Apocalypse Never

Seemingly in the course of making a point about our policies in Iraq and Afghanistan, Dem Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee explains that North and South Vietnam are living side by side in peace.

You go, girl!  Was it over when the Germans bombed the Gulf of Tonkin?  No!

Comments

[bio mom]

Darn it. Harry Reed with a 5 point lead over Angle in the latest Mason-Dixon poll. MD is a very good polling company for state elections.

[Danube of Thought]

Some mornings I just think we are doomed.

[narciso the harpoon]

Someone ought to tell her, that "Watchmen" was
not a historical account, she is scary isn't she

[rse]

See if Prof Jacobson can't make you feel better about the Reid-Angle race.

LUN

[Danube of Thought]

If you're insufficiently depressed, check out Krauthammer.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

I am now convinced she's a closet Dadaist, and this is performance art.

[Comanche Voter]

Sheila Jackson Lee no doubt claims that she had a blind date with Same Cooke just before he led the charge up San Juan Hill.

[Clarice]

Doubt how ridiculous AA is?
She earned a B.A. in political science from Yale University in 1972, followed by a J.D. from the University of Virginia Law School in 1975

And she is probably one of the dumbest women in America.

[MayBee]

I love the added detail that human rights in North Vietnam could be a little better.

[peter]

I think she is angling for the Ambassadorship to South Vietnam, and I say we give it to her.

[David Jay]

C'mon Tim - this is just TOO easy.

I understand low-hanging fruit, but anything out of SJL's mouth is over-ripe fruit that has fallen to the ground.

[Threadkiller]

Do you think it was the happy people of Vietnam that called her last summer?

Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee Answers Cell Phone During Town Hall

[MikeS]

I've always regarded the Special Olympics as a useful idea. Maybe we should also have a Special Congress. Jackson-Lee could run for Speaker!

[Danube of Thought]

The two Vietnams have lived happily side by side pretty much the way the US and Japan have since the nukes flew. Nothing ensures peace like conquest.

[Clarice]

Her braids really are too tight--they cut off blood circulation to the brain.

[goy]

So many people are missing the real value of her statements here.

In her mind, the victory belonged to "her side", which was the "righteous" side every 60s hippie recognized: the Communists.

That victory was achieved - again, in her mind - long before America withdrew, resulting in the unnecessary deaths of numerous (black) children, with attendant suffering imposed on their families.

Her statement was purely political, and worded as closely as she dared to what she really believes. We assume stupidity here at our peril.

g

[peter]

Doubt how ridiculous AA is?
She earned a B.A. in political science from Yale University in 1972, followed by a J.D. from the University of Virginia Law School in 1975

Sigh, we were at U.Va. at the same time.

[Clarice]

No , goy, she really is ignorant. I recall her once asking a witness about our landing a man on Mars..Mars, the moon, same diff when your braids are choking your grey cells.

[bolitha]

As dumb as she is, rest assured that she will keep getting elected!

[narciso the harpoon]

She's not that clever g, even the "People's
Victory' happened the year she graduated from
Law School, good god. One can't forget when she complained there weren't enough hurricanes
named after african Americans, this was before
Katrina

[DebinNC]

Then there was Lee's rigged townhall featuring a fake doctor/actual Obama delegate whose selfless service she praised.

[Janesquaredance]

Ya know I've never had a racist bone in my body and people like Lee and Obama are really testing that. Stupidity coupled with dishonesty coupled with power is a really bad combination.

[Captain Hate]

For whatever reason, I gave SJL credit in the past for being smarter than what has been revealed but that was obviously a mistake on my part.

[Danube of Thought]

Obama, Holder et al. seem to be testing the whole country's patience on this race bullshit at this point.

[narciso the harpoon]

Even Roman Hruska would say, "that's not what I wanted"

[bgates]

DoT, I don't buy Krauthammer. Sure, Obama would do horrible things if he were reelected. You know that, I know that, Krauthammer knows that - and the electorate knows that. As to the "irrevocable changes", I'll file that idea with the Permanent Republican Majority. Half of the irrevocable changes are things that haven't even started yet, and the other half people hate even more.

[Strawman Cometh]

AA?

