With all the talk of how the Democrats are going to rape us up the ass with no lube, a rusted chainsaw dipped in the clap, and nary an after-rape cuddle or thank you card to show for it, I'm happy seeing anybody saying anything about it.  Regardless of what the House and the Senate think, no does mean no, and yelling "surprise" does not make it surprise sex - it makes you an asshole who yelled "surprise" at a bitch before you raped her.

There are quite a few states (and the majority of the American population) saying fuck this loudly and clearly by sponsoring or passing legislation that would require the state to sue the feds for forcing insurance on citizens.  Today, we can congratulate Idaho for being the first to sign it into law.  Now, I know that this is totally frivolous, doubtlessly a waste of time, and impossible to win - since federal law supercedes state law.

But, damnit, someone's got to make it loud and fucking clear that we don't want this reform.  We don't want you to deem it so (who the fuck deems shit to be so in a democracy? isn't that what kings and queens say before the angry mob at their castle gates drop the guillotine?); we don't want you to force it through with the nuclear option, we want you to think about what's really, honestly, genuinely going to help America.  And Americans.

But, no.  You've hung your fucking hat on this one, and you are standing by the Titanic while it sinks.  You called it unsinkable - and if you have to tie the fucking thing to a million blimps to airlift it out of the motherfucking ocean, you're going to do it.

Fuck you.  Fuck you, your fucking agenda, your fucking arrogance, and fuck your fucking delusions of grandeur.  Fuck you for being cowards who can't accept that you have failed, and, instead of being man enough to say, "Well, we failed; let's focus on what Americans want!" deciding to force something that no one wants on us. 

In November, when I vote against every fucker who dared to support health care in any way, shape, or form, I will be saying fuck you under my breath.  And loving every damn minute of it.

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I live in Northern VA, my Representative is Jim Moran (Hates-Veeshir, VA).
I used to live in Maurice Hinchey's district, the 4th craziest congress-critter, Moran is probably 3rd craziest. (no plans on moving to either Ohio or Texas so 1 and 2 are unlikely).

But this year, in keeping with this homo-friendly site, I get to vote for a homo!
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Matthew lives in Arlington with his partner Josh and two dogs.

And the best part? He's not just "better than Moran"(a very, very, very, low bar), his "issues" pages give me a chubby.
Except for "transportation", it is generally thought that better roads will help NoVa's traffic.
My solution involves shooting rockets at every third vehicle.
That's the only way.
 But everything else involves limited gov't and more freedom for me.

Gooooooo Homo!
h/t Volokh via the Puppy Blender.
As the PB says, check out the homo love from the nice, tolerant lefties in the comments.

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I meant to say, I'm mostly happy someone is contesting this race. His conservatism and lefty-head-popping-homoness are just the icing on the sundae.
I usually just write in Meryl Yourish because there's nobody running against Moran and Meryl campaigned to be written in for some other position right around when I moved here so it was her or Fred Flintstone and I had visions of nobody voting for Moran in protest and Meryl winning 1-0.

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This is what pisses me off the most about "greenhouse reduction" legislation, it has nothing to do with making stuff cleaner,
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To reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector 14 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, the cost of driving must simply increase,

It usually has to do with making energy use more expensive so I'll use less so my standard of living will decrease and the gov't gets another tax to take my money.
Of course, the rich and political won't have to worry about it because the first can afford it while the second just take my money to pay for it.

This particular one probably won't happen, but look at every "greenhouse gas reduction" plan, they always involve making energy more expensive.
Which facet screws the little man and gives gov't more of my money while giving eco-wackos a chance for smug self-satisfaction.
That's lose, lose, lose to me.

Blame Tom at Just One Minute for pissing you off, I know I do.
I always shoot the messenger, that'll learn him to keep his mouth shut next time.

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Goooooo Utah!
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Long frustrated by Washington's control over much of their state, Utah legislators are proposing a novel way to deal with federal land -- seize it and develop it.

Can I get a few "ha"s for my Bwa?
For the first time, I might get to see Kelo cited and laugh, laugh, laugh without the concomitant feeling of despair that usually goes with The Funniest End of Civilization Ever.

Via Say Uncle who you should be reading so I wouldn't have to steal his stuff so much.

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I think it's an interesting thing that so many people see tattoos and piercings on a young person and immediately assume liberal.  I think to some of my friends from my especially punk rock days, and I smile to myself a little, since probably seven in ten of those friends "grew up" to be conservatives.  After all, the punk movement is about anarchy - about damn the man and fuck the government and all that shit, so it's only a natural evolution for those people to gravitate to the small government conservative movement.

Where people like that (and in that, I include myself) get ostracized from the conservative movement are the socially conservative issues, if you will.  Gay marraige, religion, maybe abortion. 

I consider myself a conservative because I believe in small government, fewer entitlements, market-based initiatives, free enterprise and markets, legal immigration, and gun rights.  I may have missed a few, but when it really comes down to it, that's what separates me from your average liberal. 

