Well, that didn’t take long. Less than 24 hours after Arlen Specter dropped his dirty bomb of a party switch, the asses have already begun their loud braying. Sen. Specter’s return to his long-abandoned Democrat Party is probably not proving to be the homecoming he had hoped for.

Last night we reported that Specter may have to face two challengers. Now it has been revealed that some senior party members are less than thrilled with the deal that the Majority Leader apparently promised Snarlin’ Arlen to entice him to jump ship:

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Now, meet your likely primary challengers:

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Completely drowned out by all the hoopla over news of Arlen Specter’s return to the Democrat Party he abandoned so many years ago, was this little item from top pollster Scott Rasmussen:

For just the second time in more than five years of daily or weekly tracking, Republicans now lead Democrats in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 41% would vote for their district’s Republican candidate while 38% would choose the Democrat. Thirty-one percent (31%) of conservative Democrats said they would vote for their district’s Republican candidate.

Overall, the GOP gained two points this week, while the Democrats lost a point in support.

Lest Republicans have any notions to uncork the champagne, Rasmussen cautions that the GOP’s gains are not from anything Congressional Republicans have done, but rather are an indication of sinking support for Democrats. Still, the Dems are now at their nadir of support in the past year, while Republicans have reached their zenith. This is significant, because it hints at an opportunity for the GOP.

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Sometimes the best way to catch the bad guys is by running a scam. Police departments across the country, for example, have had some success by running a variation of the Publisher’s Clearing House scam. Appealing to a crook’s strong sense of greed, wanted criminals were contracted and notified that they had come into to some money, by inheritance, class action suit awards or some other windfall. The trick is to make the amount of money the criminals allegedly have coming to them sufficient enough to get their attention, but not so unbelievable to scare them off. Bad guys have been rounded up by the dozens this way, literally walking right into the hands of the authorities.

Dateline NBC‘s “To Catch a Predator” program has used a version of the scam to rope in sexual predators, or would-be sexual predators. Instead of using money as bait, the television series uses a woman who poses as an underage girl on internet chat rooms. When the hapless horndogs think they have succeeded in seducing the sweet young thing online, the “girl” mentions that her “parents” are out of town, and of course the salivating scumbag can’t resist showing up at the house, only to be greeted by TV cameras and the program’s host Chris Hansen. After a few minutes of on-camera humiliation by Hansen, the guys get over their momentary astonishment, begin fumbling for their car keys and try to beat a hasty retreat. Unfortunately for them, police officers are waiting outside, where the creeps are arrested and taken to jail.

The only moral outrage over this deceptive practice, of course, is that the would-be predators thought they could actually get away with it. Using what amounts to a white lie to bait the bastages is a much lesser sin than what the guys were hoping to get away with. Surely it’s worth a little deception to get these guys off the street. Who in his or her right mind is going to stand up and protest the use of deception to catch a predator? It cannot be done without giving the appearance of supporting the bad guys, and we don’t want them preying on our daughters, kid sisters and nieces. So “To Catch a Predator” is only mildly controversial.

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The AP is reporting:

North Korea has restarted its nuclear facilities to harvest weapons-grade plutonium, an official said Saturday, in an escalation of the communist state’s standoff with the international community over its nuclear and missile programs.

The move “will contribute to bolstering the nuclear deterrence for self-defense in every way to cope with the increasing military threats from the hostile forces,” the North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said in comments carried by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency.

Diplomacy has been a miserable failure as a strategy for the West to deal with North Korea. Negotiations with the NoKors have been dead in the water since December. And, like Generalissimo Francisco Franco, they are still dead. The United Nations, in a characteristically ineffective move, announced sanctions against three North Korean companies. I’m sure that Kim is quaking in his jack boots. The UN is the Barney Fife of world cops. But Barney, at least, had a bullet and he wasn’t afraid to use it.

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NRA members, keep an eye out for your copy of May’s American Rifleman, if it hasn’t already arrived. According to the latest edition of the magazine, Bob Reynolds, gunsmith and owner of Templar Consulting LLC, will make a special presentation at the NRA Foundation Banquet on May 14.

