Most Transparently Hypocritical Administration Ever

With Obama as a lame duck and Hillary not yet installed the NY Times editors breathe the air of freedom:

Let Inspectors General Do Their Job

In the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, Congress in 1978 passed the Inspector General Act, establishing independent watchdogs whose job it is to uncover waste, fraud or abuse across scores of federal departments and agencies.

These public servants are “our eyes and ears within the executive branch,” as Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa described them in December.

Under the 1978 law, inspectors general, who are based in the agencies, have access to “all records” needed to do their job. But since the early days of the Obama administration, many agencies have systematically thwarted that access for whole categories of information — including, most notably, grand jury testimony, personal credit data and information from wiretaps.

The effect has been to slow down investigations into, among other things, the shooting of civilians during Drug Enforcement Administration raids in Honduras, sexual assaults in the Peace Corps and the F.B.I.’s antiterrorism powers. Inspectors general have spent time and taxpayer dollars arguing for access to documents they should, by law, have in hand — denying the American people the robust scrutiny of their federal government.

Congress is bipartisanly bothered:

Congress is currently considering a bipartisan bill [RCP link], sponsored by Mr. Grassley, to make clear once again that inspectors general may not be hindered in performing basic, critical review. The bill has been held up in the Senate since last year for unexplained reasons.

It is no surprise that government officials don’t want their wrongdoing or incompetence made public. Inspectors general are on the front lines of ensuring the transparency needed if government is to be held accountable. They should have unfettered access to the materials they need to do their job.

The betting line is that if the Times can't figure out who is obstructing the bill, it is the Democrats. Et voila - this is from Sen. Grassley's office last Dec. 15 but the lack of unanimous Senate consent on a procedural question is surely not in dispute:

Senator Chuck Grassley today on the Senate floor asked unanimous consent for the Senate to begin consideration of a bill to ensure that inspectors general across the federal bureaucracy have timely access to all records needed to complete a thorough and independent investigation.  Grassley’s unanimous consent request was objected to by Senate minority leader Harry Reid in an effort to hide the identities of members who are holding up passage of the bill.  The objection was made in violation of the spirit of the Standing Order of the Senate that says members who have holds on legislation must be identified.

At a guess, this might be tangled up with the investigation into Hillary's emails so running out the clock is critical for the Dems.

Comments

[Theo]

Jeff --

I am for whatever is the best strategy to keep Trump from winning the nomination.

A couple of days ago, it looked like what Willard said -- vote Rubio in Florida and Kasich in Ohio. These winner take all states can give a minority candidate a huge advantage in a multi candidate race.

Now I am not so sure. Maybe you are right and Rubio should drop out. Kasich I think should stay and fight for Ohio.

If Trump wins both Ohio and Florida he will be very hard to stop. But propping Rubio up may be not worth the effort. But no question about it we have to urge our Florida friends to vote FOR one or the other, because just voting for someone other than Trump is not going to be effective.

[squaredance]

There are just more Progs in Michigan--it is like mini California right in the Midwest.

From a high level view, the Demos are a coalition between: 1) (mostly white) Progs, 2) Minorities, 3) Government apparatchiks, and Unions, and since the larger unions now are most government workers or teachers/academics, this last group is mostly subsumed in one of the others.

The (mostly white) Progs broke for a real, open Prog. Snaders if giving out Leninist/Maoist/Trotskyite propaganda straight from the 1930s. That about a "dog whistle"--they just cannot help themselves.

I do not see the mystery in Sanders' win at all.

That both Cruz and Trump did so well there is more of a puzzle, and no, it was not just that mysterious, and much maligned creature, "the working class voter" who accounts for it.

[common man]

Anyone get the final total votes cast R v D in the states last evening. I would be interested in seeing them if you know where I can go to look. Especially Michigan. I suspect despite both contests being heavily contested, that R votes exceed D votes again, like they have in most states that have voted to date.

[Miss Marple 2]

I see that Fiorina, who was ignored for months, is now getting praise for her speech today endorsing Cruz.

Mara Liason says that "she had found her calling" as the "ideal surrogate."

If you ask me, the relief they felt with her speech tells me Cruz isn't making the case. Maybe she could give him tips.

I still wish I could vote for her. She is the only candidate I gave a measly donation to, because I wanted to encourage her.

I blame the RNC for letting the networks marginalize her.

