Via Outside the Beltway:
Ouch.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
HOLY CRAP: Aerial shot of explosion that obliterated two houses in an Indianapolis suburb
An explosion last night ripped through a south-side Indianapolis neighborhood, killing two and "displacing scores of residents".
Via Matt Dawson:
More than 100 firefighters responded to the two-alarm fire, the cause of which is still unknown.
Via Matt Dawson:
More than 100 firefighters responded to the two-alarm fire, the cause of which is still unknown.
CONGRATULATIONS, DEMOCRATS: An Open Letter
Dear Democrat Party,
Congratulations on Tuesday's victories.
Congratulations on the new tax hikes that will restrain the economy next year as the Bush tax cuts end and the myriad dictates and fees imposed by Obamacare begin. We are already seeing companies downsize or flee and investors begin to bail out of the stock market. Rest assured that your tactics of class warfare will ultimately succeed just as well as they have throughout the world for the last two centuries.
Congratulations on giving us an excellent preview of what lies ahead with your stewardship in the Golden State, where Global Economic Analysis says -- after the various statewide ballot initiatives and elections -- "Prepare for the Demise of California".
Congratulations on solidifying your plan to borrow 40 cents of every dollar we spend, with no credible plan to address the gap. It reminds me, most recently, of the run-up to Argentina's currency crisis.
Congratulations on successfully appealing to voters with crude, brutish messages of personal gratification, thereby finalizing your blueprint for America's economic downfall.
Congratulations on making Alexis de Tocqueville's predictions of 1835 come to pass, in that the United States appears to have entered the final phase of the transition from a Constitutional Republic to Despotism.
Congratulations on carefully avoiding the biggest fiscal problems we face, from entitlements to a debt-to-GDP ratio that has long since passed the historic danger zone. As an aside, if I were you, I would be preparing your families with near-term (under five years) plans for economic upheaval and possible societal unrest. I say that not because I desire anything of the sort, but because we seem to have reached a tipping point where more citizens want free contraceptives and EBT cards than believe in the American dream.
Congratulations on your historic control of the media. By withholding and obscuring the facts behind the Benghazi scandal, Operation Fast and Furious and the numerous green energy scams that enriched President Obama's campaign bundlers, you have ensured that a clueless electorate can be counted on to vote for giveaways in every election.
And, finally, congratulations on ensuring that no one in Washington -- including the feckless, old guard Republican leadership -- expresses the least bit of concern that we have long since passed the historical Rogoff-Reinhart tipping point of debt-to-GDP that spells inevitable economic doom.
Well done. Enjoy your victories and remember: As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
Sincerely,

Doug Ross
Congratulations on Tuesday's victories.
Congratulations on the new tax hikes that will restrain the economy next year as the Bush tax cuts end and the myriad dictates and fees imposed by Obamacare begin. We are already seeing companies downsize or flee and investors begin to bail out of the stock market. Rest assured that your tactics of class warfare will ultimately succeed just as well as they have throughout the world for the last two centuries.
Congratulations on giving us an excellent preview of what lies ahead with your stewardship in the Golden State, where Global Economic Analysis says -- after the various statewide ballot initiatives and elections -- "Prepare for the Demise of California".Congratulations on solidifying your plan to borrow 40 cents of every dollar we spend, with no credible plan to address the gap. It reminds me, most recently, of the run-up to Argentina's currency crisis.
Congratulations on successfully appealing to voters with crude, brutish messages of personal gratification, thereby finalizing your blueprint for America's economic downfall.
Congratulations on making Alexis de Tocqueville's predictions of 1835 come to pass, in that the United States appears to have entered the final phase of the transition from a Constitutional Republic to Despotism.
Congratulations on carefully avoiding the biggest fiscal problems we face, from entitlements to a debt-to-GDP ratio that has long since passed the historic danger zone. As an aside, if I were you, I would be preparing your families with near-term (under five years) plans for economic upheaval and possible societal unrest. I say that not because I desire anything of the sort, but because we seem to have reached a tipping point where more citizens want free contraceptives and EBT cards than believe in the American dream.Congratulations on your historic control of the media. By withholding and obscuring the facts behind the Benghazi scandal, Operation Fast and Furious and the numerous green energy scams that enriched President Obama's campaign bundlers, you have ensured that a clueless electorate can be counted on to vote for giveaways in every election.
And, finally, congratulations on ensuring that no one in Washington -- including the feckless, old guard Republican leadership -- expresses the least bit of concern that we have long since passed the historical Rogoff-Reinhart tipping point of debt-to-GDP that spells inevitable economic doom.
Well done. Enjoy your victories and remember: As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
Sincerely,

Doug Ross
Larwyn's Linx: 2012 -- What Now?
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More on the Timing of Petraeus’s Resignation: Power Line
Anti-Bush: RWN
Reagan in '64: A call for reinforcements and clarity: Marathon
“Why Hispanics Don’t Vote for Republicans”: ProWis
Democrats’ mandate madness: Marcus
To Our Friends at (The) National Review, II: RS
We Are Not Outnumbered: AT
Incumbent True Reformers and 5-for-5ers Win Big on Election Night: NUSA
Obama Really, Really Wants His Upper Middle Class Tax Increase: Cove
How Many Companies Announced Layoffs Since Obama Won?: Blaze
John Boehner, Weakstick: Ace
Boehner: We Lost and We Can't Afford Another Huge Debt Showdown: Insider
Caterpillar Flees Minnesota: CDN
The Two Stages of Obamacare Layoffs: RS
"Going Galt" Begins: Babalu
Prepare for the Demise of California: Mish
Pirro: Timing to Petraeus Resignation Anything But a Coincidence: Nice Deb
Ron Kessler on Petraeus Resignation: There Are Several Cover-ups Going On: GWP
FBI Source: Petraeus Case Squelched Until After Election: Blaze
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner at CAIR Tampa: Gatestone
Townhall Reports Massive Vote Fraud in St. Lucie County: Scoop
Two Weeks Later and No Power: Long Islanders Protest Power Authority: Blaze
Electrics and hybrids drain revenue to Oregon: exploring fees based on miles driven: Mail-Tribune
Where The Allen West Vote Count Really Stands: Shark Tank
Are conservatives too far right for American presidential elections: CDN
Did Paula Broadwell's Cuckolded Husband Write a Letter to the NYT's Chuck Klosterman?: Gawker
A Expatriate Brit Despairs for America’s Future: Dossier
Hey, remember when ABC, NBC and CBS mysteriously declared Obama the winner before election day?: FAM
Pentagon releases response timeline for Benghazi attacks: Clarion-Ledger
Harvard 'deeply troubled' by row over Israeli buffet : JPost
FBI Agents "Outraged" That Compromised CIA Head Left In Place For Months To Avoid Political Problems: Ace
Barrage of rocket attacks slam southern Israel: JPost
Unbelievable: Majority of Orthodox Jews vote for Obama: Matzav
Edible Deodorant Claims to Sweeten Your Sweat: ABC
Ducking Google in search engines: WaPo
A Post-Election Reflection: MOTUS
The Voters Who Stayed Home: McCarthy
Image: 6 lingering questions about the exit of Gen. David Petraeus
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: SpellCheck Blog
Nation
2012: What Now?: pupista!More on the Timing of Petraeus’s Resignation: Power Line
Anti-Bush: RWN
Reagan in '64: A call for reinforcements and clarity: Marathon
“Why Hispanics Don’t Vote for Republicans”: ProWis
Democrats’ mandate madness: Marcus
To Our Friends at (The) National Review, II: RS
We Are Not Outnumbered: AT
Incumbent True Reformers and 5-for-5ers Win Big on Election Night: NUSA
Economy
White House Hid Record Food Stamp Numbers Until After Election: GWPObama Really, Really Wants His Upper Middle Class Tax Increase: Cove
How Many Companies Announced Layoffs Since Obama Won?: Blaze
John Boehner, Weakstick: Ace
Boehner: We Lost and We Can't Afford Another Huge Debt Showdown: Insider
Caterpillar Flees Minnesota: CDN
The Two Stages of Obamacare Layoffs: RS
"Going Galt" Begins: Babalu
Prepare for the Demise of California: Mish
Scandal Central
The Petraeus Scandal Within a Scandal: OTBPirro: Timing to Petraeus Resignation Anything But a Coincidence: Nice Deb
Ron Kessler on Petraeus Resignation: There Are Several Cover-ups Going On: GWP
FBI Source: Petraeus Case Squelched Until After Election: Blaze
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner at CAIR Tampa: Gatestone
Townhall Reports Massive Vote Fraud in St. Lucie County: Scoop
Climate & Energy
New Yorkers Still in the Dark as Obama Hits the Links: JWFTwo Weeks Later and No Power: Long Islanders Protest Power Authority: Blaze
