (3fec35) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:04 pm
a fighter pilot
he wasn’t a fighter pilot he was a ground-attack pilot
not same same is my understanding
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:04 pm
yes Mr. 80 I agree and I love you for that
the list of stuff where we have to march in lockstep is long enough already
limited government is a big umbrella
take that you fascist raindrops!
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:06 pm
Quibbling, pikachu, a SAM doesn’t care who you are,
judgements on current policy are what matter, the fact is one cannot compromise with Obama on any issue, one would think the third amiga Ayotte would know that by now,
Comment by narciso (3fec35) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:10 pm
for reals?
average life expectancy is no different for a ground attack pilot than a fighter pilot?
I am dubious but I will defer to… I dunno
Bob Reed I guess
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:12 pm
Leftists surprisingly don’t mind a swat team, threatening a six year old boy, with an Mp-5, on the premise they needed to send him back to his father, when both are state property, they don’t mind automatic weapons ending up in the hands of the Sinaloa cartel, they seem not to care, that an Ambassador was killed for the first time in 33 years, in a foreign country,
Comment by narciso (3fec35) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:14 pm
to be honest all I know is fighter pilots are very elite they made a movie about them in the 80s that I never seen starring Mr. Tom Cruise
this was not a movie about ground-attack pilots
Kenny Loggins did some singings
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:15 pm
Happy: no harm, no foul.
Comment by Ag80 (b2c81f) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:18 pm
since we’re at it I could give two shlts about Benghazi set against what is happening in our own pitiful – and contemptibly passive – obama-ravaged little country
I could be seduced by this Mr. Rand Paul something awful
lifeydoodle or no
but I think Mr. Jindal is the more deserving
too bad about that whole exorcism escapade
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:18 pm
oh noes
john mccain was a ‘ground-attack’ pilot, rather than a ‘fighter pilot’
that’s grounds for attacking him, e e cummings style…and jon stewart style, too
cuz every snarky fat middle-aged keyboard pilot punk who lives in the valley is better than him
better to shoot down off one’s keyboard than to shoot the enemy north vietnamese
victory
Comment by Elephant Stone (816b12) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:19 pm
no foul indeed
Mr. 80 when I first began my straight talk express about “meghan’s coward daddy” – several years ago now – oh my goodness it was like kicking a fire-ant mound
not so much anymore – all on his own he’s lost a lot of goodwill in the meantime
(…or else my internet commenting campaign has been incredibly off-the-charts effective)
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:21 pm
I’m livin the carb free life Mr. Stone and I only got fat cause I quit smoking
quitting smoking is equal to half a metric duggar in terms of body-ravaging experiences
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:23 pm
ok also cupcakes were involved
but they are VERY effective and under-appreciated smoking cessation tools I will have you know
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:26 pm
omg I’m pullin a DRJ on the recent comments
hey whirl
check ME out
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:27 pm
the left always comes up with an rationalization for what say they want, instead of what they really want, we know Obamacare is designed to fail, he and his associates (Hacker, Shakowsky, Frank) have said, it’s one step toward single payer, I think Dingell called it ‘a starter home’. They scream about the war on women, but what they are doing is subverting a private institutions belief systems,
Comment by narciso (3fec35) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:29 pm
they scream about the war on women
we stammer about legitimate rape
it’s not even close
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:29 pm
it’s like Morrissey of The Smiths sang the song called
‘big mouth strikes again’
mouth is where he puts his food, cigs, and feet
but if his words were bigger, he’d not be livin’ in valley…or in sin
Comment by Elephant Stone (816b12) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:34 pm
cigarettes and chocolate milk these are just a couple of my cravings Mr. stone
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:36 pm
crave more wisdom, less chocolate milk, and less applause
Comment by Elephant Stone (816b12) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:41 pm
and that james stockdale fellow
who did he think he was
being a fellow at hoover institution and writing books
he got shot down over vietnam, too
he must have been sadjerk
unlike keyboard warrior happyfeet
Comment by Elephant Stone (816b12) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:42 pm
wisdom will come in time grasshopper meanwhile the hills are crawling with fascists
lock your doors an hide your wife
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:42 pm
Ah, Stockdale, how could I forget, I remember Dennis Miller’s riff on that,
Comment by narciso (3fec35) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:44 pm
time has passed you by
like perry and Perrier
it cannot be captured in a bottle
at least not the type of bottle you sip from
Comment by Elephant Stone (816b12) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:46 pm
Perrier has NEVER been more relevant than it is today
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:50 pm
you can buy it with food stamps now
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:51 pm
when
captain keyboardmister happyejects from his pilot seat
his wife says, ‘come talk to me in the bedroom’
and the peoples on the internet say, ‘yes, please go talk to her—please.’
