How To Handle a Petty, Petulant, Thin-Skinned, Despotic Demagogue

Push. Back. Hard.

I uncharacteristically took to chirping in the "twitterverse" today. My Twitter account is held under the name of my real bat identity. I believe the screen shots that follow speak for themselves.





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As a side note, let me provide the disclaimer I really don't imagine I will ever be a regular tweeter. I, mean, really, don't you people have anything better to do with your time? However ......

... I do feel it is my civic duty as a sovereign citizen to keep trying to advise the stupid party on how to be an effective opposition party as long as the Saul Alinksy Radical Currently Occupying the White House is, well, occupying the White House.

So, here it is. Run on Repeal in 2014, dummies! Run on repeal transparently, enthusiastically, and constantly reminding low information voters the Democrat party owns it lock, stock, and barrel - because they shoved it down our throats on a totally partisan vote. By November of next year the poorly written and incompetently administered legislation will begin to take its full putrid flower. This strategy will earn you the majority you need on both sides of Capitol Hill to send repeal legislation to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.

And who cares if the Community-Agitator-In-Chief will surely veto? All the better for running on repeal again in 2016, capturing the White House, and finishing the mercy killing. Then you can get down to the legislative business of introducing common sense cost control reforms the Donkey Party left out of its' trojan horse single-payer proposal. Such as: allowing insurance competition across state lines, tort reform, allowing small businesses to pool into bigger bargaining units, streamlining the FDA's crushingly bureaucratic drug approval process, et cetera. And that's just off the top of my head.

Cheers. And you're welcome. d(^_^)b

Upon Organizing My Thoughts On This Internet Sales Tax Thing

The 'ah-hah moment' occurred when I was reviewing one of my Vast Right Wing Conspiracy email feeds. This particular missive came to me from the outfit known as "Let Freedom Ring" - as advocacy in favor of the Senate bill to make every online merchant collect sales tax for every stinkin' tax jurisdiction in the country. As "Let Freedom Ring" put it:

Dear Friend,

The so-called "Internet Tax" is an issue that many on our side of the political spectrum - the right side - are misrepresenting. The actual name of the bill is The Marketplace Fairness Act, and it is a common-sense solution to the unequal tax treatment of online retailers and their brick-and-mortar competitors that affirms federalism by empowering states to make their own revenue policy choices.

No one is in favor of piling new tax burdens on hard-working Americans, least of all Let Freedom Ring, but this bill does not impose any new taxes.

As conservatives, we must: a) ensure that all businesses and entrepreneurs are able to compete under the same rules on a level playing field, b) that the rule of the law is upheld, and c) affirm the principle of federalism.

Further, we should ensure the cost of government is not hidden from its citizens. The Marketplace Fairness Act addresses each of these conservative goals.

... et cetera ...

I was motivated to dash off a snarky email retort that in all likelihood went to a blind in-box no one will ever read.

You are correct this bill does not impose any new taxes. But you miss the point. The bill imposes a punative compliance burden. For this reason it must not become law.

If the Fed Gov really wants to do this, it should simply build the secure web service online merchants can call in real time to determine tax based on the client device's geographic location. I could reach into my LinkedIn network to assemble a team of half a dozen people to build the web service in a few months. I am far from unique in this regard. But, of course, as we've seen with the Obamacare exchanges, asking the Fed Gov to actually build something that runs on the web and provides a useful service is in fact an impossible dream.

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Obviously I left out a few assumptions and scoping statements that would be in the actual proposal if it were ever written. Such as unfettered administrative access to the high availability server farm of the Fed Gov's designation, unfettered access to whoever the hell in the federal bureaucracy could accurately collect and maintain the database of the myriad tax rules underlying the proposed service, and no responsibility for the mind-numbingly tedious task of creating interface documentation. :)

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In all seriousness, this is the insight kiddies ... The Federal government needs to figure out how to stop being a monolithic manufacturer of unfunded mandates for everybody, and somehow "fundamentally transform" itself into a provider of useful services that actually generate revenue for somebody. I'm not holding my breath that this tranformation will ever occur in my lifetime.

Footnote

As far as the Obama Scandalpalooza we are all now witnessing in real time - I'm still in "grab some popcorn and enjoy the show" mode. But I will say I have two very different initial takes on the AP phone tapping scandal and the IRS abuse of power scandal.