Electrics and hybrids drain revenue to Oregon: exploring fees based on miles driven: Mail-Tribune
Media
Media fight on the right over GOP: PoliticoWhere The Allen West Vote Count Really Stands: Shark Tank
Are conservatives too far right for American presidential elections: CDN
Did Paula Broadwell's Cuckolded Husband Write a Letter to the NYT's Chuck Klosterman?: Gawker
A Expatriate Brit Despairs for America’s Future: Dossier
Hey, remember when ABC, NBC and CBS mysteriously declared Obama the winner before election day?: FAM
World
The Slut Paula Broadwell: RSMPentagon releases response timeline for Benghazi attacks: Clarion-Ledger
Harvard 'deeply troubled' by row over Israeli buffet : JPost
FBI Agents "Outraged" That Compromised CIA Head Left In Place For Months To Avoid Political Problems: Ace
Barrage of rocket attacks slam southern Israel: JPost
Unbelievable: Majority of Orthodox Jews vote for Obama: Matzav
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)
Big Brother alert: Microsoft wants to know how many friends you've got in your living room: TelegraphEdible Deodorant Claims to Sweeten Your Sweat: ABC
Ducking Google in search engines: WaPo
Cornucopia
Bob Hope Christmas: Big Geek DadA Post-Election Reflection: MOTUS
The Voters Who Stayed Home: McCarthy
Image: 6 lingering questions about the exit of Gen. David Petraeus
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: SpellCheck Blog
QOTD: "[T]he White House, with concurrence by the FBI and Justice Department, held off on asking for Petraeus’ resignation until after the election. His resignation occurred three days after the election, avoiding the possibility that Obama’s ill-fated appointment of Petraeus could become an issue in the election.
FBI agents on the case were aware that such a decision had been made to hold off on forcing him out until after the election and were outraged.
“The decision was made to delay the resignation apparently to avoid potential embarrassment to the president before the election,” an FBI source says. “To leave him in such a sensitive position where he was vulnerable to potential blackmail for months compromised our security and is inexcusable.”
Michael Kortan, the FBI’s assistant director for public affairs, said he had no comment." --Ronald Kessler
Saturday, November 10, 2012
GOOD NEWS: Employers in Merry Old England Happily Enforce Sharia Law
Clothing retailer Boo Hoo recently circulated the following memo to its employees.
Along with socialized medicine, the act of banning bacon represents the ultimate capitulation to a soft tyranny.
Hat tip: BH.
Along with socialized medicine, the act of banning bacon represents the ultimate capitulation to a soft tyranny.
Hat tip: BH.
DO REPUBLICANS REALLY NEED TO "MODERNIZE THE MESSAGE"? In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville predicted the 2012 elections
Alexis de Tocqueville was a French historian who traveled the United States from 1832 to 1834. He was struck by the character of American life that knew no class structure and rewarded hard work as a means of achieving prosperity.
Without an aristocracy, American society promoted capitalism through individual achievement. The common man, he wrote, had achieved a level of personal dignity in America that was unparalleled in Europe or elsewhere.
His seminal work on politics -- Democracy In America -- also warned that despotism could take root and grow unchecked in a democracy. Such a form of tyranny would be unique in human history and potentially far more pernicious than those of monarchies or oligarchies.
Without further ado, here are a few salient excerpts from Democracy In America, made all the more prescient and troubling by the events of last Tuesday.
If Republicans want to "modernize their message", which is the latest brilliant counsel of Beltway pundits, RINO establishment types, and related losers of consecutive presidential elections, they would do well to heed Tocqueville.
The message of liberty and opportunity, well articulated, is one that embraces all races, all religions, all ethnicities, all backgrounds.
And that is the message that will appeal to a majority of Americans as it did in 2010, as it did in the era of Reagan, and as it did during the Founding.
Hat tip: The Mark Levin Show, 9 November 2012.
Without an aristocracy, American society promoted capitalism through individual achievement. The common man, he wrote, had achieved a level of personal dignity in America that was unparalleled in Europe or elsewhere.
His seminal work on politics -- Democracy In America -- also warned that despotism could take root and grow unchecked in a democracy. Such a form of tyranny would be unique in human history and potentially far more pernicious than those of monarchies or oligarchies.
Without further ado, here are a few salient excerpts from Democracy In America, made all the more prescient and troubling by the events of last Tuesday.
CHAPTER VI
I HAD remarked during my stay in the United States that a democratic state of society, similar to that of the Americans, might offer singular facilities for the establishment of despotism; and I perceived, upon my return to Europe, how much use had already been made, by most of our rulers, of the notions, the sentiments, and the wants created by this same social condition, for the purpose of extending the circle of their power. This led me to think that the nations of Christendom would perhaps eventually undergo some oppression like that which hung over several of the nations of the ancient world.
When the Roman emperors were at the height of their power, the different nations of the empire still preserved usages and customs of great diversity; although they were subject to the same monarch, most of the provinces were separately administered; they abounded in powerful and active municipalities; and although the whole government of the empire was centered in the hands of the Emperor alone and he always remained, in case of need, the supreme arbiter in all matters, yet the details of social life and private occupations lay for the most part beyond his control. The emperors possessed, it is true, an immense and unchecked power, which allowed them to gratify all their whimsical tastes and to employ for that purpose the whole strength of the state. They frequently abused that power arbitrarily to deprive their subjects of property or of life; their tyranny was extremely onerous to the few, but it did not reach the many; it was confined to some few main objects and neglected the rest; it was violent, but its range was limited.
It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character; it would be more extensive and more mild; it would degrade men without tormenting them...
I think, then, that the species of oppression by which democratic nations are menaced is unlike anything that ever before existed in the world; our contemporaries will find no prototype of it in their memories. I seek in vain for an expression that will accurately convey the whole of the idea I have formed of it; the old words despotism and tyranny are inappropriate: the thing itself is new, and since I cannot name, I must attempt to define it...
I seek to trace the novel features under which despotism may appear in the world. The first thing that strikes the observation is an innumerable multitude of men, all equal and alike, incessantly endeavoring to procure the petty and paltry pleasures with which they glut their lives. Each of them, living apart, is as a stranger to the fate of all the rest; his children and his private friends constitute to him the whole of mankind. As for the rest of his fellow citizens, he is close to them, but he does not see them; he touches them, but he does not feel them; he exists only in himself and for himself alone; and if his kindred still remain to him, he may be said at any rate to have lost his country...
Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood... For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?
Thus it every day renders the exercise of the free agency of man less useful and less frequent; it circumscribes the will within a narrower range and gradually robs a man of all the uses of himself. The principle of equality has prepared men for these things; it has predisposed men to endure them and often to look on them as benefits.
After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd...
Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions: they want to be led, and they wish to remain free. As they cannot destroy either the one or the other of these contrary propensities, they strive to satisfy them both at once. They devise a sole, tutelary, and all-powerful form of government, but elected by the people. They combine the principle of centralization and that of popular sovereignty; this gives them a respite: they console themselves for being in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own guardians. Every man allows himself to be put in leading-strings, because he sees that it is not a person or a class of persons, but the people at large who hold the end of his chain.
By this system the people shake off their state of dependence just long enough to select their master and then relapse into it again. A great many persons at the present day are quite contented with this sort of compromise between administrative despotism and the sovereignty of the people; and they think they have done enough for the protection of individual freedom when they have surrendered it to the power of the nation at large...
