Bracing For Bush

It's not enough that we are supposed to be Ready for Hillarity! Now we have to brace for (yet another) Bush.

Let's have a quick Readers Poll:

The prospects of a Jeb Bush candidacy makes me want to:

(a) Move to New Hampshire so I can vote for him in their primary.

(b) Move even further north to Canada.

(c) Move to Mexico so I can re-enter illegally after he is elected.

(d) Hold out for a Belichick-Brady ticket.

And a follow-up:

If the two main candidates on the November 2016 ballot are Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton I will:

(a) Stay home and let Hillarity! triumph. Yeah, that'll teach 'em!

(b) Hold my nose, vote for Jeb, and clean the voting booth with my left-over Ebola wipes.

(c) Study "Interstellar" for ex-migration ideas.

Tough decisions await.

Comments

[flodigarry]

First?

[Sandy--I Stand with Walker 2016--Daze ن]

GO PACKERS !

[flodigarry]

All that wide open space was too tempting

Perhaps Jeb and mitt will take each other down in a cage match

[Sandy--I Stand with Walker 2016--Daze ن]

GO PACKERS !

[Danube on iPad]

(d) and (c).

[flodigarry]

I'm hoping for a Packer win as well

[Sandy--I Stand with Walker 2016--Daze ن]

(d) and (c).

[henry]

(e) drink heavily and scan the heavens for SMOD.

Belichick-Brady, the Jeb-Hillary of the NFL. A worse plague than the Yankees.

[Jane]

Now Henry....

[henry]

OK Jane, nothing is worse than the Yankees.

[Ben]

GO CARLY FIORINA !

Looking forward to the cat/dog fights.

[sbw]

Nothing is worse than the Yankees? Oh, come now. Breaking is that Rex Ryan is going to the Bills.

As my wife says, keeping the circus in New York.

[Tonto]

Outstanding Pieces, Clarice. Just outstanding. I particularly like your (we would have called them "non-negotiable demands" in the 60s) strong suggestions at the end.

Thank you for doing this every week.

[flodigarry]

The Bills deserve better than Rex Ryan

ugh

[Jane]

Ahhh so now Wahhabism is a "virus", and it is "localized".

Wanna bet?

Oh and we only blame brown men - for terrorism.

Rich Lowry looks like he just woke up.

David Brooks says he is at the adult table and Ann Coulter is at the kiddie table.

Chuck Todd - brilliant Chuck Todd asks should Muslims become more tolerant?- and the Muslim says there should be limits. (bye bye free speech)

[Beasts of England]

Be alert to heat stress today, henry!! ;)

Go Packers!!

[Threadkiller]

(c) Study "Interstellar" for ex-migration ideas. Yeah, that'll teach 'em!

FTFY

[Beasts of England]

Stopped at the WalMart Neighborhood Market on the way to the lake and it's pretty cool. The set-up was closer to a Sam's Club than a regular WalMart, but they had just about anything one could think of. I grabbed a take and bake three cheese (Go Packers!!) pizza for lunch and it was only $6.95. Looks yummy. And they had gas at $1.859.

[Beasts of England]

(f) Donate a crap-load of money to the dem so we can accelerate the pace of our downfall and just get it over...

[Captain Hate]

The Bills deserve better than Rex Ryan

ugh

Although I tend to agree with this because I thought his father was seriously mentally ill, although an outstanding defensive coordinator (sometimes I think that should be a job requirement), I believe he deserves another shot away from the GOPe Jets.

[NK@Ipad]

Go Packers, and Colts.

I am. Big Andy Luck fan, he and Russ Wilson are excellent faces for the otherwise National Thugball League.

[GMax]

No time for this election nonsense, GO COWBOYS!

[Captain Hate]

To confirm what Jane said in the last thread, here's Imam Stedman displaying his deep knowledge of Is-slum:

http://weaselzippers.us/210646-holder-refuses-to-say-we-are-at-war-with-radical-islam/

[danoso]

Is Harbaugh really complaining about the other team being deceptive? Isn't that, you know, the idea of an NFL offense, to deceive the defense as to your intentions?

Sounds a little whiny to me. Maybe the bootleg should be banned.

[Miss Marple]

Well, I am off to mass to pray for the nation.

