Shut Up, They Explained

The default Dem debating dodge - everybody who disagrees with me is a bigot - is meant to end arguments, not win them.

Of course, having our 'leaders' tell us we are bigots might make us think we really are bigots.  Or it might make us think we need new leaders.  We'll find out in November.

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[Extraneus]

So Rush is calling her Moochelle. Coincidence?

[Neo]

Harry Reid: Health Reform Won’t Hurt a Bit ...

Except in Nevada, that is. In a July 21 letter to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Service Kathleen Sebelius, the Senate Majority Leader complains that ObamaCare’s cuts to Medicare will “result in a net reduction in payment to Nevada’s hospitals when they are unable to absorb such a cut.” Furthermore, he questions the method used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to calculate the payments to hospitals, and is “very concerned about potential effects on beneficiary access if this regulation is finalized without adjustment.”

Did Senator Reid finally read the bill, almost four months after passing it and a year after masses of Americans began to demand that Congress do so?

I bet they blame this on Bush too.

[Jane]

They are now reporting that Stevens was killed. I did a search on William Welch who was the disgraced prosecutor, who reportedly stepped down after he was held in contempt of court in the Stevens prosecution.

He was supposed to return to MA in shame.

Imagine my shock when I learned he is now working for Eric Holder, prosecuting, national security issues.

[Ann Mongrel]

Anybody watching Rangel on the house floor right now? Hysterical

Rangel: I am not going anywhere

Rangel: It may be stupid. It may be negligent but it’s not corrupt.

Rangel: He cant afford to pay his lawyers much longer if the Ethics Committee process drags on.

800,000 dollars in his bank account he didn't know about ...Priceless

(The two women behind him look so embarrassed, they keep looking down at their desk)

[boris]

At some point the lack of shame in those ready to scold at the drop of a hat (or no reason at all) starts to rangel.

Ooops ... stupid 'k' key must be broken ...

[centralcal]

Ann, thanks for the play-by-play on Rangel.

[Danube of Thought]

The left likes to pretend that the insulting mosque involves an issue of religious liberty because that gives them an opportunity to preen.

[Rob Crawford]

800,000 dollars in his bank account he didn't know about ...Priceless

Happens all the time. Why, just a few years ago, I found a $20 bill in a jacket I'd set aside for the winter.

[boris]

Goes for WW & EH wrt TS as well.

[narciso]

Well it's par for the course, they put some in charge of Alaskan affairs in Interior, whose claim to fame was concocting the troopergate gate affair, a tax cheat overseeing the IRS, Anna Chapman at the CIA

[Ann Mongrel]

Tim Russert' son, Luke tweets:

One senior Dem aide to me re Rangel on the floor right now: "This is a trainwreck."

_______________________
Jane: That is sickening.

[Clarice]

IIRC the Dept of J still owes us a public report on the (mis)handling of the Stevens case.

[Chubby]

R0b Crawf0rd

haw haw!

[narciso]

No 'stink to high heaven,' that's a good a description as any, boris, let's coin that phrase

[Jane]

IIRC the Dept of J still owes us a public report on the (mis)handling of the Stevens case.

The democrats never follow up on anything. They don't respond to letters, inquiries, subpoenas - all because the media lets them get away with it.

[Ranger]

Somewhat off topic, but just too funny to pass up... in http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/08/gibbs-reflects-on-inartful-comments/61217/>the first walk back of Gibbs trashing the hard left it this little nugget:

What rankles White House advisers is that Obama's critics question their motivation as much as their judgment. Motivation speculation becomes fact; predictions of doom become common wisdom. And the traditional media, eager to be current, magnifies the meta-commentary of professional liberals. And that becomes the discussion.

After dishing it out for 8 years, it looks like the Dems can't take it when it is turned on them.

[Ranger]

The democrats never follow up on anything. They don't respond to letters, inquiries, subpoenas - all because the media lets them get away with it.

Posted by: Jane | August 10, 2010 at 01:33 PM

Sounds like the perfect situaiton for a Special Counsel. Based on what's been going on for the last few years, I would say several are in order for the DoJ. On top of it, the Libby rule on co-operation should be imposed. See how many people stick around at DoJ when their choice is testify or quit.

