Jack Wiley Dithers Exclusive: The New JournoListers Chat Room

Our cracker-jack investigative journalism team has infiltrated a password protected chat room hosted on the www.npr.org domain.

The members of this chat room are carefully vetted for liberal bias, and they refer to themselves as the “New JournoListers.” Our source has provided the following transcript excerpt from the New Journolisters’ online chat on election night, November 2nd of 2010.

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Administrator, 7:04 pm ET: The chat room is now open.

Joe Klein, 7:05 pm ET:  Source says Rangel winning easily.  Things seem to be setting up for big gains by Democrats.

David Wiegel, 7:05 pm ET:  Teabaggers going down tonight!

Ezra Klein, 7:06 pm ET:  Watch the language, Wiegel.

Paul Krugman, 7:07 pm ET:  St. Keynes will be pleased - tonight we vindicate Stimulus spending.

Maureen Dowd, 7:08 pm ET:  @Krugman: The President was born in Hawaii!  Not Kenya!

Paul Krugman, 7:08 pm ET: @Dowd:  {sigh}

David Brooks, 7:09 pm ET:  Looks like a big night for the Educated Class.

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Jeffrey Toobin, 7:35 pm ET:  Reports are Coons will pull it out in Delaware.

David Brooks, 7:36 pm ET:  Chalk one up for the Educated Class!



Jonathan Cohn, 7:37 pm ET:  Off topic – has anybody discovered the identity of LibertyAtStake?

Maureen Dowd, 7:38 pm ET:  @Cohn: We know his zip code is 22308.

Spencer Ackerman, 7:39 pm ET:  @Dowd:  That’s on his home page, ditz.  How are we supposed to smash an entire zip code through a plate glass window?

Ezra Klein, 7:40 pm ET:  Let’s get back on topic, people.

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Joe Klein, 8:05 pm ET:  Blumenthal should beat McMahon in Connecticut.

David Brooks, 8:06 pm ET:  Educated Class hates wrestling.  No chants of “USA!” tonight.

Frank Rich, 8:07 pm ET:  Has anybody been watching the House returns?



Jonathan Cohn, 8:08 pm ET:  I was hoping nobody would bring that up.

Eugene Robinson, 8:09 pm ET:  Racist Tea Party must be fixing the machines.  Holder must investigate.

Jonathan Chait, 8:10 pm ET: I’ve already got my investigative team on it.  Dialing Holder’s blackberry now.



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Maureen Dowd, 9:05 pm ET:  What is wrong with America?

 David Brooks, 9:05 pm ET:  No education.

Eugene Robinson, 9:05 pm ET:  Racism.

Frank Rich, 9:06 pm ET:  They watch racist Fox.

Paul Krugman, 9:06 pm ET:  The stingy bastards never spend enough.

Jeffrey Toobin, 9:07 pm ET:  House doesn’t matter.  Keep all eyes on Senate.

Ezra Klein, 9:08 pm ET:  Toobin is right – gotta keep the GOP below 60 in upper chamber.

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Joe Klein, 10:05 pm ET:  Fox is reporting some kind of Harry Reid smear.  Power outage in Nevada – implication is Reid cheating.

Eugene Robinson, 10:06 pm ET:  Racist bastards at Fox must be lying.

Frank Rich, 10:07 pm ET:  @Robby:  Reid is white, so can't know for sure if Fox reporting is actually racist.  Let’s debate this off line some time.

Jonathan Chait, 10:08 pm ET: NR reports Harrah’s pressuring employees to vote for Reid.  Could be racist.  I’ll have someone check out HR records.

Spencer Ackerman, 10:09 pm ET:  Throw all the racist bastards through plate glass windows!

Ezra Klein, 10:09 pm ET:  Take a chill pill, Ackerman.

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Joe Klein, 11:05 pm ET:  Boxer looks like a winner in California.

David Brooks, 11:05 pm ET:  California comes thru as the Educated Class’s firewall.

David Wiegel, 11:06 pm ET:  Teabaggers will be sad tomorrow.

Ezra Klein, 11:06 pm ET:  Wiegel, I’m warning you!

Spencer Ackerman, 11:07 pm ET:  Let’s change the topic to Democrat legislative agenda for next session.

David Wiegel, 11:07 pm ET:  Defund Fox!

Ezra Klein, 11:07 pm ET:  Fox is privately held, Dave.

Jonathan Cohn, 11:08 pm ET:  Repeal DADT!

Paul Krugman, 11:09 pm ET:  More Stimulus!

Administrator, 11:10 pm ET: The chat room server is coming down for maintenance in five minutes.

An Open Letter to the GOP Establishment

Ladies and Gentlemen of the GOP Establishment,

I hope you are not secretly thinking about TEA Party Patriots the way Dean Wormer was thinking about Delta House in the previous clip. If you are, it will mean the end of your party. Don’t be under any delusion 2010 was your party’s mandate - anymore than 2008 was the donkey party’s mandate. Now, I, LibertyAtStake, as the self-appointed spokesman for We The People, will explain further.

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You see, We The People took your hand in a political marriage of convenience for one reason only – there just wasn’t sufficient time to form a brand new third party for the urgent mission of saving the republic from the abuses of BHO and the Progressives.

We took this decision reluctantly – because we remember it was you perpetual losers who allowed those contemptible, anti-liberty, anti-capitalist, secular humanist, redistributionist, apology touring, Mao worshiping, Alinsky following Statists to rise to power in the first place. As far as we’re concerned, it is you perpetual losers who are on double (not so) secret probation. If you perform according to our playbook over the next two years, we’ll consider giving you a little more leash. If not, expect to see a new political party on the horizon. (I still like “Constitutionalist” for its' name.)

