Another reason to love Mark Levin

This exchange, paraphrased from Thursday night's show...

Dem caller: You insulted the president!  How dare you call him an idiot.

Levin: Well, I think he is an idiot and he's a bad president.  Whatcha think about that, you drone!?

Dem caller:  He's only been in office 52 days!  You haven't given him a chance!

Levin:  Do you think this idiot's doing a great job?

Dem caller:  I think he's doin' a good job, yeah!

Levin:  So you can think he's doing a good job, but if I say I think he's doing a bad job, I get "He's only been in office 52 days.  That's not enough time to judge."  How the hell does that make any sense?!

Ah, indeed.  How does that make sense?  But Mark should realize that we're living in a sound bite culture, and he should really be more careful with his words.  Wouldn't want to turn off idgit voters. 

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The obligatory Jim Cramer vs. Jon Stewart post *furiously pushes machine gun button on soundboard*

Am I the only one who didn't watch this crap?  Stewart basically runs a nightly DNC pep rally and Cramer was always a huckster, now's he's a huckster with a soundboard. Can they both lose? 

Actually, I guess since they both voted for Our Lord and Savior, they already did ('course we get dragged down with them)...

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Not to ruin your weekend, but...

Well, you probably ought to read this.

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Obama's approval numbers set to crater

How can they not?  What'll be interesting is what'll happen when his numbers crater, and what the invertebrates currently leading the GOP will do. 

Conservatives are going to have a tough choice, we can either try and take over the GOP once and for all over the next three or four election cycles, or we can stand back and let both parties collapse, then try and clean up the mess they leave.  We can't half-ass it and let the GOP leadership engage in big spending, nanny statism and power grabs under our banner anymore.

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Rhetorical question

I suspect that Ed Morrissey knows the answer to his own question about Maxine Waters and the Democrats who wailed about the "culture of corruption":

During the presidential campaign just a few months ago, Democrats tried to paint McCain as corrupt by blowing his role in the Keating Five out of proportion. In fact, they made it sound as though McCain did essentially what Waters has done here, and screeched about corruption. Now that Waters has been shown to interfere with regulators to protect the personal financial interests of her family and her contributors (OneUnited has generated over $12,000 in donations to Waters), will these same Democrats take action against corruption — as they themselves defined it in the fall of 2008?

You get three guesses, and the first two don't count.

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18% of American wealth disappears

Obama administration said to be dissatisfied, wanted to be at 25% at this time.

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I thought I'd be preemptive about this

ARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHH

ONE OF YOU IS BEHIND THIS!  I KNOW YOU ARE!  DON'T EVEN TRY TO LIE!

can't sleep.  clown will eat me. 

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I agree with Karol

This is an incredibly unfortunate tattoo. 

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Um, what?

Behold, the greatest orator of our time, and perhaps, of all time:

Obama, speaking to top executives of the Business Roundtable, expressed an optimistic vision and called for patience.

Richard Parsons, chairman of beleaguered Citigroup Inc., asked if Obama could offer some help in a national battle "between confidence and fear."

"A smidgen of good news and suddenly everything is doing great. A little bit of bad news and ooohh , we're down on the dumps," Obama said. "And I am obviously an object of this constantly varying assessment. I am the object in chief of this varying assessment."

"I don't think things are ever as good as they say, or ever as bad as they say," Obama added. "Things two years ago were not as good as we thought because there were a lot of underlying weaknesses in the economy. They're not as bad as we think they are now."

So are we still on the brink of "catastrophe" now, or are things returning to normal? Have we spent enough money, too much money, or do we need to spend even more money? Only the object in chief knows for sure.

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It's the economy, stupid (emphasis on "stupid")

Am I the only one who hears the "Real Men of Genius" music in the background every time this retard opens his mouth?

At his daily briefing today, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the stock market "can be a lagging economic indicator."

Many economists consider the stock market a leading economic indicator as it tends to rise and fall ahead of the broader economy.

Well, he speaks for Obama. And we all know that Obama is scary-smart. Ergo, the economists must be wrong.

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No wonder I'm constantly unhappy.

Oh wait, no I'm not. But it turns out I probably should be. Science says so! (emphasis and link mine):

Looking for happiness—it's family-friendly communities for some, tropical paradise or the rugged West for others. A survey of Americans' well-being, conducted by Gallup in partnership with Healthways and America's Health Insurance Plans, gives high marks to Utah, which boasts lots of outdoor recreation for its youthful population.

[...]

And the bluegrass state of Kentucky was 49th, with Mississippi 48th on the list.

[...]

Rep. Harold Rogers' district in eastern Kentucky's coal country and New York Rep. Jose Serrano's district, which includes the distressed neighborhood of the South Bronx, had the lowest well-being scores.

I will admit, though, that Rogers' district is a complete hellhole.  Anyone there with any talent or future escaped long ago.

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Legal geekery ahead!

