Ohio Democrats Hit New Lows

I recently have mentioned the murky prospects that the Democrats have of retaining power in the House. What I have not spoke about is the complete flip in statehouses that is likely. According to the RCP averages after November you could have as many as 35 Republican governors. That's right, 35 out of 57! Which is very important in a year ending in zero, redistricting after the census is under the aegis of each state legislature. So it's no surprise they are coming out swinging in the very tight Governor's race in Ohio. The problem is they are coming out with something that was discredited already months ago. As Erick Erickson over at Red State wrote some months ago, there is no "there" there. Secondly by attacking a worthwhile charity that assists our military families shows how truly despicable the Left is and typical of how they operate. The woman who originally raised the questions of the Freedom Alliance and Sean Hannity's involvement has been proven to live in a world where most of us do not reside. Where everyone is anti-Semitic and we all have some sort of sympathies for Islamofascists. People on the right and left have dismissed her for some time now, she calls herself Conservative but I am not sure what her philosophical leanings are. She is an angry woman who seems to have some sort of petty jealousy with successful Conservatives. I will not link to her here on sheer principle and she has been known to cyberstalk...haha. You can figure out who it is by clicking through some of the links in this story. I will give you two hints, I appeared on the same shovio.com show as her on June 10th of this year and her name rhymes with Mebbie Shoesell.

Crunching Numbers

So I was looking at some of the Missouri primary election returns from last night, because I'm a total nerd. I notice a couple of interesting things that are being noted in some other circles as well. I never like to chase the news but these things are too obvious to not comment on it.

The Proposition C results are what everyone this morning is talking about. This bodes very poorly for Obamacare and it's continually anemic poll numbers. It was approved overwhelmingly, the 'yes' vote was a vote to amend current Missouri law to deny the government authority to "penalize citizens for refusing to purchase private health insurance or infringe upon the right to offer or accept direct payment for lawful healthcare services." I believe the fact that VA had a law similar to this already on the books is partially the grounds on which Federal Court did not dismiss the VA case against the Gov't. The guys over at volokh.com can address that WAY better than I can. In their opinions (they are mostly all legal scholars or law students) it paves the way for an appeal to the 4th Circuit which would then lead directly to the Supreme Court. In any case the fact that it passed by a 3 to 1 margin is telling. It shows the enthusiasm of the opponents of Obamacare and that they are willing to travel to the ballot boxes to make their voices heard.

To further illustrate the enthusiasm gap being discussed recenlty. I offer up what happened in St. Louis County, the most Democratic county, the votes for Robin Carnahan (D) were 58,775 in her primary. The numbers for Roy Blunt (R) while facing many more opponents in his primary was 59,274. Draw your own conclusion as to how that may translate in November for Carnahan the incumbent. But to me it shows the Democrats are headed for serious defeats in November. Now for the bad news...Sharron Angle. Would the election of Sharron Angle benefit conservative policies in the Senate moreso than Harry Reid? Of course it would, but I really would like a candidate who can get out of their own way. This video is hilarious:



Carl Cameron's incredulousness is priceless. If this is truly what she thinks we on the right need, she is sadly mistaken and needs a refresher course. I guess all candidates can't be as eloquent as Senate wannabe Democrat Alvin Greene. I kid of course, but would it be too difficult for the Republican Party to put someone up there who can communicate principles effectively? Senator Reid is eminently beatable and his struggling to get anywhere near 50% in polls shows that he is ripe for a beatdown. Then Nevadans give us Angle...oops. Don't get me wrong, I like her and when she is not sticking her foot in her mouth does stand for small government and consistently votes conservatively in her current role as a state representative. So I wish her luck and she has my support in this blog against Harry Reid.

You Were Expecting What Exactly?