[new lurker]

mm, I'm afriad that Carly is definitely marginalized now that she is endorsing Cruz (whom I voted for)in hopes that he will give her the vp spot. I had expected more for her.
Very sad.

[Threadkiller]

Guy (I look serious when I bend my neck just so) Benson is helping Hugh Hewitt today. I missed the first 45 min so I don't know how many times KKK was mentioned. What I did catch was Bendson making it clear that Trump is all middle-finger all the time.

I disagree. Trump is all points in between and that is part of the appeal.

Romney is a good example of a pussy going middle-finger without ever being a centrist jerk. That is why Romney set so many people off when he went Varsity so fast.

Leave the insults to the pros, Mitt.

[Captain Hate]

This is a surprise

Like discovering plutonium by accident! I thought I was beyond having the ability to be shocked but maybe that starts tomorrow.

new lurker, your 7:00 confuses me; please elaborate.

[Miss Marple 2]

Mailman's son is on Greta with a town hall.

His solution of the Iran mess:

"Tell them to get their act together and get back to us."

Okey-dokey.

[Captain Hate]

I blame the RNC for letting the networks marginalize her.

Another Reince Priebus profile in gutlessness. Frankly I was disappointed that the other candidates didn't show more solidarity against the enemy.

[Captain Hate]

Willard comes off as so uncomfortable in his skin.

[Miss Marple 2]

At Illinois rally, Kasich compares his life to "The Hobbit."

https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/707620933658226688

Video at link (I hope).

[Threadkiller]

Here is the ransom note version of a story I posted earlier:

http://twitchy.com/2016/03/09/daily-caller-senior-editor-alleges-trump-thug-assaulted-michelle-fields-after-presser/

Reading the comments for the voting/arm-wrestling contest for most interesting man it occurred to me what is so wrong with today's scene.

This Weinstein dude, who, incredibly enough, is shacking up the the gorgeous Michelle Fields, responds to the assault on his squeeze by taking to Twitter.

????

I would put a great many of my fellow commenters here in the same category as me when it comes to any bs that befalls my significant other.

While dating a bumbling dope managed to knock my wife over while pushing forward in a line at Disneyland. While helping her up with my left hand, I gripped the back of his neck with my right hand.

His apology came well before my 140 character limit was consumed.

Fields needs to find a Clint Eastwood type and dump the weakling.

[daddy]

Breaking News via FOX, Marco Rubio tells Megyn: "I am not dropping out of the is race."

Charles Payne He definitely sounded somewhat contrite, almost apologetic Tammy, in that little clip we heard. Little Marco doesn't want to play the game any more, and he hasn't played it well, but it did sen to get under Donald Trump's skin.

Tammy Bruce: Well it did, but it didn't. This is not a Frat house. right? But this is the problem with Marco Rubio. Once again he clearly took someone's advice---It was bad. He went with it anyway and it hurt him. The same situation with The Gang Of Eight. So this is his story, and this is why even 14% as we discussed earlier in Florida, don't even know what to think of him...It's an amazing situation to me. He clearly was using the Senate to get to somewhere else. He can't show anything for it. The people of Florida are maybe ambivalent at best? That's not a good place to be at, and he's still so young to where he is still taking the advice of others, doesn't know how to judge it properly. Maybe as VP for 8 years, maybe then the Repub's can control the White House for 16 years, if they make the right decision...

Over to the Lou Dobbs Show.

[Jeff Dobbs]

common man:
Anyone get the final total votes cast R v D in the states last evening.

Republican
HI 13,355
ID 218,771
MI 1,274,298
MS 399,459
TOTAL 1,905,883
TOTAL (MI/MS only) 1,673,757

Democrat
MS 218,795
MI 1,172,017
TOTAL 1,390,812

[Miss Marple 2]

daddy,

Tammy sums it up in a nutshell. Rubio consistently takes bad advice.

Kasich has perfected his "aw, shucks, I'm just a regular dad who tries to use common sense" shtick.

[Miss Marple 2]

Kasich uses strawman.

"Let's imagine if we stop trading."

NO ONE has suggested that.

[Captain Hate]

Tammy has Little Marco's number.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Great. Now I'm on the same page as Rich Lowry.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/432572/fox-polls-florida-and-ohio

Everybody hates that Lowry guy.