Comment by Elephant Stone (816b12) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:53 pm
ok now you hurt my feelings
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:56 pm
your feelings probably didn’t ache as much as john mccain’s arm
but your middle finger is probably sore from showing it to so many people so often
but you don’t allow it to get in the way of your typing
cuz you’re a keyboard warrior
Comment by Elephant Stone (816b12) — 3/7/2013 @ 10:59 pm
yeah mr. stone we gonna rock rock do a lot of shot shots someone tell the clock clock we ain’t gonna stop stop
put yo hands up
put yo hands up
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 11:02 pm
You notice how the left never goes out of it’s way, to insult it’s supporter’s social stances, or else finds rationalizations why they had to do things, re DOMA, which was more unanimous then what Congress decides for dinner, now this in part, because it’s also the agenda of the media, and the educational institutions, but that’s really immaterial, they let some notions percolate up, and let others sink to the bottom
Comment by narciso (3fec35) — 3/7/2013 @ 11:05 pm
they had to pass DOMA to find out what was in it Mr. narciso
…
oops
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/7/2013 @ 11:06 pm
Lots of people like Mr. Feet’s odd persona. To each their own, though I find it very strange that he is so often flippant over things about which he claims to feel great passion. But who knows? We live in a world where a majority of folks take Jon Stewart’s ideas about politics seriously.
The personal attack business with odd snarkiness is his bread and butter on the internet, again for reasons I don’t understand (remember his “hootchie” controversy from awhile back?). And again, many people like it, it seems.
I think that the current climate of personal attacks, fueled by snarkiness and an irony-rich style is one of our problems in politics today, but that’s me not being one of the cool kids, yet again. Lots of people seem to think that approach is amusing from Mr. Feet, even as they dislike it when the Left does it.
As for McCain, there is utterly nothing wrong with honoring his service and sacrifice, while at the same time feeling he needs to just knock off his nonsense and go home. Two different things, and not connected. George McGovern flew 35 missions in a B-24 over Europe during World War II with great bravery, but he was crazier than a honeybadger on crack when it came to politics. Attacking McGovern’s service would say more about the attacker than McGovern.
But that’s just me, to repeat myself. I find that fewer and fewer people like to debate without the snark and mean-spiritedness I see today (though I would observe that is what happened to David Letterman: he started out funny and ironic and became bitter and angry).
Getting back to the point. I loved the essay JD linked. Finding your core values is important. And “compromise” means something very different to this Administration than the dictionary definition. As for McCain, he is just embarrassing himself; he has been infected by too much Washington DC. He’s not alone in this problem. He needs to go.
But attacking his military record? That’s demonstrably counterproductive, mean-spirited, and beside the point. It’s also exceptionally cowardly (in the truest sense of the term, which is used oddly by Mr. Feet) from anyone who isn’t a veteran.
Even if my opinion is in the minority on that one. But there is a reason I post less and less. I don’t feel I have as much in common with the posters here than I used to. We all need to keep up the fight to get the current crew out of power in DC, and that’s not just the Oval Office and Senate. There are many ways to do that, and we can disagree on how to best accomplish that important goal.
Good night, all.
Comment by Simon Jester (1854b9) — 3/7/2013 @ 11:41 pm
Happy
If McCain had beaten bush, he would have been a great president, we would have been out of iraq in a few months, the economy would still be booming and democrats would have been a thing of the past.
and he was right for smacking little rand on the behind for his immmature stunt – there was no way that Obama and his man child holder would ever do a drone strike on US soil but if he had to, then so be it.
Rand needs to grow up and start acting like a senator and not the dictator he thinks is in the whitehouse.
