On The Good Ship Lollipop

Apparently Times reporters and editors no loger read the Times.  Here is Mark Landler describing the decision by Obama's chief of staff to bail out early:

WASHINGTON — President Obama announced Monday that the White House chief of staff, William M. Daley, was stepping down, jolting the top ranks of his administration less than a year before he faces a difficult re-election. Mr. Daley will be replaced by Jacob J. Lew, the budget director and a seasoned Washington insider with ties to Capitol Hill.

...

It was a distracting shake-up in a White House that has prided itself on a lack of internal drama, with a tightly knit circle of loyal senior advisers playing a steadying role.

Tight-knit?  No drama?  Huh?  Where was it I was reading about staffers taking shots at Valerie Jarrett and Robert Gibbs cursing Michelle Obama behind her back?  Oh, that's right.

Comments

[MarkO]

As the show opens, the cast launches into the opening song, "Four Fucks and a Fuck You."

[Danube of Thought]

Minus 18 at Raz today.

[Sue]

You know Tom, this is really getting old, you actually remembering what they printed in their paper...as recently as last week.

[narciso]

Who got the steak knives,

[Appalled]

You know, it is amazing the amount of lazy wrting that gets into the newspaper...And it is when the writing is lazy that it is easiest to see the bias going in...

[narciso]

Taranto, has a long running series on this,

[narciso]

You get this kind of foolishness;

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/fact-checking-the-concord-n-h-debate/

[Thomas Collins]

The NY Times easily tops the Nixon Administration in the frequency with which its operative statements morph into no longer operative statements.

I am looking forward to a future TM post for a report on a NY Times operative statement becoming no longer operative and then rising again as operative.

[narciso]

And then there is this;

Those of us who pointed out that [Broncos quarterback Tim] Tebow had issues actually throwing the ball were dismissed as haters, know-nothings or, even worse, prejudiced against Tebow because of his piety. Let's address this. I could [sic] care less about the religion of Tebow or any player."--Dave Zirin, sportswriter (!) for The Nation, Oct. 31, 2011
"I made the cardinal error of applying the laws of politics to sports. In the last two weeks, two Republican primary also-rans--Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry--invoked the name of Tim 'Focus on the Family' Tebow to inspire their flagging Christianist base. To put it mildly, the gambit failed to work for either candidate. I was over-eager to see Tebow then fail in their footsteps. In what is not news to my regular readers, I abhor the kinds of politics that Bachmann, Perry and, yes, Tebow, represent."--Zirin, Jan. 8, 2012

[Captain Hate]

The thought of "Family Guy" Gibbs dropping eff bombs, even over Worf, is pretty funny.

[MarkO]

Speaking of the Times, there is stunning irony in Jeff Toobin commenting on the birth control issues of Griz.

It's not the Onion.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/01/the-republicans-lost-privacy.html

[Captain Hate]

The Nation covers sports?

[rse]

LUN is a link to the 5th part of the Uncommon Knowledge interview with James Delingpole of the UK talking in this part about Tony Blair and the similarities to BO.

Janet-the communitarianism he mentions is what you were dealing with in that neighborhood group. Likewise the architect of the ed part, Michael Barber, has turned his attention on comparable practices and policies here. He is also Pearson's Ed Advisor.

The comments about the class without a stake in the game and what it does to them is another area of interest to so many here.

And the NHS. I mentioned I had a meeting in York years ago. That was because of the market in the uK to get healthcare outside the NHS. What the govt and regulators can do to service and incentives is an area of longstanding interest. Ed is just the newest manifestation.

Part 4 is on ClimateGate. Worth your time if an area of interest.

[GMAX]

Commies watch football? Who knew? I thought they went to meetings and stuff, you know feather passing and the like.

[narciso]

In that last piece, he did make a mea culpa which is more than most, despite the snarc.

