The ‘Under the Bus’ Executive Summary

The ‘Under the Bus’ catchphrase- according to liberals- is being overused, so should now be dropped. Of course, if their political Messiah Obama would quit committing the act, the phrase for that action would not be being over used.  For simplicity, I will create an Executive Summary listing, which may need updating (at least weekly at the rate Barack is working).

Bottom line (to paraphrase ‘Jaws’): “We’re going to need a bigger bus!”

Who’s gone under the bus so far:

• Update 2: A big one; ‘Refining’ his Iraq Strategy (by rolling over it with the bus)
• Update 1: Opposition to Welfare Reform (now taking credit for it??)
• Update 1: State’s Rights on the Gay Marriage Issue
• Originally, Obama’s grandmother for being inherently racist
• Obama’s pastor Wright, Pfleger, and now the entire church
• VP Committee members with the wrong ties
• Obama’s position on public financing
• The Obama Seal (but if they want to get the tires off it, here are a few fitting Latin revisions)
• Obama’s FISA position
• Obama’s long-held gun control beliefs
• One supporter with Maoist tendencies 

Is it any surprise that (no matter how much lipstick they slap on this statistical pig) that the percentage of Clinotnistas leaning toward McCain (23-24%) is unchanged in several months?

We’ve Established What You Are; Now We’re Negotiating Price.

And we thought Gov Spitzer paid a bunch for the services of his women; Obama’s gang is going to pay $20+ million for the services of just one.  And please don’t try to say Hillary’s support is not being bought.  Follow the time line

1. Obama ends up with enough delegates to lock it up, with Hillary $20 million in debt.
2. Hillary falls off the face of the map for a few weeks, with no public appearances or statements; none of typical typical prolonged congratulations, handshaking, good loser, unity stuff.
3. Hillary’s minions snarl continually that there’s no way they’ll vote for that mean, sexist Obama.
4. Obama comes out and asks donors to contribute to Hillary, and makes a $4,600 show contribution for he and Michelle; Michelle must have loved that. (I just heard that Barack pledged to get her entire debt paid off)
5. Hillary is slated to campaign with Obama, but only after the money starts to flow
6. Next, expect the 70’s feminist troops of Hillary start to quiet down and start to- somehow- redirect their ire to that ’sexist’ McCain, since- magically- ‘Sweetie’ Obama no longer is one.

Two things not to expect:

• Hillary as VP candidate
• And Hillary shilling for Obama once the money flow stops.

Indeed, Obama will probably assure that the payout will continue long enough to get optimal campaign value out of her (I’d say about the time the GOP convention wraps up), then end the charade so he can be sure the campaign focuses on him and his running mate.  This also leaves little time for covert Clintonian shock troops to damage him to give Hillary a clear run in 2012.  However, I actually expect those shock troops to be doing some backstabbing if Obama shows any weakness (very likely), even while Hillary’s on stage smiling.  Especially if there isn’t an appropriate feminist running mate at Obama’s side (and what Clinton loyalist feminist would dare show up Hillary by getting on the ticket?)

This is a basic selling of service that the Emporer Club must look at with awe and envy.

UPDATE: Looks like the money pimps on both sides aren’t very happy with the ‘accomodation’.

Hope & Change includes Changing Pledges

Obama is a ‘new style’ politician?  What a joke!  He becomes the first Presidential candidate ever to reject public financing (and the constraints contained within).  This breaks a very clear pledge he made last year. 

Breaking promises is nothing new for a classic politician (which is exactly what Obama has turned out to be).  But doing so with such laughable explanations (and having his staff clearly lie on one issue) indicates he really isn’t ready for prime time.  Let’s address then in outline form:

• “The system is broken’; since April?  Yeah, right.
• “The 527s give the GOP the advantage.”  Can you say MoveOn.org?  How did your meeting with George Soros go?  Who has benefited from $500K of attack ads already?
• “The GOP takes money from lobbyists.”  As did the DNC, as well as the heaps they give you directly, rather than as a ‘group’.  And they represent not 2% of anybody’s funding.

Generally, its a really bad job of putting lipstick on this pig.  And Obama is a pretty poor makeup artist.  Just ‘fess up: “It’s the money, Stupid!”