Our country is wide and diverse, I am sympathetic and wish for staunch conservatism to take over in everyone’s hearts but pontificating and topping the nations business for something that some jacka$$ wrote in a memo is not what the wide grandur of serving meant.
for pete’s sake, black helicopters on the lawn again the ghost of Ross my behind
Comment by EPWJ (c3dbb4) — 3/7/2013 @ 11:53 pm
On the subject of nannys, remember NYC doesn’t quite graduate 50% from HS?
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/03/07/NYC-80-percent-read
Those actually graduating are no prizes either.
Good thing the putz at the top does their thinking for them.
Comment by gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 3/8/2013 @ 12:24 am
Dammit Jim, he’s worse than dead, he’s got no brain!
Comment by gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 3/8/2013 @ 12:29 am
The horsewhipping compromise gets at the author’s hands reminds one of R. Paul’s first address to the Senate contrasting Cassius with Henry ‘the great compromiser’.
Apart from the genius of selecting Palin McCain is a bag of mostly water.
Comment by gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 3/8/2013 @ 12:38 am
fighter pilots make movies, attack pilots make history…
but the scooter had a cannon, and air to air kills in several different wars as well, so maybe you were confused by “Flight of the Intruder”?
Comment by redc1c4 (403dff) — 3/8/2013 @ 1:42 am
I am not the least bit surprised that McCain found a supporter in epwj.
Comment by JD (b63a52) — 3/8/2013 @ 4:31 am
If McCain had beaten bush, he would have been a great president,
There is no objective evidence to support this, and much to the contrary.
we would have been out of iraq in a few months,
You base this on … ?
the economy would still be booming
Still be booming? It wasn’t booming when he was campaigning, nor when Barcky took office.
and democrats would have been a thing of the past.
Nonsense
and he was right for smacking little rand on the behind for his immmature stunt –
Spoken like a true statist
there was no way that Obama and his man child holder would ever do a drone strike on US soil but if he had to, then so be it.
Your basis for this profoundly stupid statement is … ? If there had been no possibility of this happening it should have been exceedingly easy for them to answer the question that he had been asking them for over a month.
Rand needs to grow up and start acting like a senator and not the dictator he thinks is in the whitehouse.
Do explain how Sen Paul is acting like a dictator?
The rest of your rant made no sense to me. Zero.
Comment by JD (b63a52) — 3/8/2013 @ 4:45 am
No, I’m just pointing out the fact that McCain would have been a much better President than Bush.
I think McCain’s way past his expiration date, but he was on target for spanking Rand on his butt. I know libertarians are starved for attention, but stunts dont play well when we have serious business to do – Rand should have gone to the dinner and asked the man himself right yo his face.
But that takes a different kind of courage, one obviously that the good senator from Kentucky didnt have.
Comment by EPWJ (c3dbb4) — 3/8/2013 @ 4:50 am
JD
A dictator is someone who puts his own personal preferences in front of whats good for everyone.
Taking the podium over a meaningless topic – when we are trying to get a true dictator to finally produce a budget and agree to real and substantial cuts – didnt help and Rand knew it – it was all bout da show.
Comment by EPWJ (c3dbb4) — 3/8/2013 @ 4:53 am
JD, I’m addressing if McCain had beaten Bush, McCain warned about govt ‘m talking about had bush never been president, had lost in the primaries in 2000 not 2008
Sorry if that wasn’t clear.
Comment by EPWJ (c3dbb4) — 3/8/2013 @ 4:57 am
sorry a hole sebntence got deleted
McCain wasnt happy since the late 90′s about govt spending said the clinton surplus’ were not really that since the debt was rising, felt we were changing to radically the bank laws, didnt like the drop in the interest rates forcing people out of CD’s and into the stock market where wealth was lost in the billions by some.
McCain wasnt the pie in the sky softy
Comment by EPWJ (c3dbb4) — 3/8/2013 @ 4:59 am
You stand with David Frum
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/07/why-you-shouldn-t-standwithrand.html
Comment by JD (b63a52) — 3/8/2013 @ 5:00 am
well I got to go I cnt type while on the phone.
Have a good day JD.