[narciso]

Mr. Bedier would say he was just confused;

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/01/former-us-army-soldier-and-misunderstander-of-islam-charged-with-trying-to-join-jihad-terror-group.html

[Captain Hate]

I'm waiting for Mega McCannz to weigh in on Tebow's athletic qualities as viewed from a popular culture icon and borderline genius.

[Benjamin Franklin]

The Quintessential Chickenhawk.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083002/Mitt-Romney-19-demonstrated-favour-Vietnam-War-draft.html

[narciso]

Mrs Emoticon, what do they talk about at ESPN, if talent is not an issue.

[Janet]

A really superficial observation, but the Uncommon Knowledge moderator looks sorta like Olbermann to me & his mannerisms are like Charlie Rose. I love the guests & the questions are mostly pretty good....but it is just something about the overall tone. I tend to click out of a lot of the interviews about a third of the way through.
I just want to hear the guest usually...not the moderator.

[Benjamin Franklin]

Some sage advice for the non-Klingon.

http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/

"In any case, the first thing I'd do if I were Romney right now is to get my researchers looking for evidence that the failed companies in Bain Capital's past were brought down by Evil Big Government. The evidence doesn't have to hold up under a lot of scrutiny -- just enough to persuade readers of the Wall Street Journal editorial page. Blame it on government! Blame it on taxes! And regulation! Find .something Barney Frank did that can be tied in some way, vague or otherwise, to the failure! That's what the GOP rubes want to hear.

And then, after that, if I were Romney, I'd do the right-wing version of Obama's race speech: a speech defending capitalism, and rhapsodizing about its wonders and glories and the beneficence it rains down on mankind, all while focusing on the nobility and heroism of Romney's own capitalist record. Come on -- isn't that what the punters really want from Romney? And don't you think you couldn't throw a rock at a right-wing think tank without hitting some callow Randbot who could write such a speech in his sleep?

Ride the white capitalist steed, Mitt. Get Peggy Noonan to polish the final draft so you sound like a guy running Potter's bank while talking like George Bailey, and even the swing voters in the fall will think it was a hell of a speech. Take advantage of America's woeful lack of class consciousness, dammit!"

[narciso]

What was that rally about again, from the LA Times;

n May 6, 1968, about 200 student demonstrators occupied the Old Student Union Building on the Palo Alto campus, vowing to remain until their demands were met. Among those demands: that Sterling reject the recommendations of a faculty committee that seven students be suspended for leading a campus demonstration against representatives of the Central Intelligence Agency.

[Porchlight]

I agree, Janet. Robinson is just a little too earnest and mannered for me. But, overall he elicits great responses, so he must be doing something right.

[narciso]

Not that the Daily Mail would ignore that detail;

http://articles.latimes.com/1985-07-03/news/mn-10215_1_stanford-university

[Jane]

Could Jeffrey Toobin be more disingenuous?

The left is a joke.

[(Another) Barbara]

Awww, aren't you guys fans of Ricochet? You should be. You'd get to know Peter Robinson well there. He's a sweetie pie and an excellent interviewer. Was a speechwriter for Reagan, and I believe it was he who wrote the "Take down this wall" speech.

[Janet]

He is fine...I know my observations about Robinson are superficial. Like Mark Levin - I agree with most of his stands, but I can't listen to his radio show.
That said, I'm all for a wide variety of conservative personalities. It is healthy.

[matt]

"Kantor writes Mrs. Obama "disapproved of how closely Daley held power, surrounding himself with three or four people who seemed to let few outsiders in -- a concern she would echo years later with her own husband."

Hmmm...Obama seems to have done the same thing.....I hope Romney is studying the Chicago playbook.

[Captain Hate]

Like Mark Levin - I agree with most of his stands, but I can't listen to his radio show.

Because he yells at people and has a somewhat unpleasant speaking voice?

[narciso]

Yes, he's sometimes hard to take, but they replaced him down here, with the RINO from
Tampa,

[Benjamin Franklin]

Three-legged stool, indeed....