I am counting on God's help, although I will do my part.

Reasons Obama wasn't at the rally in Paris today (choose as many as fit):

1. High likelihood of terrorist attack, which he has intelligence on and didn't tell anyone else.

2. Not wishing to share the spotlight with Hollande, Bibi, Merkel & Cameron.

3. Lazy.

4. Muslim Brotherhood told him he couldn't go.

5. No choom available.

[Captain Hate]

I hope you're all sitting down when you read this shocker:

http://weaselzippers.us/210620-leaked-al-jazeera-emails-reveal-disdain-for-charlie-hebdo-murder-victims/

[Beasts of England]

6. Tee time

[Captain Hate]

Welcome to the party, pal:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/maher-salman-rushdie-on-islam-when-theres-this-many-bad-apples-orchards-rotten/

[Jane]

I found the al Jazeera stuff disturbing Capn'.

[James D.]

I choose option E: pray for an extinctions level asteroid strike to put us all out of our misery.

[James D.]

In all seriousness, I will not vote for Jeb under any circumstance. I'll stay home, and if that helpsnthe Dems won, so be it. Jeb is every bit as harmful as they are with his support of open immigration and CC.

[Beasts of England]

My second favorite Sunday television preacher is Carlton P. Byrd from Oakwood University. He's so en fuego today that his shirt has come untucked. Great stuff...

[Iggy]

I've previously signaled a reconsideration of Jeb and am still doing so.
His immigration proposals are not as bad as characterized and in fact are pretty good according to the book he coauthored.
Common core is IMO largely a red herring. Education is already a Federalized mess that common core may make marginally worse.
But the fact is Florida's government was half the size of NY's when he left office despite a similar number of citizens and he would have made it smaller if he could have.

Jeb's immigration policies are better than W's, common core is not his idea whereas W still trumpets NCLB as some triumph and Jeb couldn't possibly be more profligate than W was budget wise and almost certainly would be vastly better, yet there are many people recalling with nostalgia the W years who now vow they would never vote for Jeb. Many of these same people were quite happy to vote for Romney who incubated Barrycare in Massachusetts and was much less reliably conservative historically than Jeb.

[jimmyk]

As I said in the last thread, I'm counting and Jeb and Mitt to split the GOPe vote, with lots of nasty GOPe infighting, hopefully a circular firing squad. Then the door will be open for a real conservative like Walker.

I honestly don't think Jeb will be the nominee, but if he is, I'm sure I'd vote for him as the least bad alternative.

[Captain Hate]

If forced to make the choice in a general election, I'd hold my nose and vote for Jeb. Not Romney though; I'm sorry I voted for him once.

[Beasts of England]

Thanks for that analysis, Ig. Jeb sounds like a great candidate. Wonder if he'll beat Hillary! in the primary? ;)

[Beasts of England]

About the only things I can say nice about Jeb are that maybe - maybe - he won't surround himself with the same level of idiots that Teh Won has, and maybe - maybe - he'd give us a better SCOTUS nominee or two. But, I have very little confidence in either situation.

[Danube on iPad]

"Is Harbaugh really complaining about the other team being deceptive?"

It's like Saban complaining that the other team is running its plays too fast.

[Danube on iPad]

In the general I will vote for any Republican who conceivably get the nomination.

[RickB]

I'm hoping for advances in cryogenics rather than interstellar ex-migration (what happened to emigration?). SMOD isn't exactly a viable choice but RomBush isn't either.

[jimmyk]

My biggest concern about Jeb is that he wouldn't be as strong a nominee as someone like Walker against whatever retread the Dems end up choosing. The base needs inspiration and motivation.

[Jane]

Me too Dot.

[Jane]

Breaking: Belgian Newspaper, Le Soir, Evacuates After Bomb Threat Over #CharlieHebdo Coverage

JIB can interpret.

http://weaselzippers.us/210650-breaking-belgian-newspaper-le-soir-evacuates-after-bomb-threat-over-charliehebdo-coverage/

[CR]

I thought Roger Simon made a compelling point in this article:

http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2015/01/09/2016-and-paris-its-the-jihad-stupid/

"Forget the economy, forget education, forget even Obamacare. All politics is local, as Tip O’Neill famously said. And there’s nothing more local than a crazed jihadi aiming an AK-47 at your head and splattering said head against the wall and through the window."

