The Greater Wisconsin Committee, recipient of over $1 million in unused campaign funds from former Gov. Jim Milhous Doyleone , spent some of that money on a vicious, false smear against sitting State Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, accusing Prosser of protecting a pedophile priest in 1979 while serving as a prosecutor.

Problem is, the ad is a lie, GWC knows it, and now the victim is speaking out against GWC and in support of Justice Prosser.

Watch the ad, then go take a shower. We’ll still be here when you return.

Here’s what the GWC says about the ad:

Prosser refused to prosecute a Wisconsin priest even though he had evidence that the priest had sexually assaulted three boys.

As a local DA, Prosser didn’t interview the priest or have the police investigate. Instead, Prosser met with the local bishop and they agreed to send the priest to another parish to prevent the church embarrassment.

Prosser even told the victims’ mother that he didn’t want to prosecute the case because the priest’s brother was a "celebrity" because he appeared on the Lawrence Welk TV show.

The priest abused more victims for years, but was eventually convicted in the original case that Prosser refused to prosecute.

Now, the victim, Troy Merryfield, has spoken up, demanding that GWC remove the sleazy ad, telling what really happened and endorsing Justice Prosser for re-election (Merryfield is not a resident of Wisconsin but says he would vote for him if he were). Read the entire letter here .

Essentially, the original case came down to a decision not to pursue prosecution based on two factors: (1) the age of the victims and the potential for emotion trauma from a jury trial and (2) a promise from the Green Bay Archdiocese for administrative action against the priest who molested the boys, action that was never taken. In other words, the Green Bay Archdiocese lied. I am, in the words of Captain Renault, shocked, shocked!

Charges were later brought, and with both testimony from both victims and assistance from Prosser, the priest was convicted and sentenced to prison for his crimes. Says Merryfield:

As a victim, I find the ad by the Greater Wisconsin Committee to be offensive, inaccurate and out of context. I hope that organization will remove the ad. I hope Ms. Kloppenburg will encourage the organization to pull that ad. I hope all websites, blogs and other purveyors of political information would stop portraying this case inaccurate and out of context.

If I was a resident of the State of Wisconsin, I would vote for David Prosser in the upcoming election.

Charlie Sykes says :

The ad is already backfiring badly.

Go over to the comments thread at Sykes Writes and read the comments from Bill Christofferson, known as "Xoff," a banana slug of a political consultant who worked for Diamond Jim and other progressives in Wisconsin. He’s also one of the driving forces behind the Greater Wisconsin Committee.

As I noted in that same comments thread:

Looks like the Greater Wisconsin Committee is playing the role of Wile E. Coyote with Justice Prosser as the Road Runner. Meep! Meep!

I retract that previous remark: banana slugs may be insulted by the comparison to Xoff.

Mary from Freedom Eden has more here :

[T]hese Leftists are showing no sensitivity whatsoever for these victims of abuse. Through their actions and exploitation of Merryfield and his brother, they are serving as abusers.

Kloppenburg’s failure to condemn the ad says a lot about her character and the sleazy tactics she’s willing to employ to win an election.

Inflation hammers away at consumers both at the gas pump and at the supermarket as well.

According to the U.S. Labor Department, food prices climbed 3.9 percent last month. It’s the biggest spike since November 1974.

For more than 50 years, Superior Bakery in Cranston, R.I., has supplied area supermarkets with bread, but the rising cost of supplies has forced owner Robert Cicerone to tighten his belt.

“The gas prices have hurt us immensely,” he said. “It hits your traffic margin, your cash flow. Everything that comes in the door has a surcharge,” said Cicerone.

Cicerone said he’s paying up to $1,500 a week more to fill up his 12 trucks was gas then he was 10 months ago.

The cost of sugar and flour has also increased, forcing this family business to implement a 6 percent price increase. Among other places, they deliver down the road to Ruggieri’s Market, a nearly 100-year-old, family-run grocery store.

The store’s president, Peter Ruggieri, said it’s hard to pass the price increases on to customers.

“The consumer thinks it’s the store at store level, that we’re just price gouging,” he said. “But in reality, once again, we’re working on a smaller percentage to try and keep the product moving, keeping it fresh. We don’t like to see the high prices.”