[daddy]

Lou Dobbs opens showing video clip of illegal kids swarming across our Border and then plays this clip of an Arizona Sheriff from Penol(sp) County Arizona:

Lou: Critics blasting President Obama saying he has unilaterally implemented Amnesty by handcuffing Border Patrol Agents. Listen to Sheriff Paul Babeau, of Penol, County Arizona:

Sherrif: What's happening now is that when an illegal is apprehended and they're supposed to be given a promise to appear, a notice to appear. That's not even happening. It could be 30, 60 , 90 days, some point out. We already know, it's been proven, that a majority of these individuals will never show up for their Court Hearing. So this is a complete sham. So the fact that the President is saying, "Well this is our process," basically it is Defacto Amnesty, because there is no consequence, there is no enforcement of the Law, and there is no tracking of where that person is.

Lou: When the Sheriff says it is a sham he means it is a sham along the entire Mexican Border.

[Miss Marple 2]

"My father carried mail on his back."

Kasich seems to be re-phrasing Trump's positions as his own.

Fair trade not free trade.
Hold those who break agreement accountable.
Deal with currency manipulation.
Tell people like Carrier they are jeopardizing trade.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Wait. There's another Dem debate tonight?

I'm so old I remember back when the Dems were only going to hold six debates total on the way to coronating Hillary.

Something seems to have gone amiss. Awry. Askew. A something or other.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Geez, I stop to snag a couple Slurpees while we wait for Barry to back the getaway car out of the ditch my partner drove it in and the next thing I know he's flinging lead at me...with a gun I loaned him.

Tell your little Dillinger to watch his back, Porch.

[Jeff Dobbs]

MM:
Kasich uses strawman.

"Let's imagine if we stop trading."

He should try the Obama way...

"There are those who say we should stop trading altogether. Never trade anything again. And those who say we should trade our souls to the devil. I reject that false choice...."

[Captain Hate]

Some gun grabber is running against Twitch in the primary; this clown is just throwing money away on these ads where he sucks up to 404.

Kasich sounds like a homeless person on a bender in that clip.

[Miss Marple 2]

Jeff,

HA! Good illustration!

I couldn't believe he said it.

And I couldn't believe Greta didn't call him on it.

[Theo]

Jeff -

It is just the damndext situation. Trump has gotten less than 35 percent of the votes cast so far, would lose to any of the other three remaining candidates one on one and yet, because of the calendar and the rules will be very hard to stop.

Nate Silver pointed out the other day that under Dem rules, Trump would be easily denied the nomination.

I am not aware of a coherent plan to stop him. No one will coordinate with anyone because everyone sees themselves as the eventual winner.

What a nightmare.

[Miss Marple 2]

Captain Hate,

I would ask you to take over watching this town hall, since I have to go pick up my granddaughter in about 10 minutes.

However, I am afraid that you would have a stroke listening to this, so everyone else will have to switch channels and watch the rest. LOL!

[daddy]

Tammy sums it up in a nutshell. Rubio consistently takes bad advice...

Tammy has Little Marco's number.

I agree Capt and Miss M.

When you compare Marco to Ted Cruz, basically same age, same heritage, similar background in many ways, one looks like an adult and one looks like a kid wet behind the ear. Whatever anyone says about Ted Cruz, he is his own man and knows where he stands and what he believes in, and he doesn't need a team of advisors to tell him what he thinks. Being susceptible to being told what to think is probably one of the reasons why the GOPe latched their broken Jeb! bandwagon to him.

[NK]

MissM- well yeah. He's telling the marks what they want to hear. Politicians aren't very bright, they simply imitate what works. It worked for Trump, and his internationalist money flow syndication career has been contrary to those positions (including selling EB-5 visas) so if they believe Trump they'll definitely believe the mailman's son from Ohio.

[Captain Hate]

No cable, Miss Marple.

Rodham wisely has Morgan Freeman doing a voice over in a cackle free ad playing in Ahia.

[Miss Marple 2]

Off I go for granddaughter. Back later.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

1 minute, 47 seconds of hippies crying over dead trees.
I found it hilarious.

[Threadkiller]

How in hell does a candidate for an executive position blow this?

HARRISBURG — Failure to submit 2,000 valid nominating signatures could keep Ohio Gov. John Kasich off the Pennsylvania primary ballot, but only if a court finds an objection to the signature count wasn’t filed 13 minutes too late.

Attorneys for Mr. Kasich and the objector have stipulated that the campaign filed no more than 2,184 signatures with the state, and that 192 of those signatures were not valid. Republican and Democratic candidates for president must submit 2,000 signatures to appear on the ballot.