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/01/philip-pilkington-the-reactionary-mind-–-the-truth-about-conservatism-an-interview-with-corey-robin-part-i.html

"I’ve come away from all of this convinced that conservatism is not really about conservation at all – except in one sense: the conservation of established relations of hierarchy and privilege"

[pagar]

"The left is a joke."

We keep saying that but millions of inconvenient kids are dead because of them.
The nation has people who are allowed to vote even through they aren't smart enough to be able to get a photo ID because of them. Trillions of US dollars are wasted on leftist programs such as global warming because of them. Christians and Jews are attacked every day by our leftist media because of them. We are in the process of completely gutting our military because of them. No figures released by the US government can be believed because of them.

"Mr. Lew’s statement was deemed “false” by the nonpartisan, Pulitzer Prize-winning PolitiFact.com."

LUN

There are trillions more things that the left is doing to our nation.

The left is not joking, they intend to destroy our nation.

[Janet]

Because he yells at people and has a somewhat unpleasant speaking voice?

Yeah.

[narciso]

Classic Alinsky tactics.

http://bigjournalism.com/driehl/2012/01/10/koch-derangement-syndrome-the-new-york-timess-stalinesque-attacks-on-the-koch-brothers/

[Janet]

I guess 'yeah' didn't need a period. Think of it as an ellipsis that petered out...

[rse]

LUN is a good response on that Romney tape on firing that is consistent with what I would have written. Contractual provisions are living language to me. It's a bit like not having atty's fees if you prevail on a breach assertion. What good are rights without remedies?

I used to explain that a whole doctor's group could become unemployable because of one doctor's notoriety and they had to have the incentive to terminate him or her to maintain our business relationship. So I always fought for that provision and usually illustrated with a small town drunk driving, hits someone, scenario. I prevailed because I could illustrate why it mattered. A few years after I retired to momhood and my contracts had become boilierplate, a doctor got caught on an embarrassing tape that a transcriptionist turned over to the news. He was severed from the clinic before his partners got to him. Bad publicity attached only to him.

Practice Mitt. Be able to illustrate with nice everyday examples why Bain should not be offputting to people who live more average lives with real concerns about the expenses of life. Use it to teach them why statism will hurt them and what free markets and individual liberty are necessary elements for genuine growth.

Peter Robinson went to Dartmouth with Red's BFF. The one Melinda met.

[bgates]

a White House that has prided itself on a lack of internal drama

I have to stick up for the Times here. I'm sure the White House is proud of its lack of internal drama, as the administration is proud of Barry's oratorical gifts and Michelle's fashion sense and any number of attributes that would be positive if they weren't fictitious.

[Rick Ballard]

RSE,

I'm sure that the stunningly brilliant hive mind of the top notch team of hand picked advisers to Governor Romney are almost ready to deal with questions arising from his oversight of Bain Capital. I would note the small problem involved in your illustration - you were dealing with very intelligent people who only needed to be reminded to think for the length of time required for the little light bulb to flicker in luminescence.

Dealing with feelers presents a somewhat more difficult problem and the skill with which his hand picked advisory team deals with a situation, the import of which has been blindingly apparent since the Governor's rather ignominious defeat by Ted Kennedy, some eighteen years ago, should provide a concrete example of the skill level which may be anticipated to be present as Governor Romney tackles somewhat more complex issues.

Perhaps the advisory team is hindered by lack of a word? I would suggest that the word might be "save" in contrast to the word "lost" in terms of the jobs involved with companies on the road to the knackers yard. They needn't go into the concept of necessary triage at any length. The feelers would be content with "save" and "saved".

[Thomas Collins]

"Michelle's fashion sense"

Best fashion sense in a First Lady since Montezuma's wife, bgates! :-)

[glasater]

I guess 'yeah' didn't need a period. Think of it as an ellipsis that petered out...

Heh, Janet.

But since yeah didn't have a subject and verb it is only allowed three dots instead of four.

rse-

Have you seen this recent Zerohedge article?