Remember, though, in calculating the inflation rate, the government conveniently does not factor in food or fuel cost increases. That’s how the Obama Regime can look the American people in the eye and do what it does best: lie through its teeth and tell us there’s no inflation out there. After all, who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?

Right now, we have Dear Leader, who stood up in a press conference and lied right through His teeth and said there has been more domestic oil production under the Regime than ever. Oh really? In whose alternate reality. This is the Regime that’s been taken to court over the issue of blocking drilling permits for the Gulf of Mexico, whose ban on those leases has been overturned twice by a federal court and who is still acting in defiance of the federal judge who ordered the Regime to begin issuing drilling permits.

If we were really serious about becoming energy independent, we’d be issuing those drilling permits pronto. In the Gulf. Off of either shore. Open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for business. Accept the business proposal from Canada to increase oil sales. Building more nuclear plants. Increasing natural gas production. Producing more coal … of course, the second largest source of clean-burning coal in the world is in Utah and was put off limits during the Clinton administration when it was made into a national park by President Clinton.

Drill, baby, drill.

Instead, Dear Leader goes down to Brazil and awards Brazil oil permits for the Gulf. Of course, one of the big sources of money behind Brazil’s oil industry is lefty money-man George Soros. So, we have the Brazilians and the Chinese drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, but not American oil companies.

This approach to a national energy policy flies in the face of common sense  — until you remember that Obama is hellbent on pushing green energy, primarily solar and wind, as well as mass transit. Talking about so-called renewable energy sources is fine, but the technology is not here now and will not be for decades. Plus, the American economic machine cannot be powered on solar and wind.

Also, the price of corn is going through the roof, as we continue to convert our food into the Epic FAIL known as ethanol. A fuel additive that produces worse gas mileage, requiring drivers to fill up more often and burn more fuel. Of course, since politicians in both political parties in Congress as well as many state legislatures are ethanol whores, having sold out to the industry, we continue to pursue this bad policy, which also drives up food prices.

Remember, too, during the 2008 campaign when Our Lord and Savior said He would necessarily make energy prices skyrocket ?

Either Obama knows something we do not — namely the outcome of the 2012 election has been predetermined — or He has a political suicide wish. Running for re-election with gas prices soaring past $5 a gallon, other energy prices through the roof and out-of-control food prices is a recipe for disaster at the polls. Americans are not stupid. We know we have more than enough natural resources to meet our needs and drive down prices.

And no, making sure our tires are properly inflated isn’t going to save enough gas to get us through this crisis.

November 2012 cannot get here fast enough.

Received this via e-mail:

The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.

Not sure who the author is. The version I received said “Author unknown.” It’s been on the Internet, and I think I have seen it before.

It hammers home a very valid point: an American electorate foolish enough to fall for the Hope and Change fraud in 2008, to drink the Kool Aid, to get suckered by a Cult of Personality did not happen overnight. It came about as a result of decades of dumbed-down gummint-run skoolz not teaching students about America, its history and its culture and traditions, the Constitution, but rather the propaganda of the America-hating Left. You know, those folks that think the United States and her military are the chief source of all evil in the world.

Unfortunately a fairly large number of those are teachers’ union thugs in charge of your children all day, seven hours a day, five days a week, four weeks a month, nine months out of the year. And it gets worse when those young skulls full of mush move on to America’s colleges and universities, which are no longer places of higher learning but rather Marxist/Leninist indoctrination centers where no variance from the doctrine of cultural Marxism is tolerated. Off to the re-education camps for you if you dare stray from the PC line.

Both Lenin and Hitler believed it was critical for the state to control young people, children and adolescents, in order to advance the statist agenda. Same with the progressive statists in America. The cultural Marxism that is masked in the curriculum of our gummint-run skoolz and our colleges and universities is frightening.

But combine this with the celebrity-obsessed media — what Bernard Goldberg calls the “Lamestream Media” — and you can see how the American Idol election of 2008 happened. It was the Perfect Storm of ignorance meeting propaganda.

Drive-By Media outlets pushing the latest on Paris Hilton’s cocaine arrest. The latest contestants on Dancing With the Stars. What outrageous thing did Mel Gibson or Sean Penn say or do now? The cult of celebrity rules and drowns out the real crises facing America.