And, Ironically, they were embarrassed enough about their actual fund-raising in May being so far aff from the rumors that they waited until late on a Friday Night to release the $22 million total (missed the $100 Million by a bit, I’d say).  Fourth month in a row showing significantly reduced donations, while McCain raised a new record.  And, naturally, Obama’s crew hasn’t managed the money as well as McCain’s; they lost $5 million in available cash on hand, while McCain was gaining ground.  Plus, the RNC is in way better shape to help than the DNC; $53 mil to $4 mil.  Not to mention Hillary’s debts that she will be scrambling to pay off.  Barack is not helping his case among Hillary female fiundraisers when he tells them to “just get over it“.  And the most idealistic of his early supporters (lots of college kids) may be catching on to his habits of taking far more creadit than due and flopping around like a fish on things like trade.

So the monetary tsunami may not be all that bad for McCain and he only has to be in the ballpark, given the Democratic tendency to get only half the ‘bang for the buck’ the GOP always seems to manage.  The game is on, The halo has slipped a fair amount on St. Barack and people are starting to get a nagging suspicion that this emporer really doesn’t wear any clothes (or, more appropriate, the suit really is walking around with no content.)

The End of Hillary’s Campaign

The DNC cart is coming by Hillary’s place and her senior advisors have to bring her out.  Barack also makes a cameo at the end.

 

She Lost to Al Gore

He shot a movie and flew around in private jets promoting a scientific viewpoint.  She saved 2,500 children and was tortured by Nazis for it, then continued the work.  He was considered more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than she was.  The result was Mother Nature continued the record of Peace Prize winner futility via the coldest winter in decades for much of the world. 

May Irena Sendler be fondly remembered much longer than Al Gore.

The Hildebeast lost to THIS???

And they worry about McCain’s Age???

OK: campaigning is tiring work. But letting your brain either die completely like this either in math or basic civics does not speak well for his endurance as POTUS:

I’m not sure that this guy is right that this just reflects how Chicago politicians routinely count votes.

Just assume it’s brain flatulence from exhaustion, the most optimistic view. We elect this guy President, he wakes up from a night of too little sleep and figures someone has nuked a few states out of existence?? And McCain’s durability is supposedly an issue?

Maybe we should consult someone who knows something about durability:

The Hildebeast Is Done For.

With Barack’s crushing win in North Carolina and Hillary’s narrow escape in Indiana, the nomination is decided.  The super delegates will start publicly flocking to Barack to gain favor, no longer fearing (overmuch) her political power.  I won’t be suprised if enough do it to put him over the top before he is embarrasingly beaten like a drum in West Virgina and Kentucky (which will happen anyway, but will not be well covered).  I’m sure the city of Denver will breathe a sigh of relief if he’s got it sewn up before he gets there.  It is probably for the best in terms of the political process; whether it’s best for the nation will take quite awhile to determine.  

Still, Operation Chaos and Hillary’s tenacity had the benefit of finally beginning to treat Barack like any other candidate; treating him any other way would truly be racist.  The guy is an inexperienced Chicago machine politician with a very liberal voting record (such as it is). That should be issues of more import that the genetics involved.

I doubt the GOP could have possibly pulled that off without the MSM and the Dems painting McCain as something new generation klansman.  Indeed, I expect the age question to slowly evolve to implied painting of McCain with some of his generation’s racial intolerance and a need for payback (which is ridiculous, but does anybody expect the MSM to permit real issues in November?)

As for Hillary, she probably will not formally fold, just go into maintenance mode.  She has a chance to become a Senate leader (Ted Kennedy’s successor, hopefully) if she cranks it way down now.  And if Barack fails (possibly with the help of her backalley knife fighters), she’s got 4 years with a one term McCain to make people forget her nastiness and hope to try again. 

Those of us whose contempt for the Clintons political antics long preceded this campaign can take some satisfaction in the justice of her aborted coronation and Bill reduced in the last days to running around out in tiny rural towns like a country constable drumming up support.  And the fact we made use of them in the process.

Many thanks for your service, Hillary and Bill; you may go now.

 

A Source of High Oil Prices

My undercover investigation found this to be a key source of the conspiracy that has led to $115/barrel oil prices:

What is this?  It is a picture of some of the typical vehicles parked outside my local fitness center on a beautiful Spring day.  A Yukon, a giant Ram truck and the smaller SUV is a 4Runner.  When we drive on a beautiful day to go get exercise , there is no one to blame for oil prices other than us.  Folks; try running, jogging, power walking or even just strolling there!  I know it’s radical.