I don't think the AP phone tapping scandal will go very far. A lapdog remains a lapdog even after its' owner kicks it. The White House will find a way to shut up the corrupt and biased liberal media on this one.

The IRS scandal that is widening before our very eyes at warp speed is another thing altogether. It's the bureaucracy vs. the politically active segment of middle America - straight up, no love lost on either side, and stakes high. This could very well be the revolutionary flash point I've always felt we've needed since I inaugurated this blog. I need to stock up on popcorn.

Cheers. d(^_^)b

Update to Footnotes (5/15/13)

It's on. The people vs. the bureau-weenies and their dark statist masters is about to be filed.

Benghazi Truthing, May 11.

The dominoes are falling.

And, I, LibertyAtStake, am left wondering which bumper sticker would be the hottest seller if conservatives behaved like liberals, or if the corrupt and biased liberal media did its job reporting the truth to low information voters.



...or...



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And when the radical hand of the Empty Suit Known as Barack Hussein Obama is forced into overtly playing the race card? What then for the republic? So be it. The truth must be known when brave Americans are slaughtered by Mohammed's Murder Monkey Cult From Hell.

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I, LibertyAtStake, shall now enumerate what we do *not* know about the Islamist terror attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012.

1. Who exactly executed the attack? Why aren't they in American custody?
2. Who exactly killed J. Christopher Stevens, and how?
3. Who exactly killed Sean Smith, and how?
4. Who exactly killed Tyrone Woods, and how?
5. Who exactly killed Glen Doherty, and how?
6. Who denied American security for the consulate multiple times before the attack?
7. Who issued multiple stand down orders to American military assets during the attack?
8. Who invented the YouTube video lie?
9. Who altered the intelligence talking points memo to spread the YouTube video lie?
10. Why is Nakoula Basseley Nakoula still in prison for committing a First Amendment crime against the prophet Mohammed Barack?

In other words, the only thing we do know about this catastrophic adminsitration failure is what I wrote on February 7 - Incompetence before, lack of leadership during, and corrupt political coverup after.

Footnotes

Who remembers these oldies but goodies from the blog project?





Update 5/15/13

A very big dominoe falling today ... mainstream media no longer willing, apparently, to act as Barry and Hillary's praetorian guard. The headline from Breitbart is: Backfire: ABC, CNN, NBC Call for White House to Release Libya Emails.

Top Stories From Jack Wiley Dithers (2013-05-05)

(AP) - Jack Wiley Dithers Reporting
“If You Can’t Scoop It, Make It Up.”

*In which I identify the most important stories for you, and tell you how to interpret them.

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Stupid or Treasonous? That is the Question. (Benghazi Truthing - 'This is Getting Good' Edition.)

What's The Frequency, Barry? (Syrian Policy Edition.)

Obama Administration Raises White Flag On Sequester Black Mail Campaign.

Affordable? Not So Much. (ObamaCare Edition.)

'Registration of Undocumented Democrats Bill' In Trouble.

Most Polarizing President in History Does It Again. (He Just can't Help Himself)

Was That a Press Conference Or a Cry For Help?

(AP) - Jack Wiley Dithers Reporting
“If You Can’t Scoop It, Make It Up.”

Update 5/6/13

Affordable? Not So Much. (Amnesty Edition.)

Jack Wiley Dithers Interviews LibertyAtStake On Coming Out As Gay

JWD: I knew it!

LAS: Don't be stupid. It's a gimmick to promote the blog.

JWD: Oh. So, how's that supposed to work?

LAS: Well, blog traffic is down ... revenue flat-lined at zero ...

JWD: Oh, yeah, I need to mention the last two paychecks bounced.

LAS: See what I mean? Anyway, I read how some washed up scrub named #JasonCollins revived his NBA career just by claiming to be gay, and the light bulb went on.

JWD: Oh, come on, this really takes the cake. How are you gonna pull this off? I mean, where's the evidence?

LAS: Who the hell needs evidence? This is a blog, dummy! I can make sh*t up! And all it takes is a couple of tweaks ... maybe an all-male Rule 5 page ... maybe I'll change the avatar to a picture of me in assless chaps ...

JWD: Are you sure people will really be able to tell the chaps are assless - you know ... the hair?

LAS: Good point. I probably should have that thing waxed. Think you can do it?

JWD: Ewww! I'll take a pass. Ask your wife.