But the objection to Mr. Kasich’s nominating petition was filed at 5:13 p.m. on the last day to challenge nominating petitions, and his attorney argues that makes it 13 minutes too late to be considered. The objector’s attorney disagrees, saying there is no requirement that filing be received by 5 p.m.

http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-state/2016/03/09/For-John-Kasich-a-battle-over-signatures-to-appear-on-Pa-primary-ballot/stories/201603090216

Cruz's lawyers are on deck for tomorrow.

[Threadkiller]

Being susceptible to being told what to think is probably one of the reasons why the GOPe latched their broken Jeb!bandwagon to him.

That and Goldman Sachs.

[Captain Hate]

Tarhole, the problem is that I (and probably we) wanted Marco to succeed when he shocked everybody by beating Cheeto Crist and the GOPe. But it's just been one bad move after another which makes me wonder what his core values have been all along. Opportunity squandered.

[Momto2]

MM it seems (as I Googled it) Gov. Kasich has been telling that Hobbit story since 2012. You would think by now he could remember the names Gandalf and Frodo - not garble the first and call Frodo "Mr. Hobbit".

(English teacher and Tolkien fan)

[Captain Hate]

Those signatures were obviously lost in the mail. Use UPS or Fedex, Opie.

[daddy]

Lou and Ed Rollins:

Lou: This man is running up impressive victories.

Rollins: Oh he had a big day yesterday. Winning in Mississippi, winning in Michigan, winning in Hawaii, and coming in second where he didn't win is extraordinary, and equally important what he is tapping into, astonishes me as a lifelong Republican, is yesterday 59% of the Republican voters were Anti- the republican Establishment of Washington. The new polls you have here, 63% of republican voters are against the The Republican Establishment in Washington. This guy has tapped right into that. The Republican Establishment of elites are doing everything they can to take him out and it's not even putting a dent in him. It's like shooting at him with a BB Gun and he's shooting back at them with a bazooka.

Lou:The Dems...what do you make of Michigan.

Rollins: The idea that the established candidate of the Democratic Party, not the Communist errr the Socialist (Lou laughs) the Established candidate gets beat by a Socialist in a Party that has the UAW, that has a large African American support, that Hillary Clinton loses that, is just astonishing to me. That's about as big an upset as I've ever seen oin Politics.

[Frau Schattenregierung]

Just some strange thoughts after lunch in a German restaurant*...

++Dem vote numbers are low because they don't have to show up in the primaries. No need for a show of numbers now. They--the living and the dead-- will come out for the final solution in November. What do they care if it's Hillary! or Bernie? Or even someone new and unexpected?

++ The Shadow Government doesn't care if Hillary! is removed for her crimes before the 2016 election. The Torricelli Gambit will
be executed bringing in a last minute, unvetted replacement to carry the torch for the party. A win-win for the Dems.

*(Dave inMA - I saw you playing with Umlauts at Insty's!)

[Jeff Dobbs]

Theo:
I am not aware of a coherent plan to stop him. No one will coordinate with anyone because everyone sees themselves as the eventual winner.

I'm less convinced that Rubio and Kasich believe they can win than I am that they think they need to stay in because the convention will be a train wreck and they want to be in the conversation, have pull, have others coming to them for favors (and maybe a really really really slight chance a contested convention they could be the third or fourth ballot winner) - and in Kasich's world, the possibility of being offered the VP slot if he stays in long enough.

What is also interesting to consider - the GOP's history of nominating the "next in line" guy. Didn't have one this time because Romney lost in 2012, and there was no clear "heir". Perhaps if Ryan had wanted to make a run, he could have grabbed that mantle, but the base wasn't in the mood for a "loser, sad!" candidate this time.

If one or the other of the guys left end up going toe to toe with Trump but he still gets the nomination...and then loses in the general, that guy might inherit the "next in line" label for 2020.

[daddy]

Rollins: ..I like Kasich, I've known him a long time, but his message...they don't want that. I think he's going to be shocked next eek even tho' he has sort of a slight edge. Rubio is going to get killed in Florida...My sense is this race is going to come down to Cruz and Trump, both outsiders.

Lou: ...Your reaction on JeB! meting tomorrow with...

Rollins:... It definitely has no impact.

[NK]

Rollins' summary is as clear as you can get about the state of the races.