Who cares if Bristol Palin and The Situation are on DWTS? We have budget deficits of $1.3 trillion and $1.4 trillion the last two fiscal years, the first two fiscal years of the Era of Hope and Change. We have the Mother of All Tax Hikes staring us in the face, ready to knock out a staggering economy and putting it down for the count. We have the first anti-American President in our history deliberately destroying this country at home and abroad in order to remake it in His own vision.

Fortunately, some Americans have noticed and have been paying attention. Look at all the Tea Party rallies, last year’s 9/12 rally in Washington, D.C. Last weekend’s Restoring Honor rally in our nation’s capitol. Hundreds of thousands of Americans turning out, ready to take their country back from the anti-American thugs out to destroy it.

Re-educating — I hate that phrase, since it is associated with Marxism — the American public on the country in which they live will be a long and difficult process. We can’t reverse decades of cultural Marxism indoctrination overnight.

Start by removing your children from the government indoctrination centers and biting the bullet and sending them to a good parochial school or homeschooling them. Remove them from dumbed-down content free curriculum, touchy-feely self-esteem babble and the hard Left’s agenda cleverly disguised as curriculum content. Radical environmentalism, the homosexual agenda, Feminazi brainwashing. All of it.

Parents of college-bound young men and women need to check out the colleges and universities carefully. Sad to say, many are indoctrination centers of cultural Marxism, but some are not.

Otherwise, the disaster of 2008 may be repeated in the near future. Let’s face it, folks. At the risk of breaking Godwin’s Law, we elected Hitler in 2008.

No, Obama is not Hitler, any more than Bush was Hitler. But we elected a personality in much the same manner as the German people elected Hitler in the 1930s.

We didn’t elect a President. We chose an American Idol. And there’s a steep price to be paid for such ignorance.

We cannot understate the obvious here, that the attempt by the Democrats Statists and Our Lord and Savior to impose ObamaCare, the nationalization of almost 20 percent of the national economy on the American people by fiat is breathtaking in its arrogance and is in effect de facto martial law.

Here’s the plain as day portion of the U.S. Constitution that is being completely ignored, Article I, Section 7:

Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively.

The Great One, Mark “F. Lee” Levin via Doug Ross via Michelle Malkin expounds on just what an unconstitutional act is being foisted upon the American people by the dictator wannabes in Washington:

[T]his clause goes to the heart of this Republic.

This clause goes to the heart of how our representative body, that is Congress, makes laws. And so I want you to [observe] how particular the Framers were… They have to pass a Bill to present it to the President…

This is one of the most exacting clauses in the Constitution.

And, to the best of my knowledge, which extends over three decades, no Congress has previously tried to institute policies without actual statutes.

Here we have the President of the United States and Congressional leaders actually talking about the possibility of a brazen and open violation of one of the most fundamental aspects of our Constitution and Republic! How we actually make laws!

Let me be as clear as I know how. If this is done, this will create the greatest Constitutional crisis since the Civil War. It would be 100 times worse than Watergate.

…It would be government by fiat… meaning there would be no law… the mere discussion by officials in this government is such a grotesque violation of the actual legislative function of Congress [that it] puts us… at the brink. At the brink.

This is why we conservatives revere the Constitution. This is why we stress the Constitution’s words have meaning and historical context and must be complied with. Because otherwise we have anarchy, which leads to tyranny.

This is a crucial lesson for those of you who… aren’t sure what your beliefs are, or if you have any beliefs. Or aren’t sure if you even care. We have an effort underway by the one of the most powerful chairmen in Congress, the woman who heads the Rules Committee, …openly discussing gutting Congress. Gutting Congress.

And if this is done, this is about as close to martial law as you’ll ever get… So Louise Slaughter, a Representative from New York, is discussing, in essence, martial law. Now I can tell you, if they pursue this process, and try to impose this kind of a law, without actually passing a statute, that I will be in a race — with scores of others — to the courthouse to stop this.

I can’t think of a more blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution than this. And the liberal media has essentially ignored it!

…It’s not only absurd on its face — that these power-hungry ideologues, party-first-country-second types, would make the claim that the House voted on something it never voted on… that’s not only absurd on its face, it’s blatantly unconstitutional!