It’s a modified AR-15 (civilian version of the milspec M16 rifle), specially customized in honor of Gov. Sarah Palin and dubbed “The Alaskan Hunter”:

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Stockholder meetings are rarely dramatic events, but things got heated at Wednesday’s GE meeting of shareholders. GE CEO Jeffery Immelt and NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker had to field about ten questions from from shareholders unhappy with the leftward bias of the company’s cable outlet MSNBC and a charge that it’s business channel CNBC is being pushed in the same direction:

First up was a woman asking about a reported meeting in which Immelt and.. Zucker supposedly told top CNBC executives and talent to be less critical of President Obama and his policies.

Immelt acknowledged a meeting took place but said no one at CNBC was told what to say or not to say about politics.

During the woman’s follow-up question, her microphone was apparently cut off. A short time later, Waters asked a question and his mic was cut, too.

“The crowd was very upset with MSNBC because of its leftward tilt,” one attendee said. “Some former employees said they were embarrassed by it.”

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Via NRO’s Jim Geraghty, the latest tweet from the McCain twit:

“I used to have the hugest crush on Eminem when I was in high school and he still looks hot in his new music video!!”

The puke rapper’s latest video is none other than the sleazeball “We Made You,” in which he fantasizes about Alaska’s governor, portrays himself in bed with a porn star made up to vaguely resemble Palin and includes these lyrics:

Well I can be as gentle and as smooth as a gentleman
Give me my venom, an inhaler, and two Xenadrine,
And I’ll invite Sarah Palin out to dinner, then
Nail her. Baby, say hello to my little friend.

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Many years ago, when I was but a teenaged college student, my political science professor taught me a valuable lesson. He returned a paper I had written with a grade of 37 on it and the following scribbled in the margin in angry red ink:

“Your paper is all supposition. Where is your supporting evidence?“

I learned from the experience. You can’t just phone it in and expect to be taken seriously.

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The media loves to quote Newt Gingrich, because for every few insightful things he says, he always says something really, really off-planet.

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Chalk up a point for RedState.com’s Operation Leper. If the NY Post gossip column Page Six has its facts straight, she’s political toast:

SARAH Palin’s campaign adviser Nicolle Wallace — who was blamed for the GOP veep hopeful’s notorious $150,000 clothes-shopping orgy — is through with politics. “My professional life will never involve working on a campaign again,” she tells next month’s Marie Claire.

According to the column, she’s going to start a family. Now, now… no snarky comments about who will pay for the wardrobe. As Bob Dylan sang so many years ago, “Goodbye is too good a word, babe. So I’ll just say fare thee well.”

- JP

It’s been tough in Alaska for Gov. Sarah Palin the past few days. She’s been embroiled in a tug of war with the legislature over a replacement to fill the unexpired term of a state Senator who resigned to go to work for the Obama administration. The lawmakers appear certain to restore millions of dollars of the federal porkulus funds she had turned down, and they rejected her nominee for Alaska attorney general just yesterday. The legislature even voted down her selection for a seat on the state’s Board of Fisheries by a vote of 42 to 16.

That’s just some of the fallout the governor has had to deal with from her unforgivable sin of accepting her party’s nomination for the vice presidency and campaigning on behalf of Obama’s Republican opponent in the presidential race. Old bipartisan alliances between Sarah Palin and the Democrats in her legislature have been dissolved. Longstanding tensions between her and some elements in her own party in Alaska remain.

Meanwhile, the media and her other political opponents have tried to make much hay over her family and would-be family matters, playing up the recent television appearances by her daughter’s former fiance, his mother’s arrest on drug charges and her sister-in-law’s arrest for breaking into a house that wasn’t hers. The rats have been quiet as a mouse, however, about the president’s brother-in-law and his troubles with British authorities stemming from his arrest for sexual assault on a 13-year-old girl there. Some crimes are more heinous than others. Better for your media image to be a sexual predator named Obama than a cat burglar named Palin.

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My RedState.com colleague Jeff Emanuel provided a prime example of just how deep the drive-by media is immersed in the tank for Obama, as CNN’s Susan Roesgen gets in the face of an American citizen exercising his Constitutional rights of free speech and free assembly yesterday.

HotAirPundit has a fine example of Ms. Roesgen’s other side. She was all sweetness and light just three months ago when the protesters were left-wingers:

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The Hope for America caught Sen. John McCain’s recent appearance on Jay Leno’s show:

Leno: Who is running the Republican Party? Is it Rush Limbaugh? I mean…

McCain: We have, I’m happy to say, a lot of voices out there: Bobby Jindal, T… Pawlenty, Huntsman, Romney, uh… Charlie Crist. There’s a lot of governors out there who are young and dynamic. Uh… Mitt Romney did a great job and continues to. There’s a lot of good people out there, and I’ve left out somebody’s name and I’m going to hear about it (laughs).

