The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Obama Makes Token Gesture, Because He’s Losing the Shutdown P.R. War

He’s trying to look reasonable: President Barack Obama invited congressional leaders from both parties to the White House on Wednesday to discuss the partial government shutdown and looming debt-limit crisis, a White House official said. There has been a tremendous backfire from Tuesday’s attempt — ordered by Obama administration officials for propaganda purposes — to […]

E-Mail From America’s Vice President

If you ever sign up for any Democrat mailing list, you will eventually be on all Democrat mailing lists, and receive e-mails like this: Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 08:14:15 -0400 To: Robert McCain <r.s.mccain@att.net> From: Joe Biden <democraticparty@democrats.org> Robert — If you’ve been watching what’s been happening here in Washington over the past couple […]

MoveOn.org Fundraiser Email Blends Stupid And Infuriating

by Smitty (emphasis original throughout) MoveOn.org Smitty Dear MoveOn member, I’m not, but this was forwarded by a recipient. Big news: Republicans just announced that they will only allow the federal government to stay open if President Obama agrees to delay implementation of Obamacare. The actual votes were bi-partisan for and against, interestingly enough. The […]

Do The Democrats Think We’re Not Paying Attention?

by Smitty Now, the House CR and the epic Ted Cruz speech were more velocity than mass, we can agree. There wasn’t a lot of hope that a Senate which goes for years without passing a budget would actually pass the House’s CR as written. But not that matters have gone full circle, and now […]

James Fallows, Eminent Fool, and the Surprising Vindication of John C. Calhoun

“The necessary result, then, of the unequal fiscal action of the government is, to divide the community into two great classes; one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes, and, of course, bear exclusively the burthen of supporting the government; and the other, of those who are the recipients of their proceeds, through […]

Texas Democrat Student Group Leader Exposed as Convicted Sex Offender

Convicted sex offender Billy Johnson A convicted sex offender is the leader of a Democrat student group at a Texas university, Katherine Timpf of Campus Reform reports. Billy Johnson, who is president of the Young Democrats chapter at the University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA) campus in Edinburg, Texas, was convicted in 2003 of “indecency” with […]

A Rare Disagreement With Thomas Sowell

by Smitty But, for the same reason that it makes no sense to impeach either President Obama or Chief Justice Roberts, it makes no sense to attempt to defund ObamaCare. That reason is that it cannot be done. The world is full of things that ought to be done but cannot in fact be done. […]

#ObamaMentalBreakdownSigns Hires Alec Baldwin As Twitter Czar

by Smitty #ObamaMentalBreakdownSigns Denounces use of WMD in Bulungi, demands immediate invasion. http://t.co/VODiQtnInE — Smitty, Redliner (@smitty_one_each) September 22, 2013 #ObamaMentalBreakdownSigns Takes a sudden liking to Ozzy Ozbourne's "Diary of a Madman" release. http://t.co/VEPwtlWXFy — Smitty, Redliner (@smitty_one_each) September 22, 2013 #ObamaMentalBreakdownSigns Speeches veer toward Shatner: "I'll go. All Kobayashi Maru. On Boehner if. He. […]

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