Levin calls for the expulsion of Louise Slaughter from Congress for blatant violation and willfully ignoring of the Constitution (via the United States of Earth):

Welcome to Martial Law America, where the Democrats Statists can impose their will on their servants, the American people, by fiat with the complicity of the watchdog lapdog national media, which has become the Fourth Branch of Government.

KatyinIndy says it best via Twitter:

90 plus million armed Americans will not tolerate a dictatorship in any form here in America.

We are headed toward the greatest constitutional crisis since the Civil War. And if once again it results in armed revolt to take our country back from the fascists and statists that comprise the ruling political class, then so be it.

Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.

Looks like the deceitful, dishonest, dictator wannabes in Washington have a new trick to impose ObamaCare on the United States without ever having taken an actual vote: simply declaring they had already passed it previously.

It’s being called the Slaughter Solution, after Rep. Louise Slaughter (Statist-N.Y.) who devised the parliamentary trick.

Would House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow House Democratic leaders try to cram the Senate version of Obamacare through the House without actually having a recorded vote on the bill?

Not only is the answer yes, they would, they have figured out a way to do it, according to National Journal’s Congress Daily:

“House Rules Chairwoman Louise Slaughter is prepping to help usher the healthcare overhaul through the House and potentially avoid a direct vote on the Senate overhaul bill, the chairwoman said Tuesday.

“Slaughter is weighing preparing a rule that would consider the Senate bill passed once the House approves a corrections bill that would make changes to the Senate version.

“Slaughter has not taken the plan to Speaker Pelosi as Democrats await CBO scores on the corrections bill. ‘Once the CBO gives us the score, we’ll spring right on it,’ she said.”

Each bill that comes before the House for a vote on final passage must be given a rule that determines things like whether the minority would be able to offer amendments to it from the floor.

In the Slaughter Solution, the rule would declare that the House “deems” the Senate version of Obamacare to have been passed by the House. House members would still have to vote on whether to accept the rule, but they would then be able to say they only voted for a rule, not for the bill itself.

Here’s the logic behind the apparent political suicide of the Democrats Statists: the political tea leaves already show they will take one of the biggest whuppings at the polls ever in November. Might as well impose one more act of nationalization — two, if you count the nationalization of student loans being bundled into this — before they go down.

The act of creating a new national entitlement that the Republicans will be too cowardly to eliminate will create another Third Rail of American politics that will become permanent. Plus, they’ll only be out of power for a short time while the voters have a temper tantrum and once they complete the coup d’etat with amnesty for illegal aliens, they’ll have at least two new constituencies that will vote them back into power for at least a generation.

That’s the rationale. Being out of power for two years is a small price to pay knowing that the changes they will force on the American people will become permanent and irreversible. Remember: the way the Senate bill is worded, most of it cannot be eliminated without a supermajority vote and the death panels cannot be eliminated ever. They are permanent.

Armstrong Williams labels the Democrats’ Statists’ scheme corrupt:

The latest move by the transparent, above-politics Democrats to slaughter the democratic process in the hopes that Americans are just dumb enough to fall for yet another ruse. The House passes — or rejects — a rule before it considers any given piece of legislation; this rule lays out the parameters for debating that particular bill. Sometimes these rules are strict, sometimes they’re lax; it all depends on how much debate time or how many amendments they want to allow on a given piece of legislation. And then sometimes the rules are just plum dirty. Like this Slaughter Solution.

And one of the bloggers at Red State predicts an extreme backlash if they try this trick, and we won’t have to wait until November:

1. The Supreme Court will strike it down within days.
I don’t remember which of the 3 authors I cited said this (or maybe I heard it on the radio), so I don’t know who to cite. But every American has standing here, due to the exceedingly far reach of the Health Care Takeover bill. Somebody will sue. I predict GOP members of Congress will, and it will go straight to the Supreme Court. They will strike down the whole caboodle, and they will do it almost immediately. Probably 6-3, with Breyer and Kennedy voting with the originalists. Their ruling is very likely to include language extremely damning of the behavior of Democrats.