[Captain Hate]

bgates, I'd be a lot more comfortable if people like Cornyn weren't periodically floating statements about *not* repealing Bammycare and then walking them back. That type of garbage leads to the "there's no difference between the parties" feeling at a time when the clear majority mood is for repeal. Voters with memories remember when the Repubs blinked during the budget impasse with Slick and ultimately got their clocks cleaned; and wonder if when Bammy digs in his heels on repeal it will be any different.

[narciso the harpoon]

Afirmative Action

[glasater]

The current tax code is a total mess--our accountant doesn't seem to have a handle on it and that's his job.

I don't see how anyone will be able to figure out the new regulations that new legislation in healthcare or fin/reg will incur.

And I'm with Jane in that I've never had a racist bone in my body but in recent months....

[JorgXMcKie]

Wasn't it SJL who got [gets] chauffeured about 6 blocks in DC to go to the House? And isn't she one of the major whiners about airlines not holding planes for her, or putting her in First Class when she shows up at the last instant and they've already booked the seats?

A sense of entitlement gone mad.

[Rob Crawford]

You can't blame "affirmative action" for her as much as you can blame race-based gerrymandering.

[Rick Ballard]

GL,

You're not supposed to figure out Obamacare or Finreg - you're supposed to figure which Dem you need to bribe in order to evade them.

Krauthammer is engaging in static analysis to generate a forecast for a very dynamic environment. He might be right but I can come up with a quite different scenario by stretching the observation range to include the last deflationary event. That would place Obama and the Democrat Party in the position of Hoover and the Republicans in 1930.

[Clarice]

Let's say "tie" on those things, rob, and recall they are not related.

It's Zimbabwe or bust now it seems. And this summer I think calling everyone who opposes Obama"racist" is about as good a play as investing in Zimbabwe futures.

[Parking Lot]

((A sense of entitlement gone mad.))

like Oprah on an after hours Paris shopping trip

[narciso the harpoon]

Crikey, she was a staff member on the House Commission on Assasinations, no wonder she's
such a unreconstructed moonbat

[Ignatz]

--bgates, I'd be a lot more comfortable if people like Cornyn weren't periodically floating statements about *not* repealing Bammycare and then walking them back.--

CH,
The way to end that is to make being a DC squish considerably more painful than possessing a spine. If everytime one of these dopes goes all wobbly they get their eyebrows singed off by the blowback from the rank and file, pretty soon they'll be positively Pavlovian in the spine stiffening department.

[Old Lurker]

Glasater, of course you are right about the IRS regs.

I am reminded of the scene late in Atlas Shrugged where Hank Reardon, having stayed at the wheel way longer than the other producers who were on strike, blurted to His Man in Washington that "these new regs are impossible to follow and to be in compliance with at the same time" (OWTTE). To which the response was "Exactly."

[Captain Hate]

Iggy, I think that's kind of what's happened to produce the walkbacks. The trouble is that the message came from the teaparty people and not people calling the shots at the RNC.

Maybe ultimately it won't matter but for now I think we're addressing something that the party will have to come to grips with.

[Clarice]

Every time SJL says something this stupid (and that's often) I want you to say," SJL, graduate of Yale and the Univ of Va law school". Every time MO says something ungrammatical (which is often) say," MO graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School" and for BHO graduate of Columbia and HLS".

The muddle hasn't caught on to this "diversity"/credentialed moron farce yet. Rub it in their faces.

[narciso the harpoon]

She's as constant as the Northern Star, on that point, Clarice, was it Salazar who said it was the "Ocean of Mexico", Kagan was Princeton and Harvard Law, so was Sotomayor,
who was ignorant of a great deal, Can't forget
Chu, the Nobel Laureate who suggested roaofss should be painted white or something, to conserve energy

[Largebill]

This moron is actually on the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Subcommittee on South Asia. I'd put my 9th grade education up against the knowledge she obtained at Yale. Put us both on Jeopardy and I'd get all of Trebeck's money.

[Extraneus]

The muddle hasn't caught on to this "diversity"/credentialed moron farce yet. Rub it in their faces.

Most people haven't caught on to how it contributes to the recipients' disdain for the country, either.