How Inferior American Education Caused The Credit/Real Estate/Sovereign Debt Bubbles & Why It's Preventing True Recovery Pt 2

[Thomas Collins]

Don't worry, Rick. I believe there is significant overlap between the Romney brain trust and the brain trust that engineered Charlie Baker's respectable loss to Deval Patrick in the MassGuv race in 2010.

[Gmax]

only needed to be reminded to think for the length of time required for the little light bulb to flicker in luminescence.

Truer prose has never been produced...

[narciso]

That's what concerns me, TC.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/278859/20120109/wisconsin-beezow-doo-zopittybop-bop-arrested.htm

[Captain Hate]

Rush reported that F Chuck is the latest court jester/stooge to report that Team JEFe is chomping at the bit to face Romney. RL also stated that Worf and Val-Jar forcing Daley out is a sign of complete disarray.

[Extraneus]

I guess 'yeah' didn't need a period.

Yes it did.

[Ranger]

"I’ve come away from all of this convinced that conservatism is not really about conservation at all – except in one sense: the conservation of established relations of hierarchy and privilege"

Posteth the man who earns 4 times the average anual personal income working less than half time for 8 months a year as part of an institution that either extracts $200,000 in wealth from middle class families, or burdens young people with a similar debt burden in their early 20s.

As he posts: the conservation of established relations of hierarchy and privilege indeed.

Me thinks the professor of "political studies" protests too much.

[Extraneus]

Hey, would someone please point me to the thread that convinced people that Anne is a sock?

[narciso]

Robin, is a particularly dense subset of the
group, as my LUN of him showed, some time ago

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203513604577140671297550142.html

[jimmyk]

Dealing with feelers presents a somewhat more difficult problem and the skill with which his hand picked advisory team deals with a situation

Doesn't it seem that any of a dozen or so commenters here could do a better job advising Romney than his team seems to be doing? I suppose that's naive, since we're just cherry-picking, but some of this should be blindingly obvious.

[narciso]

I reminder in the LUN

[Gmax]

No fair Ranger pointing the mirror in the vampire's direction...

[Appalled]

Doesn't it seem that any of a dozen or so commenters here could do a better job advising Romney than his team seems to be doing?

Romney is on his way to breezing to his nomination. Seems like he is doing OK without our learned counsel.

[narciso]

This is what Obama is all about, like he said
'OWS is the reason he got involved in politics

http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2011/10/25/barack-obama-led-occupychicago-circa-1988/

[Captain Hate]

Per jimmyk, I hope Steve Schmidt and the rest of his dunces are unemployed by any campaign now and forever. Btw, in view of the positive opinion that a lot of us here have of Palin, could McCain choosing her as a running mate 3+ years ago be his biggest screw job to conservatives ever?

[narciso]

We mini me will probably be on MSNBC tonight,

[rse]

jimmy-

I was just thinking that while performing that cook role my family cherishes me most for.

This is not badminton and grass stains on our whites is the least of it. Mitt needs someone around him whose horse sense is at least on par with his book sense.

What's been put in place awaiting a second term scares me. The advisors also need to appreciate that Evil with a capial E exists in this world and they will have to battle its representatives and well compensated cronies to make it to the WH. This time they won't just bring a gun to a knife fight. It will be a sawed off shotgun with snipers available in the trees if needed.

I did Glas. I think Reggie makes some good points and will find the true story riveting. And consistent with his experience.

[centralcal]

Extraneus: Liberal Media for Huntsman thread is where Anne freaks out LOL LOL LOL!

[Winnie Pooh]

I wonder if Corey is related to Christopher?

"Deep in the hundred acre wood,
Where Christopher Robin plays,
You'll find the enchanted neighborhood,
Of Christopher's childhood days.
A donkey named Eeyore is his friend,
And Kanga, and little Roo.
There's Rabbit, and Piglet, and there's Owl,
But most of all Winnie-the-Pooh.

