Goddamn It, California, Vote For Mickey Kaus!

It's not like this blog to follow the exploits of too many normal people (because - honestly - that ain't what I do) but I'll break protocol for Mickey Kaus' campaign to unseat California's Barbara Boxer, because A) Barbara Boxer SUCKS ASS as a senator, and B) I've been reading Mickey Kaus for years, on Slate.com, and find him to be a good, honest man with a keen intellect (how often do you read those words here? Answer: Never.) And there's something else:

By electing Mickey Kaus - an "old school" Democrat - California just might have a shot at not becoming a total basket case, or a laughingstock, without also having to switch from blue to red, politically. That's something. Hell, if he wins, his campaign might even be a correcting influence on that entire screwed-up fruitcake party.

So here's TMR's message to my home, the once (and always?) Golden State:

Maintain your dignity, California - Vote For Mickey Kaus - he's NOT a cultist!

Barack Obama And Liberalism: FAIL

Falling

"Jackson’s need to caper on stage at age 50 recalls the pathetic spectacle of Isaac Hayes, who driven to financial hardship after resigning from South Park after it came into conflict with Scientology, forced himself to continue performing even though he was physically incapacitated,  even if 'performing' consisted of pretending to play the keyboard, speaking songs or stumbling through interviews.

The process through which a principal is captured by his servants is familiar to students of bureaucracy and even business. Once capture is consummated, the master and servant exchange places. The enterprise is run thereafter not for the benefit of the principal, but for those of the agents, such as when a country is run for the benefit of a government, or when a government is run for the benefit of its officials. In the case of Jackson, he may have been working — and made to keep working — for the benefit of the vast swarm of creditors, suppliers and hangers-on who attached themselves like parasites to failing host.

But the most deadly aspect of having ‘enablers’ is that they throw a veil over your eyes. A cordon sanitaire tells you everything you need to know. How you look; what people think; what foods are good for you; what 'medicines' will make you well; what your prospects are. It tells you everything you need to know; but tells it all wrong. Take Adolf Hitler. Up to the very end he was being treated by the good Dr Theodor Morell, 'well-known in Germany for his unconventional, holistic and alternative treatments', another way of saying he kept Hitler drugged to his eyeballs. But Morell was not alone. Hitler’s decision-making processes were ably informed by soothsayers, mountebanks, toadies and certified maniacs. They collectively did more to mess up the Third Reich’s decision making processes than any Allied disinformation plan. Hitler was 'destined' for victory the way some companies are 'too big to fail'.

But how many people, reflecting on the King of Pop’s fantasies, will ask themselves whether subprime mortgages, unfunded social security or borrowing our way out of debt makes any more sense than that last shot of Demerol? On a day when the House has passed the climate change bill, wouldn’t it be good to ask how much of what the public is being made spend is for the public’s own benefit, and how much for the continued livelihood of the armies of special pleaders who surround society with their policy pills and needles?  Good, but unlikely. It is far easier to believe in promises and rely feel-good nostrums than it is to look in the mirror, even though we know what it will show.  Jackson’s death when it came, wasn’t a surprise; probably not even to him. And the crash of public policy fantasy, when it arrives, will not be wholly unexpected."

-- Richard Fernandez, showing he "gets" how NewAge is disastrously influencing society - without just saying (as I do) it's NewAge that's disastrously influencing society - which is why he qualifies (and I don't) for Pajamas Media.

"The Pussy Plan" Would've Been So Much Better

"The Macho Stimulus Plan."

-- Christina Hoff Sommers, on what feminists called Barack Obama's "stimulus program to modernize roads, bridges, schools, electrical grids, public transportation, and dams" (you know: what all that Monopoly money was supposed to be for) disliking the two-year plan - because it would benefit the 80% of men who have lost their jobs under Barack Obama - which might change what feminists expect to be The Weekly Standard.

This Delusional Thinking Can't Go On Forever

"The actual numbers aren’t just worse than the rosy picture Obama painted for a world after his magical stimulus took effect. They’re worse even than the doomsday scenario he outlined if Congress didn’t pass his stimulus plan."

-- Les Jones, speaking truth to fools - that would be those that aren't listening - who are probably in line for A Bouquet Of Weeds.

Whatever We Do: Don't Hire Him To Clean It Up

"At President Obama’s April 29 news conference, he claimed that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has 'already saved or created over 150,000 jobs.' Wait a minute. Isn’t the number of jobs actually plummeting?

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the economy lost more than 1.3 million jobs in the two months after he took office, and it has probably lost at least another half-million in April. The day after Obama spoke, the Department of Labor announced that another 631,000 workers (seasonally adjusted) had filed new claims for unemployment insurance the previous week.