Trust me, I see hundreds of these 12 MPG monsters every workday, being used to crawl through long commutes with just the driver.  The pickup’s bed showed absolutely no sign of usage for real work and it’s rare I ever see one of these SUVs with more than 4 people in them, even on weekends.  Couple that with our energy-devouring McMansions (the new home average size has grown 250% in two generations) and our personal energy consumption has gotten absurd.

Of course, instead of burning our grand-children’s chemical feedstock, we can burn today’s food (via biofuel), so we can keep driving to the fitness center. To heck with starving a few million people (including the orphans at the orphanages I support, who lost World Food Program support because of the rising food prices.)  

Super-Delegates; Bribery, Blackmail, Extortion, Oh My!

It’s time to address the very ugly back-room antics that are going on that the Democrat Party is desperate not to have discussed.

The several hundred gorillas in the Democrat room are the super-delegates; and only a fool will think that these gorillas will not demand to be fed.  But, they’re not like that, are they?  Only if you still believe in the tooth fairy. And, because these are super-delegates, all of this feeding will occur out of the public eye.

So what do you feed a super-delegate gorilla?   Political favors, positions, contributions, even outright cash.  All of which requires money or political power. In other words, subtle or outright bribes 

Or you can not feed the gorilla and choose threaten him with bigger gorillas, if you have them in your corner.  Exposure of bad (even illegal) habits, loss of current positions, major support for the gorilla’s opponents.  In other words, subtle or outright extortion and blackmail.

Now, who has the most capability of feeding or intimidating these gorillas in this way?  Barack Obama, the political newbie with minimal personal resources, or the Clintons, with all their years of power and massive amounts of ‘mystery money’ associated with the Clinton Library and the Clinton Foundation?  In this back alley fight, Barack is going into a gunfight with a pocketknife.

Barack  can only counter this by keeping things in the light of day; out of the back alley, as it were.  That’s why the cry continues to be to ‘honor the pledged delegate vote’ for him, even though he has won almost no key state and has heavily dependent on the caucus system, which correlates poorly to general election success.  Obama isn’t doing this out of a sense of fairness; the guy is a product of the Chicago political machinery, where fairness is a pretty foreign concept. 

But the Clinton minions have come up with a perfect counter that would provide a great cover for the back alley massacre, ironically in the name of ‘democracy’.  A superdelegate primary, complete with a secret ballot! Oh, the bloodbath that will occur in the background of that spectacle.  But it would given the super-delegate the group cover that would actually allow them to overturn the pledged delegate count and avoid personal responsibility for the race riots such an outcome would bring in Denver.  It’s the only way to overturn the pledged votes and it’s a sharp political ploy.

Supposedly, it would also protect the gorillas from individual retribution and reward, but the Clintons would merely make it an all-or-none offer;  bananas to all if they win, carpet-bombing if they lose.  And who in the Democrat party want the Clintons on a suicide mission, with all they know and all of their resources? 

The super-delegates would prefer that arsenal being used on McCain and they know Obama is now seriously damaged for the general.  Their desperation is so bad, there is the ludicrous talk of taking the white male elitist Al Gore, who has not faced a single vote this primary, to replace the first serious woman and the first serious black candidate.  That shows the Democratic leadership has reached full psychosis.

Ain’t it grand?

The Dems run Conventions like Keystone Kops

And these bozos want to run the country??  They can’t even run district-level conventions here in Texas without almost matching Mugabe in Zimbwabwe for class and fairness. 

 The 23rd district got together at 8:30am; the convention managed to start at 6pm.  There was challenges and shouting galore.

Sheila Jackson, the Democrat Congresswoman, was booed in Houston.

They had this stuff going on 3 weeks ago, which I witnessed myself at precinct (a single night of hypocracy was all I could manage).  They couldn’t take notes and prepare any better than this after that??

Manners, competancy and democracy, Democrat style.  Just what the nation needs more of.

UPDATE:  The tedious process included numerous precincts redoing the caucuses held March 4, an act repeated across the state. Re-doing the March 4th caucuses???  No legal issues there; yeah, right!  Sorry, you either seat a delegate or you accept a challenge to one; no ‘redos’ are possible, since most of the precinct caucus goers aren’t there.  I speak as someone who has run district conventions myself and I would have rightfully been burned at the political stake had I run a mess like that, no matter how much lipstick the local paper tries to smear on this pig.