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You see, we only accepted your hand in political marriage because time was of the essence. Time was of the essence because you guys somehow figured out a way to lose to a demagogue with no experience, no qualifications, no understanding of America, and no policy ideas beyond an idiotic slogan. We had no choice but to commandeer your empty husk of a political operation. Every single one of you should be on a “Thank You” note writing campaign right now, expressing gratitude for us giving you one more shot. And, believe me, it is only one more shot.

Because time was of the essence, we had no choice but to primary the least principled among you. Mike Castle is probably a decent man - it’s just that he’s a disaster for the republic right now. So we had to take him out. It’s business, that’s all. Similarly, Lisa Murkowski is a disaster for the republic. However, her refusal to accept the results of the primary certainly shows she has a less developed sense of decency than Mr. Castle. And that Charlie Crist weasel … well let’s just never speak of him again.

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You see, ladies and gentlemen of the entrenched GOP, we haven’t forgotten your piss poor performance from 2000-2006. And I’m not talking about George W. Bush. He was simply a decent man doing the best he could with a historical and monumental situation (9/11). And history will show he did alright - you can take that to the nearest bank that hasn’t been nationalized yet.

No, I’m talking about the spending, dummies. Yeah, sure- Bush 43 (and his designated in-house genius, Rove) – were “compassionate conservatives” and all that crap – but you were the ones who lost Congress in 2006, then handed Legislative branch supermajorities, as well as the entire Executive branch, to Leftist lunatics in 2008. Do you want to know why? The answer is: your profligate hand-over-fist spending gave the American people no fundamental reason to distinguish you from the corrupt Progressive gang that hijacked the donkey party a generation ago. So, you are still born losers as far as We The People are concerned – but the kind of losers that still have a shot at salvation under double-not-so-secret-probation. We The People are nothing if not patient with slow learners.

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Don’t get me wrong – we do appreciate your playing effective defense in the first half of the first Reign of the Empty Suit that would be Emperor. The problem is we had to spend all that time treasure traveling to your front lawn on the Capitol to ensure the outcome, and we haven’t received our reimbursement checks yet. That’s a bit of a sticking point right now.

We took the People’s House in this cycle, in precise accordance with the Founders’ design of the House of Representatives as a firewall against executive demagoguery. The Senate gains for We The People were also quite extraordinary, given its’ design by the Founders as a firewall against runaway popular will. (We thank God for this design, the filibuster rule, and its’ mitigation against the disastrous electoral results of 2008.) That’s why we told you the House could be rescued in one cycle, but the Senate was probably a two cycle deal.   But we sure gave it a hell of a run in the Senate, didn’t we? We intend to complete the civil revolt in 2012. We will have the House and the Senate in 2012, with you or without you. We will ensure a principled conservative gains residency at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, whether they carry your label or the one we create between now and then.  Resistance is futile.

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We have entered a historic turning point moment. In such moments, stark contrasts matter. If you, ladies and gentlemen of the entrenched GOP, wish to survive as a viable political party, you need to embrace the distinctions with BHO and the Progressives, not the “common ground” crap the professional politicos will advise you to seek.

So, here’s a few specific tips for keeping this marriage together.

Make sure BHO and the Progressives get nothing, and I mean nothing, in the lame duck session. The refudiation they received at the polls makes everything remaining on their wish list illegitimate. A couple more months of defense isn’t too much to ask. January we go on offense together.

The agenda for the 112th is:

Not one red cent in federal “revenue” increases until every single option on the spending side of the equation is exhausted. We’ll let you know when that is. An immediate return to 2008 levels for the federal budget, federal salaries, and federal work force headcount will be a good step in the right direction.

The momentum you are building for banning earmarks is also a very good start. Some of you may argue it’s mainly symbolic - but symbolism matters a lot in times like these. (Besides, it’s really not just symbolic - the practice is a major contributor to the “log rolling” that quickly leads to every elected Tom, Dick, and Harry becoming the Peter that robs Paul, even after Paul’s pockets have been emptied. Then somebody with a name minted by the Ming Dynasty has to cover it.)

Symbolism also matters when it comes to associations. Just ask Radical Associations Barry. We The People really don’t like it when a professional politician fails to respect our will in the primary process. Therefore, we will be watching closely how you treat the ambitious Ms. Murkowski if she pulls it out in Alaska. If she does, we expect to see her sitting at the children’s table for the next six years.

Do everything, and I mean everything, in your power to effect the repeal of ObamaCare. Yeah, yeah, we know you probably won’t be able to override the inevitable vetoes. But we insist on getting everybody up there, and we mean everybody, on record for 2012. In the meantime, use the Appropriations Committee to starve the ObamaCare beast. By the way, we’re not so sure that Jerry Lewis guy is up to the fight as Appropriations Chairman. After all, he did preside over the 2000-2006 GOP spending binge. Maybe he should write us a memo, like Energy Committee hopeful Fred Upton did. (btw - Upton needs to add repeal of the CFL lighting mandate to show his bona fides.)

Come on, do it for the kids’ sake. Have you looked at their savings account lately? If that’s not enough motivation, then do it for your own political survival. We’d hate to have to end this marriage too abruptly.





Update 11/18/10

I forgot to mention one other non-negotiable for We The People in the 112th.  Keep Chairman Darrell Issa's investigative committee busy and flush with resources.  We predict a spike in executive branch abuses.

Oh, and make sure you support the states and the people with strong rhetoric as the year of the Tenth Amendment unfolds.

Another Open Letter to Barack Hussein Obama

Dude, you are just not getting it.  People are getting frustrated.  But, don't worry, I'm still there for you.

It’s been one full week since I gave you the benefit of my advice on how to approach the second half of your first term of office.  Yet, there's some kind of failure to communicate here.  What part of “we don’t need your stinkin’ agenda” are you not getting?

For starters, that 60 minutes interview was just a mess. Hey, man, da Nile ain’t just a river in Egypt. In fact, some people are starting to think you are disconnected from reality.

