‘Revolution in the air,’ forsooth.


Today’s conservative pick-me-up of liberal gloom and despair comes from Brent Budowsky, whose I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-the-blackest-irony piece in the Hill (called “Revolution in the air:” again, forsooth) will provide you with a piquant, yet filling, compliment to your coffee-and-beverage. Budowsky has come to the realization that a: there is an epic-level anger out there with the people running things into the ground and b: everybody is extremely aware that the Democrats are the ones running things into the ground, and he’s almost as angry with the Democrats for putting him in this spot as he is with the Republicans for not having the common courtesy of killing our families, then ourselves, in a mass suicide cult. Budowsky has a solution, of course (these guys always have a ‘solution’): he thinks that the Democrats “should cancel the week of recess before Labor Day, go to the floor of Congress and fight for American jobs, rally the party base, and go to the country with a campaign worthy of the Democratic Party.”  And then they can ride their Magical Pretty Space Princess Unicorns across the land and transform all those naughty Unemployments into Goodjobs with their Rainbow Sunshine Keynesian Wands!

Oh, wait, this is Earth. So what the Democrats will do instead is hide from their constituents, blame everything on George W. Bush, and get shellacked in November by a voting public ready to have adults with a functioning spine back in charge of fiscal policy.

Well, that works too.

Moe Lane

PS: ‘No difference between the parties,’ my eye:

Don’t embarrass yourself by pretending that this is meaningless.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.


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Bwahahahah!

logus (Diary) Tuesday, August 10th at 8:48AM EST (link)

Oh, it’s going to be sunshine and lollypops, don’t you know?!

Not just because of continued fallout from the administration and party due to their own arrogance and ineptitude, but due to probable pre-planning, I don’t see Obama running again in 2012.

That is, under “normal” circumstances.

“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.”
James A. Garfield

Wading Across

 

I almost started bleeding from the ears...

NotSoBlueStater (Diary) Tuesday, August 10th at 9:43AM EST (link)

Banks that won’t lend money! How clueless do you need to be to even use that phrase. How did we get here? Unregulated derivatives trading based on crap loans (yes, i spread the blame pie evenly). This guy’s answer: More reckless lending.

I cannot and will not give the Republicans credit as being the grownups, though. They have not earned it. Give me a Republican congress that cuts the budget, then we’ll talk.

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The Conservative creed has never offered a life of ease without effort. Democracy is not for such people. Self-government is for those men and women who have learned to govern themselves. – Margaret Thatcher

Banks want to lend money, but only to worthy credit risks

izoneguy (Diary) Tuesday, August 10th at 10:01AM EST (link)

I had a business and received several small loans over the years.
The only way I received them was because we had a good balance sheet, and we always paid on time……

The ones that don’t get loans are usually poor credit risks.

Getting small business loans is completely different than getting a mortgage. There are no community organizers leveraging crazy laws like the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) to force banks to give small business loans to deadbeats – at least not yet anyway.

The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.

 

Why SHould Banks Lend Money?

Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Tuesday, August 10th at 1:29PM EST (link)

The baseline rate is Zirp, and they can borrow money fromt he Fed, plug it into treasuries and get a guarunteed profit. Banks would be stupid to lend money in alternative to treasuries, given the current Fed Policy.

” I side impenitently with the human race against the modern reformer.” – C.S. Lewis

 
 

come out, come out wherever you are.

tngal (Diary) Tuesday, August 10th at 9:49AM EST (link)

Hiding from their constituents and hiding form the President. Didn’t we play that game in grade school? But when Nancy yells oly oly oxen free, they all come out.

(On a side note: Thank you to Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) who has opted to pay his own way back to DC to deal with this spending bill. Most others will let the taxpayers pick up the tab for the cost of the Magical Pretty Space Princess Unicorns or whatever they’re going to be riding in on. )

 

Why I'm Not Hiring

izoneguy (Diary) Tuesday, August 10th at 10:05AM EST (link)

Why I’m Not Hiring

When you add it all up, it costs $74,000 to put $44,000 in Sally’s pocket and to give her $12,000 in benefits. Bottom line: Governments impose a 33% surtax on Sally’s job each year.