Subjection in minor affairs breaks out every day and is felt by the whole community indiscriminately. It does not drive men to resistance, but it crosses them at every turn, till they are led to surrender the exercise of their own will. Thus their spirit is gradually broken and their character enervated; whereas that obedience which is exacted on a few important but rare occasions only exhibits servitude at certain intervals and throws the burden of it upon a small number of men. It is in vain to summon a people who have been rendered so dependent on the central power to choose from time to time the representatives of that power; this rare and brief exercise of their free choice, however important it may be, will not prevent them from gradually losing the faculties of thinking, feeling, and acting for themselves, and thus gradually falling below the level of humanity.
I add that they will soon become incapable of exercising the great and only privilege which remains to them. The democratic nations that have introduced freedom into their political constitution at the very time when they were augmenting the despotism of their administrative constitution have been led into strange paradoxes. To manage those minor affairs in which good sense is all that is wanted, the people are held to be unequal to the task; but when the government of the country is at stake, the people are invested with immense powers; they are alternately made the play things of their ruler, and his masters, more than kings and less than men. After having exhausted all the different modes of election without finding one to suit their purpose, they are still amazed and still bent on seeking further; as if the evil they notice did not originate in the constitution of the country far more than in that of the electoral body.
It is indeed difficult to conceive how men who have entirely given up the habit of self-government should succeed in making a proper choice of those by whom they are to be governed; and no one will ever believe that a liberal, wise, and energetic government can spring from the suffrages of a subservient people.
A constitution republican in its head and ultra-monarchical in all its other parts has always appeared to me to be a short-lived monster. The vices of rulers and the ineptitude of the people would speedily bring about its ruin; and the nation, weary of its representatives and of itself, would create freer institutions or soon return to stretch itself at the feet of a single master.
If Republicans want to "modernize their message", which is the latest brilliant counsel of Beltway pundits, RINO establishment types, and related losers of consecutive presidential elections, they would do well to heed Tocqueville.
The message of liberty and opportunity, well articulated, is one that embraces all races, all religions, all ethnicities, all backgrounds.
And that is the message that will appeal to a majority of Americans as it did in 2010, as it did in the era of Reagan, and as it did during the Founding.
Hat tip: The Mark Levin Show, 9 November 2012.
"WHY I DESPAIR": The Lament of a British Expatriate
White House Dossier points us to an exceptional piece of writing by Charles C. W. Cooke, who emigrated to the United States from England and watched the 2012 election results in horror.
Cooke points to The Life of Julia, the brutish caricature of a woman's life promoted by the Obama campaign, that put government at the center of each female's life.
The unions and Obama's campaign bundlers in aggregate received tens or hundreds of billions in the taxpayers' funds courtesy of the 44th president. And an incurious media watched and said -- for the most part -- nothing.
In good times and bad, government grows. And neither party -- with the possible exception of "the extreme right wing" of the Republican Party -- seems the least bit concerned that our debt-to-GDP ratio long ago hit the danger zone.
One of the few bright spots on Tuesday evening was the reminder that Obamcare, Dodd-Frank, the EPA's incessant overreaches -- to name but a few -- will hit all Americans equally. For that is what big government does: it spreads misery.
We are seeing this effect even now as dozens of companies have announced plant closings and layoffs since Wednesday morning.
Those newly unemployed workers who voted for Obama have only themselves to blame.
A president of the United States just ran a reelection campaign based on the promise of government largess, exploitation of class division, the demonization of success, the glorification of identity politics, and the presumption that women are a helpless interest group; and he did so while steadfastly refusing to acknowledge the looming — potentially fatal — crisis that the country faces. And it worked.
Cooke points to The Life of Julia, the brutish caricature of a woman's life promoted by the Obama campaign, that put government at the center of each female's life.
...the two central achievements of Obama’s first term [were] the spending of an unprecedented amount of borrowed money on the president’s political allies, and the turning of the health-care system over to the bureaucracy in a “reform” that, inter alia, stipulates that to be alive is to owe something to Washington. The latter move involves a claim on the people that no free government should ever make, and that no American government has ever made before. For these grave missteps, the president suffered an epic loss in Congress in 2010. The revolt looked promising, but then — for whatever reasons — he was reelected. Now, Obama has the chance to remake the Supreme Court and remake America’s Constitution, too. Who doubts he will take it?
The unions and Obama's campaign bundlers in aggregate received tens or hundreds of billions in the taxpayers' funds courtesy of the 44th president. And an incurious media watched and said -- for the most part -- nothing.
Economic gravity will prevail, as it always does, and it will eventually yield another conservative president. Indeed, the nature of the two-party system all but guarantees it. But this won’t do much good in and of itself...
...The growth of the state is a one-way ratchet, and its size and intrusion are almost never retrenched. Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1788 that “the natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.” “A government bureau,” added Ronald Reagan, “is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth.”
In good times and bad, government grows. And neither party -- with the possible exception of "the extreme right wing" of the Republican Party -- seems the least bit concerned that our debt-to-GDP ratio long ago hit the danger zone.
Alas, there is nothing written in the stars that says that America will always be America. “Rome,” as Joseph Heller brutally reminded us, “was destroyed, Greece was destroyed, Persia was destroyed, Spain was destroyed. All great countries are destroyed. Why not yours? How much longer do you really think your own country will last? Forever? Keep in mind that the earth itself is destined to be destroyed by the sun in 25 million years or so.” There will be little virtue in America if it becomes a larger version of Britain...
On Tuesday, America took another giant leap away both from its revolutionary mission and from the classical liberalism that it has successfully incubated for so long. This is a rotten thing for America, and also — though it might not realize it — for the world...
One of the few bright spots on Tuesday evening was the reminder that Obamcare, Dodd-Frank, the EPA's incessant overreaches -- to name but a few -- will hit all Americans equally. For that is what big government does: it spreads misery.
We are seeing this effect even now as dozens of companies have announced plant closings and layoffs since Wednesday morning.
Those newly unemployed workers who voted for Obama have only themselves to blame.
SUICIDAL IDIOCY: Boehner, GOP Establishment Ready to Deal on Amnesty, Creating a Democrat Vote Factory
As if we needed more proof that John Boehner has all of the intellectual firepower of an addled goldfish, not only did he begin negotiating against himself this week, but he also floated the idea of an "amnesty" deal.
This is the brainchild of a panicked Republican establishment, suddenly concerned that demographic changes are responsible for Mitt Romney's shocking loss.
Sean Trende, writing in Real Clear Politics, has already done an excellent job of debunking that assertion.
As The Manhattan Institute's Heather Mac Donalid explains, pandering to Hispanic voters on the issue of immigration reform is a suicidal strategy for the Republican Party.
Mac Donald concludes that amnesty for primarily low-skilled immigrants -- most of whom are dependent upon government services -- will create what I call a "Democrat Vote Factory".
Furthermore, aside from those simple truths, an idiotic deal by Boehner and the GOP establishment would serve only to enrage the Republican base of Constitutional Conservatives.
Writing at Protein Wisdom, Jeff Goldstein offers the only rational course of action for Republicans:
And I'll add the following:
John Boehner needs to go. He is an intellectual midget, the antithesis of a statesman, and has proved to be an utter disaster at building on the momentum of the 2010 midterms that shoved him into power.
I will support (and marshal friends) to support anyone who opposes him for House Speaker.
Hat tip: Mark Levin.
This is the brainchild of a panicked Republican establishment, suddenly concerned that demographic changes are responsible for Mitt Romney's shocking loss.
Sean Trende, writing in Real Clear Politics, has already done an excellent job of debunking that assertion.
In the 2008 final exit polls (unavailable online), the electorate was 75 percent white, 12.2 percent African-American, 8.4 percent Latino, with 4.5 percent distributed to other ethnicities. We’ll have to wait for this year’s absolute final exit polls to come in to know the exact estimate of the composition this time, but right now it appears to be pegged at about 72 percent white, 13 percent black, 10 percent Latino and 5 percent “other.”