Winnie-the-Pooh,
Winnie-the-Pooh,
Tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff.
He's Winnie-the-Pooh.
Winnie-the-Pooh.
Willy, nilly, silly, old bear"

[Jane]

Hey, would someone please point me to the thread that convinced people that Anne is a sock?

Ex,

It's the Huntsman thread.

[Rocco]

Newt should be ashamed of himself for touting the NYT's as proof of Romney's greedy corporate raid of GS Steel. Bain first got involved in GS in 93 and 5 years later 50% of the steel industry was wiped out because of an influx of cheap Asian steel. Add to that a greedy union and there's the reason that company went under.

pdf

Introduction

The U.S. steel crisis of 1998 began to take hold in the middle of the year and then came on quickly. In the last six months of the year, import penetration reached record levels, domestic shipments fell 11
percent and capacity utilization rates dropped dramatically (Charts 2-1, 2-2).1 The speed and severity of the crisis, and the abrupt deterioration of the U.S. industry’s fortunes, caused steel companies and workers to fear that they might soon be facing one of the worst crises to hit the industry in recent years. The rapid growth in imports coupled with the drop in prices hit many U.S. steel companies hard. During
the second half of 1998, a number of U.S. companies saw their sales drop sharply.

On a sidenote, I wish Mitt would restructure Hostess, I need my Twinkies!

[Captain Hate]

Tammy Bruce has a Fox reporter on now talking about how a herd of CRAZY UNCLE supporters surrounded Santorum and his wife last night in a very ugly scene. How much longer does DR RON get a free pass on these vermin, who don't get nearly as negative press as the Tea Partiers did, and starts accruing some guilt by association? Does the RNC even notice this? Also, at what point do candidates get Secret Service protection; after the conventions?

[mockmook]

Yes it did.

Posted by: Extraneus | January 10, 2012 at 01:05 PM

Shouldn't that be "Yes, it did."?

LOL lol LOL etc. etc. lol LOL lol etc.

[jimmyk]

could McCain choosing her as a running mate 3+ years ago be his biggest screw job to conservatives ever?

As tempting as it is, I'm not going to blame McCain for the sins of the media, though his campaign left her unprotected. Romney's best move would also be to have a young, charismatic Reaganesque conservative as his running mate, and this candidate will undoubtedly get the Quayle/Palin treatment. (I seem to recall that Kemp somehow escaped this.) Romney should still do it.

[rse]

jimmy-

How about John Bolton? Tough and astute.

[mockmook]

bgates,

Thanks for the Santorum (morality) link a few threads back.

I stand corrected. Why he sees some of this as federal issues is beyond me.

I give up; I too am ready to be assimilated by the Romney-borg.

[mockmook]

jimmy,

Must be media capable:

Liz Cheney, Paul Ryan, Newt (LOL)

[centralcal]

Romney-borg? did someone say borg?

@iowahawkblog David Burge
The heartwarming story of 100-year old Doris Borg, Malta's oldest prostitute bisserjeta.hsara.com/2012/01/100-ye… (h/t @Ethelssoninlaw)

[Captain Hate]

Interesting comment @ AoS:

I can promise you that the Bain attacks move votes. A lot of votes. I can also tell you why the campaigns are reluctant to use the attacks:

1) The consultants running several of the campaigns have decided that Mitt Romney will be the nominee. Why are they still allowing their candidates' campaigns to continue, then?

2) Because consultants don't get paid when campaigns are over. How do they get paid? Some salary, but mainly through ad buys -- they get a cut for every dollar's worth of ads they run. So how does this explain the kid-glove treatment for Romney?

3) Most consultants have no soul. They exist to make money and will work for anyone. Including Romney, who has more money than anyone.

The major campaigns are refusing to mount sustained attacks against Romney/Bain for a single reason: The consultants who run them are desperate to work for Romney once he clinches the nomination.

Welcome to politics, Tea Partiers. It's not enough to win a few seats in the House. We need to burn down the entire political class, from head to toe. Members, staff, consultants, etc. They are the hidden cancer on the Republican Party.

