Just Being a Smart Ass

After Biden gets his custard, he asks the store manager how much he owes him.
“Lower our taxes and we’ll call it even,” the manager replied.

I don't know about the exchange (did he respond to the store manager at the time) I won't read Biden's mind; but it is one more misstep by Biden.

I wonder if Biden would be called "the smartest man in the room" if he was a Republican.

A great political ad - Clint Webb

Is this a spoof or for real?


Looking around, it must be a spoof. I cannot find a Clint Webb website anywhere.

Tim Scott WINS! (SC-1)

If you thought that William Randall's victory was remarkable -- Tim Scott has won (68-32)and he is the odd's on favorite to win in the fall. A black Republican has beaten Strom Thurmond's son IN South Carolina.

This BLACK MAN

beat this WHITE MAN.

William Randall beats Bernie Reeves

William Randall is the Republican nominee for NC-13. With 100% of the vote in Randall won with 59% of the vote (June 22, 2010 runoff). Things are changing fast, a black man beats a white man in the Republican primary in North Carolina. IF this doesn't show you that black people have a chance, and are respected by Republicans, what are you waiting for? Elect this man.

Nero and the Oil Spill

Now that we have Obama claiming the esteemed position as America's Nero what will the pseudo-intellectuals in the media be saying? Will they, as Bob Herbert did with the banking collapse, blame the oil spill and the lack of an effective response on laissez-faire capitalism?

Just last week President Obama said that the BP oil spill was like 9-11 and that we would have to take like measures to protect ourselves. What has he done? Put a moratorium on drilling and has sent barely one percent of our oil skimmer boats to deal with the problem (20 out of 2,000)

Keep fiddling Mr. President. As Nero - apocryphally - let the fire burn in order to direct public anger against Christians so, it seems, that Obama is doing much the same. Let the damages increase and direct public anger against oil companies (and capitalism, and anybody that wants America to be self-sufficient in energy).

2010 is Our Thermopylae

A very well stated post at RedState

On November 2, 2010, America’s Battle of Thermopylae will take place. This time, however, it is not the birth of Western Civilization that is at stake but, rather, whether we live as a free people, or succumb to the yoke of a government that does not care about the liberties that so many have fought and died for.

Over time, our nation’s children and the simple-minded have been brainwashed into believing that enslaving freedom is “social justice,” that the taking of liberty is “leveling the playing field,” and that individual rights are inferior to the will of the masses.

Our nation will either live free, or it will perish. There, what so many have thought and many have uttered has now been stated … openly and publicly. 2010. This is our Thermopylae.

redstate.com / 2010-is-americas-thermopylae/

I fear that too few people understand that Freedom and Government power, beyond very strict boundries, are mutually exclusive. Witness this comment to a NYTimes article

The basis of "liberalism" and the people who vote for politicians like Obama, however, is attitudes created when trying to solve particular practical problems. Hence, I believe the triumph of "liberalism" is inevitable. Rather than being an ideological movement "liberals" are people who recognize and try to address the complex governance problems arising out of the many different areas of social life where individual rationality results in collective irrationality. These kinds of problems are becoming larger and more complex and the need to use government as an important tool to address them is increasingly common. This increasing complexity will continue in spite of all the anger and failed attempts to insist on "smaller government".

Goverment is not going to become smaller and that is a good thing. Libertarian consevatism is a very dangerous illusion. As much fun as it would be to have Rand Paul to argue with at a dinner party, it would be a tragedy to have a person that committed to such a simplistic ideology in the US Senate. Libertarians really believe that wealth is created by individuals and that the legal and ethical basis of our lives together should be recognizing and protecting the rights of these wealth creating individuals to enjoy the fruits of their efforts. Sounds good in theory, but it is not so great in practice. I have lived in societies where a large proportion of what wealth there is really is created by individuals. They are called peasant societies, and they are very, very poor. I am going to happily stick to living in a society where all the wealth is created socially and it is therefore perfectly appropriate to democractically steer some of that wealth toward collective ends. It is a lot better than grinding poverty.

The Agony of the Liberals By ROSS DOUTHAT

Or, what about this one:

Let's see; The Dems. under President Obama, are passing economic reform and cleaning up the Repukelican Recession/ Depression. The Dems., under President Obama, are fixing the worst healthcare system of any developed nation. The Dems. under President Obama, passed laws to stop credit card companies from gouging consumers. The Dems. under President Obama, are getting our troops out of the unecessary war of lies in Iraq and completing the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. The Dems. under President Obama, ended the ban on stem cell research, signed the equal pay act, enacted the toughest anti-smoking laws the country has ever seen, issued the toughest ethics regulations and transparency guidelines of any president at any time in history, and got a liberal Hispanic woman confirmed to the Supreme Court. Yeah right wingers I can see there’s no appeal here. Question: What did AWOL IDIOT LIAR BOY Bush accomplish?

Washington Times

The Failure of Laissez-Faire Economics or the Failure to Think?

The collapse of the economy in the Great Recession gave us the starkest, most painful evidence imaginable of the failure of laissez-faire economics and the destructive force of the alliance of big business and government against the interests of ordinary Americans.
NYT, Bob Herbert: When Greatness Slips Away

This is the nonsense that passes as informed opinion. Laissez-faire capitalism did not create Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; laissez-faire capitalism would not have the government force banks to create sub-prime mortgages nor would laissez-faire capitalism have the government force banks to make these loans.

If the banks didn’t issue the sub-prime loans they would have been considered to be non-compliant (ie: be fined and/or forced out of business).

Clearly the sub-prime mortgage crisis is a result of government regulation, a result of government policy - not the result of laissez-faire capitalism.

Christie on Teachers

Christie speaks in Washington DC, calling Newark schools 'absolutely disgraceful'

Love this guy. If he implements his ideas he may very well be our next president.