[Jane]

I'm in Ranger. Who should be the special prosecutor? Clarice? DOT? The choices are boundless. (I am available to conduct discovery)

[Porchlight]

RIP Ted Stevens. Very sad.

Someone should ask William Welch how it feels to know that if it weren't for him, Stevens would probably be alive and in the Senate today.

[Ann Mongrel]

cc:

You are welcome. I am home alone. Family is in VA for the week. Got out of it again this year. Woot.

Have RUSH blairing and Fox on. :)

However, I am sick about Stevens and mad as hell at the DOJ. When I think about all the carp they threw at President Bush and the lying creeps that set up Stevens.

Everything is a fraud.

[Ignatz]

May have been linked earlier but this USAToday story about federal workers making TWICE as much as private employees should set your blood to boiling.
Torch and pitch fork party anyone?

[Sue]

Porch,

The senate is in recess isn't it? Odds are Stevens would have been on that plane regardless of what Welch did. Having said that...eff u Welch!

[Ann Mongrel]

Per NRO:

UPDATE: Sen. Stevens Death Now Unconfirmed

[Porchlight]

Me too Ann. I feel exactly the same.

[Sue]

Ann,

I heard that on the radio a few minutes ago. The "source" is now saying use caution in reporting Stevens' death.

[Sue]

I turned on Fox just as Rangel was winding down. Took him about 10 minutes to wind down. I thought it was a train wreck too, but it's nice to know someone else was thinking the same thing.

[Porchlight]

Perhaps he would have, Sue. I guess no one can really know. He wasn't perfect of course, but I still think it's just ridiculously sad to have been wrongfully convicted and then to die suddenly like this, with most people not even knowing the conviction was thrown out.

Since he was an Alaskan and had already survived a horrible crash, he must have known the risks and took them anyway. I imagine most Alaskans in public service or in any other position to fly often (such as daddy), must do the same.

Meanwhile, commenters all over the net are expressing the wish that it had been Palin instead. What a world we live in.

[Sue]

I suspect the title to this thread was being muttered under the breath of more than one democrat sitting through it.

[Jane]

Darryl Issa is going to be very busy come November.

[Sue]

If you haven't read the Dana Milbank's column on our 12 year old president, slip over to http://minx.cc/?post=304483>Ace's and follow the links. Pretty amusing.

[narciso]

You know it is getting to be like "Men in Black" you cannot believe a single thing from these reporters, I thought it was just limited to the War, the economy, the administration, and of course practically anything about Sarah, but they can't handle
a simple on the spot report

[centralcal]

"Darryl Issa is going to be very busy come November."

He better be!!! And, he better get plenty of support from his side the aisle!

[Danube of Thought]

Gallup has the GOP up six in its generic congressional ballot, after having the Dems up six two weeks running in July. I continue to believe it is the most erratic--and thus least reliable--of all the major polling organizations.

[Sue]

WBAP reporting that a family member has now confirmed Stevens died in the crash.

[rse]

On Pagar's comment about Ayers, Waters, and Khalidi-

You left out Linda Darling-Hammond who was also heavily involved with that project.

At the moment she is in charge of developing the new national assessments for our new national K-12 LA and math standards.

Feel better?

She wants them to be open-ended and subjective.

She wants American schoolchildren to be educated so they will "know how to make public institutions work for them".

We are in the process of nationalizing almost every bad idea in education with borrowed or printed money.

[centralcal]

DoT, re: Gallup. I think they deliberately threw that July polling at the public wall hoping something would stick - and maybe get some momentum going in the Dem's direction.

It failed.

[Sue]

Federal Reserve Bank keeps interest rates at record low. Things are not rosy, it seems.

[Sue]

"FOMC: "...the pace of economic recovery is likely to be more modest in the near term than had been anticipated."

[Pagar]

"They are going to make it a requirement for getting or maintaining a medcial license that you agree to take medicare and medicaid patients."

That's the doctor I really, really, don't want to see. A doctor who doesn't want me in his office because he will lose money by seeing me. The leftist that dreamed this up is insane.