Posted by: Deep Stoat at January 10, 2012 02:11 PM (KTtrN)

[mockmook]

How did I forget:

Rubio!!!

[Chubby]

Newt never should have publically vowed to maintain a positive campaign. Breaking that promise so quickly reflects more badly on him than the content of his negative attacks, imo.

[Jim Ryan]

When you have been assimilated, you will know peace. You will give up your hopes of happiness but at least the struggle will be over. The end will come quickly and you will stop resisting. Resigned, blank, dull, melancholy, and grim. But at peace. Gone will the the dread and self-loathing of pulling the lever for Newt and the ennui of favoring a Perry or Santorum win.

[Captain Hate]

Tammy Bruce is officially on the Tebow bandwagon.

[lyle]

Tammy Bruce is officially on the Tebow bandwagon.

That is so cool. The famed "double beard."

[centralcal]

Resigned, blank, dull, melancholy, and grim.

Jim, I am fighting that exact thing (mentally and emotionally) for as long as I can.

[(Another) Barbara]

Resigned, blank, dull, melancholy, and grim.

Good name for a law firm. Better even than Nasty, brutish and short.

[Danube of Thought]

"I can also tell you why the campaigns are reluctant to use the attacks"

Occam's Razor might suggest that they are reluctant to use them because they are contrary to their own beliefs.

[Neo]

Just because your paranoid doesn't mean people aren't out to get you ...

Under the National Operations Center (NOC)’s Media Monitoring Initiative that emerged from the Department of Homeland Security in November, Washington has written permission to collect and retain personal information from journalists, news anchors, reporters or anyone who uses “traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed.”

According to DHS, the definition of personal identifiable information can consist of any intellect “that permits the identity of an individual to be directly or indirectly inferred, including any information which is linked or linkable to that individual.”

[Frau Sense]

Chief Chickenschmitz of the Feathermen offers up some hate.
No, thanks.
SOB

[Neo]

Dewey, Cheatem & Howe is a law firm from Leisure Suit Larry III

Dewey, Burnham, and Howe was used by the Three Stooges.

[matt]

I guess several of us are already on the enemies list, neo....

[(Another) Barbara]

Jim, I am fighting that exact thing (mentally and emotionally) for as long as I can.

Which candidate are you supporting now, CC? Whose nomination would remove that blank, dull, resigned, etc., mood?

[jimmyk]

I thought Dewey, Cheatem & Howe was a Johnny Carson creation. The Marx Bros had Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel. I'm sure there are others.

Mockmook: Yes, I was thinking of Rubio, but Bolton could be good, though I'd rather he be Sec'y of State. I fear that Romney will pick some totally conventional appeaser for State, even more than for other cabinet positions.

[Frau Sense]

Kevin McCullough, via Insty, asks if the Tea Party is dead:

"t is almost impossible to believe and violently sickening to accept that in light of the clear mandate of the Tea Party that the GOP stands on the cusp of returning to "establishmentism." (Imaginary word mine.) But it appears that for all the big talk, tens of thousands of local rallies, and the single largest non-inaugural event to ever occur on our nation's mall, the Tea Party has died.

Which is sad, for me personally, because I addressed those patriots, on that mall, that cloudy Washington DC day.

That first tea party in DC took place exactly three days after President Obama's joint session, where he had instructed his supporters on Obamacare to go "get in people's faces" if they disagreed with the policy. He told his critics that he was calling them out.

I remember bringing that little point to the attention of the close to 1.2 million gathered on the mall that afternoon. The chants of "Here we are, Here we are, Here we are" rang in my ears for days.

Sadly now I wonder, "Where'd we go?"

[jimmyk]

But it appears that for all the big talk, tens of thousands of local rallies, and the single largest non-inaugural event to ever occur on our nation's mall, the Tea Party has died.

I disagree. It stands to reason that it might be hard to find a good Tea Party presidential candidate given the movement is only a couple years old and (the present occupier of the office excepted) candidates generally come from the ranks of the experienced. But it's had a huge impact on Congress, and can do so again in November.

