How do you all feel about Palin publicly remarking on the bashing she is getting now from the McCain campaign folks or others?

In one way I believe McCain took a knife to a gunfight with his campaign, but on the other hand I want Sarah to remain above the fray.

Fox is reporting that Obama is drafting a list of Bush executive policies and orders that he’ll reverse. What can Bush do now that Obama can’t reverse upon entering office?

Judicial appointments?

Pardons? Perhaps pardons relating to the Iraq War runup and the war itself?

Removal of critters from the endangered list?

Clinton did some real nasty pardons (Marc Rich) and that seemed to be forgotten in short order. What can Bush do? Or more directly, what will Bush do given his current backbone (or lack thereof?)

This from the Weekly Standard, which caught a real doozy of an article by Newsweek.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Weblogs/TWSFP/TWSFPView.asp#9531

We better hold AK, GA and MN because PA is looking like another loss in 10.

http://allthingspennsylvania.net/2008/11/08/ed-rendell-senate-run-in-2010/

Palin is the future of the GOP. Now that she has earned her chops, what more can the msm do to her?

LA Times has an article up about African Americas and Prop 8 .

 Guess gay folks really should not have tried to sell their nonsense to the AA community as a civil right, failed terribly.

I recently read that Harry Truman had a 23% approval rating when he left office–Bush is currently at 30%–Truman today is regarded by many as one of our better presidents. Perhaps time will recognize that during 7 of Bush’s 8 years in office we had a strong economy–during which, the Clinton’s were able to amass 10+ million dollars and the Obamas became millionaires. Bush also protected the US from further terrorist attacks after 9/11. No, I cannot forgive him for attempting to cosy up to the democrats by allowing rampant spending, not using his veto pen enough and making a mockery of illegal alien enforcement; but given the unrelenting MSM attacks from the day after his election until the present, I am surprised that he has held up as well as he has.

From the last section of this OpEd

And there’s the scenario that Gov. Minner appoints Congressman Mike Castle as senator for two years, Carney wins a House special election, Castle retires, Carney runs for Senate in 2010 and Beau Biden runs for House. Don’t bet a dime on this one.

Some background on the politics here. Delaware politics is quite incestuous. Elected officials routinely swap roles. For example, Tom Carper (D) has been a U.S. Representative, then Governor, now Senator. Mike Castle (R) has been Governor, now Senator, and I do believe he as well was a Represenative for a bit. This is the state that for decades elected both Roth and Biden by landslides.

The current governor, Ruth Ann Minner (D) who is at end of her term limits, endorsed her Lt. Governor Carney, during a bitter primary. Markall won the Democratic primary and Minner refused to endorse him. He went on to win the governor’s seat.

Conventional wisdom is that Minner would appoint Carney to Biden’s job, but Carney has said he doesn’t want to commute to DC like Biden did.

So might Minner thumb her nose at her party and appoint Castle to Biden’s seat? Possible. She’s retiring and dropping out of politics — allegedly.

But another complication is that Biden could time his resignation on Jan 20th to be after Markall is sworn in that day as governor, dropping the task to him to appoint Biden’s replacement. Problem with that scenario is the new Delaware Senator would be 100th out of 100 for senority and get the absolute crap of everything, including office space, so conventional wisdom is Biden will resign and allow Minner to appoint, possible in time for any lame duck session of Congress. This would put the new Delaware senator ahead of freshman senators in senority.

Possible interesting times in Delaware ahead.

That old saw was reinforced once again this year.

I know most of you guys weren’t crazy for McCain when he was nominated, but we all fell in line and campaigned, blogged, and voted.

The Ds fell in love, as usual.

Unfortunately, most of the country wanted that loving feeling, not our “Next”.

Next time, maybe “love” and “next” will coincide. Technically, either Mitt Romney or Sarah Palin would be “next”. I supported Romney in the primary, but now I’m in love.

Give me Sarah! for my “next”. And hopefully American will fall in love as well.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

I have been on a self-imposed News Blackout since Wednesday.

I am trying to slowly make my way back into the fray by reading self-esteeming sites such as RS and Michele Malkin.

I walk on the other side of street from the newstands with “Giant Poster of Obama!Today only!” on it.

Am I the only one feeling gun-shy???

I’m watching the news (actually it was that analysis of the news show on Fox – I think it’s called News Watch) and they were discussing the Sarah Palin Smears.

None of those freaking morons had the sense to say, “Of course, those are stupid bald faced lies. Anyone who doesn’t think Sarah Palin knows whether or not Africa is a continent is too stoopid to live.”

