Archive for 'Donkeys'

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

The Shame Of The Ignorance Peddlers

Frequent readers know that I am an unapologetic 100% free-trader. I’ve made the case elsewhere, so here I will simply state that no movement in human history has improved the lot of so many as the development of trade, particularly in the modern democratic, capitalist sense. And yet America, a country that has […]

9 Comments » - Posted in Elephants, Domestic Affairs, Donkeys, Foreign Affairs, Hillary Clinton, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Friday, April 25th, 2008

A Nightmare Or Much Ado About Nothing?

The press and blogs are full of headlines bemoaning the continuing ‘nightmare’ facing the Democratic Party because they have a competitive race that may not be settled until the convention. Though this has hardly been the rule lately, in the past, it was quite common to not have a definitive nominee at this point […]

6 Comments » - Posted in Barack Obama, Donkeys, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Candidates, Election 2008 by Mark

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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

How To Lose An Election (By An Acknowledged Expert)

The Democrats have pretty much settled on their general election theme: a John McCain presidency would equal George W. Bush’s third term. However, I hope they will reconsider, and take the lead of noted loser George McGovern, who thinks the path to victory lies in ridiculing John McCain’s service to his country:
If I’d be […]

28 Comments » - Posted in Donkeys, John McCain, Republican Candidates, Election 2008 by Mark

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Thursday, April 10th, 2008

More On The PPA

That’s the Protectionist Party of America, formerly known as the Democratic Party. From the Washington Post editorial board (titled Drop Dead, Columbia):
THE YEAR 2008 may enter history as the time when the Democratic Party lost its way on trade. Already, the party’s presidential candidates have engaged in an unseemly contest to adopt the […]

15 Comments » - Posted in Barack Obama, Domestic Affairs, Donkeys, Foreign Affairs, Hillary Clinton, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

How Craven Are The Democrats In Their Know-Nothing Appeasement of Economic Illiteracy?

So craven that Nancy Pelosi will rewrite the rules in the middle of the game to prevent consideration of a free-trade pact she helped craft in a blatantly obvious attempt to curry favor with protectionist progressives:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said today that Democrats will seek to delay consideration of a trade agreement with […]

4 Comments » - Posted in Barack Obama, Domestic Affairs, Donkeys, Foreign Affairs, Hillary Clinton, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

‘Kristen’ Revealed

Well, the whole world knows who Client #9 is - and now we know who ‘Kristen’ is.
Go ahead, look, get down in the gutter a little - you know you want to.
I’ll still respect you in the morning…honest…(’Kristen’ gets bonus points for being a former Austin resident - but I guess we didn’t move in […]

16 Comments » - Posted in Donkeys, Celebrities / Pop Culture / Sports by Mark

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Monday, March 10th, 2008

A Do-Over? On What Grounds?

I was on record, at the time of the Florida primary, as follows:
Hillary wins big…considering that no one else campaigned in the state due to the DNC stripping Florida’s delegates, this is the biggest non-story of the night…however, if Michigan and Florida’s delegates end up getting seated somehow, Hillary is going to look like a […]

19 Comments » - Posted in Barack Obama, Donkeys, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Candidates, Election 2008 by Mark

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Sunday, December 16th, 2007

Sharpton Cuts A Deal

Would it be too much for a person who goes by the honorific “Reverend” to understand the difference between perhaps strictly legal and definitely morally repugnant?
With a hidden FBI camera rolling inside a New York hotel suite in 2003, an unsuspecting Rev. Al Sharpton, Democratic candidate for president, spoke candidly.
Sharpton offered to help Philadelphia fund-raiser […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Donkeys by Mark

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Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Waterboarding A-OK When Bush Was Popular And No One Knew

More hypocrisy from Congressional Democrats:
In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual […]

13 Comments » - Posted in Donkeys, Radical Islam / GWOT by Mark

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Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Want My Support For The War? You’ll Have To Pay For It

No wonder Democrats who are against the war are so upset with the current Democratic leadership…after repeatedly vowing to end the war, then repeatedly vowing not to fund the war without a date certain for withdrawal, the Democrats in the House and Senate are poised to pass a war funding bill with no timetables for […]

5 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Elephants, Donkeys, Iraq by Mark