(Bear with me - I do have a point at the end of all of this)

So apparently Justice Souter said that he undergoes a "sort of annual intellectual lobotomy" when the Supreme Court term begins in October, a condition that he said lasts until the end of the term the following summer.

I'm going to avoid the obvious snark here and punt over to Althouse's reaction

Whinging and, seriously, I'm not lying, an actual (tl;dr) point follow:


more...

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Dropping the ball

Your non-Steele related dose of GOP FAIL for the morning. 

And for your Steele related GOP FAIL, Ken Blackwell is telling Steele he needs to get his shit together or GTFO.  I didn't make a concrete endorsement, but I'll say I favored Blackwell.  Steele always worried me, whenever he has a choice between backing the squish or even liberal position or backing the conservative, he chooses the squish route.  That doesn't work when you're trying to get a base of committed conservatives who are already sickened by the mention of the current GOP to offer of their time and treasure to advance the Republican Party. 

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How Long Before The NY Times Hires Allahpundit To Be A House Conservative?

Seriously, this shit is getting beyond parody.

His writing steers away from partisanship -- he frequently criticizes Republicans -- or doctrine, showing a concern for income inequality that is usually the terrain of more liberal writers. On abortion, he said in an interview, "I’m sort of a squishy pro-lifer," interested in finding areas of compromise. He initially favored the war in Iraq, but later opposed it.

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The perfect place

If we're gonna have another Moron Meet-Up in Southern California, we should, um, "go" here.

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Whereby My Junior Senator Shows She Has No Fucking Clue

Claire McCaskill is an idiot who won because of the shitstorm of 2006. But this tweet is priceless.
Sent to George Stephanopoulos:

George S.:Ultimately just couldn't do it. Not just earmrks tho, also increase in spendng(8%too much)& failure to reconcile $ with stimuls

Huh?

Makes me pine for the rhetorical splendor of Kit "Last Call" Bond.

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Whereby I Steal The "Presented Without Context" Thingy

Ugh.

A witness said the animal suddenly lunged at the man, sinking its teeth into his crotch.

Shocked bystanders loaded the man into a car to take him to hospital, before one noticed a piece of flesh on the pavement.

"Luckily the horse did not chew up or swallow his testicle, but spit it onto the pavement," the bystander was quoted as saying.

"So I picked it up and brought it to the doctor at the hospital where the victim was being treated."

It was not know whether doctors attempted to sew it back on.

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What We Are Fighting

Look, my dislike of Powerline is well known. Their arrogant hissy fit after Pawlenty didn't win McCain's veepstakes was well known, and actually made Allah appear dignified and desirous of victory.

But, when lefties steal Hinderaker's credit card number and post it on that wikileaks site simply because he gave money to Norm Coleman is bullshit.

Quoth John H:

It's impossible to say whether Wikileaks hacked Coleman's site and is now making the information public out of frustration at lack of publicity, or whether a different Democratic Party group did the hacking and passed the information off to Wikileaks to be illegally disseminated. I replied to Wikileaks' email asking for a name and telephone number and saying that I would like to interview them; needless to say, I didn't get a response. Like so many leftists, they prefer to hide behind a cloak of anonymity.

A week or two after the liberal hacking of Coleman's site took place, I got a notice from my bank that my credit card numbers had been stolen and patently improper charges were being rung up. As a result I had to cancel that credit card and get a new one. I didn't know it at the time, but it appears that in all probability, I was one of the victims of the Democrats' hacking of Coleman's web site.

Just another day in contemporary American politics. Liberals break the law, violate their opponents' privacy, either commit or facilitate theft, and meanwhile assure the rest of us that they did all of this because of their moral superiority.

Again, I will not retract anything I have said/written during the Rush Limbaugh fiasco, but while we have been tearing at each other, assholes like wikileaks have been getting away with criminal behavior.

Maybe some perspective is in order.

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Late night blood boiling

More than one out of every five dollars of the $126 million Massachusetts is receiving in earmarks from a $410 billion federal spending package is going to help preserve the legacy of the Kennedys.

The following is my indepth analysis:

Jesus.  Fuck.  I need a drink.  Oh wait I can't, Teddy drank it all. 

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Shocking news

Shocking, that is, if you're extremely naive:

Nearly half of college freshmen who drink alcohol spend more time drinking each week than they do studying, suggests a survey involving more than 30,000 first-year students on 76 campuses who took an online alcohol education course last fall.

Duh. Drinking is a lot more fun than studying.  Plus, how often do you get to have sloppy sex that you'll probably regret the next day after a night of studying?

Oh, and this woman is a monster who needs to be stopped:

Gwendolyn Jordan Dungy, executive direct or of NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, says the findings surprised her because most literature describes the millennial generation as responsible, close to parents, focused on their careers and dedicated to service.

"Our hope is that this new finding will motivate (campus and community leaders) to join us as we redouble our efforts to de-emphasize the role of alcohol in college life," she says.

So, what you're saying, in essence, is that you want these kids to spend more time smoking weed?

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