Surely there's a little voice inside AA recipients, whispering that it wasn't the content of their character that got them where they are. And that has to piss a person off.

[bgates, letting the "bunkerbuster" persona rise to the surface]

This moron is actually on the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Subcommittee on South Asia.

Well, that explains it. If she's spending all her time focused on South Asia, she can hardly be expected to keep up with events all the way over in Vietnam.

[Extraneus]

SJL on Jeopardy? I'd spring for Pay Per View.

[lyle]

Krauthammer is engaging in static analysis to generate a forecast for a very dynamic environment. He might be right but I can come up with a quite different scenario by stretching the observation range to include the last deflationary event. That would place Obama and the Democrat Party in the position of Hoover and the Republicans in 1930.

Great comment. I agree with every word and admire the eloquence.

I also have one word (a proper noun, actually) to significantly weaken The Hammer's analysis:

Hillary.

I'm starting a pool on her cabinet resignation date. Who's in??

[Appalled]

glasater:

I don't see how anyone will be able to figure out the new regulations that new legislation in healthcare or fin/reg will incur.

If you are sitting in a corporate office looking at your financials, healthcare reform is actually quite easy to analyze. On one side, you look at the compliance costs, the cost of a program that meets federal requirements, and likely premium increases. On the other, you look at the pathetically low penalty/per person for not maintaining a medical program beyond the HCR effective date and the momentary bad publicty resulting from terminating a medical program.

The choice isn't hard. The only thing restraining employers from killing off their health programs is that nobody wants to be first (they all want to be fifth or sixth).

The problem is that the CBO, when costing out HCR, did not assume that employers would abandon their plans to the extent that it appears that they will. This means that their future deficit predictions are significantly understated.

Also, while I think the intellectual authors of our brave new healthcare system understood that they were ending employer healthcare as we know it, the politicians who voted for this thing did not. I think, once employers bail out of healthcare, these politicians will be hearing from constituants, and Obama may end up with a revolution in his party, and we, by accident, may end up with a healthcare marketplace looking a lot more like Jon McCain's proposals (HSAs and the like) and a massively curtailed employer healthcare system.

This is a bit long-winded

[Danube of Thought]

I think it is more likely than not that Krauthammer's forecast--if that's what it is--is wrong, but it's not implausible.

When do employers have to make their decisions about their health plans? Is it before November 2012?

Look at the degrees held by Jackson Lee and the two Obamas. Would anyone seriously describe any of them as an educated man or woman? Ridiculous.

[Threadkiller]

Would anyone seriously describe any of them as an educated man or woman?

I am having trouble describing him as an "American" man and even more trouble describing her as a woman.

[mike in houston]

Queen Sheila at NAACP convention:

"And I thank you professor very much. I’m going to be engaging you with those very powerful numbers that you have offered on what the tea party recognizes, uh, or is recognized as. Might I add my own P.S.? All those who wore sheets a long time ago have now lifted them off and started wearing [applause], uh, clothing, uh, with a name, say, I am part of the tea party. Don’t you be fooled. [voices: "That's right.", applause] Those who used to wear sheets are now being able to walk down the aisle and speak as a patriot because you will not speak loudly about the lack of integrity of this movement. Don’t let anybody tell you that those who spit on us as we were walking to vote on a health care bill for all of America or those who said Congresswoman Jackson-Lee’s braids were too tight in her hair had anything to do with justice and equality and empowerment of the American people. Don’t let them fool you on that [applause]…. :

[Danube of Thought]

I suppose the idea is to get black people all riled up to vote, and what better way to do that than a little race-baiting? On the other hand, why would self-respecting black folks turn out for a cracker like, say, Harry Reid?

[glasater]

I predict a massive increase in an "underground" economy. It's already happening in construction to a certain extent.
Old Lurker is too big to participate am guessing but the small contractors certainly can.
And small truck farms can certainly set up road side stands that do not take credit cards. Examples abound....

Zero is bound to turn us into crooks.

[Appalled]

DoT:

The decisions will likely start occurring during 2011, 2012, with the expiration of the retiree perscription drug subsidy, but really will not happen until this thing is fully effective until 2013-4.