Comment by EPWJ (c3dbb4) — 3/8/2013 @ 5:00 am
Frum is scum for writing about Andrew a year after he died instead of confronting him while he was alive
but, frum was dead on in that piece though, guy has an amazing record of missing the boat and hitting the bulls eye sometuimes in the same paragraph
Also why didnt the brave sir Rand go to the dinner with Obama? Why didnt he confront the man directly?
But its a busy day – and I got to go
Comment by EPWJ (c3dbb4) — 3/8/2013 @ 5:06 am
No, I’m just pointing out the fact that McCain would have been a much better President than Bush.
Abject nonsense
He should have crashed someone else’s dinner? That wouldn’t have been a stunt? He had been asking over a month. It was the CIA Dir vote. When do you consider the appropriate time and place to address this?
Frankly, I love the fact that you and Frum cannot get your head around principles.
They weren’t on the Senate floor working on a budget, Eric. They were there to debate the nominee to become the head of he CIA and in charge of the drone program.
Comment by JD (b63a52) — 3/8/2013 @ 5:07 am
Also why didnt the brave sir Rand go to the dinner with Obama? Why didnt he confront the man directly?
Crashing a presidential dinner wouldn’t have been a stunt?!
Comment by JD (b63a52) — 3/8/2013 @ 5:08 am
I blame Palin
Comment by JD (b63a52) — 3/8/2013 @ 5:13 am
JD
he was invited
he voted for the same guy he filibusted by voiting for cloture
Back here in Kentucky and Tennessee where I live we call people like that spineless little weasels
and yes they are no the senate floor working on a budget, trying to force Reid to put out a budget.
Apparently there was no principles in question either since the issue of military strikes on US soil wasnt on the table either.
Comment by EPWJ (c3dbb4) — 3/8/2013 @ 5:14 am
I’m sorry but even Ace mentioned RIand was a weasel for doing it.
Oh Rubio, voted for the guy. Imagine that!
In other words there is something wrong with all our senators – we can find something in them to dissapoint us, McCain has been one of the best and most consistent. Rand, not so much but he is early into his record but wild vacilations like that certainly gives one pause.
Comment by EPWJ (c3dbb4) — 3/8/2013 @ 5:17 am
I like it when things are so clearly clarified. Thank you.
Comment by JD (31065f) — 3/8/2013 @ 5:35 am
I cannot find one mention of Sen Paul turning down an in oration to dinner with Teh One. Has anyone seen anything to that effect, or is that an asspull?
Comment by JD (31065f) — 3/8/2013 @ 6:12 am
When Flight of the Intruder came out I used to give the attack guys s*** by changing the saying to “fighter pilots make movies, attack pilots make sequels.”
Comment by Steve57 (60a887) — 3/8/2013 @ 6:53 am
I also cannot find where Ace thought this was a weasel stunt.
Comment by JD (b63a52) — 3/8/2013 @ 7:07 am
I like the original post.
Those are things that are pretty basic and straightforward.
I enjoy a good snark, though I fear at times it appeals to my baser instincts. How to be snarky without being offensive. I guess one needs to self-snark. I am glad feets has toned down the rhetoric that he once did, but I agree at times…
but seriously about chocolate milk…chocolate is good for you, like coffee and tea and dark beer and red wine. The issue is how much and how much sugar and fat is mixed in.
So here’s what you do, get cocoa powder and make your own chocolate syrup 1:1 cocoa powder to sugar (with a little water). If you have a taste for dark chocolate it’s great, if not, develop it.
And they say avocados have good fat in them. You can make chocolate pudding with mashed avocado, cocoa powder, and then add sugar or bananas or peanut butter (or all of the above).
So as long as you don’t have a problem with alcohol, have tea in the afternoon, a dark beer at the end of work, coffee with you chocolate pudding (made with avocado), and a glass of red wine afterwards.
And that should be very healthy.
Comment by MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 3/8/2013 @ 7:11 am
I cannot find where Ace is esteemed a character witness.
Comment by gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 3/8/2013 @ 7:13 am
there’s this place in oakland’s chinatown where i get unsweetened avocado smoothies sometimes
they don’t taste that great but I still crave them sometimes but I never found anywhere here in the valley what can make them for me
the chocolate avocado pudding sounds fun though maybe this weekend I can do that if I do Vallarta on saturday instead of sunday
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/8/2013 @ 7:17 am
One more reason for living in flyover Amerikkka. I have little fear of ever meeting Frum and in that greater expectation of dying a free man.