[bgates]

the traditional media, eager to be _____, magnifies the meta-commentary of professional _____

Which word pair best completes the above sentence?
A) current; liberals
B) accurate; journalists
C) partisan; progressives

[SWarren]

“In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much . . .see, that’s why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service,”— Michelle Obama.

Michelle Obama’s Full Servant List and Pay Scale….Oh My

LUN To the tune of $1.75M.

[Jane]

Meanwhile, commenters all over the net are expressing the wish that it had been Palin instead. What a world we live in.

Holy cow! Democrats really are such assholes.

Sue - I'm listening to WBAP too - what a coincidence.

[Sue]

Jane,

I've been listening to WBAP since it hosted Bill Mack and his all night trucking show. Kind of bummed when it switched to talk radio, but followed along. This means I've been a listener since the 60s. ::yikes::

[Captain Hate]

Holy cow! Democrats really are such assholes.

They're really gripping hard; they know it's "game over" time in November after having the world by the ass for 2 years and having done nothing except ram garbage down the throats of the electorate that they knew wouldn't be well received. So instead of doing something to possibly regain credibility they're lashing out at somebody not even running for office. They haven't even met my extremely low expectations.

[Melinda Romanoff]

Ig-

You missed one.

Accepted by their peers; backbiters

[Rick Ballard]

"Things are not rosy, it seems."

Sue,

Nice understatement. Per the FOMC Report

To help support the economic recovery in a context of price stability, the Committee will keep constant the Federal Reserve's holdings of securities at their current level by reinvesting principal payments from agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in longer-term Treasury securities.

That's direct monetization, no ifs, ands or buts. The reason for the action is relatively clear but it ain't gonna do any good at all.

[Rick Ballard]

"Things are not rosy, it seems."

Sue,

Nice understatement. Per the FOMC Report

To help support the economic recovery in a context of price stability, the Committee will keep constant the Federal Reserve's holdings of securities at their current level by reinvesting principal payments from agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in longer-term Treasury securities.

That's direct monetization, no ifs, ands or buts. The reason for the action is relatively clear but it ain't gonna do any good at all.

[Sue]

I'm still trying to digest Charlie Rangel's theatrics on the House floor today.

[Jane]

They're really gripping hard;

They were the same kind of assholes when they were winning everything. They are everything they accuse the right of being x 1432.

[narciso]

You know this is ridiculous, we know that Rangel clearly broke several rules, if not laws and he's just getting this slap on the
hand. Is the US Attorney for the Southern District going to file charges, I know rhetorical question

[Extraneus]

Hey daddy, check out Darwin's man cave.

[maryrose]

I feel badly about Senator Stevens. The dems were so desperate for his seat they trumped up charges against him and falsely prosecuted him.
OT:
Still no Blago verdict- I think he's going to walk
Whatever happened to the Delay prosecution and old crook Ronnie Earle? Remember when the house members tried to escape to Nevada to avoid voting?
You can't make this dem stuff up it is so preposterous. Can't wait for election returns tonight.

[narciso]

Yes that will break the pattern of practically every governor in the last 20 years going to jail, Thompson was the exception, Earle refiled charges and there's
a trial next year, I think

[Melinda Romanoff]

Edgar and Thompson, n.

[Jim Ryan]

If the dollar collapses, then how much food do I need to have in the basement?

[Sue]

Jim,

Enough for your family and mine.

[Jim Ryan]

Sue,
Ha! Do you like boiled wheat? It's what's for dinner!

There's a guy in town here who has a survival food supply store that is beyond description in its completeness. Nice guy, too. I just haven't gotten up the nerve to blow $2K on a nice supply.

[Rick Ballard]

JR,

Hang on a bit - it could easily get to $1K before heading for $10K. That's just part of the thrill of living in Zombietimes.

[Jack is Back!]

Anyway, what IS it about politicos from Louisiana and Alaska on flights over the Alaskan panhandle? This is a horrible conicidence, sort of like a photographic negative of the flight that disappeared (and still never definitively found, unless I missed something) in 1972.