Obviously, this surge in the non-white vote is troubling to Republicans, who are increasingly almost as reliant upon the white vote to win as Democrats are on the non-white vote. With the white vote decreasing as a share of the electorate over time, it becomes harder and harder for Republicans to prevail.
This supposed surge in minority voting has sparked discussions about the GOP’s renewed need to draw in minority voters, especially Latinos, usually by agreeing to comprehensive immigration reform... [But] I think these analyses are off base. First, there are real questions about the degree to which immigration policies -- rather than deeper issues such as income and ideology -- drive the rift between the GOP and Latinos. Remember, passage of Simpson-Mazzoli in 1986 was actually followed two years later by one of the worst GOP showings among Latinos in recent history...
...in terms of the effect on the electorate, [any demographic shift] is dwarfed by the decline in the number of whites. Again, if our assumption about the total number of votes cast is correct, almost 7 million fewer whites voted in 2012 than in 2008. This isn’t readily explainable by demographic shifts either; although whites are declining as a share of the voting-age population, their raw numbers are not.
As The Manhattan Institute's Heather Mac Donalid explains, pandering to Hispanic voters on the issue of immigration reform is a suicidal strategy for the Republican Party.
It is not immigration policy that creates the strong bond between Hispanics and the Democratic party, but the core Democratic principles of a more generous safety net, strong government intervention in the economy, and progressive taxation. Hispanics will prove to be even more decisive in the victory of Governor Jerry Brown’s Proposition 30, which raised upper-income taxes and the sales tax, than in the Obama election.
And California is the wave of the future. A March 2011 poll by Moore Information found that Republican economic policies were a stronger turn-off for Hispanic voters in California than Republican positions on illegal immigration...
...And a strong reason for that support for big government is that so many Hispanics use government programs. U.S.-born Hispanic households in California use welfare programs at twice the rate of native-born non-Hispanic households. And that is because nearly one-quarter of all Hispanics are poor in California, compared to a little over one-tenth of non-Hispanics. Nearly seven in ten poor children in the state are Hispanic, and one in three Hispanic children is poor, compared to less than one in six non-Hispanic children. One can see that disparity in classrooms across the state, which are chock full of social workers and teachers’ aides trying to boost Hispanic educational performance.
The idea of the “social issues” Hispanic voter is also a mirage. A majority of Hispanics now support gay marriage, a Pew Research Center poll from last month found. The Hispanic out-of-wedlock birth rate is 53 percent, about twice that of whites.
Mac Donald concludes that amnesty for primarily low-skilled immigrants -- most of whom are dependent upon government services -- will create what I call a "Democrat Vote Factory".
Furthermore, aside from those simple truths, an idiotic deal by Boehner and the GOP establishment would serve only to enrage the Republican base of Constitutional Conservatives.
Writing at Protein Wisdom, Jeff Goldstein offers the only rational course of action for Republicans:
It’s clear the left wishes to keep an open border in order to bring in future Democratic voters — specifically, those who make most use of government services and whose lack of social capital, from struggles with the language to poor education, from the start prevents them from moving into higher-paying jobs. That is, the left is importing future clients, whose votes can be had for a growing of the welfare state.
That the tone-deaf leadership in the GOP and the “conservative” opinion outlets are even considering the pragmatism of identity politics pandering is already quite depressing. But even more so is that they are in such a rush to copy the left’s playbook that they can’t even be bothered to understand what their own should be telling them. That goes for the editorial board at the WSJ, too, whose open borders stance is less about principle than it is about cheap labor.
The way forward with the Hispanic vote is to seal the borders, preach first principles, reaffirm the necessity of assimilation, show the way out of dependency, and reject things like “comprehensive immigration reform,” which won’t help you with Hispanics and will most certainly cost you what’s left of your base.
And I'll add the following:
John Boehner needs to go. He is an intellectual midget, the antithesis of a statesman, and has proved to be an utter disaster at building on the momentum of the 2010 midterms that shoved him into power.
I will support (and marshal friends) to support anyone who opposes him for House Speaker.
Hat tip: Mark Levin.
Larwyn's Linx: The Sudden (and Curious) Departure of David Petraeus
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State Dept. Disses Senate on Benghazi Documents: Hot Air
My Spine Has Stiffened: Bossie
The Party of Victory: Glick
Could The GOP Take Back The Senate In 2014?: Hawkins
Arab TV Exposed Lax Security At U.S. Consulate In Benghazi: MEMRI
Inside Orca: How the Romney Campaign Suppressed Its Own Vote: Breitbart
St. Lucie County, Florida Had 141.1% Turnout; Obama Won County: PunPre
Allen West Seeks Recount Amid Growing Vote Count Scandal: Times
Companies plan massive layoffs as Obamacare becomes reality: Times
Economy Bad for Many, but It's Crushing Millennials: CNBC
Record 70 Million on Medicaid in 2011--1 Out of Every 5 Americans: CNS
Large Number Of Companies Announce Layoffs Post Election: RWN
Operating an ObamaCare ‘Exchange’ Would Violate Ohio’s Constitution: Cato
Eric Holder Failed to Disclose Wife’s Abortion Clinic: LifeNews
Report: Mexican Cartel Bought Guns From U.S. Border Patrol: Wired
After Obama reelection coal company CEO reads prayer to staff, announces layoffs: RedAlert
Earth To Boil In Future, Says New Study: Cove
Obama becomes first president since Nixon to refuse to take questions at a post-reelection presser: BuzzFeed
Liberal Tolerance On Display – Gracious In Victory, As Always: 54°40’ Or Fight!
‘An Awful Lot of Stupid People’: RSM
Mourdock – Why He Lost: Hoosier Access
Brian Williams Turned to Steve Schmidt on Election Night: Tell Them It's Time to Shut This Limbaugh Down: NB
The Liberal Media Are More Powerful Than Ever: AIM
Republican Campaign Failed to Confront Media Bias: Loudon
Incompetent Americans Prove They Despise the Country: Habledash
Malkin: We Should Be Boiling Over Obama's ‘Systemic Truth Suppression’: FNI
Campaign Sources: The Romney Campaign was a Consultant Con Job: RS
Andrew Sullivan: ‘Fox News has to be demonized and cut off’: DC
US Communist Party Crows Over Obama Victory: S&L
College Students Chant “Karl Marx” And “Socialism” In Front Of White House At Obama Victory Rally: WZ
Report: Petraeus extramarital affair probed due to 'security risk': ynet
Poll: 85% Of U.S. Muslims Voted For Barack Obama, Romney Got Only 4%…: WZ
Muslims attack gay club in Paris, beating patrons and spraying them with tear gas: JihadWatch
Pentagon releases Benghazi timeline: took 19 hours to respond: Hot Air
Lockheed Martin ousts new CEO for relationship: Times
Special Report explains how Petraeus affair was uncovered by the FBI: Scoop
Pirate Bay Users Hide IP-Addresses to Counter Copyright Enforcement, Research Finds: TorrentFreak
Vinny: Find out how much cars are really worth: TUAW
The Declaration of Dependence: iOTW
'Drunk Nate Silver': The best tweets from the funniest post-election meme: TheWeek
Image: Paula Broadwell
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Capitalism Magazine
Nation
The Sudden (and Curious) Departure of David Petraeus: Former SpookState Dept. Disses Senate on Benghazi Documents: Hot Air
My Spine Has Stiffened: Bossie
The Party of Victory: Glick
Could The GOP Take Back The Senate In 2014?: Hawkins
Arab TV Exposed Lax Security At U.S. Consulate In Benghazi: MEMRI
Inside Orca: How the Romney Campaign Suppressed Its Own Vote: Breitbart
St. Lucie County, Florida Had 141.1% Turnout; Obama Won County: PunPre
Allen West Seeks Recount Amid Growing Vote Count Scandal: Times
Economy
Private companies are too smart to hire: TimesCompanies plan massive layoffs as Obamacare becomes reality: Times
Economy Bad for Many, but It's Crushing Millennials: CNBC
Record 70 Million on Medicaid in 2011--1 Out of Every 5 Americans: CNS
Large Number Of Companies Announce Layoffs Post Election: RWN
Operating an ObamaCare ‘Exchange’ Would Violate Ohio’s Constitution: Cato
Scandal Central
Classified Info on Benghazi Attack Was Given to Daily Beast Reporter: GWPEric Holder Failed to Disclose Wife’s Abortion Clinic: LifeNews
Report: Mexican Cartel Bought Guns From U.S. Border Patrol: Wired
Climate & Energy
6,125 Proposed Regulations and Notifications Posted in Last 90 Days--Average 68 per Day: CNSAfter Obama reelection coal company CEO reads prayer to staff, announces layoffs: RedAlert
Earth To Boil In Future, Says New Study: Cove
Media
A CBS News Obama-Libya scandal? Certainly.: WaPoObama becomes first president since Nixon to refuse to take questions at a post-reelection presser: BuzzFeed
Liberal Tolerance On Display – Gracious In Victory, As Always: 54°40’ Or Fight!