LAS: No way - she already said waxing the uni-brow was all she could handle.

JWD: And, beside, aren't you worried about what she'll think?

LAS: Nah, at this point it's just one more thing for her to throw out in divorce court.

JWD: What about your kids?

LAS: They don't read the blog anyway.

JWD: You know, I'm not used to being the voice of reason around here ... but this doesn't seem like such a great idea to me.

LAS: Are you kidding? This is gold. A few minor adjustments - hey, here's one ... you and I can go dancing at that place on Dupont Circle and we can make sure pictures get leaked to the Washington Post ...

JWD: No way.

LAS: Come on, nobody will know it's you. You can wear one of those leather masks with the zipper.

JWD: I said no way, Jose!

LAS: Chicken. But, as I was saying ... a few minor adjustments ... then I announce I'm the first gay conservative blogger ... and bingo! I'm raking it in!

JWD: Except you're not. Ever hear of @GayPatriot?

{sounds of typing on Google machine}

LAS: Fahk! You're not going to print this, are you?

Update 5/3/13

The following excerpt is from the op-ed penned by Francis Charles Hamilton in this morning's Vast Right Wing Conspiracy National Newsletter.

LAS gay? Preposterous! All those years that kid mooched off my liquor cabinet - I must have dropped a hundred hints and he never once took the bait. And that cheap stunt calling in Dithers to do an interview is nothing more than theater of the absurd. Dithers might as well be a blind squirrel - he couldn't find his nuts if you drew him a map. Senator Graham is secure in his position as our high profile token.

Top Stories From Jack Wiley Dithers (2013-04-28)

(AP) - Jack Wiley Dithers Reporting
“If You Can’t Scoop It, Make It Up.”

*The first, and maybe not the last, of what might become a continuing series ... in which I identify the most important stories for you, and tell you how to interpret them.

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Kermit Gosnell isn't the only one keeping abortion unsafe, not rare, and legal.

Barry's economy still stuck on "sucks" ... still teetering on the precipice of "ruh-roh!"

Oh, that's where Saddam's WMD went.

Every Jihadi knows Mommy knows best. Jihadis are made, not born.

The FBI always gets its man ... If it's not the 'Elvis Impersonator' then it has to be his personal antagonist.

Rubio 2016 campaign off to a bad start. (And if he signs off on Amnesty before border security, it will be road kill.)

(AP) - Jack Wiley Dithers Reporting
“If You Can’t Scoop It, Make It Up.”

Update 4:30 pm

Improved fourth snarkline.

Update 4/29/13

Mass outbreak of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among corrupt and biased liberal media.

Video masterpiece from House of Sunny via Jim Treacher. Glad their both on our side.

On the Matter of Failing To Designate Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as an Enemy Combatant

Time to resurrect an old custom graphic from this blog project's archives.



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This administration's specious domestic energy policy, apocryphal policies for dealing with Global Jihad's declaration of war on western civilization, and demagogic immigration policy are sure to produce exactly two things ... more "domestic" terrorist attacks by Jihadists, and more domestic dependence on an energy commodity friends of the Jihadists control. Ouch.

This Tsarnaev case is a case that is not going away (politically) any time soon. You could hardly invent a case more injurious to every assumption* this administration makes in its policy making. A Jihadi can slip through the legal immigration system to become a citizen on the eleventh anniversary of 9/11 ... the very same day marking the sacking of the Benghazi Consulate, the biggest foreign policy disaster since the Iranian hostage crisis ... only to be treated by this administration like a common jay walker? Really? Better fodder for right wing rantin' (which is to say, republic savin' rhetoric) could not be handed to us by God himself. (herself?)

Footnote

*Excepting purely economic assumptions. But the 1st Quarter 2013 GDP report is due out Friday ... virtually certain to demonstrate once again that Barry's economy is stuck on *sucks*. Due in no small part to this administration's specious domestic energy policy. See how all this stuff connects, kiddies?

Update 6:45 pm

Just finished watching the Britt Hume / Juan Williams throw down on Brett Bair's show. My reaction? Next time, if the Russians finger a Chechen, the FBI better pay attention. I'm pretty sure the Russians know from Chechens.

Breaking News From Jack Wiley Dithers

(AP) - Jack Wiley Dithers Reporting
“If You Can’t Scoop It, Make It Up.”