Some have even concluded you must be an egomaniac. I don’t know, I’m thinking maybe it was the Greek columns that got perceptions off on the wrong foot.

Perception is everything, as you (of all people) must surely know. After all, you couldn’t possibly have thought your verifiable accomplishments and qualifications were up to running for President. Could you?

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One thing is certain - you don’t lack for confidence in your agenda. It wasn’t shaken by the thumpin’ you took in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts in a rapid succession of off-year elections. The beatin’ you took at the phony Blair House summit couldn’t shake it. Not even your party having its’ ass handed to it, in an electoral rebuke for the ages, seems to have shaken it.

OK, high marks for persistence – I’ll grant you that much. Unfortunately, I think it’s the kind of persistence my dog showed when I was trying to teach her the basic “sit-stay” commands. But, you know, she finally did get it. Hell, I’m even able to let her off leash once in awhile now. So, I guess I should hold out hope for you yet.

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You know, I should really be sympathetic to all the disadvantages you’ve had to overcome. You’ve never really held down a real job, much less met a payroll. You’ve had to endure all those close associations with convicted mobsters, convicted domestic terrorists, and Black Liberation Theology lunatics. And your education! Good God, what an utter disgrace of pseudo-intellectual Leftist indoctrination. Geez Louise, where am I supposed to start with a guy who thinks there are 57 states?

Maybe I should start with the basics, using words you yourself have used. Maybe I should get on your wavelength, meet you on your terms. We Won. Your seat is in the back for the next two years. Strap in and enjoy the ride. We’ll decide where compromise is possible.

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And I think I’ve come up with a few pretty good proposals where we can meet half way.

Here’s one - you get to keep all the provisions of ObamaCare that deal with tort reform and open up competition across state lines. Oh, there weren’t any? Well, then let’s just throw everything else out, then add the tort reform and the competition - and you can take credit for two big successes. You’re really good at that.

I also have a great “green” initiative I think we can agree on. Let’s eliminate the Education and Energy departments. Just imagine how much that will decrease the federal carbon footprint.

Take all the Education Department bureaucrats and re-train them to be public school teachers. Instant job stimulus and instant reduction in student/teacher ratios! Talk about a win-win-win!

Give each Energy Department bureaucrat a one year paid leave of absence to write and submit a proposal to the National Science Foundation for an alternative energy development project. They can even form into teams if they want. Who knows, we might get lucky and see a worthwhile project come out of it.  At minimum, you can at least get some good press for eliminating federal redundancy. I know how you like good press.

I think we can find common ground on the Bush tax cuts, as well. How's this?  If you let every single provision extend, I think we can arrange for you to avoid the embarrassment of a veto override. Deal?

Barry, you just have to learn how to play well with others or it’s going to be a very rough next two years.

An Open Letter to Barack Hussein Obama

11/02/10

Dear BHO,

Just in case you didn’t get the message from today's absolute repudiation at the polls, I thought I’d personalize it a little bit. I have this tiny space on the blogosphere I’ve created for myself, that anybody with Internet access (that is, just about anybody) can read. I think I'll use it to give you a little advice.

First, I’ll give you the short version, in the voice of the character I’ve created just for this space.

Back off, Jack! Don’t ya get it yet, Barry?  Are you really this dense?  Or is it something more nefarious?

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I (the real me, that is) was there on a rainy and cold 15th day of April in the year of our Lord 2009, in Lafayette Park. You might have been able to see me and the other intrepid patriots from the White House itself,  by looking through a cheap pair of binoculars.

My overall impression was of a crowd of patriots concerned with direction of the country, as they (and, I, of course) projected its’ trajectory from the reckless governance you delivered in your very first quarter in office. Your very first significant piece of legislation ran to nearly a trillion bucks (12 freakin' zeros!) of deficit spending, and passed along completely partisan lines. You must have expected someone to take notice if you knew anything at all about politics.  But maybe you didn’t expect We The People would do the math. You certainly knew the criminally biased MSM, already in the tank for you, would forget how to use a calculator.

I also remember the Monopoly Men. I don’t know if they were on ACORN’s payroll, or the SEIU’s payroll, or Media Matters’ payroll, or the payroll of any of the numerous other franchises of Soros, inc. – but they were definitely there to protect somebody’s “special interests.” Everybody in the crowd knew precisely how the Monopoly Men had voted.

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You didn’t get the message that day. You and the other Progressive ideologues were true believers in the Keynesian model, and just knew with absolute certainty that previously unheard of piles of government spending would keep unemployment below 8%. Your brilliant economic team had scientifically determined it.

Besides, you knew the people in Lafayette Park were probably mostly right wing partisans, anyway. (I'll grant you were probably actually right about that particular crowd in that specific park on that particular day). However, you failed to take note of the numerous other rallies across the nation coast-to-coast that very same day. If you’d like a refresher, check out the “T.E.A. Party Film Festival” playlist under my YouTube account. This was the beginning of the American people awakening to the fact conservatism is the ideology that has their back.

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The American people continued to mass in DC throughout 2009. With the help of the criminally biased MSM, you tried to dismiss and discount this extraordinary show of political will as coming from an extremist fringe.

There was the massive 9/12 rally, which should have convinced any rational thinker that something big, fundamental, and historic was happening.  Spontaneously.

There was the 11/05 Emergency House Call Rally, at which, upon observing the huge crowd break into "God Bless America," I asked a random trio of Hill staffers "does that scare you?"  They gave me no verbal answer.  The expressions on their faces told me it did.  I laughed at them.  They did not like that very much.

There was the 12/15 Code Red Senate Rally, at which I took in my own personal favorite impression of all the rallies – the guy from Tennessee who had rigged up a realistic looking plastic pitchfork for himself.  And, somehow gotten it from Tennessee to DC, just to say something fundamental.