Rubio: my only hope for a Rubio POTUS (he is definitely more electable in the general than Repub primaries) was that he would listen to the 'right' people. His campaign has showed he has poor judgment in that regard. Best that we learned that now about him; he is a show pony, not a conservative plow horse.

[Rick Ballard]

The disparity between Michigan pre-election polling and the actual results is best ascribed to an unrealistic sample projection. The Monmouth poll was closest to the actual result, although it was beyond the MoE. A comparison between its projected sample wrt age in comparison to exit poll data reveals a substantial underestimate wrt the percentage of younger voters in the population mix.

IOW - Comrade Sanders had a very effective GOTV effort in comparison to Clinton and the 81/19 split in the youngest cohort over Clinton in conjunction with the sample/reality mismatch accounts for the vast majority of the polling error.

[Porchlight]

Nate Silver pointed out the other day that under Dem rules, Trump would be easily denied the nomination.

Why? Because the Dems have superdelegates who can ignore the will of the voters in order to force the choice of the party elite?

I know it's hard for some to believe that their candidate is losing to this jerk (Kerry, 2004). But look, Trump is going to win FL, and if he wins OH too, it's pretty much over.

Winning a plurality is called winning. Not winning a plurality is called losing. Quit the whining already.

[derwill]

"The new polls you have here, 63% of republican voters are against the The Republican Establishment in Washington. This guy has tapped right into that. The Republican Establishment of elites are doing everything they can to take him out and it's not even putting a dent in him."

Here's a wild and crazy thought. Maybe the reason why the "Republican Establishment of elites" can't put a dent in him is because 63% of the voters are against the "Republican Establishment of elites."

[Buckeye]

Theo

The simple truth is that Trump is motivating more people to vote for him than the other guys are motivating to vote for them.

He was doing that when there were a lot more players, and he is doing it when there are only 4.

Will he be able to do that when and if it gets to just him and Cruz? Will it be too late?

Don't know, but the rules and schedule of the primaries are the handiwork of Romney and the other Top Men. If you want a goat, look there.

[daddy]

Part of Lou's oped commentary tonight

Lou: You'ld expect that the GOP establishment would be meting with The Donald to organize and synchronize party and campaign strategies to begin to prepare for calls for unity, and pivot to the General Election. But no. Instead Jeb! emerged, setting up meetings with Rubio today, Kasich and Cruz tomorrow, but no meeting sought with the republican frontrunner. And is Rubio is drained of money, spirit and support, the moneyed elites refuse to turn to the people's choice, and instead begin to embrace Cruz, who's running well behind Trump in the major contests of next Tuesday. The hapless Establishment seeks out another favorite as their choices fall one after another. What a record they have. The elites haven't done a thing right the last 2 Elections, and their off year success was authored by a movement which came fro the Tea party back in 2010.

-----------------------
My fingers hurt:)

And Lou snarkily quotes Lindsay Graham saying he wants a Candidate like reagan who came bring in people from all walks of life and unify the Party.

[narciso]

OT, the new Rowling film, 'Fantastic Beasts' seems to be set in an alt world Magical America,

[daddy]

Tell your little Dillinger to watch his back, Porch.

Porch says he's good with a shiv:)

[daddy]

Uh Oh

Off.

[narciso]

"I pity the fools' who are doing this, as for Mailman's son, well weaver seems to be operating up to snuff, meaning going pearshaped,

narratives, are spun, and then they calcify, stephen grey seems to cut through this squirrel,after 7 years, yet little took note,

http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-na-curveball18-2008jun18-story.html

because the BND was clearly at fault, and Drumheller was covering for them,

[jimmyk]

There are just more Progs in Michigan

Someone on I think Fox last night pointed out, or claimed, that Ohio has a lot smaller percentage of blacks than Michigan, which by itself makes Ohio look better for Sanders.

[jimmyk]

Guess I could have checked--it's not so different: Michigan is 14.24% black, Ohio 12%. Still maybe enough to work against Hillary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_African-American_population

[Porchlight]

Iggy and daddy, it's all out gang warfare. Said bandit has notoriously poor judgment so plan accordingly. He also is keen to blame others when it all goes pear-shaped.

[Porchlight]

What Ohio and Michigan both have a lot of is college students, and they are all about the Bern. However, it's mid-March and a lot of them may be on spring break next Tuesday.

[Frau Schattenregierung]

Just because Pagliano has been granted immunity does not mean he will spill the beans on the Clinton Crime Family. He can lie or not recall to his heart's content, can he not? What guarantee is there that he will testify honestly?