But, judging from the Fed's comments, the economy is going to continue to stink until 2012. And a lot of Obama's Wall Stret Suppport is going to evaporate when taxes start heading skyward -- and there will be pushback from the governors on the VAT schemes that will likely be a focus of Obama's next few years.

Seriously, I find Krathaumer too bleak, because he looks at Obama in the same way an intelligent liberal would view Reagan circa 1982. Obama does not merit that kind of praise of his effectiveness -- on the nuts and bolts of effective leadership, he's not impressed. (The Gulf/BP thing has been mishandled -- and will continue t rankle whther the damn hole is plugged or not. I think the major legislation passage has been more Pelosi than Obama.

[Janet]

Zero is bound to turn us into crooks.

That is so true of the regulation loving left in general, and has been happening for years. More regulations & rules & rules & regulations...finally we just don't do some of them. Our neighborhood put up a sign in the little park across the street that said "no ball playing"...we told our kids they didn't have to obey that sign. They could play ball.

[Captain Hate]

Why would any self-respecting person of any race vote for Harry Reid; a disgusting little pinworm of a human being, the sight or sound of whom is enough to creep anybody out.

[laura]

Zero is bound to turn us into crooks

Galaster I believe that is always the result when the government oversteps. The Dems don't seem to understand in the long run the piling on of taxes and regulations that make life untenable completely undermines any legitimate claim to authority a government has. So the government has to resort to heavy handedness and eventually force to keep the people in line.
At some point the government becomes illegitimate.

[jorod]

Unfortunately, she is representative of a great many people....

[Clarice]

I think there are forces in the administration urging Oman to make a Hail Mary play--attack Iran in October. I don't think he has the balls to do it.

[Janet]

Yeah Captain...I can't imagine voting for Reid. Ugh. Like Rep. Jim Moran here in N. Virginia. He is sickening but still Dems vote for him.

Your post on the Do We Miss Him Yet? thread hit the nail on the head -
"I'll continue to vote for whoever is the better candidate regardless of party but I'm starting to think that people with a reasonable amount of character are completely missing in politics. We always get the government we deserve and right now that doesn't say much positive about the country."

[Rob Crawford]

I suppose the idea is to get black people all riled up to vote, and what better way to do that than a little race-baiting?

Remember the movie "Idiocracy"?

"'batin!"

[glasater]

Clarice...

Here's what our bookie thinks.

The volume on the Dec 10 is pretty interesting to ponder.

[Extraneus]

No, especially when there are probably others telling him he has a good chance to pull a Clinton and get re-elected if the R's take the congress, but not if they don't.

[Dave (in MA) --->>> BO Stinks <<< ---]

Fortunately Vietnam is attached to Asia, so there's no danger of it capsizing if it gets too crowded.

[MayBee]

Well, that explains it. If she's spending all her time focused on South Asia, she can hardly be expected to keep up with events all the way over in Vietnam.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

[Clarice]

quit encouraging bgates, please. If I spend any more time here laughing at the screen my family will have me committed, MayBee.

[Janet]

Rep. Hank Johnson with the tipping Guam story was un.be.lievable!...BTW, I hear the old women in Guam are smart or something...

[qrstuv]

" The Dems don't seem to understand in the long run the piling on of taxes and regulations that make life untenable completely undermines any legitimate claim to authority a government has. "

Speaking of which, the EPA has a new regulation that assumes ANY house built before 1978 has lead paint. Any contractor who works on such a house, no matter whether children live there, is required to follow EPA-specific procedures to contain lead, or if not, pay a fine of about $30000 PER DAY.

I didn't read all of it. I was too sick with disgust, anger, and fear.

My house is 100 years old and needs work that I was planning to do this year.

[Clarice]

North Carolinians..attention please. earlier today I interviewed Dist 2 candidate Renee Ellmers who is quite appealing, I have something coming up on AT about her. If you've time and or money to give her a hand, you'll be happy you did.She's running against the odious Bob Etheridge.

[Old Lurker]

Glasater, my partner and I were laughing about that just yesterday. Our tenants are always begging for us to come have free dinners or whatever and we always politely refuse. It occurred to us perhaps we should rethink that policy!