If the candidate is reasonably good on national security, I will vote for him. I will say, however, that immigration is part and parcel of this for me.

[MarkO]

I am eagerly anticipating the internecine bloodletting. A fine GOP tradition.

[MarkO]

DOOM™®

[rse]

Iggy-but why did the government in Florida shrink? If it shrank because private vendors are now providing services that had been provided by government directly, that can just be more cronyism. Campaign contributors just adore being the designated government vendor of something the government has deemed a right that must be funded by the taxpayer.

Is privatizing prisons an example of free enterprise? Schools if Money follows the student but the accreditors can still call the shots at any school that accepts the voucher?

Laffer has just done a paper in Texas on the latter and calling PISA "standardized testing" makes the gambit look like an attempt to let certain connected people line their pockets with the money now going to school district administration, with students no better off.

[Up high in banana tree.]

A bush in the hand is worth two on the bird.

[Iggy]

From today's superb Pieces;

--Yet here is [White House] Press Sec. Josh Earnest, speaking for the President after the Paris attacks by Islamic terrorists: ""There are some individuals that are using a peaceful religion and grossly distorting it, and trying to use its tenets to inspire people around the globe to carry out acts of violence. [We need] to be clear about what the tenets of Islam actually are."--

Here, at thereligionofpeace.com, is a nice synopsis and resource on just how much one has to distort the tenets of islam to inspire acts of violence.
Hint; not at all.
The site is well worth bookmarking and perusing.

[Beasts of England]

Fantastic Pieces, Clarice!!

[Strawman Cometh]

" I will vote for any Republican who conceivably get the nomination."

I don't understand the function of your modifying clause. So if, in your view, an inconceivable Republican gets the nomination, will you with hold your support?

[Beasts of England]

Lacy!!

[Captain Hate]

Linking this here so you don't have to bother trying to find it in the MFM:

http://weaselzippers.us/210652-report-holder-didnt-show-up-for-paris-rally/

[peter]

great pieces, Clarice; my theory on why Obama didn't go to Paris is that the shops would be closed, so there was nothing the First Lady could buy. by the way, I did not capitalize first l@dy, autospell did that. Moochelle is not a capitalist.

[jack is Back!]

TEST

[Carol_Herman]

Psychics usually claim they can predict stuff like this. But I wouldn't bet on the media midgets.

Mitt, again? REALLY? McCain must be jealous.

And, Hillary? Or the Faux-ka-ka-hontis? How come this stuff just doesn't make laughing easier?

Meanwhile, I'll watch the woodwork. Somebody's gonna come out and run. Just like Ross Perot did, back in 1992. (But in 2016 Larry King won't be involved.)

Would I like Scott Walker? You bet. I'd also like Mitch Daniels. And, even better on a combined ticket. With Walker in the lead.

Sure. Walker didn't go to college. And, so, this alone is a benefit all by itself.

Besides, with the Internet you'll see a candidate doing well ... And, Pat Caddell (or Google), won't be able to tally votes ahead of time. Since the polls are really dependent on land lines.

Can the GOPe send out the Orange Lush, or McTurtle? Doubt it would do any good.

You know, given how bad the media is in predicting anything, maybe we can have the Nigerians step in to double-scam people?

The worst dropoff still remains the voter-registration-rolls, used by states to send out jury summonses. (Yes, the DMV's data is also used ... but that just means lots of illegals, and foreigners with green cards, get summoned.)

If you're not an American you don't even have to respond to the summons. (And, these massive mailings have about a 40% failure rate coming out of the gate.)

I'll still vote.

[Danube on iPad]

"if, in your view, an inconceivable Republican gets the nomination, will you with hold your support?"

Yes. If it is, say, David Duke or Lyndon Larouche I will withhold my support. But at this point they are inconceivable to me as nominees.

[jack is Back!]

Le Soir published the Charle Hebdo Mohammed cartoons. When you do that you get bomb threats or like Charlie actual fire bombs.

That is why the New York Times and New York Daily News never have to worry about Islamic terrorists bomb threats.

I like the idea of a mass publication and showing of the cartoons in every media outlet in the world all at the same time. Won't happen but its still a good idea. Sort of like Tyson's idea of unhackable computer systems:)

[pagar]

We might not even make it to 2016 elections.