Leno: Right.

Yes, the Senator is hearing about it. Not only did he omit the name of Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina from that list of young and dynamic governors, but McCain somehow managed to “forget” the name of the running mate of his own choosing, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska. I’m sure the three months that she tirelessly campaigned with him and for him are just a blur to Maverick now, but the election was less than six months ago. This was either a thinly-veiled snub of two conservative Republican governors, or the onset of senility. You decide.

The video of this exchange is here.

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The dissin’ diva has a response to our recent bit of satire which had some fun at the expense of her Palin-hatin’ community’s abundance of hypocrisy. She figures it this way:

“I guess I’m doing something right if I’ve got your attention!”

Not really. While I was stopped at a red light the other day, a guy plowed right into the rear end of a car in the lane right next to me, knocking it clear out into the middle of the intersection and missing me by just a scant few inches. That got my attention, and the driver whose mind was on vacation was doing absolutely nothing right.

Guess again.

- JP

On “Good Morning America” last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared:

“We don’t want to take their guns away. We want them registered.”

Somehow, I don’t think America’s 80 million firearms owners feel reassured.

People have, in fact, been buying guns and ammo at such a rapid pace since the election of President Obama that there is now an ammunition shortage in the U.S. Johnny Dury, proprietor of Dury’s Gun Shop in San Antonio, TX:

“It started the day that Obama got elected. It is when everything just went crazy in the gun business.”

Drury said people are buying the guns and bullets for several reasons, including the fear of more restrictive gun laws being enacted by a Democrat congress and willingly signed by a president whose record as a legislator on gun control has been one favoring increased restrictions and government regulation.

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Breaking news! It seems that Todd Palin not only has a half-sister, but he also has another half-sibling – a half-brother named Samson Palin. The First Dude’s half-sister Diana, you may recall, was recently arrested for breaking into a house in Wasilla for the second time this week to steal money. You can go to Celtic Diva’s blog and read all about it. You will find it as an update to the Levi/Bristol exploitation post under the mocking title “Palin Family Values” – with the professional Palin-hatin’ diva’s take on it:

Karma has a sense of humor, no?

Wow, just wait until she learns about this latest Palin problem! She and her posse are going to have a field day with it. Todd’s other half-sibling has been accused of something so vile… so perverse… that it spells certain doom for Gov. Palin’s political future.

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The article, written by Amanda Coyne, is surprisingly almost balanced, or at least as balanced as we’re likely to see from such a leftist media outlet as Newsweek.

However, there are a lot of facts that were not included in the piece…

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Get Palin! That’s Job One for The Left and its media allies, says Gary Larson at Intellectual Conservative. And to accomplish the mission, they have gone far beyond the pale. The governor’s children are considered fair game by the same people who would scream bloody murder if either of the president’s two young daughters were unfairly attacked.

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When you’re craving Pizza, you have options. You can call your local Pizza Hut, Domino’s, Papa Johns or Pizza Inn, and it will be delivered to your door. Or you can save the delivery charge and pick it up at the Pizzaria. My sister and her family prefer Papa Murphy’s, which prepares an oven-ready pie for you, and you pick it up, take it home and cook it yourself. Those who like to do it all for themselves can get the ingredients and make their own pizza from scratch. But if you’re Barack Obama, and you were completely blown away on the campaign trail by the pies from Pi in St. Louis, no other pizza will do:

On Saturday, another slightly-higher-viz Chicagoan was in town speaking to a record crowd (conservatively estimated at 80,000) on the Arch grounds. Long-time and active Barack Obama supporter Chris Sommers, owner of pizza restaurant Pi, had previously contacted the Obama advance team, saying he’d be honored to provide the crew with some post-visit nourishment. The team accepted Sommers’ offer and 5 pizzas were delivered downtown. Several hours later, Sommers’ cell phone rang: “Mr. Sommers? Please hold a moment.” After a pause: “Chris, this is Barack Obama. I just wanted to tell you that was the best pizza I have ever eaten—and I’m from Chicago. And thank you also for all your hard work and campaign support.”

Carry-out just isn’t an option in this case, because the pie would be stone cold by the time it landed in Washington D.C. What’s the president of the United States to do?

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