But conservatism doesn't always welcome a social liberal into their ranks.  I haven't always been accepted by a lot of the conservatives I know, because I don't care who you fuck, or what you believe in, or whether you smoke pot.  And, because of those kinds of issues, my support on gun rights, my support of the free market, my support of small government has often been swept to the side.

I found this piece on one of the "founders" of the Tea Party movement, and I thought it was interesting that the immediate spin of the article is that she isn't "your average conservative".  Why?  Well, she has a piercing.  In her nose.  She's an actress!  So, when her voice wasn't being heard, she did what she thought was right, and held a protest against the stimulus bill.

Keli Carender has a pierced nose, performs improv on weekends and lives here in a neighborhood with more Mexican grocers than coffeehouses. You might mistake her for the kind of young person whose vote powered President Obama to the White House. You probably would not think of her as a Tea Party type.

But leaders of the Tea Party movement credit her with being the first.

A year ago, frustrated that every time she called her senators to urge them to vote against the $787 billion stimulus bill their mailboxes were full, and tired of wearing out the ear of her Obama-voting fiancé, Ms. Carender decided to hold a protest against what she called the “porkulus.”

There's been a lot of talk on how the Tea Party could cost us Republican seats by throwing up candidates against a RINO.  And it's an absolute truth.  But maybe, just maybe, that's not the Tea Party's fault.  Maybe it's the fault of the Republicans for failing to see, as Ronald Reagan said, that someone who agrees with you 80% of the time should be considered a good friend.  If we can't work out these differences within our own party, then that's what's giving the Tea Party this strength and momentum.

I'll vote for a RINO over a democrat, because I know what happens when you vote 3rd party.  But can you blame other people for choosing to use their vote to make a statement?  Can you blame another party for capitalizing on the weaknesses within our own party?

I think I may be starting a blog war.  GO!

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Bastids. I hate Virginia GFWs
So lately the Virginia legislature, with their fine, new, GOP, gun-friendly, governor, has been trying to pass some gun-friendly laws.
Like the one where you can't buy more than one handgun a month unless you have a concealed carry permit.
So the Gun Fearing Wussies need to stop that. Only the fine gov't is allowed to have guns and they can't have gun laws relaxed, they must always be strengthened.

Courts of Justice Committee Chairman Henry Marsh on Monday announced the creation of a subcommittee to handle bills concerning guns and other issues. The subcommittee is stacked with four anti-gun Democrats and one Republican.

So nothing gun related and likely to pass will not leave this fine oubliett... err... committee.
On the one hand, that's really pissing me off.
On the other hand, this might mean an extra impetus for an electoral bloodbath of gun grabbers.
On the first hand (all balled up), this pisses me off. I really want this little ploy to fail.
Why are they afraid of a vote? Because they'd lose it.
I hate Virginia Nazis.

Forgot the h/t:
H/T Some guy I know. You wouldn't know him.

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As the Democrats seem bound and determined, electoral bloodbath be damned, to ram Obamacare through, I decided to offer one last message to them:



Yes, fuck you lefties. Fuck you for what you are trying to do to my family and my country. And may you never run into me if the shitty care you intend to impose upon us leads to ill events happening to the people I know and love.

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I hope these people aren't anywhere where the mad mullahs can get to them.

Via the Jawas who think it should be seen widely.

Any musician who thinks he's brave for standing up to fascist W should watch this and be ashamed.

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Ace links to Rubio's fundraising "bomb" or something.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying don't give him money, but....

Ace quotes something from the link
While Marco enjoys a 14 point lead today, this race will certainly tighten up as Gov. Crist has a commanding cash advantage ($9 million raised to Rubio's to $3.4 million). That's why Marco's trip to California is so important to helping him raise the funds necessary to turn his lead into a victory.

It's the Holy Grail to politicos* that money=votes.

I don't know if that is a valid assumption anymore.
It used to be the only time anybody heard about a politician was when he was in a commercial. Most people didn't watch debates or really pay attention to politics until the weekend before the election.

Now?
Teh Peepul are angry so they're looking for information, it doesn't have to look for them.
There is suddenly a bad form of publicity in politics not involving dead hookers or live boys.


*No, not the lying blog that's hilariously trying to claim the name, the original use of the word.

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You know, sometimes you work and you work and you just don't know if you're doing any good.

Other times, you see results. You realize you're not just pissing into the wind. Those are the good times.

Just 8 percent of Americans want the members of Congress re-elected, according to a CBS News-New York Times poll

Yes, CBS and the NY Times, probably even with their usual demographic tricks, found out that people are totally pissed off at the Democrat led gov't.

How cool would 100% turnover be?
Not because it would mean that Republicans would be the majority in the House and would at least gain seats in the Senate, but because of all the career pols sent home. Think of those members of the House who've been elected every two years for decades going home to K Street....errrr.... home.

Yeah, Puppy-blender link. So sue me.