Right about then is when I got serious about creating this blog project.

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But still you pressed on with your ideologically Progressive agenda, against the clearly expressed will of the people, growing louder day by day.

As you did so, I was doing my forty some odd weeks among the unemployed in your ‘dysconomy.’ ‘Dysconomy’ is a word I invented just for you and your governance - you can google it.

So, I had plenty of free time to watch your political Waterloo on C-SPAN, play-by-play and blow-by-blow, at the phony Blair House summit. I imagine you were deciding whether or not to move forward with shoving ObamaCare down our throats in this very shot.

You made the wrong decision. You decided it was full steam ahead with the Progressive agenda, damn the torpedoes, damn the clearly expressed will of the people.

Now, in addition to previous unheard of levels of debt, an already weakened economy would have 3000+ pages of legislative drivel to contend with. The uncertainty generated for business would ensure a continuance of your ‘dysconomy.’ And since you and your party passed it along completely partisan lines - you owned it, every damn bit of it.  You still do, and you will for untold numbers of election cycles.

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By this time, a significant number of Americans had seen sufficient evidence to conclude you were purposely creating chaos and uncertainty to advance some nefarious, secret, anti-American agenda. I think history will decide you were simply tone deaf - doing more with your unbridled Progressivism, in a rookie's headlong unthinking rush, to advance the cause of Conservatism than even any Conservative has ever been able to do. (Conservatism being the harder sell, but we’ll cover that some other time).

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The crowd was getting tougher and your ratings dropping like a stone thrown into the Reflecting Pool. But, still you didn’t listen to the people. When TEA Partiers rallied in even bigger numbers on the 15th day of April in the year of our Lord 2010, your political machine responded with the pathetic astro-turf “Other 99” diversion.

It was all downhill from there – for your policies, your ratings, and the standing of your ideology. Your ‘dysconomy’ stays stuck at 10% unemployment because your policy playbook is stuck on statism.  Or, "stuck on stupid" as I often say in the voice of my blogging character.

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So, now, as I’ve been predicting in this space since January, you’ve lost the legislative supermajority you were counting on to shove statist policies down our throats. All because you overplayed your political hand and ignored the clearly expressed will of the people every step of the way. We The People have taken Capitol Hill back. So, the legislative route to the rest of your obnoxious statist agenda – cap and trade, illegal immigration amnesty, nationalizing our private retirement accounts, regulating free speech on the Internet and radio, and whatever else – is now closed.

Don’t listen to the ideologues on your Left calling for a mad rush through the Lame Duck session to pass all that you possibly can that remains of your statist agenda. This will be the ultimate illegitimate exercise of power. I cannot predict how the infliction of this insult on the republic might be received by We The People. The one thing that is certain is you alone would completely own whatever results from such a naked power grab.

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Make no mistake, We the People also intend to actively leverage the legislative branch to take direct measures to roll back the statist Leviathan – repealing ObamaCare if possible, de-funding ObamaCare certainly, cutting discretionary spending, cutting entitlement spending, cutting every kind of Federal spending there is. We The People have given the Republican Party a second chance, and we’re not letting them go unsupervised this time.

We The People will be watching closely what you try to slip through the regulatory agencies, as well. We already know the criminally biased MSM is of no use to us - but we’ve learned to do without it.  We know how to navigate the blogosphere toward the truth.  Don’t try anything too crazy on the regulatory side, or you just might find yourself the second impeached Democrat President in a row.

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So, looking ahead to the second half of your first term, you have the same choice to make for the umpteenth time. You can heed the clearly expressed will of the people, or ignore it and press your Progressive agenda forward.

I advise you to listen to the people.  Take it easy for the next two years.  Enjoy the Air Force One rides.  Let the kids have plenty of Marine One rides.  Play some golf.  Relax.  Give up on your obnoxious Progressive agenda.  When its over, you can run for the meaningless job you really want - Secretary General of the UN.  Just think, you can run down America without accountability in that job.

Unfortunately, I predict you will make the wrong decision again.  I predict you will press harder and harder to shove your obnoxious Progressive agenda down our throats.  I know this because I know it's all you know.  It's all you live for.  On the bright side, I’ve come to enjoy this conservative blogging thing.  And I still have a source in your White House with a shoe recorder in working order.  I anticipate a most stimulating two more years.


Update 11/07/10

I just returned from my 25th year class reunion in Charleston, South Carolina; where a large contingent of men claiming to have been cadets at The Citadel a quarter century ago gathered for unbridled camaraderie. I knew many of them personally.  A good time was had by all.  I subsisted mostly on Gin and Tonics, or Gins and Tonic, as the case may be.

Among many other sightings giving pulse to the patriotic heart: more than one fly-over from C-17 aircraft based at Charleston AFB. Isn’t great to live in a society capable of building such humongous, yet graceful, machines that are capable of defying gravity? I also managed to turn some acquaintances on to the existence of this blog. This included a knob who happens to be the son of my classmate – surely the penultimate development of this weekend. Gaining popularity among a student body of young conservatives that knows how to march in formation and clean rifles would be quite a good fit for this blog project.

Charleston is, and always has been,  plainly and simply a gorgeous city.  Yet, I could not fail to notice some differences from my quarter century old memory of it. These included a mosque on the residential end of King Street. And music undoubtedly composed somewhere in the Fertile Crescent wafting out from a coffee shop on Market Street. Market Street, for crying out loud.  Perhaps I should alert the proper authorities. But, since those authorities are Janet “From Another Planet” Napolitano and Eric “The Poll Watcher” Holder, I don’t think I’ll bother. It is far more likely they will take the opportunity to investigate me than investigate such strange goings on in the heart of the antebellum south.

