Archive for February, 2009
Hey! You Got Your Zombie In My Jane Austen!
Finally, an author has found a way to get me (and every other red-blooded male) to read Jane Austen! What’s the secret? Zombies. IT is a truth commercially acknowledged that Jane Austen’s high-spirited heroines can be recast as Hollywood brats or Bollywood sirens, wittily navigating the eternal perils of class, romance and unworthy men. Few [...]
Pray Your Members of Congress Took Speed Reading Lessons (UPDATED: It’s Worse – Oh and Help a Little?)
The actual numbers are in the last update, thanks to the Heritage Foundation. Read down to the bottom, but don’t forget to read my post, too! It is now 7 PM and the Democrats in Congress have yet to give their Republican counterparts a copy of the final Stimulus Bill for them to read. Steny [...]
The White House Bumbles Another Nomination
Judd Gregg was going to be the Cabinet member who proved that Barack Obama was a true bipartisan leader. Gregg is a fairly-conservative and well-respected Senator who replaced the former nominee who had to withdraw because he’s under criminal investigation for corruption. Unfortunately, the President found that even though Gregg wasn’t a rock-ribbed conservative, he [...]
The Pelosi Rule: Just Agree to Vote Yes and She’ll Let You See the Bill
I didn’t intend for the past couple weeks to be All Stimulus, All the Time around here. I’d much rather be talking about other things. I swear, though, there’s so much wrong with what has been happening that I can’t help but stumble over some new bit of wrongness that I feel is worth passing [...]
I Paid For Pelosi’s Pet Mice and Reid’s High-Rollers, And All I Got Was a Lousy $13
Remeber how, during the campaign, President Obama said that he was going to give 95% of all Americans a tax cut and how you’d be able to stimulate the heck out of the economy with all that crazy cash? Well, here’s your $13 a week in tax cuts. Don’t spend it all in one place. [...]
Susan Collins Makes Me Thankful for a Merciful God
Here is what allegedly-Republican Senator Susan Collins said of the almost 800 billion dollar vote-buying bill that Democrats and their three lapdogs will pass in the next 24 hours: It is a fiscally responsible number that reflects our efforts to truly focus this bill on programs and policies and tax relief that will help turn [...]
I Don’t Like Moderates
I wanted to share this quote from Jonah Goldberg. It sums up very nicely my general feelings toward those who call themselves moderates. For certain Beltway centrists, the highest principle is to prove that you are attached to no principle. Rather, your duty is to split the difference between the “ideologues.” If one side says [...]
That’s What You Said