Quin mentions the Hale Boggs/Nick Begich flight in 1972. He also mentions Lindy, Hale's widow who went on to serve his term and more in Congress. Her son Tommy, is the Boggs in Patton-Boggs, one of the top if not top of the top lobbying firms in DC. Did a lot with them back in the day and they are smart and connected. It certainly is a weird coincidence between both crashes. Surreal even.

[Danube of Thought]

Blago is such a lowlife and scumbag that I'd love to see him do some hard time. But on the other hand, if he walks there'll be loads of ridicule dumped on Fitz, and what's not to love about that?

[Ann Mongrel]

I love the way you think, Dot.

[narciso]

I know DoT, it's like Kissinger said of Iran/Iraq why can't they both lose, this would
be Fitz's biggest goose egg in a while

[Jane]

Isn't Cokie Roberts a Boggs?

I bet they are fighting over one count in the

[Ranger]

Well it is a win/win.

If Blago goes down hard, just imagine the campaign adds with Obama spouting that "my top priority right now is getting Rod Blagojevic re-ellected governor of Illioins" to go with clips of him embracing Kilpatrick and Rangle to boot!

And if Blago skates, then it really does open up the question of why Fitz was in such a rush to end the investigation. In Chicago there is much speculation that Fitz new a deal with the team Obama was close, and the shut things down to prevent team Obama from being caught up in the whole thing.

[Sue]

NBC is reporting that O'Keefe and his son survived.

[Sue]

I also just heard that Stevens' son was with him on the plane. Not sure if his son is one of the deceased or not.

[Bill in AZ sez it's time for Zero to resign]

Fitz will just bumble along and find another crime victim to prosecute. That dude lives in a different universe than the rest of us.

[Ranger]

BTW, the big new in the Blago trial is that the jury ordered pizza this afternoon. This is a first, and has press gathering at the court house in anticipation of... something to happen.

[cathyf]

Depends what kind of pizza. Chicago pizza is kind of a religious thing...

[matt]

Rick;

I caught that and was stunned. So what they are now going to do is to take principle from agency i.e. FNMA/FNMC backed mortgage securities and reinvest it in long term Treasuries. So that means that Fannie & Freddie will see reduced liquidity while we monetarize our debt. I wonder how Tokyo is going to react? London?

[Dave (in MA)]

check out Darwin's man cave.

Did it evolve from a cave?

[Janet]

I feel badly about Senator Stevens. The dems were so desperate for his seat they trumped up charges against him and falsely prosecuted him.
OT:
Still no Blago verdict- I think he's going to walk
Whatever happened to the Delay prosecution and old crook Ronnie Earle? Remember when the house members tried to escape to Nevada to avoid voting?
You can't make this dem stuff up it is so preposterous. Can't wait for election returns tonight.

Great points maryrose.

[centralcal]

Yep, Jane, the daughter of Lindy and Hale Boggs.

Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs

[Janet]

LUN No singing allowed at the Lincoln Memorial

It makes me mindful of the story Laura told us awhile ago about her daughter.

[Sue]

No wonder they call her Cokie.

[centralcal]

I too feel bad about the death of Senator Stevens. But, thinking about it during my lunch break, I thought his manner of death might be the way he would choose to go.

Suddenly, unexpectedly - in an airplane. Wasn't he a former WWII pilot? I do hope that his son is among the survivors.

[gmax]

What the FED is trying to do, since they have driven short term rates to near zero, is to take the repayments on the bonds they bought and buy up longer term treasuries, driving those rates even lower. Seems that once rates get to zero, money is about worthless and we will be back to barter...

[Frau Taschentuch]

"Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs"

Tough to put that monogram on her hankies.

[Frau Taschentuch]

The DOJ report on judicial misdeeds may come out now that Ted Stevens is dead. "Mistakes" were made...

[JB_]

"John Fund weighs in today about the growing Dem skuttlebutt re replacing Biden with Hillary in 2012. One suggestion is having them switch roles."

File under: chairs on the Titanic, rearranging the

[Sue]

Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs ::deep breath ... Roberts

Whew.