‘An Awful Lot of Stupid People’: RSM
Mourdock – Why He Lost: Hoosier Access
Brian Williams Turned to Steve Schmidt on Election Night: Tell Them It's Time to Shut This Limbaugh Down: NB
The Liberal Media Are More Powerful Than Ever: AIM
Republican Campaign Failed to Confront Media Bias: Loudon
Incompetent Americans Prove They Despise the Country: Habledash
Malkin: We Should Be Boiling Over Obama's ‘Systemic Truth Suppression’: FNI
Campaign Sources: The Romney Campaign was a Consultant Con Job: RS
Andrew Sullivan: ‘Fox News has to be demonized and cut off’: DC
World
A time for courage, and action: GlickUS Communist Party Crows Over Obama Victory: S&L
College Students Chant “Karl Marx” And “Socialism” In Front Of White House At Obama Victory Rally: WZ
Report: Petraeus extramarital affair probed due to 'security risk': ynet
Poll: 85% Of U.S. Muslims Voted For Barack Obama, Romney Got Only 4%…: WZ
Muslims attack gay club in Paris, beating patrons and spraying them with tear gas: JihadWatch
Pentagon releases Benghazi timeline: took 19 hours to respond: Hot Air
Lockheed Martin ousts new CEO for relationship: Times
Special Report explains how Petraeus affair was uncovered by the FBI: Scoop
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)
An inside look behind Romney's loss: An epic failure of its Orca big-data app: ComputerWorldPirate Bay Users Hide IP-Addresses to Counter Copyright Enforcement, Research Finds: TorrentFreak
Vinny: Find out how much cars are really worth: TUAW
Cornucopia
Having Hit the Jackpot, We are Leaving Las Vegas With Your Money: MOTUSThe Declaration of Dependence: iOTW
'Drunk Nate Silver': The best tweets from the funniest post-election meme: TheWeek
Image: Paula Broadwell
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Capitalism Magazine
QOTD: "...all the dependency champions who celebrated on Tuesday night cannot stop the coming storm. The greatest advantage Obama had going into the election was not demography but the fact that the full consequences of his statist economic policies and his pro-jihadist foreign policy have not yet been felt.
Nationalized healthcare will only be fully implemented in 2014. Americans will only begin watching old men and women die because the federal government denied them lifesaving, but expensive, treatments a year from now. They will only lose their doctors due to dwindling Medicare reimbursements in a year.
College students who got out the vote for Obama will only find themselves doomed to low-paying jobs and a life of indebtedness as they fail year in and year out to pay off their college loans, in a year or two. And by the time they realize what it means to be saddled with a national debt of $16 trillion, they will be locked into a government-controlled economy that requires them to keep their silence or lose their livelihoods." --Caroline Glick
Friday, November 09, 2012
FREE DEMOCRAT PLANTATION CARDS FOR EVERYONE: You may know them as "EBT"
Free food stamps -- eh, I mean, EBT Cards -- for everyone!
As economist Milton Friedman observed, "You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state."
At least not without a societal collapse, that is.
As economist Milton Friedman observed, "You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state."
At least not without a societal collapse, that is.
"WE GOT S***": Obama Refugee camps in New Jersey lack heat, power, basic sanitation facilities
As USA Today observes, "Camp Freedom" more closely "resembles a prison camp".
Somehow, "Camp Freedom" seems an apt name for this sort of facility. And I can't help but think of this entrance to another camp.
This sign reads "Arbeit Macht Frei" or "Work makes one free".
Hat tip: WyBlog and BadBlue News.
As he lights up a Marlboro and takes a slow drag before exhaling, Brian Sotelo is a man who finally has reached his breaking point.
Anger drips from every word as he peers at the tops of white tents rising over the trees in the distance. The depth of despair in his eyes is difficult to fathom.
...He stood and talked in the cool morning air a short distance up the road after security at the front gate threatened to have his car removed outside the entrance to what Sotelo's identification tag calls "Camp Freedom," even though it more closely resembles a prison camp.
The Seaside Heights, N.J., resident was at a Toms River, N.J., arena with his wife and three kids a half hour before the shelter opened as superstorm Sandy approached last week. On Wednesday, Sotelo was part of a contingent shifted to this makeshift tent city in a parking lot across the road from a racetrack about 30 miles north...
"Sitting there last night you could see your breath," Sotelo said. Outside temperatures hovered below freezing, in the upper 20s and low 30s. "At (the arena) the Red Cross made an announcement that they were sending us to permanent structures up here that had just been redone, that had washing machines and hot showers and steady electric, and they sent us to tent city. We got (expletive).
...No media is allowed inside the fenced complex, which houses operations for Jersey Central Power & Light's army of workers from out of the area...
..Sotelo scrolls through the photos he took inside the facility as his wife, Renee, huddles for warmth inside a late-model Toyota Corolla stuffed with possessions, having to drive out through the snow and slush to tell their story. Temperatures Thursday finally made it into the upper 40s. Images on the small screen include lines of outdoor portable toilets, of snow and ice breaching the bottom of the tent and an elderly woman sitting up, huddled in blankets.
All the while, a black car with tinted windows crests the hill and cruises by, as if to check on the proceedings.
Somehow, "Camp Freedom" seems an apt name for this sort of facility. And I can't help but think of this entrance to another camp.
This sign reads "Arbeit Macht Frei" or "Work makes one free".
Hat tip: WyBlog and BadBlue News.
CONGRATULATIONS, DEMOCRATS: Interior Department Blocks Access to 1.6 Million Acres of Oil in the West
Could one of you Democrats please tell me how the middle class benefits from higher gas prices and fewer jobs?
America is the only nation on Earth that restricts access to its own oil.
And this plainly endangers our economic and national security interests.
The disconnect between the administration’s “All-of-the-Above” energy rhetoric and actual policy looks like it’ll continue now that President Obama was reelected. The Hill reports that the Interior Department plans to block 1.6 million acres of federal land from oil development...
...This type of development shouldn't be confused with extracting oil and natural gas from shale formations using hydraulic fracturing. This is more akin to mining.
Oil and gas production on federal lands has fallen, and based on this action, I expect that trend to continue.
America is the only nation on Earth that restricts access to its own oil.
And this plainly endangers our economic and national security interests.
BUY FREE OR DIE: A Conservative's Buying Guide to Automobiles
I had planned on producing something like this, but The Morlock Revolt beat me to it
If the unions are going to fight the taxpayers, then we are going to fight the unions.
In the past, I have owned a Chevy, a Mercury, a Chrysler, and a Cadillac.
But from now on my money will go only to companies that promote capitalism.
I look forward to Morlock's next buying guide.
Buy Free or Die: Conservative's Buyer Guide: Automobiles
We can no longer be passive in our buying decisions, brands that we have known and trusted for years have chosen sides and chosen to lead our country in to socialism. This is the first post in a series to highlight which companies and states contribute to the decline of our American project that was started in 1776... we need to show these entities that we will not be sending our money to fund our own destruction.