Does anyone here really thing Cheryl Mills or Her Gal Huma will tell the truth under oath?

[GUS]

I think most of you "get" the THEO gig.

[narciso]

apparently rushdie's bad judgement is not a one off,

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2016/03/padma-lakshmi-says-her-husband-salman.html

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

That really made me laugh, Porch.
Thanks.

[Buckeye]

Beer drinking in Daytona beats hanging around to vote, hands down:)

[narciso]

exactly, Frau, feels like team pantangeli,

[Jeff Dobbs]

Ah, so the first I heard who's moderating the R debate tomorrow night on CNN.

Tapper, Dana Bash, Hugh Hewitt and WashTimes guy Stephen Dinan

[Rick Ballard]

Comrade Sanders is getting GE level turnout from the Millenials. The race split isn't enough when coupled with low primary turnout. I would bet black Millenials are also a bit uppity about drivin' Miz DTs. Life will always be a bit difficult for brain damaged drunks.

[Captain Hate]

The elites haven't done a thing right the last 2 Elections, and their off year success was authored by a movement which came fro the Tea party back in 2010.

I wish President Trump or Cruz would be sure to give Marie Harf's job to COD.

[Rick Ballard]

Spring break was last week at Ohio State.

[Buckeye]

Black vote in the South is establishment prog. Black vote in the North is more anti-establishment prog burn the mutha down.

[clarice]

VERY GOOD --LOL POST, DERWILL.

[NK]

Frankie Five Angels Pantangelli was bought by the Senate, and then re-traded his testimony for Omerta and Corleone lucre, was the best theater in the Godfather films for me. But that is not 2016 law. Immunity deals are binding contracts. If the perp violates the contract, he's indicted pronto. That said, if the DOJ is part of the fix, .."yeah sure"... they'll let Pagliano and Hilligula walk. But the wild cards are Comey and Obummer. If Obummer wants to take down Hilligula/BJ, then Comey and a special counsel can do his dirty work for him. If he protects Hilligula, Comey can literally make her unelectable in November. Why wouldn't Obummer drop the dime on her with special counsel?

[Buckeye]

Spring break was last week at Ohio State.

Knew there was a reason traffic was so light last week.

[narciso]

I know consider the source,

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/03/09/a-disconcerting-tripwire-what-carly-fiorina-endorsing-ted-cruz-really-means/

[GUS]

I watched Rodham on NK'S link from earlier today.
Anyone who thinks Trump is a con artist should watch his link with Bret Baier. The BULL (REDACTED for LENT) is thicker than cement. Rodham has been coached on how to lie, it's sickening. "Nothing Marked CLASSIFIED"
Yes, that's because you used your PRIVATE SERVER and could not get caught with documents "MARKED CLASSIFIED". You have just indicated your intentions of skirting the law Mrs RODHAM. Mrs Rodham, you are a F(REDACTED FOR LENT) CRIMINAL.

[clarice]

FRAU, I think Pagliano kept some important emails and that's part of his deal with the FBI. (I would if I were working for a Clinton and they ordered me to do stuff that was illegal.) His emails went missing from DOS when he did.

[daddy]

O'Reilly: It looks like Trump is unbeatable in Florida. Karl Rove, am I wrong?

Rove:... This FOX Poll is in conflict with an earlier poll that early voters already voted for Rubio...

O'Reilly: If Trump wins and gets 99 Delegates, I don't know if Trump is stoppable...

Rove:... Lets step back and talk about last night. Last night he got 37% of the Vote...The Delegate count right now is 458 for Trump, but 598 not for Trump...so his problem remains, he's getting 34% of the vote, 4 Million, but everybody else has gotten 8 million...the divided field is giving him a plurality. The question is, the question is, when we get to these winner take all states, he wins 100% of the delegates if he only gets 34.9% of the vote like he's been averaging, so it's both a challenge for him and he's got to ultimately unite the party. 12 Million people have voted, 8 million of them didn't vote for him. And then at the same time, though he's got the plurality of the Delegates, because even when it's proportional, some of these thresholds and other rules have sort of made it drift his way, but he's still behind and does not have the majority of the Delegates.

I transcribed that bit about the Question is absolutely verbatim.

Does anybody have any idea what The Question is? I don't. And I don't think the Architect does either since I played that bit back 6 times and is still scratching my head.

