Nation
Jim Jordan Puts GOP Leadership on Notice: Joel Gehrke
The New World Map: Victor Davis Hanson
Oh, gee: the Democrats are ‘rebranding.’ AGAIN.: Moe Lane
The IRS, Obamacare, and the English Language: Sam Kazman
Hillary Charged $200K For Kids Charity Speech, Snubbed Kids: Emily Zanotti
Rambling About the Passive-Authoritarian State: The Z Blog
The OPM Hack is Just Awful: Joe Cunningham
Meet Donald G. Kosin, Jr.: Erick Erickson
Donald Trump Is Not Just A Clown, He’s A Liberal Anti-Gun Clown: Brian Anderson
Jeb! Spurns Conservatives on Education and Immigration: William Sullivan
Ted Cruz’s Lifeline: Madison Project
Economy
CBO: Unless We Act Soon The US Economy Is Screwed: LidMajor teachers union ready to work with charter schools: Jason Russell
End Civil Service 'Merit' Protection: Bruce Walker
Scandal Central
Unbelievable: Gov’t Outsourced Database Management to IT Workers in... China: SooperGowdy: Confidant who sent Libya memos to Clinton didn't write them: Fox
Illegal Alien Rapists, Child Molesters Freed in U.S. Instead of Deported: Boston Globe
Climate & Energy
Another global cooling denier claims to have won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize: Anthony WattsPay $1.22 million to save $500,000: Don Surber
There Are Big Divisions In Catholicism Over “Climate Change”: William Teach
Media
Obama and the Black Intellectualoids: L.E. IkengaCoulter: If Drudge Ever Goes On Vacation, Amnesty Will Pass: Vince Coglianese
Investigation of Lunatic Dolezal’s Roots Reveal Zero Black Relatives Dating Back to... 1671: JWF
Hillary and Obama’s Foreign Policy Record is Nothing to Brag About Says… MSNBC: Glob
Why Does Peter Beinart Despise Pro-Israel Jews?: Shmuley Boteach
Israeli Video Mocks Foreign Journalists’ Coverage of Gaza: Tammy Bruce
John Kerry gaslights the media on Iranian compliance: RS
Obama to White House mentorship grads: You didn't succeed on your own: Joe Newby
Why are we ignoring a cyber Pearl Harbor?: Jonah Goldberg
World
GOP Congressman: Iran Is “Hitler With Nuclear Weapons”: Andrew KaczynskiJohn Kerry ‘not fixated’ on Iran’s past research into atomic weapons, but on moving forward: Twitchy
America’s Top Five Mistakes in Iraq: The XX Committee
The Most Inexcusable Crime in the Muslim World: Uzay Bulut
North Korea’s Propagandists Bemoan “Bad Luck”: AmInt
The Louvre responds to my post, denies discriminating: Matzav
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Uber drivers in California deemed to be employees, not contractors: TechworldAn Early Net-Neutrality Win: Rules Prompt Sprint to Stop Throttling: Thomas Gryta
Sony's Robotic Dogs Are Dying A Slow And Heartbreaking Death: Chris Mills
Cornucopia
Nobody likes reruns: TruesburyDo You Remember When Lois Lane Tried To Be Black?: Ira Madison III
The Donald: How Can He Lose?: MOTUS
Image: Donald Trump Is Not Just A Clown, He’s A Liberal Anti-Gun Clown
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Isn't it time for a real conservative? Ted Cruz 2016: Official Site
QOTD: "When a group of House conservatives voted last week to kill a trade bill favored by President Obama, House Speaker John Boehner and other GOP leaders who support the measure steamed. Representative Mick Mulvaney (R., S.C.) celebrated the revolt as a coming-of-age moment for rebel backbenchers.
“Yesterday will be the day that we look back at as the day that conservatives finally started getting organized in the House,” he wrote in a note to the Spartanburg Tea Party.
Led by Representative Jim Jordan (R., Ohio), a platoon of conservatives demanded that Boehner agree to a series of concessions in exchange for their support for so-called Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), legislation that would give President Obama wider latitude to negotiate free-trade agreements. When GOP leadership ignored them, Jordan and his allies tried to kill the bill on a procedural vote — a rare step made more surprising by the lawmakers’ general support for free trade. It was the boldest attempt yet from the recently formed House Freedom Caucus, which Jordan chairs, to counteract Boehner’s perceived tendency to wilt in the face of Democratic pressure." --Joel Gehrke
The impact of leadership attrition has not been enough to knock the group back on its heels and ground losses are temporary.
ReplyDeleteThe impact of leadership attrition has not been enough to knock the group back on its heels and ground losses are temporary.
ReplyDelete'Ted Cruz's Lifeline'/Madison Project
ReplyDeleteA leadership failure. I understand most of Ted's stand/position/actions ... his past two months. One of only five Senators, voting against cloture, on Iran/Corker. While Rand(over Israel), and (magic) Rubio (slippers), voted for (cloture). Rubio's a lil poof, a fake leader. Nothing more than a political hack. A kwap weasel. With some (politically) marketable melanin content (as in ... not character content). Rand, the same duplicitous freak/turdmonkey he's a l w a y s been (wrapped in a stolen mantle/tea wrapper).
It still, was a missed (leadership) opportunity, for Senator Cruz. To not stand. Firmly. Resolutely. With Cotton, in the show/procedural vote. A real disappointment. And I know I wasn't alone there, in feeling let down (though yes, the vote against cloture, the only one that mattered).
The trade bill? Jiminy. He's human, Ted is. But he fails again, in leadership. By not trusting his supporters. Keeping them in the dark (that would be you and me). Hey Ted ... we can disagree. But you need to trust us. We trusted you. Tell us what you're thinking, the why's and wherefore's. You disagree with Mark Levin [he's human, makes mistakes too, yep (Todd Akin ... led the charge even)]. Don't let the election make you just another one of them. 2016, in and of itself, by itself, by its mere arrival. Will not save us. Yes, winning the election IS important. But political calculus/triangulation can be (auto)strangulation.
Only firmly taking hold the ground we stand upon.
AND REFUSING TO SURRENDER. At all cost. At any.
Where have you gone Ted ... hello?
P.S.
The captcha, still a (sick) joke.
I'm listening to the first half hour of Rush Limbaugh. There's a Two If By Tea promotion. Limbaugh spent 10 minutes talking football in June! NOT ONE WORD ABOUT THE TPP!! This is beyond bad. It's deliberate. No one else notices this?
ReplyDeleteMore on the Bill Clinton misquote of Churchill on Jon Stewart last night. It's not Sarah Palin so it makes no news?
http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/6uho3u/bill-clinton-pt--2
(4 minutes in)
Debunked at least twice:
http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/10/28/241295755/a-churchill-quote-that-u-s-politicians-will-never-surrender
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/11/11/exhaust-alternatives/
And see my responses to this Politico hack's tweet (he never responded):
Roger Simon @politicoroger 13h13 hours ago
Bill Clinton to Jon Stewart: "As Churchill said, 'The USA always does the right thing after exhausting all other possibilities."
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/245417-house-approves-fast-track-218-208-sending-bill-to-senate
ReplyDeleteIt passed. We're done! Congress is now irrelevant. We've given up the ability to write our own laws! Brunei has as much power as we do. This is treason.
Rush Limbaugh STILL hasn't mentioned it today!