So what 150,000 jobs was Obama talking about?

It turns out the president’s claim is really an estimate of what his economic advisers think the stimulus bill is doing, and not based on any evidence of its actual effects."

-- Jess Henig, making us wonder how long this delusional fantasy world can last - or, put another way, how many of these outright lies the voters can accept - before their heads explode from the lack of political reality, like they've been necklaced by The Wire.

Remember Journalism? (It Used To Be Cool)

Finally: Now It's Time To Do It To The Obama-Backing Celebrities And Media Figures As Well

Hat Tip: Hot Air

Which Is Worse: The Daily Show Or FOX News?

"Not Really Family Viewing"? Sounds Like Our Kind Of Party!!! (CNN Teabags The Tea Parties)

This is CNN's Susan Roesgen in action - not reporting on the "Tea Party" phenomena, as a journalist should, but actually showing up tochallenge the participants, like the mindless little Obot she obviously is. Disgusting. Even worse, apparently, no one at CNN saw anything wrong with her "performance".

Folks, this is not journalism,...the media's lost it's collective mind. They are a political cult now - and this shit has to stop.

Infomercial

“Just Being Named 'Gavin Newsom' Should Be Grounds For Dismissal”

Clowns Gavin Newsome and Nancy Pelosi are still working while Rick Wagoner of GM was fired. Ann Coulter is wondering why:

"How about hauling San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom before a congressional committee and firing him? In fact, just being named 'Gavin Newsom' should be grounds for dismissal. San Francisco is getting $18 million of stimulus money -- to say nothing of its residents who receive federal money in the form of Social Security payments, government grants, welfare payments, federal highway funds and on and on and on."

Don't Look At Us: You Voted For The Guy

And you wanted it so bad,...

The Great Maharushdie In Action

"It’s not what Obama knows. It’s what you think he knows. It’s what he makes you think he knows. He doesn’t know anything about the automobile business. He doesn’t know how to change a tire. … He really believes it his job to return the nation’s wealth to its rightful–quote unquote, rightful owners."

Hat Tip: Hot Air

The Macho Response: Angela Merkel

"I will not let anyone tell me that we must spend more money."

-- Angela Merkel, the German chancellor - using unfortunate language - but, thankfully, shutting down the $2 trillion-plus worldwide fiscal stimulus, in The Times Online.

Bailout!!!

From Hannan To Hannity To Barack To Brown

"It's Common Sense When You Are In Debt You Spend Less - Anyone But a Politician Can See That."

-- Daniel Hannan, the new sensation of the British Parliament, by way of The Gateway Pundit.



Hat Tip: Neocon Express

Gee, What Would Happen If We Trusted Oprah To Choose The President - With The Help Of The Celebrity Media And Her NewAge Cult Following?

"The dismaying message here is that President Obama's policies have become part of the economy's problem.

Americans have welcomed the Obama era in the same spirit of hope the President campaigned on. But after five weeks in office, it's become clear that Mr. Obama's policies are slowing, if not stopping, what would otherwise be the normal process of economic recovery. From punishing business to squandering scarce national public resources, Team Obama is creating more uncertainty and less confidence -- and thus a longer period of recession or subpar growth.

The Democrats who now run Washington don't want to hear this, because they benefit from blaming all bad economic news on President Bush. And Mr. Obama has inherited an unusual recession deepened by credit problems, both of which will take time to climb out of. But it's also true that the economy has fallen far enough, and long enough, that much of the excess that led to recession is being worked off. Already 15 months old, the current recession will soon match the average length -- and average job loss -- of the last three postwar downturns. What goes down will come up -- unless destructive policies interfere with the sources of potential recovery."

-- The Wall Street Journal

Minge Asks For Federal Grants And Bailout Money

Exhausted from her “War on Global Sperming” tour, Minge has asked the Obama administration for $380 million dollars in grants and bailout money because of “errors in the research that predicted the amount of sperm in the world”.

In recapping her results, Minge said “I have only gotten to 457 guys so far, and it’s almost as if they can keep making it as fast as I can take it in. In a way it’s demoralizing, like there will be no end to it. I have this stuff running out every orifice I have.”

When it was suggested to her that it would do no harm if she were to abandon her plan, Minge glazed over and mumbled “Whatever”.

Not The Party The Burning Men Were Planning

"Fiscal responsibility is the new counterculture,...There is, as the old ’60s song goes, something happening here. And what it is, is very clear: A grass-roots revolt against the culture of entitlement."

-- Michelle Malkin, on the various political "Tea Parties" that are erupting across the country, and being covered in places like Michelle Malkin.com.

Shouts out to Pete "The Skeet" Campbell for the heads-up!