Comment by gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 3/8/2013 @ 7:18 am
for coffee I been getting this instant coffee from el salvador for to add to protein shakes
it’s very tasty and it adds a nice kick
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/8/2013 @ 7:20 am
77. McCain on a good day doesn’t quite rise to the level of a Coburn. ‘Nuf said.
Comment by gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 3/8/2013 @ 7:23 am
That’s ok, but down here, we have this place the Juice Palace, that would cause Bloomberg, to split his skin, and let the lizard tongue break out in it’s total pursuit of carbs, fat, all those good things, roast pork, mamey shakes,
Comment by narciso (3fec35) — 3/8/2013 @ 7:23 am
McCain lacks this little thing called gravitas Mr. gary
plus he’s an odious douche
Mr. narciso the Vallarta has a nice selection of agua frescas … I have to avoid them cause of they have so much sugar but mamay is a favorite – I always peek though to see if they have the celery one but they hardly ever do – that one is special
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/8/2013 @ 7:27 am
Frum went with the candidate, who slandered the military in Afghanistan and Iraq, who had a full cheering section for Hamas, including at his Church’s collection box, one might call them, ‘Friend’s of Hamas’
Comment by narciso (3fec35) — 3/8/2013 @ 7:31 am
2. I don’t mean to shove a stick in your cage Feets, but I see no possible connection between your comments and those of the author.
I like coffee that rips at your face, without excessive bitterness.
Comment by gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 3/8/2013 @ 7:35 am
short shrift
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/8/2013 @ 7:38 am
I guess its difficult to be surprised anymore but I’d expect KY to so slather this babe that she squirts all the way to Chattanooga.
Comment by gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 3/8/2013 @ 7:42 am
Oh, of course, the link. Put me in a home.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/ashley-judd-2006-its-unconscionable-to-breed/article/2522573?utm_campaign=obinsite
Comment by gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 3/8/2013 @ 7:42 am
Well Specter, Crist, Snowe, Murkowski, show the folly of that approach.
Comment by narciso (3fec35) — 3/8/2013 @ 7:43 am
92. Missed that, thanks. Compromise is overrated. War is easier than eradicating woolly thinking.
Comment by gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 3/8/2013 @ 7:45 am
All the while, I thought she was acting, she really is as ‘mad as a hatter’
Comment by narciso (3fec35) — 3/8/2013 @ 7:58 am
Gateway is reporting 130K left workforce, JCP laying off 2200 on their way to closing 300-350 stores.
I’m all for serious intellectual debate but the clock is about run out.
Comment by gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 3/8/2013 @ 7:59 am
97. Yeah, people are all over ‘Crazy Eyes’ for the occasional loonism, this babe is a veritable font of daft.
Comment by gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 3/8/2013 @ 8:02 am
that whole family is dippy
I still like ruby in paradise though
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/8/2013 @ 8:05 am
The Roaring Twenties gave way to the Grapes of Wrath.
Something similar this way comes.
Comment by gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 3/8/2013 @ 8:45 am
eastward ho
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/8/2013 @ 8:46 am
So here’s the nub:
http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=47861
The GOP, with Rubio or some old white guy, e.g., that Hinderaker or Mirengoff can Febreze, is done.
Winning at the ballot box is a lost cause nationally. Amerikkka no longer works who cares about government.
Comment by gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 3/8/2013 @ 8:55 am
roobs is smarmy smarmy smarmy and white as you or me
he’s not a for reals hispanic by any means he’s a highly highly highly acculturated person from a family of cuban origin is all
Team R only shows their ignorance of all things hispanic when they try and pass a roobs off as signifying Team R has some kind of latino street cred
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/8/2013 @ 9:08 am
I typically like what I read on PowerLine and find it fact based.
This latest bit of commentary and opinion is very disappointing.
Round up the wagons and shoot at each other continues to be the mo of repubs.
The main thing that all of us little pickachus want and can agree on is for a yes to be yes and a no to be no, and if AG Holder can’t say no to a simple question then Holder (and his boss) is the problem, not a Senator that does an old time filibuster to point it out.