To misquote Dan Rather, What is the frequency, Kenneth" question Karl?

[Jeff Dobbs]

At 8:17 PM, a mailman's son leaves Dayton and walks east on a train track going 1.2 mph. Two miles to the west on the same track, a train heads directly for the mailman's son, traveling 23 mph. Using the applied numeric carryover periodic estimation method, ideate the time the train and mailman's son will meet.

http://twitchy.com/2016/03/09/the-internet-ohio-gov-john-kasich-unsure-why-conservatives-hate-common-core-so-much/

[clarice]

If Obama wanted to drop the dime on Hillay, Lynch would have appointed an outside prosecutor already.

[anonamom]

The stupid party just gets better and better and better at that stupid thing it does so well.

[NK]

Clarice-- do you agree with my take about Pagliano's immunity deal. As you say he had stuff to offer the FBI for the immunity, and violating Immunity agreement puts him in great legal peril (underlying crime plus perjury). So he'll testify consistent with his immunity profer IMO.

[Jeff Dobbs]

daddy:
Does anybody have any idea what The Question is?

Can someone who's pulling in 35% of the vote unite the party?

[NK]

Special Counsel timing: if Lynch's testimony and Comey's public statements are to be believed (OK I know) then the FBI has not completed its work, so a special counsel decision is not yet ripe.

[Rick Ballard]

Some consideration might possibly be given to Comrade Sanders' promise to relieve the weight of the Millenial's $1 trillion serf's collar rather than any deep commitment to progressive socialism on their part. Comrade Uncle Bernie's cry to SET MY PEOPLE FREE! has a certain resonance to debt slaves.

[Buckeye]

Does anybody have any idea what The Question is?

daddy, I think Rove had something in mind and made a decision on the spot not to go there and pivoted. Knew BOR wasn't in the mood to humor him.

[narciso]

pantangeli was the mirror to joe valachi, I wondered why puzo wrote it like that,

[NK]

Millenial Serfs: for a host of reasons, they like the Bern and detest the Hilldebeast. Hasn't she offered them debt amnesty as well?

[narciso]

wasn't he the character created by jack ditko,

[narciso]

of course they bury the lead, at state run radio,

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/03/npr-says-obamacare-is-a-complete-failure.php

[daddy]

I think Rove had something in mind and made a decision on the spot not to go there and pivoted.

Jeff,

I buy Buckeye's explanation better than yours.

Buckeye,

You got any experience knocking over 7-11's?

[GUS]

Clarice, "as if" Obama isn't a criminal also. Obama might "NEED" Rodham in future.

[NK]

Puzo/Coppola invented Frankie for Godfather II. He was a great film character, best line:

"Oh THAT!" Listen the FBI guys offered me a deal, if I said Michael Corleone did dis, and Michael Corleone did dat..... but it was all lies... none of it was true."

[daddy]

Dog's say I've had enough fun. Later.

[NK]

ObummerCare failure: a $2TRILLION dollar transfer to healthcare unions under the SEIU umbrella. We really need to Benito M the scallawags who foisted this scam on to the taxpayers.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Recruit all the peeps to knock over 7-11s all you want, daddy.

I'll just be sitting over here with all the Free to Be Lawless tokens Janet left with me while she's traveling. Just sitting here shuffling all these tokens.

[narciso]

as opposed to general austin, mcgoo, brennan, these people couldn't find their keys under a streetlight,

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/09/donald-trump-embraces-top-obama-intel-official.html?via=ios

[Rick Ballard]

"Hasn't she offered them debt amnesty as well?"

Of course. There's that tiny little problem with her being considered to be dishonest by the majority of Democrat voters. Comrade Sanders has a very high favorable rating in comparison.

[Threadkiller]

Does anybody have any idea what The Question is?

Rove is questioning whether it is wise for Trump to sue Cruz after Rubio and Kasich drop out.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Dem Debate Starting!!!!!!

Las palabras primeros son en espanol.

[Jeff Dobbs]

OMG. Jorge Ramos and some other mujer are doing the intro en espanol and they're doing voice overs in English. Sad!

[narciso]

how does one say facepalm in yiddish,

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/berlin-theodore-herzl-biopic-peter-medak-1201703934/

[Jeff Dobbs]

OMG

*Dios mio.

[Miss Marple 2]

What channel is the dem debate on?

[Jeff Dobbs]

Wait. What?

Google translate really and truly translates "dios mio" to "OMG"