Let's see...food, check. Dry Cleaner, check. Drug Store, check. I need to tell my leasing agent to find us a liquor store for the next vacancy...

[Danube of Thought]

A wise Guamanian lady will always make better decisions.

I've seen Art Laffer repeatedly sounding the theme (again today on Cavuto) that 2011 is going to be a disaster because of the expiration of the tax cuts. Anticipation of that event is already causing people (including Your Narrator) to shift income and profit into this year, making it look artificially good, and the reverse will happen next year.

It is just inconceivable to me that no one in this administration has any concern at all about the fact that no one in the private sector economy has any idea what his tax rates will look like next year. It does not seem to occur to them that this circumstance might dampen one's enthusiasm for, say, taking on new employees. What a catastrophe.

[glasater]

Heh Old Lurker!

I've heard that beer and liquor joints do well during hard times...

[RichatUF]

glasater-

Seems a fairly unlikely event even if a real wipe out is in the offing (I've been dour for the last few weeks, and hard to believe, but the Krauthammer article cheered me up).

If Obama were to do it, he'd most likely start in mid-September and the bombing campaign would last through the election (59 days or so). He'd also have to contend with: what would the Iranians do after-seem pretty obvious that the nuclear scientist that went back was a false defector and the AfPak drone targeting program might be corrupted with spys too (not much has come out about that base and officers that were blown up). I'm also skeptical that the best terrorists on offer is some dude that had a bomb shoved down his drawers and some other dude that wired up some propane tanks in a road beater SUV.

[Janet]

I'm thinking of opening a Redneck Beauty Salon in our backyard (my daughter & I already call it that). Lawn chairs and the sun for tanning (so the government can't tax it). We will allow smoking and perhaps serve pigs in a blanket for hor dourves! I don't really have anything to barter, so it's the best I can come up with.
If I was from Guam, I'm sure I'd have tons of good old ideas.

[Clarice]

I like it Janet. You might offer MO type eyebrow stenciling and nose narrowing make up tricks.

[Danube of Thought]

Fabulous shredding of the moron Garofalo.

[Clarice]

Isn't that brilliant, doT?

[Rick Ballard]

"and nose narrowing make up tricks"

Maybe with a tie in to heavy industrial grade Spanx girth and cinch ass narrowers as well. Hey - call it the First Lardy Bowteak, make a $20 donation to Sheila Jackson Lee's re-election campaign and ask for her help in getting a non-recourse SBA loan to get things going.

[Clarice]

I suppose it would be diabolical to suggest anew Republican congress remove the tanning tax and in its place heavily tax spanx and Asian wigs.

[Clarice]

I suppose it would be diabolical to suggest a new Republican congress remove the tanning tax and in its place heavily tax spanx and Asian wigs.

[Janet]

Yeah, double tax them!

[Extraneus]

2012 POLL: Obama trails against Romney, Gingrich, Huckabee; tied with Palin...

Every time I see that headline I think: That's it? That's who we have? I'm going with Palin if those are the choices, but come on.

[Captain Hate]

That Neut is being taken seriously as a candidate, not to mention Yuckabee, puts me in severe jeopardy of ever finding my happy place again.

[Old Lurker]

Cap'n, I must say you are on a streak of writing what I'm thinking.

[Rick Ballard]

Ex,

Why snap at the MFM lure? Christie, Brewer, Pawlenty and Jindal are all playing "Can you guess which finger I'm holding up?" with BOzo the Buffoon. I'm not sure that any of them have the 'Q' that Sarah has but they are all more interesting than Newt or Huckleberry.

[Extraneus]

Rep. Elijah Cummings: 'Best Way Tea Party Can Fight Their Racism… Is to Help Folks Get Jobs'

[Extraneus]

Good point, Rick.

[Danube of Thought]

Pawlenty and Daniels don't show me much in the way of presidential timbre (love that word--it's been supplanted by gravitas). John Thune? Nah. Nikki Haley? Hot, but no dice.

Mayb Lowell Weicker will ride to the rescue.

[Extraneus]

As usual.

[Danube of Thought]

I'll go on record as predicting the GOP picks up no more than five Senate seats. And that's boldly putting me at odds with the eerily prescient Dick Morris.