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Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Murtha Briefly Sees Light, Pelosi Shoves Back Into Darkness

If the stakes weren’t so high, the recent headlines surrounding John Murtha would be downright hilarious in their illustration of Pelosi’s Principles of Partisanship.  John Murtha just got back from Iraq and said a quite remarkable thing, given his history on the war:
Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) acknowledged that the surge of U.S. troops in Iraq […]

21 Comments » - Posted in Donkeys, Iraq by Mark

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Sunday, November 25th, 2007

An Improving Iraq Forcing Dems To Reevaluate

Not even the Democratic presidential nominees can ignore the progress in Iraq any longer:
As violence declines in Baghdad, the leading Democratic presidential candidates are undertaking a new and challenging balancing act on Iraq: acknowledging that success, trying to shift the focus to the lack of political progress there, and highlighting more domestic concerns like health […]

1 Comment » - Posted in Iran, Israel, Elephants, Donkeys, Iraq, Election 2008 by Mark

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Monday, November 12th, 2007

George Will On ‘Progressive’ Economic Foolishness

My friends, on both the right and the left, I ask you a question, in all earnestness: how can you vote Democratic if you understand the slightest thing about economics?  If for no other reason (and there are plenty of other reasons, but we’ll let that slide for the moment), I could never support a party that […]

29 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, John Edwards, Donkeys, Foreign Affairs, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Friday, October 19th, 2007

My Friends On The Left Will Surely Disagree…

…but the last couple of months have been pretty good for George W. Bush: a seeming turnaround both on the ground and in public opinion on Iraq, a line in the sand on expanded entitlements (albeit with some PR scars from ‘not caring about children’ rhetoric), and relative ease in swiping away ill-considered Democratic initiatives […]

21 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, POTUS, Elephants, Donkeys, Iraq by Mark

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Monday, October 15th, 2007

Matt Bai, Liberal New York Times Columnist, Appalled By Ignorance, Venom of Nutroots® Kingpin

Here’s one I couldn’t resist, from The Economist, reviewing Bai’s new book:
Mr Bai sets out to uncover the forces shaping the Democratic Party behind the scenes, both within and outside the party hierarchy. He spends time with howling bloggers, billionaire donors and the politicians who try to accommodate their impossible demands. He is instinctively sympathetic […]

45 Comments » - Posted in Donkeys, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

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Monday, September 24th, 2007

Strange Bedfellows

Despite much controversy over the decision to invite Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at Columbia, give credit to the institution’s president for pulling no punches:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the stage at Columbia University on Monday to a blistering reception from the president of the school, who said the hard-line leader behaved like “a petty […]

47 Comments » - Posted in Donkeys, Iran, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, NY Times/Media Watch, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Thursday, September 13th, 2007

The President Makes His Pitch

From tonight’s speech:
Gen. Petraeus believes we have now reached the point where we can maintain our security gains with fewer American forces. He has recommended that we not replace about 2,200 Marines scheduled to leave Anbar province later this month. In addition, he says it will soon be possible to bring home an Army combat […]

26 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Donkeys, Iraq by Mark

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Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Showdown

The big day is tomorrow, as General Petraeus begins his testimony:
The top American commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, has recommended that decisions on the contentious issue of reducing the main body of the American troops in Iraq be put off for six months, American officials said Sunday.

General Petraeus, whose long-awaited testimony before Congress […]

2 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Elephants, Donkeys, Iraq, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

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Thursday, September 6th, 2007

“The Lunatics Are Running The Asylum” Department

I have commented before on the absolutely disgustingly large proportion of ‘progressives’ who are infantile enough to believe that 9/11 was an inside job. Being at “Ground Zero”, so to speak, here in Austin, I see it almost daily (I’m quite serious). I think many of my readers who maybe aren’t exposed to […]

7 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Donkeys, Radical Islam / GWOT, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Is The War Lost? Yes, If You’re A Democrat…

Oh, there I go again. Only it’s not me, it’s the Democrats themselves, according to the latest Zogby Poll:
A majority of Americans - 54% - believe the United States has not lost the war in Iraq, but there is dramatic disagreement on the question between Democrats and Republicans, a new UPI/Zogby Interactive poll shows. […]

1 Comment » - Posted in Elephants, Donkeys, Iraq by Mark

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