Hot stories just in.

Another Tax day / Patriot's Day passes without expected right wing violence.

Chechen people still predominately Muslim.

Mass break out outbreak of self-organizing support groups among Washington, DC liberals.

(AP) - Jack Wiley Dithers Reporting
“If You Can’t Scoop It, Make It Up.”

Update 4/22/13

If an editorial correction falls in these woods and no one notices, did it occur at all?

Drama-Queen-In-Chief Throws Hissy Fit

We got a close up view of the petulant demagogue that inhabits the Empty Suit, in yesterday's Rose Garden concession speech on gun control. Shamefully unpresidential, if I may say.

Memo to Barry: Never too late to learn how to negotiate in good faith ... looks like the shine is rubbing off the 'permanent campaign' apple.

Footnotes

(1) Chris Plante is delivering a barn burner of radio show this morning. One of his callers astutely pointed out Barack Hussein Obama showed more emotion in this Rose Garden hissy fit than he did describing the terrorist attack in Boston. Hmmmmmmmm.

(2) Speaking of the Boston attack ... it seems Team Leftie won't be getting to blame a TEA Party affiliated survivalist on my right wing blog roll. Somebody at the New York Post seems to have pretty good FBI contacts ...



(3) But, as a consolation prize, Team Leftie does get to finger an Elvis impersonator for mailing a deadly chemical to the President of the United States. As sure a sign of the decline of the republic as any. Remember when Nixon entertained the real Elvis in the Oval Office ... without incident?



Update 2:20 pm

More on President Emoticon's dramatic Rose Garden performance from The Virginian blog. Remember when Nixon - misguidedly - said "we're all Keynesians now"? I guess we're all Alinksyites now. (update 2:35 - the mockery part, not the lying part or the mob violence part. Leave those to Barry and His Corrupt Gang of Progressives.)

Update 2:20 pm

And TCOTS has an awesome graphic accompanying more reaction to Barry's foot stomping:



Update 4:20 pm

The New York Post FBI has cleared the two men pictured on its front page this morning. As a courtesy I've updated the photo, above.

Update 4/19/13

Dick Morris has as good a final word as any on the Rose Garden Hissy Fit.

The president was amazed that people did not read the plain language in the bill which bans using the background check information to amass a registry of gun owners. But he’s wrong. They read it. They just didn’t believe it.

Like they didn’t believe that the requirement that only fiscal bills could pass with a bare majority would stop Obama from passing the health care bill with only a majority.

Like they didn’t believe that the ban on recess appointments when Congress was not in recess would stop Obama from naming National Labor Relations Board members without Senate confirmation while the Senate was not in recess.

Like they didn’t believe that the president wouldn’t allocate to himself the executive authority to pass the DREAM Act after it was rejected by Congress.

Like they didn’t believe that the feds would try to name ministers in churches, and so forth and so on.

You can’t abuse the public’s trust as much as this president has and then cry when they don’t trust you.

Memo to Barry: If you want to get things done in this town, it takes something they didn't teach you in Community Agitator school. Leadership. Like the Reagan-O'Neill (mostly Reagan) Pennsylvania axis in the 80's, or the Clinton-Gingrich (mostly Gingrich) Pennsylvania Avenue axis of the 90's. Still not too late for you to read about how these guys actually met face-to-face and negotiated in good faith and in private.

Existential Question For The Day

Subtitle: Thank you, stater of the obvious.

If an Empty Suit gives a press conference adding no value whatsoever, was there a press conference at all?

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“We will find whoever harmed our citizens and we will bring them to justice.”

Better get cracking, Barry. We're still waiting for answers and "justice" from the Benghazi terror attack.

Update 4/17/13

The always predictable Left is predictably out politicizing tragedy. Salon: ‘Let’s hope Boston Marathon bomber is a white American’

What they really mean is the Left hopes it's not a Jihadist because the Left still doesn't want to face the plain fact Radical Islam has declared war on western civilization.

Update #2 4/17/13

Ruh-Roh Lefties. I wonder what "dark skinned male" might be a euphemism for? Nice Deb with the scoop.

Update #3 4/17/13

Flopping Aces has a nice round up of the many examples of instant Leftist political exploitation of the crisis.



Watch how quickly the corrupt and biased left wing media drops the topic like a hot potato when the meaning of the euphemism "dark skinned male" is filled in.