The Autoworkers' unions in the United States are one of the largest contributors to the Democrat Party. The AFL-CIO head Richard Trumka said that he would like to have the Card Check legislation enacted in Obama's new second term. This would make labor unions almost impossible to stop, they would be present in every section of the country's economy. As such I am focusing this first post in the Conservative's buyers guide to Automobiles made in the United States... ...Any future automobiles that I buy will be from the list I have provided that are labeled non-union. Democrats suck and so do unions. Carry on.
If the unions are going to fight the taxpayers, then we are going to fight the unions.
In the past, I have owned a Chevy, a Mercury, a Chrysler, and a Cadillac.
But from now on my money will go only to companies that promote capitalism.
I look forward to Morlock's next buying guide.
Larwyn's Linx: A Thank You Note From An Average American
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Obama Got 99% of Vote at Polls Where GOP Inspectors Removed: PunPrs
Fun fact: Obama Lost in Every State with a Voter Photo-ID Law: Reaganite
Status Quo Ante: RS
“Ein Vaterland . . . Ein Reich . . . Ein Volk”: ProWis
The Case of the Missing White Voters: RCP
When Conservatism Is a Second Language: Lord
Remember GOP Elitists Used Redistricting to Get Rid of West?: MagNote
Allen West Now Leads Initial Vote Count In Dem-Leaning County: WZ
A victory for creatures of the state: RWN
Time for Introspection, but Not Surrender: RWN
Speaker Boehner is done fighting Obamacare: Scoop
Obama supporters rejoice that they can keep their food stamps: Twitchy
Appalling video captures substitute teacher bullied by students: Daily Mail
Shocker: Obamacare Spurs a Shift to Part-Time Workers: C4P
Obamacare vs. Jobs : NRO
Economic Advisor to State Department: Downgrade of US Likely: CDN
PPP’s polls were rigged all along: RS
FL District 18: West cites 'disturbing irregularities': WPTV
The Hope-a-Nomics Disaster: One Company’s Horror Story: Malkin
Miller: If Romney’s what’s wrong with America, this country has serious problems: Hot Air
Christie Is Dead to Me: Sentinel
Unsure: Rants and other Refinements
Is Chris Matthews a Racist?: Elephant
Axelrod rubs Rove’s face in it: WaPo
Republicans rush to help Obama destroy America: SHN
It Is Time to Throw the Social Conservatives Out of the GOP: RS
Give the People What They Voted For: Glob
67% of single / unmarried / divorced women vote for pro-abortion, pro-gay-marriage Obama: Knight
Yes, Romney Was the Problem: RWN
Now They Tell Us: Instapundit
Krauthammer: Obama Administration Hid Drone Attack Until After Election: GWP
Obama Administration Partners With the UN to Attack the Second Amendment: Pavlich
Obama Immediately Moves to Help UN Impose Gun Restrictions on Americans: MB
No Hezbollah in Mexico?: CIS
Did Obama Steal the Election?: Western Journalism
Can the US military fight a war with Twitter?: ComputerWorld
Source: 7 SEALs punished for secrecy breach in video game collaboration: ArmyTimes
We’re Doomed: Young Obama voters on what they know about the Constitution: Scoop
Monet fetches $43M for NY school: USA Today
Image: Has "Tomorrow" Arrived?
Nation
A Thank You Note From An Average American: Jack FinnObama Got 99% of Vote at Polls Where GOP Inspectors Removed: PunPrs
Fun fact: Obama Lost in Every State with a Voter Photo-ID Law: Reaganite
Status Quo Ante: RS
“Ein Vaterland . . . Ein Reich . . . Ein Volk”: ProWis
The Case of the Missing White Voters: RCP
When Conservatism Is a Second Language: Lord
Remember GOP Elitists Used Redistricting to Get Rid of West?: MagNote
Allen West Now Leads Initial Vote Count In Dem-Leaning County: WZ
Economy
Forward! To mass layoffs!: HaywardA victory for creatures of the state: RWN
Time for Introspection, but Not Surrender: RWN
Speaker Boehner is done fighting Obamacare: Scoop
Obama supporters rejoice that they can keep their food stamps: Twitchy
Appalling video captures substitute teacher bullied by students: Daily Mail
Shocker: Obamacare Spurs a Shift to Part-Time Workers: C4P
Obamacare vs. Jobs : NRO
Economic Advisor to State Department: Downgrade of US Likely: CDN
Scandal Central
Obama Lost in Every State with a Voter Photo ID Law: ReaganitePPP’s polls were rigged all along: RS
FL District 18: West cites 'disturbing irregularities': WPTV
Climate & Energy
Christie Calls to Congratulate Obama… Sends Mitt an Email: GWPThe Hope-a-Nomics Disaster: One Company’s Horror Story: Malkin
Media
It Is Not Just Business, It Is Personal: TL in ExileMiller: If Romney’s what’s wrong with America, this country has serious problems: Hot Air
Christie Is Dead to Me: Sentinel
Unsure: Rants and other Refinements
Is Chris Matthews a Racist?: Elephant
Axelrod rubs Rove’s face in it: WaPo
Republicans rush to help Obama destroy America: SHN
It Is Time to Throw the Social Conservatives Out of the GOP: RS
Give the People What They Voted For: Glob
67% of single / unmarried / divorced women vote for pro-abortion, pro-gay-marriage Obama: Knight
Yes, Romney Was the Problem: RWN
Now They Tell Us: Instapundit
World
America goes into the darkness: Melanie PhillipsKrauthammer: Obama Administration Hid Drone Attack Until After Election: GWP
Obama Administration Partners With the UN to Attack the Second Amendment: Pavlich
Obama Immediately Moves to Help UN Impose Gun Restrictions on Americans: MB
No Hezbollah in Mexico?: CIS
Did Obama Steal the Election?: Western Journalism
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)
The Unmitigated Disaster Known As Project ORCA: AceCan the US military fight a war with Twitter?: ComputerWorld
Source: 7 SEALs punished for secrecy breach in video game collaboration: ArmyTimes
Cornucopia
The Case of the Missing White Voters: RCPWe’re Doomed: Young Obama voters on what they know about the Constitution: Scoop
Monet fetches $43M for NY school: USA Today
Image: Has "Tomorrow" Arrived?
QOTD: "We conservatives, we do not accept bipartisanship in the pursuit of tyranny. Period. We will not negotiate the terms of our economic and political servitude. Period. We will not abandon our child to a dark and bleak future. We will not accept a fate that is alien to the legacy we inherited from every single future generation in this country. We will not accept social engineering by politicians and bureaucrats who treat us like lab rats, rather than self-sufficient human beings. There are those in this country who choose tyranny over liberty. They do not speak for us, 57 million of us who voted against this yesterday, and they do not get to dictate to us under our Constitution.
We are the alternative. We will resist. We're not going to surrender to this. We will not be passive, we will not be compliant in our demise. We're not good losers, you better believe we're sore losers! A good loser is a loser forever. Now I hear we're called 'purists.' Conservatives are called purists. The very people who keep nominating moderates, now call us purists the way the left calls us purists. Yeah, things like liberty, and property rights, individual sovereignty, and the Constitution, and capitalism. We're purists now. And we have to hear this crap from conservatives, or pseudo-conservatives, Republicans." --Mark Levin
Bonus QOTD: "Neither side bothered to put forward a serious agenda that stood for much of anything. Barack Obama ran on beating up Mitt Romney and Mitt Romney ran on running away from himself. He stood for nothing and everything at the same time. At least Barack Obama campaigned on the consistent message of hating Mitt Romney.
Compare Romney to Scott Walker. Scott Walker took on the unions in Wisconsin and won big. Romney barely took on Barack Obama. He drew few lines in the sand, made those fungible, and did not stand on many principles. Americans wanted to assess a contrast between the candidates and got blurred lines instead. They went with the politician they knew instead of the one who was different depending on the election season, constituency, and time of day." --Erick Erickson
Thursday, November 08, 2012
CONGRATULATIONS, DEMOCRATS: More Than 45 Companies Go Galt, Announce Mass Layoffs
Dan from New York:
Oh, and then there's this:
My guess is many of these management teams were hoping against hope for Republicans to win the Presidency and the Senate -- and that they would begin unwinding the insane complexity represented by Obamacare, Dodd-Frank and other oppressive regulations that are poised to strangle job creation.