[bgates]

One suggestion is having them switch roles.

So Biden becomes the short-tempered power-mad scheming harridan and Hillary becomes the bumbling buffoonish gaffe machine - how does that help?

[Danube of Thought]

Fascinating unemployment map. Note that it begins in the month the Dems took control of congress.

[glasater]

Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs ::deep breath ... Roberts

Whew.

You Southerners!
And I learned awhile back that the color of the bride's attendants shoes--in the South--has to be the same color as the wedding party punch:-)
What's up with that?

[Sue]

glasater,

Don't ask me. I've never heard that before. Must not run in the right circles or something. Etiquette is not my strong suit.

[Sue]

Personally, I think someone is pulling your leg to get you to wear some gawd awful shoe color. ::grin::

[Appalled]

Joe Biden -- diplomat.

Oh please....

[glasater]

Gmax-

What the FED is trying to do, since they have driven short term rates to near zero, is to take the repayments on the bonds they bought and buy up longer term treasuries, driving those rates even lower. Seems that once rates get to zero, money is about worthless and we will be back to barter...

A fellow on Fast Money is saying buy gold and when you're done with that buy more gold...

A wag from another board made the comment re monetizing the debt that pretty soon we'd all be rich.

I don't know what else the FED can do. They can't tell the idiot D's in congress to quit spending money.

[Rick Ballard]

Matt,

I see it as an extension of QE1 and spadework for QE2. It's roll off rather than fresh print money, about $30 billion per month. I doubt that it will impact new issue GSE very much. In one respect, the Fed has issued a grade on BOzo and the Clown Circus (psst - don't tell anyone but it was an F-).

[Sue]

Rick,

Is this why Romer quit?

[Jack is Back!]

Joe Biden -- diplomat.

And Hillary a heart beat away from being POTUS? Unless he is allergic to kevlar what could go wrong?

[Jim Ryan]

Secretary of State Joseph Biden.

BIDEN: [TO AIDE] It's so exotic here...

AIDE: Mr. Secretary, we're on mic.

FOREIGN DIGNITARY: Welcome, Mr. Secretary. Welcome to our country.

BIDEN: Hi. Nice to meet ya. You guys have some weird food I hear. What kind of food you guys eat? I don't want to go into it, but I got a thing about spicy food. Can't eat it.

FOREIGN DIGNITARY:

BIDEN: It's okay. Maybe I can grab a steak at the hotel.

[glasater]

Sue-

Personally, I think someone is pulling your leg to get you to wear some gawd awful shoe color. ::grin::

Heh!

I've never been a bridesmaid but have photographed a few weddings.
That little factoid was something I read somewhere on the funny Southern traditions--maybe a southern cooking cookbook.

I asked a woman from Oklahoma if this shoe tradition was true and she swore up and down that it was--:-)

[Rob Crawford]

Hey daddy, check out Darwin's man cave.

Never mind that -- I want one like Mark Twain had!

[Sue]

glasater,

Never heard of it. I'm trying to picture the black punch that should have been served at the last wedding I went to. The bridesmaids wore black dresses and black shoes. ::grin::

[Dave (in MA)]

Yeah, just what we need. A guy who can't control what comes out of his mouth being the country's top-ranked diplomat.

[narciso]

"we really dodged a bullet, didn't we"

[Pagar]

Bet someone in the WH wishes this guy would Shut Up.

"Top Leftie Blogger: Obama Campaign Asked Me to Do ‘Dirty Work’ in 2008, and I Did."

I wonder how much of the leftist garbage we read every day is coordinated through the WH?

[matt]

Look, SecState Biden will do just fine. He'll visit imaginary countries just like his imaginary diner. Freedonia. Kerflakistan, Ruritania, Nyasaland, Southern Rhodesia,Oz.

If we keep him busy he won't catch on until his boss gets booted. I am highly suspicious anyway, because I have to ask myself why would Hillary take a non-position like Vice President?

[Captain Hate]

So Biden becomes the short-tempered power-mad scheming harridan and Hillary becomes the bumbling buffoonish gaffe machine - how does that help?

Unprecedented unofficial carpet-munching VP?