My Congressman is Desperate

If there is one individual who can lay claim to being THE emblem of the 2008 Democrat freshman class, swept in on the coattails of Barack Hussein Obama’s hopey-changey campaign fraud, it would have to be the bats**t crazy Alan Grayson (FL-8). Alan Grayson may be the only congressman in American history to inspire a constituent to launch a website called simply MyCongressmanIsNuts.Com.

According to polling data, the nut job Grayson is on track to be handed the coveted “one and done” award in his 2010 re-election bid. His electoral misfortune may be due to his Republican opponent, Daniel Webster, having the same name as a great 19th American statesman. Or maybe it’s due to the nut job showing an embarrassingly desperate level of, well, desperation, by airing an outrageous negative political ad labeling his Republican opponent as ‘Taliban’. I tend to believe it’s the latter. There are corollaries to point to.

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Take for example, my congressional district, Virginia’s 11th. I blogged about this race in my April 30th and June 10th posts. In the latter post, I labeled my freshman incumbent Democrat Gerry Connolly as a Jihadi huggin’, deficit spendin’, constituent assaultin’ Progressive sack o’ excrement. With supporting evidence on the links.

While Connolly may not be as entertainingly nuts as Grayson – he represents perhaps an even more existential danger to the republic. Gerry Connolly is the archetype for the bloodless technocrat.

And he positively reeks of desperation at the prospect of receiving his richly deserved “one and done” award. I’m on the email list for his Republican opponent, Keith Fimian. The other day I received this little gem in my humble little inbox.

Well, I don’t know about you – but when the Daily Caller purchased KeithOlbermann.Com, I thought it was funny. But when a bloodless technocrat who aspires to micromanage my life uses the same tactic, it pisses me off.

Amazingly, Connolly was actually censured by the reliably liberal rag the Washington Post for his desperate campaign tactics.

This same local rag of mine, which I stopped having delivered years ago, reported on Fimian’s effective response.

Doubly amazingly, WaPo also exposed an example of Connolly’s desperate behavior for anyone to read.

But, in the end, of course, nothing can stop WaPo from endorsing the donkey. No matter what.

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So, back to the theme of this post. I don’t have to look as far away as Florida to find more desperate Democrats. Jim Moran in my next door district (Virginia’s 8th) has seemingly been in congress for freakin’ ever. The line between VA-11 and VA-8 is literally one block from the house I now own. Moran (or ‘Maroon’, as he’s known under my roof) was in fact my representative (so to speak) in the house I owned before this one. Maroon is also a technocrat type, but not the bloodless kind - more the bloodshot Kennedy kind.

He’s feeling the pressure from his Republican opponent, Patrick Murray, who is a retired Army Colonel. This pressure has dragged the truth out of Maroon – that like any Progressive pseudo-intellectual, the only service he values is the kind that throws other people’s money down social welfare rat holes.

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And in the district I can see with my own eyes, across the Potomac River, by walking perhaps a quarter mile – the number two House Democrat himself, Steny Hoyer (MD-5), actually knuckle-punched his Republican opponent, Charles Lollar.

'Desperate' and 'juvenile' are the first two words that come to mind for me. How about you?  If the entrenched incumbent wins MD-5, I see many future posts referring to 'Knuckles' Hoyer.

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The trend is undeniable. Liberal Democrats all over the nation are behaving like animals cornered. They have finally awoken to the fact we are rejecting their governance, and since the power to exercise governance is everything they covet, they are flailing wildly in every direction in an epic demonstration of desperation.

The examples abound. With apologies to the master blogger Matt Drudge, I shall now momentarily adopt his simple style of headlined links to close the argument.

Banking Queen’s lover fears partner may lose job

Banking Queen Digs Into His Own Pocket

Democrat Incumbent Physically Assaults Republican Challenger

Democrat candidate in Kentucky Labels his GOP opponent ‘Senator Blutarsky’

Scary Black Man Running for Congress in Florida Known to Associate with Motorcycle Hoodlums

Top Senate Democrat Runs on ‘It Could Be Worse’

Top Senate Democrat Runs on ‘It Would Have Been Worse’

Top Senate Democrat Runs on Chump Change Payoff to Key Voting Bloc

Donkey National Party Runs on Contribution Conspiracy Meme

Missouri Democrat Incumbent Runs On Catholic Pedophilia Meme

Number One Democrat Appeals to His Maker In Darkest Political Hour

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The bottom line is neatly captured by R. Emmett Tyrell, a conservative opinion lion who has been writing since the late 60’s, and who I have been reading since the early 90’s.

Tyrell: “It is Over.”


Footnote

2010 is the first year I’ve been a two yard sign guy. Desperate measures for desperate times.

Update 10/27

My Congressman is still despicably desperate.  Gerry Connolly still running on lies and half (at best) truths - so obnoxious that not even WaPo can ignore them.  Think this is enough for WaPo to withdraw its' endorsement?  Naaaaaaaaaaah.

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Washington Post Fact Check: The newest Connolly attack

By Paige Winfield Cunningham

The newest attack ad against Republican Keith Fimian over the home inspection company he co-founded could use some inspection itself.

The company, U.S. Inspect, is once again being turned into a campaign weapon by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as the 11th Congressional District race enters its final week. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D) already cited a $16,000 federal tax lien against the company during his 2008 race against Fimian; now, it's part of a new ad launched by the DCCC on Connolly's behalf.

The problem is, U.S. Inspect is a successful business. It has an A-plus rating from the Better Business Bureau. It holds dozens of patent claims. And the lien, while undoubtedly embarrassing to Fimian, has since been released.

It's easy to debunk some of the other claims in the new ad -- such as an accusation that U.S. Inspect's corporate status was revoked by the Arkansas secretary of state. I'm not sure where the DCCC got that information, because a quick call to the Arkansas office revealed that the company withdrew its status back in 2003 -- voluntarily.