But a billion dollars of 90 percent negative advertising convinced the gullible half of the country that Mitt Romney killed someone's wife, that he was a vulture capitalist who outsourced jobs to Timbuktu, and that Paul Ryan rolled Grandma off a cliff.
As the Bible says: As ye sow so shall ye reap.
You voted for it, you got it. And the early results are just trickling in.
Boeing Announces Big Layoffs in Defense Division - Reuters
Vegas Employer: Obama Won, So I Fired 22 Employees - CBS
For me, yesterday’s election didn't change a thing. I'm still at the old stand providing you the latest 411 on the decline of America, the end of Israel and the collapse of Western Civilization. Stay tuned. It’s going to be a sight to see!
Oh, and then there's this:
45 companies announce layoff's in the past 48 hours! This is what the people wanted! The people have spoken!
— William Florence Jr. (@stuffyhead9) November 8, 2012
IN PAST 48 HRS, FOLLOWING COs ANNOUNCED LAYOFFS:Westinghouse, Research in Motion, Boeing, US Cellular, Commerzbank, Iberia, ING, (cont)
— Dark_Red_Hair (@Dark_Red_Hair) November 8, 2012
IN PAST 48 HRS, FOLLOWING COs ANNOUNCED LAYOFFS (cont): Ericsson, Bristol-Myers, corning, Boston Scientific, Abbott Labs, St. Jude, (cont)
— Dark_Red_Hair (@Dark_Red_Hair) November 8, 2012
IN PAST 48 HRS, FOLLOWING COs ANNOUNCED LAYOFFS (cont): Caterpillar, CVPH Medical Center, Lightyear Haqwker Beechcraft, Hawker Beechcraft
— Dark_Red_Hair (@Dark_Red_Hair) November 8, 2012
Welcome to Obamaville: Pepsi looking to layoff 4,000 workers bit.ly/Z8ApDF #tcot #tlot
— FAM Blog (@famblog) November 8, 2012
Energizer Holdings to lay off 1,500, close 3 plantsbizjournals.com/stlouis/news/2… via @gweiderman
— STLBusinessJournal (@stlbj) November 8, 2012
My guess is many of these management teams were hoping against hope for Republicans to win the Presidency and the Senate -- and that they would begin unwinding the insane complexity represented by Obamacare, Dodd-Frank and other oppressive regulations that are poised to strangle job creation.
But a billion dollars of 90 percent negative advertising convinced the gullible half of the country that Mitt Romney killed someone's wife, that he was a vulture capitalist who outsourced jobs to Timbuktu, and that Paul Ryan rolled Grandma off a cliff.
As the Bible says: As ye sow so shall ye reap.
PHOTO: 2015 in Obama's America
The economy is set to collapse under monstrous debt and runaway inflation but don't worry, kids: your government will be there to give you free condoms.
And soup, if you're lucky.
And soup, if you're lucky.
THE PRICE OF APPEASEMENT AND WEAKNESS: Iranian fighter jets fire on U.S. aircraft in international airspace
Did CNN hold onto this story until the day after the election?
Yes, the Obama administration issued a sternly worded memo to Iran.
That laughter you heard came all the way from Tehran as the Mullahs plot the nuclear destruction of the Great Satan and Little Satan.
History's lessons are as real as tomorrow's sunrise: the wages of appeasement against aggression is always more aggression.
But, please, CNN: whatever you do, don't report on Hezbollah operating in Mexico nor on the risk of Iran's nuclear weapons being smuggled over America's unprotected southern border into the U.S.
If a few American cities get taken out by Iran's nukes, after all, we might get a budget underrun for Obamacare -- at least for a week or so. And what an inconvenience that would be for the progressive drones: a single nuke can take out over 100 Starbucks in less than 25 milliseconds.
Two fighter jets fired on an unmanned drone in international airspace without provocation
BARBARA STARR: New military tensions now with Iran. CNN has learned it was last Thursday, just one week ago, that two Iranian SU-25–old Russian fighter jets the Iranians operate–flew out in to the Persian Gulf into international air space and fired on a U.S. Air Force predator drone, an unmanned drone in international air space, that the Pentagon insists was conducting routine, although classified, maritime surveillance. The Iranian aircraft fired continuously; they did not hit the drone; the drone was able to return to base in that region. But this does raise some serious new tensions with Iran. It was, of course, just a few days before the presidential election here in the United States. Officials that we have talked to who are confirming it after we questioned them say they just don’t know at this point what the Iranians were up to. Were they just out to cause trouble or were they really trying to bring down that U.S. drone, Brooke.
BROOK BALDWIN: this is clearly raising tensions as you point out. Could this be considered an act of war?
STARR: Well, it’s an interesting question, I suppose for the Pentagon lawyers. The thing is, you know, they fired–the U.S. believes, we’re told–in an unprovoked fashion. They say that the drone was in international air space about 16 miles off the Iranian coast in the northern end of the Gulf, and that it was completely unprovoked and without warning. The Pentagon, through the State Department, has protested to the Iranian government. The Pentagon says they haven’t heard back from Tehran.
Yes, the Obama administration issued a sternly worded memo to Iran.
That laughter you heard came all the way from Tehran as the Mullahs plot the nuclear destruction of the Great Satan and Little Satan.
History's lessons are as real as tomorrow's sunrise: the wages of appeasement against aggression is always more aggression.
But, please, CNN: whatever you do, don't report on Hezbollah operating in Mexico nor on the risk of Iran's nuclear weapons being smuggled over America's unprotected southern border into the U.S.
If a few American cities get taken out by Iran's nukes, after all, we might get a budget underrun for Obamacare -- at least for a week or so. And what an inconvenience that would be for the progressive drones: a single nuke can take out over 100 Starbucks in less than 25 milliseconds.
DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN: Another "can't lose" moderate... loses
Jeffrey Lord pens another must-read that is certain to be ignored by the Beltway class and, yet, contains within it certain incontrovertible truths.
Number one: another "can't lose" RINO moderate... fails. Do the terms McCain, Dole, Bush 41 and Ford ring a bell?
Number two: where were first principles in this campaign?
Lord insists we need more "New Reagans" -- people of all backgrounds, all races, all religions -- who are well-versed in conservatism.
And where did Marco Rubio, now hailed by the Republican establishment as a 2016 favorite, come from? Not from the RINO establishment. It backed Charlie "Tan-in-a-Can" Crist and fought Rubio tooth and nail. It was the Tea Party and Constitutional Conservative movement that gave birth to Rubio, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, etc.
There are flawed candidates, to be sure, among those backed by the conservative wing of the Republican Party. RINOs point to Sharon Angle and Richard Mourdock, for example, forgetting that no one wins 100 percent of their slate. Until the afternoon of election day, when the unions started busing in voters from places unknown, Angle was in fact leading Harry Reid handily.
And one inappropriate and/or misconstrued remark by Mourdock (and a crackpot third-party candidate) helped cook his campaign.
It's not the conservatives who need to go away. It's the RINO establishment that should make themselves scarce. Once again, a mushy centrist -- who supposedly would appeal to wide swaths of the electorate -- lost in a race that should have been a slamdunk.
And in this existential showdown between liberty and tyranny, Mitt Romney could not even attract the same number of voters as... John McCain. Constitutional conservatives, Tea Party conservatives, and fiscal conservatives don't need to retreat. The RINO country club set needs to cede control to the true heart of the party. And if they refuse to cede power, we will defeat them as we have time and time again.
Number one: another "can't lose" RINO moderate... fails. Do the terms McCain, Dole, Bush 41 and Ford ring a bell?
Number two: where were first principles in this campaign?
One cannot plunge the country into astronomical debt without there being a financial come-to-Jesus reckoning. One cannot tempt aggression with weakness. One cannot tax one's way to prosperity. One cannot build a behemoth federal government and expect the country to prosper. One cannot, as Mark Levin puts it, not understand the "interconnection of liberty, free markets, religion, tradition and authority" -- and not pay a price for that lack of understanding.