Who is ashley judd running against, do I still have time to move to Kentucky and run against her? the only thing that argument wins is a revisit to our childhood in the 60′s (eat your peas, there are starving kids in India) and a world populated with 3rd world offspring and the self-extinction of the west.
Nothing personal against 3rd world offspring, but i think they would like to live at least a 2nd world lifestyle not stay where they are.
Last point, i don’t think it is a conspiracy, but the number of pop up multimedia ads is like bogging down my 2 year old computer.
if I knew how to do it, i think I would start an online service where you pay monthly a fee and get whatever you want with the ads screened out
Comment by MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 3/8/2013 @ 9:26 am
Actually Rubio joining Paul and Cruz, is a good thing, we haven’t seen a tag team like that, in
a generation, maybe some of Newt’s early ‘special
orders’ but certainly not in the Senate,
Comment by narciso (3fec35) — 3/8/2013 @ 9:40 am
Did anyone else find where Rand turned down invite to dinner? Where Ace called Rand a weasel?
Comment by JD (31065f) — 3/8/2013 @ 9:46 am
Roll Call says the dinner was the idea of McCain and Graham, not Obama, and I think they were the ones who put the guest list together. If so, it was never an issue of declining the President’s invitation.
Comment by DRJ (a83b8b) — 3/8/2013 @ 9:56 am
Plus, I doubt McCain and Graham would invite Paul, but I could be wrong.
Comment by DRJ (a83b8b) — 3/8/2013 @ 9:57 am
HuffPo is where I saw the story about the guest list for the dinner. It says Graham was responsible for making the list of GOP Senators.
Comment by DRJ (a83b8b) — 3/8/2013 @ 9:59 am
This is Commendatore Pazzi inviting Hannibal Lector, you know it won’t end well.
Comment by narciso (3fec35) — 3/8/2013 @ 9:59 am
You’re not wrong, DRJ. Even before the filibuster dust-up the GOP has-beens have resented the guys like Rubio, Cruz, and Paul taking the spotlight off of them.
McCain is like, “Don’t you know who I am? Why, I was once the GOP candidate for President! Who do you young whipper snappers think you are?”
The sooner these guys retire or a relegated to total obscurity the better.
Comment by Steve57 (60a887) — 3/8/2013 @ 10:02 am
3rd world offspring eff yeah!
Comment by happyfeet (4bf7c2) — 3/8/2013 @ 10:12 am
“Roll Call says the dinner was the idea of McCain and Graham, not Obama, and I think they were the ones who put the guest list together. If so, it was never an issue of declining the President’s invitation.”
DRJ – That would give more credence to your theory about them being upset about being upstaged by Paul’s filibuster. Other media accounts suggested the dinner was Obama’s idea as part of his outreach to Republicans.
Comment by daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 3/8/2013 @ 10:29 am
Thanks. I was just trying to clarify, since epwj said Rand turned down an invite.
Comment by JD (31065f) — 3/8/2013 @ 10:33 am
All the stories I have read said Graham controlled the guest list.
Comment by daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 3/8/2013 @ 10:41 am
I heard that one of the parties made the invitation, the other decided the day.
Which sounds like it was the senator’s idea and Obama picked the day.
But that is based on little info and little deduction.
I have no idea what was chance and what was maneuvering, and if so by who.
McConnell as well as Toomey made both, so good for him at least a little.
Comment by MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 3/8/2013 @ 11:17 am
There is no compromise between food and poison.
Comment by luagha (5cbe06) — 3/8/2013 @ 11:29 am
you’ve never had lutefisk i take it
Comment by happyfeet (4bf7c2) — 3/8/2013 @ 11:42 am
“you’ve never had lutefisk i take it”
Mr. Feets – Why do you think gary is so crabby all the time. He grew up on it.
Comment by daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 3/8/2013 @ 12:04 pm
Today Italy downgraded to BBB+ outlook negative by the French Fitch.
And Fitch said again the other day they are looking for an additional $1.6 Trillion in cuts beyond the sequester, ideally $3 Trillion(over 10 years I suppose).
The deadline for the new Budget/CR is coming up in 3 weeks and you know where that is in the news, how the negotiations are going.