And while the ad is correct that Fimian signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge authored by Americans for Tax Reform, the pledge doesn't mention anything about corporations outsourcing jobs, as the ad suggests. In fact, it just says the signer agrees to oppose raising marginal income tax rates and reducing or eliminating deductions or credits.

Given how much it's stretching things there, the DCCC might just as well have claimed that Fimian signed a pledge supporting corporations that exploit workers in developing countries.

Whether or not other of the ad's claims regarding lawsuits and liens carry water, there is some truth slipped in: Fimian's former business partner did call his honesty into question and wrote that his campaign is "built upon a fraud."

Still, I wonder just how far bad feeling over an apparent business falling-out is going to get Connolly and the DCCC.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/local-opinions/2010/10/fact_check_newest_connolly_att.html


Update 10/31

Another Northern Virginia blogger detects the smell of desperation on Gerry Connolly. 

And, as if the 100% Pelosi Index were not enough, Connolly is recognized by the MSM as holding the key to her continuing reign as House Nanny.

More voter education from around the blogosphere:

Desperate VA-11 incumbent avoids the issues of the day.

Manassas TEA Party shows compassion for VA-11 incumbent’s addiction to spending.

Desperate VA-11 incumbent shows lack of respect for the law.

‘Jihad Gerry’ Connolly supports "breeding ground for terrorists".

Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee enters mud-wrestling ring on behalf of desperate VA-11 incumbent.

Campaign Strategy Exclusive: Jack Wiley Dithers

(AP) – Jack Wiley Dithers reporting.

Our cracker jack investigative journalism team predicted the White House mid-term campaign strategy would rely on insulting the vast majority of Americans, simply because it’s who they are. In anticipation of scooping the rest of the media, we sent our White House source, with his shoe recorder, on a dangerous undercover mission into a White House Men’s room. Unfortunately, the “botcha-galoot” (that’s Ellis Island Italian for “cabbage-head”) ran the shoe recorder through his laundry before bringing it back to us, and it’s taken this long to recover the transcript. And now those effete, latte-sippin’, martini swillin’ Lefties at the Poilitico can claim they scooped us just because they can afford to have a source at a $30,000/ plate Leftie fund raiser.

Well, anyway, thanks to the great yeoman’s work of our A-V geek, who spent most of his time restoring an 18 ½ minute gap in the middle, here’s the White House Men’s Room transcript.

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{sound of running sink water}

Obama: {singing lightly} “Everybody Loves Me …”

{main door opens}

Obama: Hey, Joe, what you plannin’ on?

Biden: It’s a three letter word that starts with S.

{Laughter}

Biden: Seriously, Barack, that was one big effin’ deal when Soros bailed out.

Obama: Yeah, it was unexpected. I talked with Michelle about it last night. Michelle said, “Barack, honey, just remember what got you elected.” And I said, “Yeah, that’s the problem, it was his money.” Then she said, “No, silly, it was what you did with the money. Now, take the last toke and sleep on it.”

Biden: Hmmmmm. It’s still a big effin’ deal, if you ask me.

{main door opens}

Obama: Hey, David, what’s up?

Axelrod: Just got off a call with Ayers and Carville. We were trying to figure out what to do now that the foreign money theme is falling flat with the media.

Obama: Hit me.

Axelrod: Well, Carville said “Remember What got us elected.” And I said, “what, the hopey-changey sloganeering crap?” Then he said, “No, the stupid electorate buying it!” After we laughed our asses off, I said, “You know what, you might be on to somethin’ here” So, we noodled around with it a little bit, and came up with this - energize the base by reminding them the other 70% are idiots.

Obama: Hmmmm, not bad, Joe, what do you think?

{stall door opens}

Biden: What, with my pants around my ankles? Yeah, I guess it ‘s alright.

Axelrod: So, we gotta get you guys out on the campaign trail with the talking points. Barack, Deval Patrick has a fund raiser goin’ on up in Mass – we think Kerry will be there, too.

Obama: Good, Kerry’s good with the “everybody else is a moron” schtick – I’m likin’ it. Tell me more.

{FLUSH!}

{stall door opens}

Biden: Send me to Delaware. I’m dyin’ to take out the witch for the Marxist.

Axelrod: Already on the schedule.

Obama: Give me a Team Genius on three! One, two, three …

TEEEEEEEEEEM GEEEEEENIUS!

{main door opens}

{FLUSH!}

Jack Wiley Dithers reporting.

Footnote

Self-explanatory.




Update 10/21

The Left Wing stupid parade, that will soon take its ideological adherents over the edge of the political irrelevance cliff, has picked up its pace. Once again demonstrating Leftie disdain for the First Amendment, and Leftie enslavement to Political Correctness, taxpayer subsidized National Public Radio (NPR) has fired long time liberal analyst Juan Williams for violating its political speech code.

Memo to NPR pinheads: You just went to the head of the line for de-funding by the new Conservative Congress in 2011. For your sake, I hope your foreign sugar daddy, George Soros, has deep enough pockets to cover next year’s budget hole. Hey, maybe that seditious Hamas-linked Jihadi front group known as CAIR can kick in a few bucks, too.

Rest assured, the Leftist pinheads at NPR, under peer pressure from the Left’s wing nuts, will continue their PC purification pogrom. Word on the street is Mara Liasson is next. Maybe they’ll replace her by taking Helen Thomas out of retirement.


And, now I can add NPR to HuffingtonPost on the list of Leftie comment boards fearing my brilliance.

So, it’s LAS 2, Williams 1 - in the speech code violation sweepstakes. LMAO!

For me it’s a game, for him it’s his living, and of course that’s the difference. Good luck going forward, Mr. Williams.

And, Mr. Williams sticks the landing!

Campaign Strategy Exclusive: Jack Wiley Dithers

(AP) – Jack Wiley Dithers reporting.