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Yawn, another day another beltway-better saying, "What happened to the great, intelligent, Obama?"
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How could such smart people do so many stupid things?

Because they weren't smart, you were willfully ignorant (which equates to functional stupidity).
Obama was never tested. Remember the one semi-difficult question?
Quoth Obama
I don't want you to waste your question.

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Via the Jawas, we see this link to Right Wing News about Captain USO...errrr...Captain America.
Some blog nobody reads commented about how he's embarassed about the American flag.
Now? He's opining on how the Tea Parties are racist. A black superhero is thinking about infiltrating but...
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"I don't exactly see a black man from Harlem fitting in with a bunch of angry white folks,

And no, Falcon is not talking about getting a job at CNN or MSNBC.
Quote from RWN
After this we find that the Captain's plan is to send the black man into a redneck bar to pretend to be a black man working for the IRS and to get everyone all mad

So, Captain America is NBC in disguise?
Double fuck you.

I never really was all that into comic books, I just read my brother's, but this pisses me off.
Next up, the Haunted Tank will listen to J.E.B. Stuart and start running down black folks outside tea party events.

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So DHS,(PDF warming) fresh off calling me a terrorist, is now defending the homeland against
Dependence on fossil fuels and the threat of global climate change

Yay....?
Via Redstate via Big Gov't's headlines

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Even with O'Keefe getting busted, Big Gov't managed to slap Minitru around again.
That's just funny.
They got too complacent and out of shape in the Bush years when he didn't fight back and they just can't learn. The warm cocoon of leftist thought makes learning difficult.
They think everybody is stupid but them, in other words, they know far too much to learn anything.
Forgot the h/t, same place you saw it, Ace's headlines.

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Not just no but Hell No!
You saw the link, Shelby is "holding" all of Obama's nominees.
Not because they give "misleading" and more "misleading" testimony in their nomination hearings, or because they all seem to have a tax "forgetting" problem nor of course,because of the interesting choices like the union rep/labor board member, no, not because of all the ethical problems from what seems like each and every nominee, but because Shelby wants some of that sweet, sweet pork.
He's gumming up the works in a totally unrelated area in a particularly lame, but obviously totally legit, move to suckle at the public teat (I'm not talking about the merits of the deal, I don't care. It doesn't make any difference.)
It's funny how often I agree with idealistic lefties, you can do the right thing for the wrong reasons. I'm always in favor of gumming up the works of gov't but that's a lame reason and way to do it.

I wonder if he'll have a realistic, conservative challenger in his next primary.

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The Saga of Treacher is getting curiouser and curiouser.

The State Dept's  attitude is pretty much, "Shut up and go away."
Now they're claiming a jogger collided with their SUV.
According to the link, he doesn't jog.

I'm not going to excerpt it, RTWT, it's.... interesting reading.
Edited for clarity.

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The left demands rigid political correctness, well, they got rigid political correctness.  The Special Olympics is really making Rahm Emmanuel squirm.  Fun to watch, really.

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A couple months ago I posted an op-ed I had submitted to the Washington Post both here and as part of an Open Blog over at Ace's . In it I speculated that one of the things that will be necessary to rebuild the American economy is a resurgence of on shore manufacturing. I was pretty thoroughly shouted down at Ace's both by those who believed I was advocating a command economy and by those who believe that manufacturing in the US is dead.

Well I am happy to say I am not alone in thinking that a service economy is not sufficient to sustain American dominance.

That lack of an industrial base has put the American economy and worker in jeopardy, says distressed investor Lynn Tilton, CEO of Patriarch Partners. "The reality is, in recent times, every great empire has been built on a manufacturing economy," notes Tilton. "The fall of every empire has been the failure to remember that one fundamental fact."

Tilton's point is simple: the country cannot thrive as simply a service-based economy. As Tilton explains to Aaron and Henry in the accompanying clip, there isn't enough demand for services and those related jobs to keep the U.S. competitive on a global scale. We should also not over look the fact some people are better at building and making things then working on spreadsheets in a cubicle

 Now  I have to admit I'm not sure what empires she is referring to but she agrees with me so she must be a genius.

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Adam Andrzejewski (yeah, I copy and pasted his name) is running in the Republican Primary for Governor as a conservative against a guy who endorsed Obama. Andrzejeswki is not only unabashedly conservative, but he recently received an endorsement that rises to the "Holy Shit!" level by having Lech Walesa endorse him. And last time I checked, Chicago has a large Polish and Lithuanian population.

Internal Polling (FWIW) has Andrzejewski only down 2 points, so we will see what happens. But either way, this guy is making waves in a state that is otherwise tough sailing for non Democrats, and with what just transpired in Massachusetts, who knows what could happen?

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As I read this link about Lech Walesa going to a Tea Party event I had a thought. 
In a just world this man would be a hero, feted wherever he went and talked about and revered at least as much as Nelson Mandela.

Alas, the thugocracy he ended was a brutal, commie one and for that he can never be forgiven by all the right people.

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