Our judges are destroying our nation.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/01/aclu_pockets_hefty_award_in_alabama_prison_case_comments.html#disqus_thread

[Jane]

I just heard Kristian (don't know how to spell it and don't care) Amonpour describe Paris as "a party". This is the same chick who called the terrorism, "activism". I have no idea if she was wearing her hajib.

[Iggy]

As I have made clear I am in favor of abolishing all public education so am not in any form endorsing Common Core.
As I have also made clear my ideal president would be Cal Coolidge's ghost.
And Walker would be far better than Jeb.

I am objecting to the knee jerk dismissal of Jeb when everything I can tell indicates he would be considerably better than W, who people still defend.

[GMax]

Ummmmm HOW BOUT THEM COWBOYS!

[Janet]

NOW lets do a poll whether people would be okay with waterboarding a terrorist if it would have stopped the murders in Paris.

[Old Lurker]

I agree with that, Iggy, all of your 1:56.

Though I will be screaming like the proverbial stuck pig when the time comes.

[Old Lurker]

Is it time for me to turn the TV on to see the Skins in the playoffs?

[daddy]

Good Morning. Has this ben posted yet?

Firebombing at German paper that ran Charlie Hebdo cartoons

[Old Lurker]

Would this be a good time for me to suggest the chains and roaring fire idea to these guys:

"President Barack Obama will invite allies to a Feb. 18 security summit in Washington to try and prevent violent extremism, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Sunday after meeting his European counterparts in Paris. The gathering of justice and interior chiefs came as France mourned 17 victims of Islamist gunmen this week in the worst assault on its homeland security in decades. ´We will bring together all of our allies to discuss ways in which we can counteract this violent extremism that exists around the world,´ Holder told reporters. "

[maryd]

Jane, it's spelled C-R-E-T-I-N

You're welcome! :-)

[Iggy]

--´We will bring together all of our allies to discuss ways in which we can counteract this violent extremism that exists around the world,´ Holder told reporters. --

I know, I know. Lets have ATF force dealers to sell guns to AQ and IS and then demand more gun control.
What could go wrong?

[Danube on iPad]

Wonderful, Clarice. You're the lead item among Lucianne's Must-Reads.

[Danube on iPad]

Late second quarter, I am thinking Rodgers is too compromised for the Pack to have a chance.

[clarice]

Thanks, DoT.
I think the press is salivating about these two because they don't know much about the rest of the contenders and the names are familiar to their readers. I'm old enough to remember the time when Hillarity was inevitable.

[daddy]

Since I was wondering about the coverage down under, here's a harsh take on Australia from an Australian.

Are we really all Charlie? No, no and shamefully no

[Buckeye]

Post special forces dudes at all the newspaper offices and then start publishing cartoons like crazy.

Bounds to drag a few rats out of their holes.

[Iggy]

--Post special forces dudes at all the newspaper offices and then start publishing cartoons like crazy.--

Would they need to be pointing their guns at jihadis or news dorks to get the cartoons published?

[Jim Eagle]

daddy,

Hamburg is a hotbed of jihadis. Where Atta came from.

The threat to Le Soir could have been scripted by our own leftwing trolls: A leftist asking them not to publish the cartoons since it would help the extreme right.

4 point game in Titletown.

[Jim Eagle]

The irony:

The Kouachi brothers preacher is now a nursing intern in the A&E section of the hospital currently treating the injured Kosher market hostages.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2905278/Preacher-radicalised-Charlie-Hebdo-killers-nursing-intern-duty-E-unit-victims-hospital.html

You cannot make this shitt up.

[Jane]

Jane, it's spelled C-R-E-T-I-N

By George I think you've got it.

Janet,

I vote yes in the waterboarding poll.

I think the unity in France is really wonderful. And today I am embarrassed by our president.

[Buckeye]

Haha Iggy. Good one!

[Janet]

It's embarrassing that Obama didn't go.

I guess there weren't any fake columns & it wasn't about HIM.

It is embarrassing having such a lousy President.

[clarice]

My weeks old great nephew is wearing his packers shirt and is up for the game.