After all the recent White House staff departures, we were happy to learn that our source still had a job, and also that his shoe recorder remained in good working order. This lucky confluence of conditions has brought to you the following recent Oval Office campaign strategy audio transcript.

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Obama: Man, it’s tough out there on the campaign trail. I got naked guys streaking in front of me, books flying by my head, Michelle wanting to come along, next they’ll make me go to a red state.

Biden: Take it easy, Barack, why when I was a young lad in Scranton hanging out with Bobby Casey …

Reid: I’ve had about enough of your crap, Plugs. You no more knew Bobby Casey in Scranton than my fake TEA Party guy knows which end of the bag to dip!

Biden: We’ll see who’s still attending the January meeting, Harry, heh, heh.

Reid: That’s it, Plugs! You wanna go?!

Biden: Let’s go, right here, right now, old goat!

{sound of chairs sliding across floor}

Obama: Wo, wo, wo, settle down, we have Republicans to demonize ….

{sound of door opening}

Gibbs: Man, it’s tough out there in the briefing room. Nobody’s buying the foreign money thing. Jake Tapper called me the Rain Man! Can you believe it?

Obama: Just keep workin’ it Gibbsy. Hey, David, what else you got?

Axelrod: Nuthin, that’s it.

Obama: No, really …

Axelrod: Really.

Obama: Who are you texting, David?

Axelrod: Schieffer, that sorry sack o’ shit. He ruined everything.

Obama: {sigh} Plouffe, THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! You were supposed to have that LibertyAtStake guy shut down by now. Why, he called me the Rain Man on the Daily Caller comment board!

Plouffe: He’s tough. I’ve sent troll after troll to get him, nothing works, it’s like that 70’s Robert Redford movie with the mountain man and the Indians.

Pelosi: Well, I’m keeping the gigantic clown gavel no matter what happens.

Clyburn: Only if I can borrow it to knee-cap Alvin Greene.

Obama: Quiet – it’s time for the videoconference feed.

{sounds of buzzing, whirring, and minions adjusting stuff}

Obama: Mr. Soros, is that Andy filing your nails?

Soros: Yep, Stern has been demoted since he screwed up the One Nation Rally.

Obama (muttering): Oh, oh, if Andy can go down …

Obama (normal voice): What are your orders, Mr. Soros?

Soros: You know what? You people are so pathetic…I just don’t know anymore. Stern, where’s my tuxedo…ummm, this meeting’s over!

Biden: Wow, that was a big effin’ deal! What the hell do we do now?

{silence until tape runs out}

Jack Wiley Dithers reporting.

Not an Essay

The day job has been extra special wacky and busy lately, and I am wiped out from doing what I must do first, and my work/life balance is in a state making the essay format I usually attempt in this space temporarily beyond my reach. Not that I’m complaining, mind you, I’ve come to appreciate the simple condition of having a day job in Barry’s dysconomy. I believe I’ve coined this term. It has the following definition, or it will, when Webster’s stumbles upon my blog.


dys•con•o•my


–noun


A kind of “free” sort of “market” economy in which the complex of bureaucratic regulation and taxation prevents growth in the complex of human activities concerned with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.


So I’ve decided to string together a series of short commentaries, which is a format anyone familiar with my superior work on the comment boards knows I use as a stretching exercise.

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The Snyder v. Phelps case is decidedly NOT a “free speech” case. It is nothing but a garden variety civil harassment case. Fred Phelps’ gang of lunatics are randomly selecting victims for harassment, based on an insane world view. Exactly like Al Qaeda, for example. (The only difference being the level of appropriate response; civil law vs. war footing.)

The modus operandi of the Phelps gang reminds me of the shooter at 1:00 and 1:15 in this 1979 Steve Martin movie trailer.

==

Gloria All-Red (phonetic hat tip to Mark Levin) is a case study in the Liberal cause overreach we examined in my October 3rd post, “The Trouble With Liberals.” The committed liberal is always willing to play fast and loose with professional ethics, and sacrifice pawns as collateral damage, in their mad zeal to score wins for the cause. Nicky Diaz will be the victim of the unintended consequences this time, when she is deported as a direct result of Ms. Allred’s malpractice.

Let’s look at the trailer from “The Jerk” again – Ms. Allred aimed at Steve Martin and hit the oil cans.

==

Gene Cranick of Obion County lost his house to fire while fully equipped firefighters stood idly by and watched it burn to the ground. The blogger Dr. Zero examined this perverse scene in his post “Chumponomics.”

The real problem is government services that have become so bloated they can no longer be supported by straight up taxation models, and need to be supported by bogus “insurance” models. See Social Security for the same basic problem writ large. The difference: expect to get screwed even if you have paid into the SSA system.

==

The poll that stands as the thematic glue for this blog project is the Gallup poll showing far more Americans self-identifying as conservative than liberal – combined, that is, with my personal lifelong befuddlement at the American electorate’s propensity for voting for Liberal politicians with policies against its’ own interests.

Well, in 2010, for the first time in my lifetime since 1994, the Liberal politicians have reached too far and party preference is beginning to align with American voter ideological preference. This is making the Liberal media complex nervous.

There was a great deal of chattering in the chattering class last week due to a Rasmussen poll showing race relations worsening since the first black President (well, half black anyway) was elected. The reason is not his racial composition. The reason is his ideological bent – which has alienated every voting bloc now except for blacks.  Largely because of his party's well documented twitch for using the race card at all times in every argument.

Barry’s contribution to American political history is more and more likely now to be this – the disappearance of the Democrat Party. The only remaining faithful he has besides blacks – white liberals – have spent this cycle building a record of infamy to assist in the demise of his Democrat Party.