As in not. We are in for a bit of a shock following Tax Day.
Comment by gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 3/8/2013 @ 12:19 pm
120. Actually I think its the Aspies, daley.
The one time lutefisk was on the menu at St. Olaf I took a date for Xmas festivities. She was not impressed even tho I shunned gustational catastrophe.
Her folks are the best of friends so its Ok, I ask no questions.
Mom is Scotch-Irish, fish was a rarity.
Comment by gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 3/8/2013 @ 12:28 pm
I think it was Coburn who said, “Compromise is what got us here, $16 trillion in debt.”
Wise words.
Comment by Patricia (be0117) — 3/8/2013 @ 2:30 pm
Sorry, but this is not a tour de force. While it is a better argument than is usually made against liberalism, it nevertheless fails to deliver where it counts, that is, on fundamental principles. It’s a classic example of what conservatives do over and over and over again — develop a brilliant, pursuasive political case and then prop it up on a faulty ethical foundation.
More specifically, the last sentence is the crucial part of the debate — and the author doesn’t even realize it and fails to develop it afterwards in the article. Seriously, he can’t — “even well after the fact” — find a counter to the Left’s trope of wealth being used as a measure of evil? Really? This gent can’t, by his own admission, refute an attack on one’s own achievements?
I submit to you, ladies and gentlemen, this is the problem behind it all. This is why the conservatives lost an election to the most corrupt, inept, and morally depraved politician to occupy the White House in multiple generations. It is tantamount to voluntarily baring one’s throat so that the Left may finish you off at its leisure. It is admitting to God and your enemies that you can’t justify your own freaking life.
Good luck doing anything positive with those kind of philosophical principles.
It is simple, it is elementary to anyone who chooses to see so: one lives by the product of one’s own effort — or you don’t live. Thus, you are entitled by your inviolate right to your own life to the product that you create. The conservatives will continue to lose elections until they can morally justify their inalienable right to the product of their own effort.
One of the things that the author did get right was that compromise on principles has gotten us in the social, political and economic mess that we’re currently in and compromise on this particular principle is what has to be stopped, nay, reversed. Unfortunately, conservatives keep buying into the fundamentals of socialism, i.e., the notion that we are our brother’s keeper. Consider a quote from this week by good ol’ conservative writer, Ed Morrisey:
What Mr. Morrisey is advocating, then, is that, since it is “impractical” to “dismantle” the welfare state — that is, “the People” wouldn’t stand for it — the only pragmatic thing to do is to
compromisetake action to make the welfare system pay for itself. That way, in avoiding principles and embracing pragmatism, we conservatives can avoid (as Mr. Asness points out) “an honest, vigorous — even historic — debate between those adhering to different labels” and, in particular, avoid a debate about the foundations of America’s political morality.The Founding Fathers didn’t have a problem discussing it — let alone coming up with an agreement on it — but modern conservatives can’t. Perhaps this is the case because in discussing the underlying morality necessary for freedom, it would reveal that the sad truth that though conservatives and liberals disagree on specific details (i.e., politics), they are united under the same moral code (i.e., altruism.) And so long as that is the case:
And, in case you’re keeping score, that would be the liberals are more consistent.
Comment by J.P. (bd0246) — 3/9/2013 @ 12:23 pm
“And, in case you’re keeping score, that would be the liberals are more consistent.”
J.P. – Comedy gold. Care to list some principles on which liberals are consistent?
Comment by daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 3/9/2013 @ 1:15 pm
Recall Kman’s claim a month or so back that “no one” was proposing banning guns?
Yeah, that was as accurate as you’d expect a Kman claim to be.
Comment by SPQR (768505) — 3/11/2013 @ 4:45 pm
Blast. I screwed up the link its here
Comment by SPQR (768505) — 3/11/2013 @ 4:46 pm
The one who’s husband was an excon, also one who has proposed Obamacare as a path to single payer.
Comment by narciso (3fec35) — 3/11/2013 @ 4:48 pm
SPQR – daleyrocks hearts Rep Schakowsky
Comment by JD (b63a52) — 3/11/2013 @ 4:51 pm
Heckuva job Jan!
Comment by daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 3/11/2013 @ 5:29 pm