[Extraneus]

The bench is not very deep. I think Giuliani and maybe even Fred are both excellent VP choices, written off by the media last time around because they were both excellent presidential choices. Giuliani really should still be considered a possibility.

[Rick Ballard]

DoT,

Too low. I'll go with the 1930 Senate result of +8 and the average of the 1930 and 1932 House results for +75.

The Tea Party reply to Rep. Cummings and the NAACP should be that the sole determinant of support is measured by the content of character. Allen West will never have a problem and Kirkpatrick, Conyers, Cummings and Rangel will never be allowed across the threshold.

It's a patriotic thing, so I really don't expect Rep. Cummings to understand any more than I would expect SJL to know the difference between the moon and Mars.

[squaredance]

She is not stating anything other than what the mainstream Liberals believe. They are communists, the N. Vietnamese are communists.

As to the millions that died because of our collective cowardice and dishonor, well these do not register with them at all.

Stop thinking that "she is low hanging fruit". These people are starting to look like the most successful communists in history. Obama makes Uncle Ho look like a piker. At least the South Vietnamese had the balls to stand up and fight their communist takeover. That is more than I can say for Americans.
What is our response? Twitter?

Seriously, if this country cannot start throwing these people out of power and into jail there is no hope at all for us.

They are winning at the moment--do not forget that. Chatter about Nov all that you want, but what they have done will be exceedingly hard to reverse. It looks more and more doubtful that, short of Civil War, it ever will be. Looks beyond repair to me.

We have really passed out of the rule of law, all the safeties and proud traditions of the USA. They have just about finished laying the path to our final destruction. We have been undone by the most worthless, untalented and morally and intellectually depraved people. How low we have fallen. It is really beyond belief, but there it is looking us right n the face.

You have to understand that idiots like her are our masters now. She is not some sort of "amusement" or "colorful expectation". She is the rule.

Don't think so? Look who is sitting in the WH. Look at Read, Pelosi and H. Clinton. Look at this buffoon they are going to put on the SCOTUS.

We are just about done. That is their intent.

[Jumper]

Ensuring Justice for Oil Spill Victims
House Judiciary Committee - Hearing [ 10:00 am, 07/21/2010 ]
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Witness(es): TBA
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Vietnam just had it's youth volunteer thing. It goes back to China. Kerry science guy and the rest were all there. Who was

[Threadkiller]

I will never forgive Newt

[Janet]

Me either Threadkiller.

[narciso the harpoon]

What I don't get is who among those four has been taking the administration to the cleaners. Huck induces mild nausea, Romney
I'm generally indiferent to, except when you have the comments that appeared in Time yesterday, which is typical or Murphy or Madden, and the peanut gallery at Rinosphere. For VP I agree with both Guiliani or Thompson,
Politico and Cameron, found him lethargic
but haven't they watched Law & Order

[Captain Hate]

I won't feel confident of Repub chances for 2012 until I see a picture of Steve Schmidt's lifeless corpse. Otherwise he'll be hanging out there waiting for one of his country-clubber douche friends to haul him aboard.

[Extraneus]

I think most of that was a hatchet job because he was the most conservative candidate, narc, not to mention kicked ass personality-wise. I posted his schedule here one day when the MFM was killing him for sloughing off.

He did blow a lead right off the bat when he finally got in, though, without much help from the media. That was clearly his fault.

[Old Lurker]

I had Newt nailed when, as the new Speaker, he went public with being dissed on AF1 by Clinton who "never had a word with me on the flight", only to be made the fool when the WH released photos of the two of them yukking it up at the conference table on the plan.

More recently when he palled with Hilary on healthcare, I have come to distrust him.

That is even before the morality play that was his life.

Too bad. Smart guy. Well spoken and good debater. Good historian. Loves animals.

Just too flawed to ever see the promised land.

[narciso the harpoon]

Yes, I figured that as well, and they took out Guiliani early in the deal, making a big
deal or what turned out to be 'small potatoes'
apologies Dave, Romney quit for one reason or another, Huck hung around way to long and we were left with McCain, hard to imagine a candidate who had alienated every faction on
the other side, maybe Lieberman, but not really