2. Numerous states will declare statutorily under the 10th Amendment that this law will be unenforceable within their borders.
I’m guessing 20 states. The move has been afoot for awhile anyway, and this blatant flouting of the Constitution will trigger the America-loving, freedom-loving instincts into bold (if rash) action. And while they’re at it, they’re going to say the same thing about everything emanating from the EPA.

3. There will be public anti-government outrage so great that it will boil into violence.
I do not condone this; it will be ugly and more than a little scary. Lest I give anybody fresh ideas, I will not expound upon it other than to say it will be directed, not generalized — directed at objects, property, and symbols of government, not at people. Although those who voted for this Slaughter Rule would be wise to perhaps hang around in Washington for awhile.

4. (Even more) new candidates opposing incumbent Democrats will come out of the woodwork.
Many already have, but many have considered, then declined. Many of those will change their minds, even in blue states. And new ones will pop up like dandelions. And a whole bunch of them will win. The leftist partisan national media currently think Republicans might, juuuuuuuust MIGHT, get 40 seats and the House back. Idiots. It was already going to be 80 and 8. But after this stunt, it might be 120 and 14. This is what happens when the entire center turns on a party.

5. State AGs will bring charges against sitting Congressmen for whatever they can plausibly pin on them.
Sedition is the actual crime (IMHO), and that’s a federal charge. But no USA will touch this, since they work for the president. Because members of Congress cannot be recalled, citizens will be thirsting for vengeance. Very loudly. State AG’s will be chomping at the bits to exact SOME form of payback, encouraged (or pushed) by their citizenry. Things like corruption, conspiracy, bribery, racketeering, tax fraud, and so on, will be easy indictments. As the last few months have shown, congressional Democrats have been so thoroughly corrupt for so long, nobody will even have to trump up anything.

6. Republicans will shut down business in Congress until January 5.
Then it will REALLY get fun.

Democrats will lose the country days after they pull the Slaughter Rule. They’ll have their illegal law both flouted and overruled, their members will be subject to investigations and indictments, and not a single item of interest will be signed into law, nor will any appointment be approved, before January 5, when a hundred or more of them leave Washington for good.

For the record, I have no problem with No. 3, even if that does make me an extremist. Remember: the patriots who fought the Revolutionary War against the exact same type of tyranny were extremists. And as Thomas Jefferson said:

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Clearly, the folks in Washington are tyrants and are indistinguishable from the likes of King George III and Parliament in the 18th century or virtually any other dictator from any other period in history. The likes of Bela Pelosi, Dingy Harry and Barack Hussein Obama believe they are our rulers, not elected to serve the people or at most govern.

As of now, Bela Pelosi has told the House Democrats Statists that the Slaughter Rule is a go, as soon as next week.

The United States is now being ruled by King Rameses II:

So let it be written. So let it be done. Welcome to the new dictatorship of the proletariat.

Photoshop by Slublog.

From LifeNews via Melissa Clouthier at Right Wing News:

Madison, WI (LifeNews.com) — The Department of Homeland Security admitted today that it improperly conducted a threat assessment on pro-life and pro-abortion groups in Wisconsin. The assessment came before an expected rally last year in response to the University of Wisconsin Hospital board decided to allow abortions.

In February 2009, pro-life advocates planned to protest the hospital’s decision to open up a new Madison Surgery Center doing abortions.

The Associated Press reported today that the department said in a memo that it “destroyed all of the copies of the assessment after an internal review found it violated intelligence gathering guidelines about ‘protest groups which posed no threat to homeland security.’”

AP indicated the assessment was reportedly only shared with the director of Wisconsin’s intelligence-sharing center and local police in Middleton, Wisconsin, the site of the rally.

This is what should be even more frightening than the actual threat assessment: DHS, the Wisconsin Department of Justice and the Middleton Police Department all refused to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests from the Alliance Defense Fund and Pro-Life Wisconsin to review the findings. Turns out the reports from DHS were destroyed, and the Middleton PD refused to release its copy.

In January 2010 the Alliance Defense Fund, on behalf of Wisconsin pro-life advocates, asked the Middleton Police Department for a copy of the report pursuant to Wisconsin’s open records laws.

The Middleton Police Department refused to disclose the report and further said that the DOJ similarly refused to authorize disclosure of the report, despite the fact that DHS had already determined that the report was an improper investigation of freedom of speech activities.