[Captain Hate]

Perpetual campaigns wreck the fervor of the Tea Party. The difference between the Tea Party and rag-tag bunches like OWS is the Tea Party members have jobs and a life outside politics to attend to. Tea Partiers pretty much want to be left the Hell alone by politicians in living their lives. By engaging in Faustian bargains with Iowa and New Hampshire, the RNC undercut the Tea Party.

[matt]

There is a law office on Harvard Square with that name. Not sure whether it's serious.

[Captain Hate]

Two additional things; the undercutting of the TP was not done so out of design imo. And the TP has still had an impact in driving the Repubs to the right; against the wills of many career pols.

[Frau Sense]

I sure hope so, jimmyk. The Tea Party is receiving the blame for obstructionism in D.C.

Agreed, CH. We are, however, *not* being left alone by politicians. It's getting worse on all levels, right down to local ones. Isn't it better to march before the apocalypse that after?

[Extraneus]

Liberal Media for Huntsman thread

I think Anne has come to the wrong blog.

[rse]

matt-

You forgot renting out the Ritz Carlton in Moscow when previously the Marriott had sufficed.

[Captain Hate]

It's getting worse on all levels, right down to local ones. Isn't it better to march before the apocalypse that after?

Absolutely and we need candidates to make that very point ie "How much Big Brother do you want in your life?" JMH did a good job of convincing me that the TP should concentrate their efforts at the local level to ensure a TP influenced Congress. I think that's an excellent strategy to deal with any candidate as President, even surviving an El JEFe v2.0 as a worst case scenario.

[Extraneus]

Shouldn't that be "Yes, it did."?

Wouldn't that be "Yes, it did"?

[MaryD]

Matt, this is from Facebook:

"Tom and Ray Magliozzi, of NPR's Car Talk radio program, named their business corporation "Dewey, Cheetham & Howe". Their corporate offices are located on a third-floor office in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The office is clearly visible from the square, with lettering on the window readable from ground level."

[Extraneus]

I got the impression that the "Tea Party" ended in Nov 2010. If R's control the WH, Senate and House in 2013, we might see what the left's version really is. (Hint: Stock up on ammo.)

(Btw, should that be "Hint: stock up on ammo"? Or 'Should that be "Hint: stock up on ammo."?')

[Danube of Thought]

I think it should be "Would't that be 'yes, it did?'"

[MaryD]

OT, but I live in the New Hampshire North Country (just down the road from Mark Steyn), and I cannot wait for today to be over. The phone has been ringing off the hook since last Friday, and it's all candidate calls. Paul's and Huntsman's surrogates are leaving messages.

Turnout in my town has been excellent according to our town moderator. There were some very pleasant people carrying signs for Paul, Perry and Santorum outside the polling place. One of them told us that Occupy Wall Street had been there for a while. "All three of them?", I asked. "No all one of them" was the smiling reply.

[mockmook]

Shouldn't that be "Yes, it did."?

Wouldn't that be "Yes, it did"?

Posted by: Extraneus | January 10, 2012 at 03:13 PM

Just to beat a dead snark senseless:

I thought it was important to include the period since that was the original purpose of your comment.

[lyle]

From today's WSJ:

"Obama 23"

The jersey given to Barack Obama by the Dallas Mavericks Monday. The president joked he was No. 23 before Michael Jordan 'stole' the number.

Tame and innocuous, right? Not coming from the most self-absorbed fraud to ever occupy an elected office.

[Captain Hate]

I saw that in my dead tree and just shook my head, lyle. It's bad enough that he always makes every setting about him ([poppin]although in fairness[/poppin] it was on being presented with a jersey by the Mavs) but then he drops the name of the GOAT in comparison to a bench warmer.

[lyle]

That's an insult to benchwarmers everywhere, Cap't. O isn't even worthy of the jock-sniffing laundry boy job.

There isn't a subparticle of humility in that cat's body.