[Jim Eagle]

I was sort of surprised Al Sharpton didn't go to Paris. After all one of the jihadi's killed was a black man and don't "black lives matter"?

On the plus side you had an African-American African from Mali who saved at least 30 hostages by putting them in the basement according to Chris Coumo.

[Beester, Remember Lepanto.]

Listening to the game on radio, on the road for one of my princesses. Cowboys do sound good and the tundra is not as frozen as hoped for.

Miss Marple 11:33, all the above and
7. He is an anti-Semite

Also in church this morning and believe along with the potential civil remedies of jihad, there will have to be renewed evangelization in prisons, schools, the community and our own churches and synagogues.

Our Lady of Victory, Pray for Us.

[Danube on iPad]

In deciding which , wepoliticians' views on Islam are to be credited, if the choices are Howard Dean, Barack Obamd John Kerry on the one hand and Winston Churchill on the other, well....

[henry]

Walker at game .

[peter]

what a game.

[Jane]

Apparently no one in the administration can admit Muslims were involved in this terrorist attack.

[Stephanie De Nile is a river in Progtopia]

Go packers!

Never been a cowboys fan as the Tarkington family are good friends and went to HS with all the nephews.

[GMax]

If you are not watching this game, you are missing an epic match of two very fine teams. I like one of course, but my hats off to the Pack who have played lights out.

They may be talking about this game years from now.

[pagar]

My guess would be they would be out of the Obama regime within minutes after the word got out that someone in the Administration thought that Muslims were involved.
------------------------------------

"Islamofascism: With an eye toward the 2016 election, the radical Muslim Brotherhood has built the framework for a political party in America that seeks to turn Muslims into an Islamist voting bloc."

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/040114-695470-muslim-brotherhood-launches-own-american-political-party.htm?ven=rss

But it would be real bad if the Conservatives had a third party.

[Beasts of England]

Mind boggling, huh, Jane? They're going to great lengths to ignore the plainly obvious. Sickening.

[Jane]

Makes you wonder what side Obama is on, doesn't it?

They may be talking about this game years from now.

Last night's was pretty good too.

[Janet]

from FB. Good article with WAY too much cursing...but IMO the point is right.
http://markmanson.net/not-giving-a-fuck

[Danube on iPad]

It would indeed be real bad if the conservatives had a third party, because they would divide the non-Dem vote and lose. On the other hand, I expect a Muslim third party would siphon votes almost exclusively from the Dems.

[Jim Eagle]

A great game just got better. Will they go for two?

[daddy]

NY Post re police: “Police officers around the city are now threatened with transfers, no vacation time and sick time unless they write summonses,”

Apparently DiBlasio wants a pissing match and my guess is the Cop's are gonna' give him one.

[AliceH]

By now, we've all seen the "No Republican has won the Presidency since 1980 without a Bush on the ticket".

I'd like to point out that it is also true that no Republican has won the Presidency since 1980 without a WALKER on the ticket.

1980: Reagan/GH Walker Bush defeats Carter/Mondale
1984: Reagan/GH Walker Bush defeats Mondale/Ferraro
1988: GH Walker Bush/Quayle defeats Dukakis/Bentsen
2000: G Walker Bush/Cheney defeats Gore/Lieberman*
2004: G Walker Bush/Cheney defeats Kerry/Edwards

[Danube on iPad]

Wow. Third and fifteen: Touchdown.

[clarice]

Love that walker passed on the luxury boxes and sat in the stands with regular folks.

[daddy]

I have to say there are so many good points brought up in Clariece's Piece, and so many good comments on the previous thread, I could paste and kibbitz all day long.

God Bless Netanyahu!

And God Bless the French Minister for the stones to say they are at war with Militant Islam. Now I'd love to see our reporters hound Kerry and Obama as to whether they agree with the Minister if we are at war with Militant Islam. If not, why not and explain why he's wrong. If correct, then why the hell haven't you (Kerry and Obama) had the guts to say so? And don't let them obfuscate and not answer---no other questions until they point blank answer that question.

Great point Miss Marple on the NPR nonsense about the wonderfulness of marrying Muslim men. Latest I heard on FOX was a report saying the wife who fled said she knew nothing whatever about her murderous husbands intentions.

Darn good ball games also, CowPoke/Packers, plus Duke/NCState.