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748704017904575409733776372738-lMyQjAxMTAwMDAwODEwNDgyWj.html

American business is going into lock-down……

The dems are sunk for 2010….they cannot do anything with less than 3 months left.

And American business will probably stay in it’s shell even after the 2012 elections.

The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.

 

Use the Missouri primary as your bellweather

frankieb (Diary) Tuesday, August 10th at 10:06AM EST (link)

Many more Republicans than Dems voted last Tuesday. If that holds up here and across the country, we might elect the Congress and the governors we want in November. Then we have to hold their hands and feet to the fire.

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Claire McCaskill goes in so many directions, it’s amazing she hasn’t drawn and quartered herself. www.TruthAboutClaire.com

 

Revolution?

stephaniet Tuesday, August 10th at 10:34AM EST (link)

I can almost smell the gunpowder! Get out the flintlocks! The redcoats are com–oh! Not that kind of revolution. Ballot box first, *then* ammo box, if worst comes to absolute worst? Yes, sorry. Got just a bit carried away. Ahem. I’ll go sit down now and attempt to keep my enthusiasm in check. I’ve been stressed out for the past two years over all this mess, and it’s put 15 extra pounds on me (ugh!), and to think that I might actually see my country restored is a glorious, wonderful thought.

“*They* say the best weapon is one you never have to fire. I respectfully disagree. I *prefer* the weapon you only have to fire *once*. That’s how Dad did it; that’s how America does it… and it’s worked out pretty well so far.”

 

So the 'Rats are finally realizing that the ship they've infested for the past 4 yrs is sinking fast?

jmadisonfan Tuesday, August 10th at 10:53AM EST (link)

about d@mn time!

 

Why not fight for Finnish jobs, they're people too

johnt Tuesday, August 10th at 11:21AM EST (link)

Let’s not be clannish about it.
What is there to say about such stupidity, 20 months into this hell and the morons think jobs are “created”, literally, on the floor of Congress and in a WH inhabited by a total fool.
This is what happens when brains turn to dog poo, in other words, when you start to believe in leftism, jobs by fiat, moving money from one side of the table to the other.

“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville

 

"revolution in the air", the jerk asks who will lead.

johnt Tuesday, August 10th at 1:23PM EST (link)

I can’t wait to see all those”liberals” who will mount the barricades, knives between teeth, brass knuckles in hand, musket primed & powder dry, ready to die if need be for higher taxes, another $800 billion stimulus, the opportunity to drive little electric bumper cars and receive your allotment of one kerosene lamp for household use.

The only real bonus for the deranged would be the banning of Fox News. That the schmucks might just die for.
And to think this head case was a senior congressional staffer, this is what and how they think and talk in the inner sanctum of power?

“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville

Even Gibbs hates the libs. The fuse to the implosion is getting real short.

tngal (Diary) Tuesday, August 10th at 5:21PM EST (link)

Kinda hard to “rally the president’s base” Mr. Budowsky, when his base is soooo mad at him, that even the press secretary notices.

From another Hill story today we learn the libs don’t think O has done enough for their causes.

So when the libs chastise O , press secretary Robert GIbbs says they should be drug tested and they don’t appreciate all the hard work the One has done for them.

So now, Rep, Keith Ellison is calling for Gibbs’ resignation, saying ” Why would he want to go out and deliberately insult the president’s base?”

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/113577-dem-lawmaker-calls-on-gibbs-to-resign

(SIde note: Gibbs must not have been feeling well when he made his rant to the Hill. He missed today’s press briefing)

 
 

The FOP-in-Chief likes the Automobile Metaphor:

romeg Tuesday, August 10th at 3:25PM EST (link)

“Well YOU guys drove the car into the ditch so WE aren’t going to let you have the keys back.”, conveniently ignoring the fact that, first of all, that isn’t his decision to make, secondly, that Democrats have controlled the nation’s purse strings since 2006 and, lest he forget, that HE has had a full two years to come up with a plan to get it OUT of the ditch. So, what have he and his fellow travelers done, instead?

Rather than getting the car out of the ditch, they have driven it off a cliff.

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” – C. S. Lewis