Peggy Hammill, state director of Pro-Life Wisconsin, is justifiably outraged:

This move by DHS illustrates the Obama administration’s goal of silencing pro-lifers. It is disturbing that a local police department has apparently tapped into the security apparatus of the federal government to potentially obstruct free speech.

Last year, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano unjustly included pro-lifers in a report on domestic terrorism, and here we see her words in action.

To answer Dr. Clouthier’s question: Yes, it does look like an enemies list is being compiled by the administration. That list will eventuall consist of most of the American people, who the White House views as its enemy.

You can go ahead and say it.

The Boston Tea Party of 2010 may have triggered the Second American Revolution.

Scott Brown became the first Republican elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts in 30 years by cruising to an easy win over Democrat Martha Marcia, Marcia, Marcia Coakley in the special election to fill the seat once held by Ted “The Swimmer” Kennedy, the late Senator from Chappaquiddick.

The Swimmer’s seat, as pointed out tonight, hasn’t been occupied by a Republican in over six decades.

Al-AP has called the race for Brown. So has Fox News.

Coakley has called Brown to concede.

This result, of course, has both short-term and long-term implications for the entire nation. With Brown’s election, there are now only 57 Democrats in the Senate plus two independents that caucus with the Democrats. Dingy Harry doesn’t have his 60 votes for cloture without getting one RINO sellout.

That means the Democrats have limited options to get the health care takeover through. Most likely, they will try to force the House to vote to approve the Senate bill or use the reconciliation process to avoid any cloture votes.

In fact, Juan Williams just finished predicting on Hannity that would be what the Democrats would try. In effect, doubling down on stupid. Try to ram everything through, the voters be damned.

Would not be surprised one iota to see the health care bill rammed through in the next week and the Senate refuse to seat Brown until it is passed.

Yes We Did!

The open thread at Hot Air has numerous links and continuing coverage.

Statement from Press Secretary Baghdad Bob Gibbs at the White House here.

By the way, I’m with Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit. Sen. Brown should deliver the GOP’s response to the State of the Union Show on January 27.

With his victory tonight, Scott Brown has continued what was started in November by both Bob McDonnell and Chris Christie in victory and Doug Hoffman in a narrow defeat: the reconstruction of the Reagan coalition of economic conservatives, social conservatives, national security conservatives, libertarians, blue collar workers, middle class voters, ethnics.

This is the Big Magnet, a phrase coined by former Sen. Fred D. Thompson. It represents a Republican Party strong on principles that will draw voters, especially independents to it, rather than abandoning those principles in an attempt to be all things to all people and essentially stand for nothing.

This is how Ronald Reagan won two landslides in the 1980s and how Republicans captured control of Congress in 1994.

There is a red tsunami building, one that may very well wipe out the statists and Marxists and any enabling RINOs between now and November.

This is the Democrats’ worst nightmare. The emergence of the Tea Party movement as a legitimate political force in America. Once again, from The Prowler as we quoted here:

“You know what scares our people more than the fact that they lost Ted Kennedy’s seat and the Obama mystique may take a huge hit [today]?” says the DNC adviser. “The fact that Democrats and the media can no longer make the tea party types out to be irrational, inflexible ideologues who are supporting nothing but extreme right-wing candidates. The tea party movement supported Brown, raised millions for him and worked for him, and he is not necessarily their kind of guy. Brown proves the tea party movement can be tapped politically for Republican candidates anywhere in the country if they are basically sound on taxes and small government. That is huge.”

I have to go back to a post I bookmarked for further commentary that plays into it. It’s from Erick Erickson at Red State, a blog that if you aren’t reading, you should be.

In it, Erickson describes the big story that all of the state-run media missed in its zeal to portray the Tea Party activists as extreme ideological zealots hellbent on ideological purity and how Scott Brown didn’t fit their template:

Right now the media is missing a really big story. It does not fit their narrative.

The narrative, of course, is that conservatives want a totalitarian pure party with a purity test for the GOP. You want gay marriage? No way. Pro-choice? No support. For government assisted health care options? We don’t recognize you. At least that is what the media claims.

So the media has and is ignoring the alliance between left and right among the GOP in Massachusetts.