Instead, they all griped that McCain had not vetted her thoroughly enough.

I’m reminded of the time one of those ignorant Yankees accused me of not knowing the American flag. I didn’t disabuse him of his stupidity, so he surely still does.

I was in New Hampshire with my sister and some of her friends. I pointed out a very large flag flying over a residence. It was the type of flag you usually see flying over a large establishment of some kind or another. I pointed it out to my mom, “Mom, look at that flag.”

And the moron we’re with says to me, “That’s the American flag.” No kidding. He really said that.

He also asked what kind of music we had back in MO.

Those ignorant turds think that they are suave and educated and that we are all Jethro and Elly Mae. I’m about to get so riled up, I’ll use Peggy Noonan’s pointy head as a weapon to spear David Brooks, Kathleen Parker, and miscellaneous other Yankee talking heads.

And, no, that wasn’t respectful, but please don’t ban me anyways.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

Meanwhile out here in California, Tom McClintock tries to eke out a win the California 4th Congressional District.

Tom McClintock 50.07 156,002
Charlie Brown 49.93 155,561.

No reports of “funny business” about votes appearing magically as far as I have read, but in a district that holds a 15 percent advantage for R’s over D’s, Tom is not exactly firing up Republicans, guess Tom’s an acquired taste even in a heavy R district.

It was just snowing outside my window in Southern Lower Michigan.

I can hardly wait until President Obama chooses to address this terrible concern……

Why the Republicans lost in 2006 & 2008. I think we also know how Republicans win.

It’s my contention the “stool” has a broken leg & needs to be mended. The leg broken is small-government fiscal responsibility. In Tennessee, our Republicans have all three legs of the stool & have been very successful – taking over the state house for the first time since reconstruction & expanding the majority in the state senate. Not only did they run as all-round conservatives, those in office have performed as all-round conservatives. As long as they do, they will win. TN, contrary to popular belief, is a diverse state. It used to be a “bellweather” state until Obama polled so badly here.

I don’t know who will be the leader who restores the stool to all three legs, however I’m ready for that leader – or those leaders – to step to the fore!

They really are a Marxist party now. From the Hill:

“Blue Dog Democrats Friday called on the Democratic Caucus to support “moderate voices” in the slew of leadership decisions the party will be making this month.

The release did not name any of the races or contenders, but Blue Dog sources say it can be seen as preliminary support for Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) in a brewing bid for vice chairman of the caucus and Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.)”

That’s funny.

Come January, the best thing that the Senate Republican caucus could do is the following.

Inform the Democrats that they will filibuster every Judicial nominee until the Democrats sign into law or senate rules or something of that nature an agreement that all Judicial nominees be handled on a strict time frame.

90 days from the vacancy to the naming of a nominee, 60 days from the naming to a committee hearing, 14 days from the hearing to the vote, 14 days from the vote to a floor vote and no filibusters.

Six months from vacancy to filling.

We lose the battle of confirming all of the nominees of a President Obama, but since we tend to fight fair anyway, this is a win in the long term for when the presidency changes in 2012.

So on this warm sunny Sunday, some of us went to an NFL game here in Houston — to watch the Texans get creamed by the Ravens.

It was lovely to see the former Commander in Chief, George HW Bush, on the field before kick-off as part of the Texans Salute to the Military Day. We Houstonians are a patriotic bunch, lack of desire to pay more taxes notwithstanding.

Up in the stands, many of those sitting around us are regulars — black, white, hispanic, young and old — and we know one another well enough to share high-fives after good plays and yell at coaches after bad ones. After a beer or two, the talk began to flow, and the jokes.

When the refs made bad calls, we yelled, “Hey! Is that like spreading the wealth — giving our points to them?” We joked about the Fairness Doctrine, arguing that the Ravens ought to have to give half their touchdowns to the Texans, in the spirit of sportsmanship, donchaknow.

Then there were the darker comments, like “I wonder if Obama will find a way to tax season tickets, seeing as we are all so rich and everything?”. We wondered aloud if the new administration will try to circumvent our unpatriotic desire to keep what we earn by slapping a surcharge on beer of, say, $4 a bottle.

I don’t know that I’ve talked politics with my fellow suffering Texans fans before, but today’s comments from the stadium were enlightening (and the standing ovation for Bush 41 was heartwarming).

Yes, we lost. We all agreed it has been a bad week. But the season isn’t over yet.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081110/aponbige/worldmarkets

Aren’t they already like a communist country?

nt

College hoops will be start soon. Maybe our beloved Blue Devils will have a great season this year.