Were these conservative principles true in 1980? Yes. They were also true in 1780 and 1880 and they will be true in 2080. They are to the world of politics and government what Newton's law of gravity is to the physical world. And to the extent that they are ignored, one is -- politically speaking -- jumping off the Empire State Building without a parachute.
Has the country changed since 1980? I would hope so. Change in human life is unstoppable. But as Reagan himself -- a staunch advocate of change -- smartly said: "History comes and goes, but principles endure…"
Barack Obama will come and go. The next Apple iGizmo will appear -- and eventually disappear to be a relic. Katy Perry and Lena Dunham will grow old. America will not even be in this moment of 2012 for very much longer. Life will go on. Time will move on. And yes, some absolutely inevitable and foreseeable crisis will confront the new romance with American socialism and send Americans running back to their roots.
Lord insists we need more "New Reagans" -- people of all backgrounds, all races, all religions -- who are well-versed in conservatism.
And where did Marco Rubio, now hailed by the Republican establishment as a 2016 favorite, come from? Not from the RINO establishment. It backed Charlie "Tan-in-a-Can" Crist and fought Rubio tooth and nail. It was the Tea Party and Constitutional Conservative movement that gave birth to Rubio, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, etc.
There are flawed candidates, to be sure, among those backed by the conservative wing of the Republican Party. RINOs point to Sharon Angle and Richard Mourdock, for example, forgetting that no one wins 100 percent of their slate. Until the afternoon of election day, when the unions started busing in voters from places unknown, Angle was in fact leading Harry Reid handily.
And one inappropriate and/or misconstrued remark by Mourdock (and a crackpot third-party candidate) helped cook his campaign.
It's not the conservatives who need to go away. It's the RINO establishment that should make themselves scarce. Once again, a mushy centrist -- who supposedly would appeal to wide swaths of the electorate -- lost in a race that should have been a slamdunk.
And in this existential showdown between liberty and tyranny, Mitt Romney could not even attract the same number of voters as... John McCain. Constitutional conservatives, Tea Party conservatives, and fiscal conservatives don't need to retreat. The RINO country club set needs to cede control to the true heart of the party. And if they refuse to cede power, we will defeat them as we have time and time again.
Larwyn's Linx: Don’t Blame Romney, And Don’t Blame The Campaign…
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Wilderness: NRO
The Morning After: Tabitha Hale
Solzhenitsyn and the result of yesterday’s plebiscite: Constitution Alley
The Reckoning: Crowley
The American People Get the Government They Deserve: DTG
20 things that went right on Election Day: Malkin
Why We Lost the Republic: AT
Why I was wrong: Morris
Uncle Sam Weeps: JPA
In a Nation of Children, Santa Claus Wins: Rush
The Era of Big Government is Over: JOM
GS: "Congrats Mr. President, We Are Cutting Q4 GDP To 1.5%": ZH
NLRB gets more aggressive: Crain's Cleveland
California’s Economic Suicide and other News: Mitchell
Paul Ryan's Next Move: Hot Air
If The Archangel Michael Were On The Ballot, Beelzebub Would Still Have Won: RS
House Committee to Hold Hearing on Benghazi Attack, Top Obama Intelligence Officials Will Testify: Blaze
CBS’ Benghazi Timeline Gives the Word “Deceitful” New Meaning: Sentinel
GOP Reaps Its Surrender of Pop Culture: Breitbart
This Is Why Mitt Romney Lost: Glob
Mark Levin Gives "Unvarnished Truth" On Romney Loss: RCP
Disraeli's Ghost: Claremont
"It is profoundly disturbing to watch a once-great power commit suicide in real time.": HyScience
Reagan in '64: A call for reinforcements and fighting the false image of conservatives: Marathon
WashPost's Henneberger Sees Food Stamp Surge As a 'Real Success Story': NB
Conservatives lambast Romney, vow to take over Republican Party: Hill
Obama supporters celebrate: No more Israel; kill those motherf***ers: RebelPundit
After Obama victory, political knives come out in Israel: Hayom
Looking Old May Be A Sign Of Heart Trouble.: Instapundit
The Rise of Social Salespeople: Forbes
October Revolution: This Time We Can Make It Work!: Cube
The Day After: Obama Unbound: Camp of the Saints
Image: MOTUS
Nation
Don’t Blame Romney, And Don’t Blame The Campaign…: HayRideWilderness: NRO
The Morning After: Tabitha Hale
Solzhenitsyn and the result of yesterday’s plebiscite: Constitution Alley
The Reckoning: Crowley
The American People Get the Government They Deserve: DTG
20 things that went right on Election Day: Malkin
Why We Lost the Republic: AT
Why I was wrong: Morris
Economy
Mourning in America-Here's Those Layoffs We Voted For Last Night: FWUncle Sam Weeps: JPA
In a Nation of Children, Santa Claus Wins: Rush
The Era of Big Government is Over: JOM
GS: "Congrats Mr. President, We Are Cutting Q4 GDP To 1.5%": ZH
NLRB gets more aggressive: Crain's Cleveland
California’s Economic Suicide and other News: Mitchell
Paul Ryan's Next Move: Hot Air
If The Archangel Michael Were On The Ballot, Beelzebub Would Still Have Won: RS
Scandal Central
The Holes in the CIA’s Benghazi Timeline: FoundryHouse Committee to Hold Hearing on Benghazi Attack, Top Obama Intelligence Officials Will Testify: Blaze
CBS’ Benghazi Timeline Gives the Word “Deceitful” New Meaning: Sentinel
Climate & Energy
GOP Senate Group Warns Against EPA’s New Restriction Outburst After Elections: MyDesertMedia
The Long Game: KlavanGOP Reaps Its Surrender of Pop Culture: Breitbart
This Is Why Mitt Romney Lost: Glob
Mark Levin Gives "Unvarnished Truth" On Romney Loss: RCP
Disraeli's Ghost: Claremont
"It is profoundly disturbing to watch a once-great power commit suicide in real time.": HyScience
Reagan in '64: A call for reinforcements and fighting the false image of conservatives: Marathon
WashPost's Henneberger Sees Food Stamp Surge As a 'Real Success Story': NB
Conservatives lambast Romney, vow to take over Republican Party: Hill
World
Fill your sandbags: HayomObama supporters celebrate: No more Israel; kill those motherf***ers: RebelPundit
After Obama victory, political knives come out in Israel: Hayom
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)
President Obama's Unfinished Business: BankInfoSecurityLooking Old May Be A Sign Of Heart Trouble.: Instapundit
The Rise of Social Salespeople: Forbes
Cornucopia
The Day After: MOTUSOctober Revolution: This Time We Can Make It Work!: Cube
The Day After: Obama Unbound: Camp of the Saints
Image: MOTUS
QOTD: "At a low point in the fortunes of the Tory Party, Disraeli said, “The pendulum swings.” It does indeed, but it is not going to swing back to limited-government republicanism any time soon; in fact such republicanism has for some time been effectively dead in California, New York, and the other arrantly blue states. Nor, to judge from yesterday’s election, is such republicanism especially vibrant in middle-of-the-road states like Florida, Virginia, Ohio, and Colorado. Put it another way: only once since the 1980s has a Republican candidate won a greater number of votes in a presidential election than the Democratic candidate (Bush in 2004).
Defeat offers clarity. If we had any doubts as to our position, yesterday’s election put an end to them. Those of us who continue to oppose the fiscal and constitutional overreach of the modern social state now find ourselves in the wilderness.
Insofar as politics are concerned, the best the center-right in America can do, in the foreseeable future, is to act as a check on folly in the political arena, and in doing so hope to prove Macaulay wrong when he said that the American Republic would fail because the poor would plunder the rich and increase the country’s distress by devouring the “seed-corn” of future growth.
At the same time, conservatives ought to recognize that our deeper problems ... are cultural, not political, and are therefore not susceptible of a political solution. The social state was intended to be such a solution: but even were its ever-expanding programs fiscally sustainable, its ideal of social welfare would still be paltry substitute for the older, better approach to the good life it was meant to replace." --Michael Knox Beran
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