==

The government’s monthly jobs report just came out – just in time to seal mid-term electoral doom for BHO and the Progressives. “Official” unemployment remains stuck at 10%, and “real” unemployment stuck at 17%, because BHO and the Progressives remain stuck on stupid in their destructively mistaken belief that economies can be stimulated by top-down government spending.

I couldn’t capture the problem with this theory, and its practitioners, any better than these Townhall cartoonists have.

So, let’s make this the result on November 2nd.

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Earlier this week, my teenage son shared this Go Remy video with me. It would have fit neatly into my September 7 Post.







You’d think after 800 billion bucks or more, at least all the escalators would work.

==

Have a Happy Columbus Day, patriots, while it’s still permissible to remember the ODWMs (Old Dead White Men) connected to the rise of the western hemisphere as mankind’s last best hope.

The Trouble With Liberals

In this post we take a break from our usual mission of saving the republic from the incompetent and treasonous governance of BHO and the Progressives.


Instead we will take a  cross-eyed look at the garden variety liberal - through the lens of one of the most campy episodes ever aired by one of the most deliciously campy television series ever produced. That would be ‘The Trouble with Tribbles’ from Star Trek (The Original Series).


If not for the vote and the active support of the garden variety liberal, BHO and the Progressives could never have attained the power they now abuse. The garden variety liberal is now the voting bloc BHO and the Progressives desperately cling to, while they are curled up in the corner in the fetal position awaiting the November 2nd electoral tsunami sure now to come. You know who the garden variety liberals are: the faculty lounge pseudo-intellectual, or the bubble headed coed whose entire educational experience consists of indoctrination by faculty lounge pseudo-intellectuals, or the MSM operative with the JournoList subscription, or the activist lawyer willing to abuse her profession’s code of ethics to advance a political agenda, or the trust fund bum who seems to have read every book ever printed without understanding any of it, or the unionized government worker clinging the promise of a lifelong gilded pension funded by the rest of us, et cetera.


The drone independents are already moving our way in the Conservative Ascendancy – I think we can safely let the establishment GOP handle that messaging task for November 2nd. Even they can’t blow it at this point. So, it’s time for us on the vanguard of the Conservative Ascendancy to begin going after the higher hanging electoral fruit of the garden variety liberal. We should start by simply wrapping our minds around the psychology of the garden variety liberal. While I was doing just that during the past week, what came to mind for me was …. Tribbles. It’s kind of funny how my brain works sometimes, isn’t it? :)


==

If you need a quick primer on the plot of the episode, this should do it. 

What follows can be taken as a kind of documentary portraying the stream of consciousness as it occurred in my mind.

==

The trouble with liberals is they are always so damn self-absorbed in their “causes,” as well as arrogant in their dealings with anyone not similarly self-absorbed. This causes them to have no respect for the rule of law, especially the original intent of the law; which often spins everybody into tight, senseless, circles to deal with liberal cause overreach.

The Federation official Nilz Baris abuses the Priority One distress signal to divert the Enterprise to Space station K-7, and Kirk is not amused when he finds out the reason is a grain shipment.



Captain Kirk: “I have never questioned the orders, or the Intelligence of any representative of the Federation – until now.”

 ==

The trouble with liberals is they are always framing their arguments in cutesy, touchy-feely terminology: save the children, save the polar bears, save the undocumented housekeepers, etc. This allows them sell the senseless to the unsensible.



While taking shore leave on Space Station K-7, Lt. Uhura is introduced to her first tribble, a cute alien species that makes soothing cooing noises, by the inter-galactic traveling huckster Cyrano Jones . And, what is Lt. Chekov looking at in this shot?

 ==

The trouble with liberals is, being arrogantly and supremely confident in the righteousness of their cause, and having no respect for the rule of law - they can always find a like-minded activist judge or high level bureaucrat to mandate the unsensible.

Admiral Fitzpatrick: “Effective immediately you will render any aid and assistance that Under Secretary Baris may require.”

Captain Kirk: “Now, that’s just lovely.”

 ==  


The trouble with liberals is the unintended consequences of their causes are not immediately apparent to most, but the specious touchy-feely sales pitch spreads like wildfire.

Commander Spock: “Fortunately, of course, I am immune to its effect.”

==

The trouble with liberals is they are always consuming more of the GDP than they are contributing.

Commander Spock: “There’s something disquieting about these creatures … they remind me of the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin, but they seem to eat a great deal…I see no practical use for them.”

(Unfortunately liberals lack the one redeeming characteristic Spock finds in tribbles. Liberals are often very loquacious while consuming what the rest of us produce.)

==

The trouble with liberals is by the time their unintended consequences are visible to everyone, they have already insinuated themselves into all of the machinery.

Captain Kirk: “This is my chicken sandwich and coffee!”

Captain Kirk: “And as Captain, I want two things done!  First, find Cyrano Jones.  And second … Close that door.”

==

The BEST thing about liberals is their radical associations will often lead back to the usual suspects. Tribbles don’t like Klingons, or Klingon spies posing as humans. If only the criminally biased MSM had applied the Tribble Test to Jeremiah Wright, we might have saved the republic a lot of trouble.

 
Footnote

Thoughts on the One Nation Rally

All it proved was that Team Leftie can still organize a crowd of malcontents, and leave a big mess behind. The near term takeaway should be the signage – which plainly shows the unholy Red/Green (that is, Communist/Environmentalist) alliance that is at Team Leftie’s rotten core. Left Coast Rebel posted a good summary on Saturday. In the long term, Team Leftie's little rally on the Mall may receive mention as a footnote, but nothing more.

Appropriately enough, Moonbattery gives us a thorough round up to close out the wacky weekend of Leftie hi-jinks on the Mall.  Nice bookends.  The LCR post confirmed my expectations in real time, which allowed me to pay attention to crafting my own idiosyncratic post, and finally enjoy the Moonbattery round up as dessert.