Scott Brown is not a conservative. He makes no pretension of being a conservative. He defends Romneycare, which most conservative have rejected. He is pro-choice. But he is for less government interference in the free market and less spending. Like Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania, he is the perfect sort of Republican candidate for New England.

Jim DeMint’s Senate Conservatives Fund is encouraging its members to support and donate to Scott Brown.. Marco Rubio is supporting Scott Brown. RedState is supporting Scott Brown. We, well . . . I, suspect he’ll give conservatives heart burn as New England Republicans do. But all of us know he is a good, pragmatic fit for Massachusetts. He’ll vote against Obamacare and he’d vote against a second stimulus. Conservatives do know, despite media and liberal Republican (called “moderate” by the media) claims to the contrary, that the GOP needs 51 seats in the Senate to have a majority.

Conservative and liberal Republicans are united behind Scott Brown. You’d think a mainstream media that has generated millions of words on television, radio, and print about conservatives demanding a pure party would take notice.

As I wrote earlier, this is the process of reconstructing the Reagan coalition that led to Republican prominence. Over the past 10-12 years, the Republicans lost their way by allowing the Democrats and the state-run media to define who they were, by allowing them to force this idiotic “Big Tent” approach in which all views had to be accommodated or the GOP would be labeled an ideologically rigid party. Ironic, too, since the definition of ideological rigidity is the Democrat Party.

The Big Tent approach has led the GOP into abandoning its core principles in an attempt to be all things to all people and in doing so, alienated the very same Reagan coalition that put it in power.

Right now, it looks like that coalition is being reconstructed, and the message is being sent loud and clear to Washington: to paraphrase President Bush from Ground Zero:

We hear you. All real patriotic Americans hear you. And the people who are trying to destroy our country will hear from all of us in November.

The neutered RNC chairman told Sean Hannity he doesn’t think the Republicans can win back control of the House of Representatives in November.

RNC Chairman Michael Steele said Monday night that he doesn’t think Republicans will win control of the House in 2010 .

Asked by Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel whether he believes the GOP is going to take over the House, the chairman of the Republican National Committee responded, “Not this year.”

Pressed on his prediction, Steele later said, “I don’t know yet.”

Steele said, “We’re going to see, I think, nice pickups in the House,” but added it is difficult to provide a number because it is still early in the 2010 cycle.

That would be comparable to Mike McCarthy saying he didn’t think the Packers could win the Super Bowl despite qualifying for the playoffs. We might win a game or two but …

Embarrassing. This isn’t the first time Steele has flapped his gums without having his brain in gear. Steele piled on Rush Limbaugh , calling the talk show host’s words “incendiary” and “ugly” to al-CNN before backing off. Then, on a later appearance on the Commie News Network, Steele refused to rebut allegations by host D. L. Hughley that the Republican National Convention looked like Nazi Germany and that blacks weren’t welcome in the GOP.

Another member of the Go Along Get Along Gang. Willing to say or agree with anything the popular, cool kids say just to be accepted.

A longer version of this post appears here .

Remember when in the days following the 1994 midterms, Peter Jennings offered this pinhead elitist opinion on the election results:

Some thoughts on those angry voters. Ask parents of any two-year-old and they can tell you about those temper tantrums: the stomping feet, the rolling eyes, the screaming. It’s clear that the anger controls the child and not the other way around. It’s the job of the parent to teach the child to control the anger and channel it in a positive way. Imagine a nation full of uncontrolled two-year-old rage. The voters had a temper tantrum last week….Parenting and governing don’t have to be dirty words: the nation can’t be run by an angry two-year-old.

Via Alan Colmes, David Brooks, the faux conservative columnist from al-New York Times, just had his Peter Jennings moment:

In a mature nation, President Obama could go on TV and say, “Listen, we’re doing the best we can, but some terrorists are bound to get through.” But this is apparently a country that must be spoken to in childish ways.

In other words, in Brooks’ view, much like Jennings, America is a collection of temper-tantrum throwing children who are too immature to handle the truth.

Actually, we can handle the truth, Mr. Brooks. We’re just not likely to hear it from the Little Black Man-Child or anyone in His administration.

Cross-posted at The Underground Conservative.