The chart recently released by Rep. Kevin Brady's (R-Tx.) office is priceless. All of this stuff is no surprise to anyone that has been paying attention to the legislative debate over Obamacare. You know, the fact that the law creates 68 grant programs, 47 bureaucratic entities, 29 pilot programs, six regulatory systems, six compliance standards and two entititlements should not be new info. As Queen Pelosi said "we need to pass it to find out what's in it", well we really didn't because most of us knew it stunk to high hell and if the recent poll numbers are accurate so do the majority of the American people. I believe the liberal argument of "Don't worry they will like it once they get the free stuff" will not hold true here. One simple reason. When most entitlements are created it is new and nothing is taken away (except more of your tax dollars). With Obamacare once people start getting dropped from their employer based insurance, the wake up call of your lost freedoms will come too little too late.

As the article below notes, by the administration's own calculations as many as 117 million people will have to change their health plans by 2013 as the employer provided insurance loses grandfathered status. It's the leftist version of the end around, can't actually pass single payer so let's rig the system. So forget all the tax implications, the backroom deals struck to get this disaster passed, and the continual lies from Obama himself ("if you like your insurance you get to keep it"...what a load of sh*t) that last little piece of info is all you need to know what the true intentions were. It was not to get better health care for all, it was simply to grant government grand powers this country has never seen before. They were banking on the American people to be suckers and lay down and take it. Only 91 days until the midterms...

Obamacare Only Looks Worse Upon Further Review: Kevin Hassett - Bloomberg

Center for American Progress Attacks New York As Un-American

This is where the left is in this country. First off it doesn't surprise me that the Commies over at the CAP think that the majority of Americans are not in posession of true American values. Any organization run by alien abduction wack job Podesta should be questioned for its intellectual veracity. The opposition to this mosque has been deconstructed in my space here before so I won't go into it again, but the questions I posed then still have not been answered.

Center for American Progress Attacks New York As Un-American

Wow I'm Shocked!

No not really. Over the weekend the FBI released documents regarding Howard Zinn. The radical "historian" was revealed to have Communist ties in the 1940's and '50's. The dirty secret of liberals is that most of them were/are Commies or were/are small "f" fascists. I will be dissecting the philosophical origins of liberal/conservative in a future post. Been doing my research on that for some time and want to put together a good full post about it. I have alluded to the origins of these terms in my past posts and have had some commenters comment about it so I figured it would be a good topic to tackle and in turn drop some knowledge. It has always been a root of my curiosity, the history of what constitutes today's modern liberal. The only reason for that curiosity is that for some reason the right is always held to some philosophical clarity test when we propose policy, while the left seems to escape similar scrutiny when they do.

Well as noted in the first sentence, here is the report about Zinn:

Federal Bureau of Investigation - Freedom of Information Privacy Act

P.S. some good news from the courts today: Court Refuses to Block Virginia's Obamacare Challenge

Men Run Onto Citi Field With Mexican Flags

Typical Mets fans, making a political statement....using the flag of Mexico? By the way I always love how the press collectively describes the law as "Arizona's immigration law", funny. Seriously though, all joking about Mets fans aside, it is not a law against immigration it is a law on ILLEGAL immigration as if there is no difference to these leftist morons. The irony is that this combined with the recent judge's decision to hold back portions of the law, all add to more animosity against immigrants (legal or otherwise). I am glad that most of the crowd started chanting "USA! USA!" as these dipshits ran across the field. It is all about being a reactionary and protesting without even examining what it is they are protesting, it just looks cool to protest and yell and scream little slogans. They are just spoon fed that the law is evil and anti-Hispanic by most of the intellectually challenged members of the media (e.g. Rick Sanchez).

Men Run Onto Citi Field With Mexican Flags

Somehow Fitting

I honestly could have cared less if FNC got Helen Thomas' old seat in the front row of the White House press room. Although it is kind of fitting and indicative of the about face in the national mood in the last year. More people realize in this post JournoList world that the MSM and its ilk are unreliable in the distribution of the news sans bias. So Congrats to Fox on graduating from "not a news network" to the front row.

FNC goes from ‘not a news network’ to ‘all up in Gibbs’ face’ The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment