You call this change?

So let me make sure I've got this right. You voted for Obama for change and all you get is the afterbirth from the Clinton administration? Why not just vote for The Billary when you had the chance?

President-elect Obama has decided to tap Eric Holder as his attorney general, putting the veteran Washington lawyer in place to become the first African-American to head the Justice Department, according to two legal sources close to the presidential transition.

Holder, who served as deputy attorney general during the Clinton administration, still has to undergo a formal “vetting” review by the Obama transition team before the selection is final and is publicly announced, said one of the sources, who asked not to be identified talking about the transition process. But in the discussions over the past few days, Obama offered Holder the job and he accepted, the source said. The announcement is not likely until after Obama announces his choices to lead the Treasury and State departments.

Holder, 57, has been on Obama’s “short list” for attorney general from the outset. A partner at the D.C. law firm of Covington & Burling, Holder served as co-chief (along with Caroline Kennedy) of Obama’s vice-presidential selection process. He also actively campaigned for Obama throughout the year and grew personally close to the president-elect. Holder has not returned a call seeking comment; a spokeswoman for the Obama transition team told Newsweek in an e-mail early Tuesday afternoon that no decision has been made.

The sources said the Obama transition team is still debating over who should serve under Holder in the key post of deputy attorney general. One top candidate, favored by Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and other former Clinton White House officials, is Elena Kagan, dean of the Harvard Law School and a former lawyer in the White House counsel’s office under Clinton. Another top candidate, favored by other Obama advisors, is David Ogden, a former chief of staff to Attorney General Janet Reno, who is currently heading Obama’s Justice Department transition team. Kagan brings legal policy credentials; Ogden has more experience in the Justice Department trenches.

The only hesitancy about Holder’s selection was that he himself had reservations about going through a confirmation process that was likely to revive questions about his role in signing off on the controversial pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich. Although there is no evidence that Holder actively pushed the pardon, he was criticized for not raising with the White House the strong objections that some Justice Department lawyers and federal prosecutors in New York had to pardoning somebody who had fled the country. But after reviewing the evidence in the case, and checking with staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Obama aides and Holder both decided the issue was highly unlikely to prove an obstacle to his confirmation, one of the sources said--especially given the Democrats’ more sizable post-election majority in the Senate.

It's bad enough that we get to watch the Beverly Hillbillies roll into Washington again, but The Messiah seems to be picking some of the worst of the worst from the Clintons. Holder, Emmanuel, Craig, Clinton to name a few.

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How Obama Got Elected... Interviews With Obama Voters

Paradise

They call it paradise
I don't know why
You call someplace paradise,
kiss it goodbye

D. Henley

From the most "ethical congress in history" file

So you're working to get some pull in congress for some of that bailout pork. Now it might look suspicious to pay a flat bribe to said congressman.

But hey, what you can do is simply do what GM did....

Have said congressman's wife on the payroll....

John is fighting to protect his job from an ambitious younger colleague. Debbie is battling to save her company from bankruptcy. John is recovering from major knee surgery. Debbie’s mother has been seriously ill.

This is no ordinary family drama. Representative John D. Dingell of Michigan, the at-times-irascible Democratic chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is trying to stave off a challenge to his chairmanship from Representative Henry A. Waxman, the anything-but-mellow California Democrat. Mr. Dingell’s wife, Deborah Insley Dingell, is a senior executive at General Motors and a member of the family who founded the company.

At a time when they thought they would be quietly nursing Mr. Dingell back to health, celebrating the Democratic victory on Nov. 4 and helping the ailing auto industry, the Dingells find themselves in a nasty intramural brawl with Mr. Waxman.

One Dingell ally called it King Kong versus Godzilla.

The stakes are immense. Mr. Dingell, from Dearborn, Mich., is the American automobile industry’s stoutest defender in Congress and has been the bane of environmentalists on some issues for years, although he has helped shepherd a number of environmental bills through Congress. Mr. Waxman, who represents Beverly Hills and other wealthy areas of west Los Angeles, is a committed environmental voice and an advocate for a rapid overhaul of the auto industry.

Nah nothing inappropriate with that relationship

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Guns... The true economic stimulus plan

You do have to credit The Messiah for the only growth industry right now; gun purchases.

Handgun purchases in Wisconsin skyrocketed 82% in the days before and after Barack Obama's election as president compared with the same 13 days in November last year, figures on state background checks show.

Most of the early November background checks took place after the Nov. 4 presidential election, a sign that gun owners anticipate new restrictions with Democrats taking control of the federal government.

Calls for background checks that are required for the purchase of handguns have flooded the state agency. In the first 13 days of the month, 2,642 background checks were requested. During the same 13 days last November, the number was 1,453, state Justice Department spokesman Bill Cosh said.

Tom Smith of Eagle said Friday that he purchased two handguns, a .22-caliber snub nose and a .45-caliber semiautomatic, in the days before the election when it became clear Obama would win.

"I bought them because I was afraid they were going to be outlawed . . . ," said Smith, who was at the McMiller Sports Center shooting range near Eagle in western Waukesha County.

Gun owners also are worried that Obama might push for tax increases on ammunition and gun accessories, what they described as a back-door way to bring about gun control.

"I went out and stocked up on ammo. I bought 20 cases of rifle ammunition," Kyle Troeger of Muskego said.

I know Gordon and his Redville redneck buddies are still in the market for guns.

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UC vs UL prayer

Nothing says disrespect to your opponent than praying around their logo.

Solve the auto mess. Make all companies unionize.

How is Obama going to solve this current financial mess?

Allow everyone to unionize.

Watch this conversation on CNBC with David Bonior, one of the Obamamunists, and tell me this sounds like a game plan.

We'll solve the auto woes by allowing everyone to unionize. Huh

Has it occurred to anyone that the industries most heavily unionized are the ones having the most difficulties?

Auto
Airlines
Big City Governments
Big State Governments
Steel

We're in for some big time, hard times.

Life, and death, in "Progress" City

The city of Cincinnati, who hasn't had a republican mayor since the 1960's, is all about "progress".

How do we know? The city has already equaled it's 2007 total number of murders; obviously, a sign of progress.

With a couple of warm weekends, I know the city can surpass it's all time record set in 2006.

Keep in mind that this is a city that has about 60% of it population from the 1960's yet the murder rate continues to sky rocket as a result of "progressive" government policy.

Here's a hint for all black males between the ages of 18-30. If you want to save your life, consider joining the army and asking for a tour in Iraq. It'll be a lot safer for you there than inside all of our "progressive" cities.

Or you can become a republican and move out to the safety of Redville, where we're all clinging to our guns. We're just not out shootin' up the neighborhood.

Celebrate those new auto jobs... in Indiana

While we're looking to pump in billions to the American auto industry, Honda started production in their new Greensburg, Indiana plant.

Funny, how is it that these guys are able to pull this off without a government hand out?

Do you think we might find a congress person who will ask the same question?

Are you an idiot to pay your mortgage?

YES

Should you keep paying your mortgage? If you have significant equity in your home, absolutely.

If you don't, it's getting harder to answer that question, especially when our government keeps giving people who owe more than their homes are worth so many reasons not to pay.

Last week, the government announced a program that will substantially lower payments for many homeowners who have little or no equity, but only if they are at least 90 days delinquent.

Critics say the plan, which applies to loans owned or guaranteed by government wards Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac among others, could encourage people to suspend payments.

So the moral to the story? Go get yourself a 100% mortgage and take the proceeds over to Argosy Casino and blow it.

Then kick back.

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Thought of the day

As congress and our liberal President Bush decide on an economic bailout package for the auto industry, a thought occurred to me. It seems like the principle issue for automakers is the lack of car sales.

If we give them billions and billions, it doesn't solve the fundamental problem of week auto sales.

Wouldn't it just make a lot more sense to offer a tax credit to people and encourage them to buy automobiles?

But then again, we're talking about liberals with the intelligence of Sharon Stone who thinks botox injections for her son is an appropriate treatment for smelly feet.

Why journalists are idiots. #881

If you ever needed proof that your average journalist is a full blown moron. You need look no further than Rolling Stone's list of 100 Greatest Singers.

1 | Aretha Franklin by Mary J. Blige

2 | Ray Charles by Billy Joel

3 | Elvis Presley by Robert Plant

4 | Sam Cooke by Van Morrison

5 | John Lennon by Jackson Browne

6 | Marvin Gaye by Alicia Keys

7 | Bob Dylan by Bono

8 | Otis Redding by Booker T. Jones

9 | Stevie Wonder by Cee-Lo

10 | James Brown by Iggy Pop

11 | Paul McCartney

12 | Little Richard

13 | Roy Orbison

14 | Al Green

15 | Robert Plant

16 | Mick Jagger by Lenny Kravitz

17 | Tina Turner

18 | Freddie Mercury

19 | Bob Marley

20 | Smokey Robinson

Bob Dylan at #7? Huh

If Bob Dylan sang Karaoke at you're local watering hole he'd have to do it dodging beer bottles being hurled at him.

Notable ommissions. No Ann Wilson, Meatloaf or Eddie Vedder both of whom can carry a tune better than BOB DYLAN AT #7.

To rub some salt in the wound They list The Boss at #36.

Look, I love Springsteen, but part of the reason is that I know when I sing along, people can't really tell if those horrible sounds are coming from me or my car stereo.

Other notes

John Lennon and Paul McCartney weren't even the best singers in their own group.

I guarantee Luther Vandross (#54) can make any song Bono ever did (#32) sound better... even while dead.

Patsy Cline (46) behind Kurt Cobain (45)? Take the crack pipe from these guys.

This is probably one of the worst of these kinds of list that's ever been compiled.

Read it for yourself if you can stand the smell.

What does a depression look like?

I saw this headline this morning....

Depression 2009: What would it look like?

What would a depression look like?

I'm guessing that people in 1932 weren't making runs to Starbucks or waiting 2 hours to get into PF Changs.

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Bearcats Reclaim Keg Of Nails

After five years the Bearcats claim the Keg of Nails.

UC controls their own destiny for a BCS bowl bid.

Up next? Pitt.

England hurting

The US isn't the only country having difficult economic times.

Here's a piece on Great Britain mightily struggling; unless you're a government worker.

The service sector and the south of England, which have survived previous downturns relatively unscathed, will suffer serious collateral damage. What remains of manufacturing industry will go into meltdown.

But there's one lucky group of people who have no such worries about losing their livelihood, their pension or the roof over their head.

Yes, Britain's five-a- day coordinators, diversity managers, equality officers, elf 'n'safety enforcers and carbon-footprint campaigners can all sleep easily in their beds.

While private companies are either contracting or going to the wall, the public sector continues to party like it's 1999. There'll be no shake-out in the Town Halls, no Christmas parties cancelled in Whitehall. We won't be seeing sobbing civil servants standing outside government office blocks with their personal effects in a cardboard box and a P45 in their back pocket.

Far from it. While the productive sector of the economy disappears down the plughole, taking with it millions of jobs, the public sector is still hiring merrily as if the nearcollapse of the global banking system never happened.

Sounds like California

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Myths of the election

The Washington Post on five myths from this past election

Myth #5

McCain made a huge mistake in picking Sarah Palin.

No subject is more likely to break up a dinner party early than the Alaska governor McCain chose as his running mate. Everyone not only has an opinion about her qualifications (or lack thereof) but also feels it necessary to share those opinions with anyone within shouting range.

Love her or loathe her, the data appear somewhere close to conclusive that Palin did little to help -- and, in fact, did some to hurt -- McCain's attempts to reach out to independents and Democrats. But just because Palin doesn't appear to have helped McCain move to the middle doesn't mean that picking her was the wrong move.

Remember where McCain found himself this past summer. He had won the Republican nomination, but the GOP base clearly felt little buy-in into his campaign. A slew of national polls reflected that energy gap, with Democrats revved up about the election and their candidate and Republicans somewhere between tepid and glum.

Enter Palin, who was embraced with a bear hug by the party's conservative base. All of a sudden, cultural conservatives were thrilled at the chance to put "one of their own" in the White House. In fact, of the 60 percent of voters who told exit pollsters that McCain's choice of Palin was a "factor" in their final decision, the Arizona senator won 56 percent to 43 percent.

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Of the 855 cities in Minnesota, 549 have populations of 1,300 or less.

Interestingly, the Franken Campaign publicly stated they will have 1,250 lawyers on the recount. As someone close to the recount emailed me, "that’s roughly 6 attorneys for every ballot they want to try to get to overturn the outcome of the election."

Investor's Business Daily on the role of conservatism in the move to our socialist state.

Conservatism's current intellectual chaos reverberated in the Republican ticket's end-of-campaign crescendo of surreal warnings that big government — verily, "socialism" — would impend were Democrats elected.

John McCain and Sarah Palin experienced this epiphany when Barack Obama told a Toledo plumber that he would "spread the wealth around." America can't have that, exclaimed the Republican ticket while Republicans — whose prescription drug entitlement is the largest expansion of the welfare state since President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society gave birth to Medicare in 1965; a majority of whom in Congress supported a lavish farm bill at a time of record profits for the less than 2% of the American people-cum-corporations who farm — and their administration were partially nationalizing the banking system, putting Detroit on the dole and looking around to see if some bit of what is smilingly called "the private sector" has been inadvertently left off the ever-expanding list of entities eligible for a bailout from the $1 trillion or so that is to be "spread around."

The seepage of government into everywhere is, we are assured, to be temporary and nonpolitical. Well.

Probably as temporary as New York City's rent controls, which were born as emergency responses to the Second World War, and which are still distorting the city's housing market.

It's a good piece but I think they miss a fundamental point.

Conservatism never changes because it's based on principle. What happened to conservatism is a bunch of rogue democrats decided to run as republicans and claim they were conservatives (see John McCain, George Voinovich, Bob Taft, Chuck Nagel).

Looking for a job

Obama officially resigned his senate seat yesterday so that he can concentrate on using his time in the presidency looking for a new job.

Unfortunately, when you are leader of the free world it's makes looking for a better job quite a bit tougher.

So if you are a recruiter with an idea for The One, send it to www.change.gov He'll be glad to hear from you.

When liberals figure things out.

Don't you love it when liberals figure out something that conservatives have been telling them for years.

Take this TNR piece on one John Edwards

Here's the thing: other than serving one term in the Senate (much of which was spent running for the White House) and two unsuccessful presidential campaigns, what has Edwards really done to warrant a national platform? I mean, even put aside the whole adultery thing; Edwards hasn't exactly accomplished all that much to warrant the prominent place in national life he clearly desires.

First, did they forget to mention his beautiful mane of hair intentionally?

Second, it seems to me that he has more experience than one Messiah; one senate term, one bid for the presidency.

Maybe some day the liberals will listen to us before it's too late.

Eagles Tailgate Drunken Joust with Wizard Sticks

Bengal fans made want to take this up.

It looks like more fun than the games.

The continued assault on Joe the Plumber

It hasn't ended for the state offices doing their little oppo research on those opposed to The Messiah.

From the Akron Beacon Journal

The election is over, but the Joe the Plumber case is not.

Ohio Inspector General Tom Charles said his office is now looking at a half-dozen agencies that accessed state records on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher.

The Beacon Journal has learned that, in addition to the Department of Job and Family Services, two other state offices — the Ohio Department of Taxation and Ohio Attorney General Nancy Rogers — conducted database searches of Joe the Plumber.

Wurzelbacher became an instant celebrity after he asked Barack Obama a series of questions in his Toledo driveway about the Democrat's tax policies.

In the third debate between Obama and Republican John McCain on Oct. 15, the candidates referred to Joe the Plumber more than 20 times.

The next day, the taxation department conducted two separate searches of a database of liens for unpaid taxes that were certified to the Ohio Attorney General's Office for collection.

John Kohlstrand, a taxation department spokesman, said he is prohibited from talking about individual taxpayers, but he confirmed that the databases were checked.

The searches were done to determine whether a lien placed against the individual was appropriate and whether it remained unpaid or not, Kohlstrand said.

The department's first search of the day was unsuccessful because of incorrect information about the individual, Kohlstrand said. Ohio Attorney General Nancy Rogers' office then contacted taxation because it was having difficulty accessing the database, Kohlstrand said. After the two agencies talked, taxation completed a successful search.

It's been called to my attention that I'm a chicken shit for not putting my true name on this blog.

But Joe the Plumber isn't the only person who's had to deal with this kind of dreck.

Let me give you some history.

I am an accountant. Part of what I do is represent clients who have tax issues before the IRS, the State of Ohio, ODJFS, Worker's comp, etc.

I didn't have this blog up two weeks when a representative from one of the above agencies told me, "I read your blog...... it's interesting". I didn't receive this comment as a compliment, I received it as a threat towards my client because I'm an anti tax guy.

I was told that this unit, as part of their investigation, does web searches of the taxpayer involved as part of their due diligence .

"You do those on their representatives as well?", I asked.

"Yes, if we suspect that there may be a case of a representative selling a fraudulent tax scheme."

Given that this was a trust fund tax issue from 28 years ago ( I should have told her that I was a liberal back then), I thought this was pretty damn lame.

So when Midas wanted to keep his identity anonymous because of work issues, it sounded like a great opportunity for me to do the same.

Therefore, if you really want to know who I am, you can figure it out very easily from the information on the first page of this blog. If you are a dumb ass, you won't be able to. Otherwise, I think I'll just keep me name out of any potential google searches for the protection of my family and clients. I don't want my clients being "Plumbered" because of my political beliefs.

For the record, when I submit to the Ohio Carnival I use my real name. If you communicate through the email address at the top I use my real name. I'm not hiding from anyone.

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

Cincinnati Enquirer meet Econ 101

How do you know that liberals run newspapers?

Because their knowledge of economics is nonexistent.

Take for instance, the Cincinnati Enquirer, who's readership has dropped like all the Obama newsletters around the country. This despite the fall of the Cincinnati Post.

How do they handle a drop in readership?

They raise the price of the daily paper from fifty to seventy five cents.

Enquirer meet Price-Demand curve. You would have run into this guy in college had you decided to take an Econ class instead of Russian Lit.

See, when price goes up, demand for your product goes down.

People already knew the paper wasn't worth 50 cents with all the PrObama pieces in it. That's why readership has been dropping. My guess is even more will decide it's easier to just give the Obama campaign 300 bucks a years and get on their email list than to buy your paper every day.

Good luck on this one.

Brought to you by the same people who thought raising the presidential campaign fund from $1.00 to $3.00 would increase participation.

Taxachusetts

In a shocking stunner, blue state Massachusetts is looking to eliminate the state income tax.

The history of taxation in Massachusetts over the last century is one of legislators forever indulging the state’s appetite and never prescribing a diet. The state’s first income tax, enacted in 1915, was initially presented as “a substitute, complete or partial, for the existing tax on personal property,” observed the Harvard economist Charles Bullock. But the income tax neither eliminated nor alleviated the property-tax burden, and it soon became a permanent levy, with the rate rising from 1.5 percent in 1950 to 5.3 percent today. During the mid-sixties, something similar happened when Republican governor John Volpe—in the strange world of Massachusetts politics, party labels confuse as much as instruct—crusaded for a sales tax while mainly Democrat antagonists in the state legislature battled against it. The sales-tax foes won the first six battles, but in winning the seventh vote, Volpe proved the old maxim that if at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try, try, try, try again. The sales tax was to last from April 1, 1966, to December 31, 1967, but over 40 years later, a mere two-day respite from it is cause for celebration.

Governor Ted, are you watching this one?

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It's fashionable to hate on the rich

The Obama coronation made hating on the rich fashionable, like wearing black, pet rocks, earth shoes, etc.

Ask the New York budget how much they like the rich. They'd probably tell you how much the miss those guys.

From the WSJ....

The global credit panic has swept away many illusions, and we're about to find out if that includes those of the politicians who have feasted for years on Wall Street tax revenues. Ground Zero is New York, which has lived a tax-and-spend fantasy thanks to the long bull market and "progressive" tax rates. Reality is now biting.

The financial services industry employs between 2% and 3% of nongovernment workers in New York, the same as it did in the late 1970s. What's changed is the share of total wages in the state represented by Wall Street jobs, which had skyrocketed to nearly 20% last year from a little over 2% in 1977.

"This is 212,000 people making nearly $80 billion in wages and salaries last year," explained E.J. McMahon of the Manhattan Institute at a recent panel discussion on the financial crisis. "This is all taxed at the margin, so it plays an outsized role in the state's finances." This is also the dirty little secret of highly "progressive" tax rates: They make a state dependent on relatively few taxpayers.

Where's John Galt? Probably not living in New York.

Al the Shoesalesman Gets a Tax Cut

The Matrix Runs on Windows

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

The 2008 Weblogs awards

If you would like to nominate some of your favorite blogs, click the button.

HT to Bizzyblog a deserving nominee.

Modest Expectations From An Obama Supporter

I still haven't read when we can stop paying our mortgages. Can someone clue me in on the date?

Calling all liberals

Here's the Ohio Red-Blue map by county.

I'm still waiting on a lib to check in to tell me exactly what makes life in Youngstown (a hard core democratic area) so much more wonderful than say life in Piqua (Redville).

How about what makes life in Cleveland so much more wonderful than life in my home town of Lancaster.

Or what about Toledo v. Dublin?

Columbus v. Newark?

Many years ago, I dated a tremendously liberal woman and we talked about where our kids would go to school. At the time, we were both living in Cincinnati Public Schools. My proposal, Catholic schools. Her proposal? Move to the suburbs because she "supports public schools". Huh?

As I stated at the time, "that's so wonderfully liberal". Liberals create and run the crappy school systems they'd never send their kids to so they haul ass out to the suburbs where the sensible republicans take care of business.

In many respects, democrats are like teenagers, they are always quick to point out the responsible parents shortfalls all while they live rent free under said parent's roof. What a great deal.

Now I know that Eric from Plunderbong checks into this site because he comments on snarky little crap. Well tell me Eric, what is it that makes living in these blue areas so damn wonderful?

Is it the crime? the unemployment? the schools?

But hey, don't take my word for it, just look at the flight of people out of these blue areas into the red areas. Moses could only have dreamed to be as efficient. If the pharaohs had been democrats even the non slaves would have hauled ass out of Egypt much like they have Cleveland, Akron, Toledo, Dayton, Cincinnati, Youngstown, etc.

So Eric, do you have the balls to take me up on this one?

Ramirez

Obama's Gonna "Change the World"

Christopher Hitchens:

"More worrying still, there are vicious enemies and rogue states in increasing positions of influence throughout the world (one of the episodes that most condemned the Republican campaign was its attempt to slander Sen. Joe Biden for his candid attempt to point this out), yet many Obama voters appear to believe that the mere charm and aspect of their new president will act as an emollient influence on these unwelcome facts and these hostile forces. I can't make myself perform this act of faith, and I won't put up with any innuendo about my inability to do so."

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Thank a Vet today

That's Veteran with a capital "V".

Veterans, those who personally made the sacrifice to delay their own immediate dreams to do something bigger like protect this country and all it represents.

As many know, I was a by product of the "hate the military" liberal, Vietnam, douche bag, protesters from the 1970's and early '80's. At the time, I had no appreciation for my right to "free speech". As a loud mouth liberal, I believed my speech was "free" to me because I gave nothing for it. I was entitled to it.

Now that I'm a born again conservative, I understand that nothing in life is "free". Someone always pays the price for my free speech and that person is a veteran.

You will always have my utmost respect for fighting the fight I wouldn't.

Thank You!

Hi, I'm Governor Ted and I'm here to help

So Governor Ted's going to be in Wilmington today to see what he can do to help the area recover from the loss of DHL jobs.

Well here's how I see it Ted. Here are the things that this state has done in the past three years to drive jobs out of the once great state of Ohio....

- Introduction of the CAT tax
- Annually, increase the minimum wage
- Keep strippers six feet from patrons
- Ban public smoking
- Decrease the profits of payday lenders.
- Not allow casinos in the state
- The continued assault on employers in the form of outrageous unemployment and worker's comp costs.

Now you can say, Geez Gordon, these didn't hurt company's who offered good paying jobs to employees.

But jobs don't exist in a vacuum. The money the stripper earns is every bit as valuable to an economy as the money an autoworker earns. Ever heard of the multiplier effect?

After all, where does the stripper spend her money? Don't they buy cars? Go to restaurants? Shop at Krogers? Do people work at those places?

Guess what, people work at those places as well! They need the money of the stripper the auot worker, the computer programmer, the brick layer, the restaurant server, et al to survive.

Each and every law that is passed in this state that makes it more difficult for profitable businesses to exist in this state has a ripple effect throughout an economy. It may only directly impact 100 people but those 100 support others, who support others, etc.

So what if the check cashers go out of buisness? What about the real estate developer who doesn't need to build new space because of saturation in the commercial real estate market? Aren't those contstruction jobs good jobs?

I'm of the belief that there is no distinction between good jobs and bad jobs. There's only healthy economies and shitty ones. It just so happens that democrats always seem to be governing over the shitty ones, which means fewer jobs for everyone.

Governor Ted was against the casino being built in Wilmington. Now he has the balls to show up and ask what he can do to help jobs in that very area?

Yeah Ted, how about you getting the hell out of the state. That will do a lot to get business back here.

As I've said before, democrats have made a cottage industry of ruling over the horrible areas they actually created. Ohio is simply Michigan Junior at this point. All we need to do is follow Michigan's lead and we'll have their kick ass economy soon.

What's so "progressive" about no jobs?

Dear President-Elect Obama

Dear President-Elect Obama

From the video above, I’m clear that you will make sure that we need not worry about our home mortgage payments anymore.

But what about my car being repossessed?

See, my wife and I went to a Lexus dealership about two years ago. The salesman there allowed us to test drive one of their top of the line SUV’s which he should have known we couldn’t afford. None the less, we got in the car and, let me tell you, the smell of that new car, the fine Corinthian leather, and butt warmer seats was too intoxicating for us to handle.

The next thing we know we’re being preyed upon by one of those predatory lenders, who strapped us into a $1,501.00 a month car payment for the next 60 months.

After making payments for year or so, we have found ourselves getting behind on the payments. So much so, the predatory lender is threatening to repossess our car.

Fortunately for us, we we’re forced to move out of $350,000 home due to foreclosure so the repossession guys are having a hard time finding us.

So we’re asking you to help our middle class family who makes only $60,000 a year to help us keep our car.

It looks like you are into bailing out the US automakers; the shareholders, the workers, the vendors. But what about the poor schleps who bought their cars? The poor people who are now locked into horrible loans because we couldn’t resist the smell of those cinnamon rolls in the car dealership.

Will I be able to say on a youtube video in a couple of months that I’ll never have to worry about a car payment ever again?

Please help us, we have our eyes on a nice BMW and we’d like to ask them to deliver it soon.

Sincerely,

Over extended Yuppies

Get your guns while you can

Harry McLain Jr. saw the spike the day after the election, when his sales doubled over the previous year then shot even higher Thursday. “They are buying more guns than normal, and they are buying the guns the government doesn’t want them to have,” said McLain, who owns a gun shop near Binghamton and was among the sellers gathered Saturday for a weekend gun show on Main Street in Clarence.

Gun owners figure a Barack Obama administration, combined with a Democrat-controlled House and Senate, will impose stricter laws, so they are buying guns now, especially semiautomatic weapons. The fears manifested Saturday in Clarence have appeared around the country as well.

Last month, as an Obama victory appeared likely, background checks for gun purchases rose by 108,000 over the previous October, a 15 percent increase. As of Oct. 26, they were up about 8 percent for this year, according to the FBI.

Count ole Gordon as one of these purchasers of firearms.

Over the weekend, I bought a Sig Sauer 9mm. I can't wait to give it a test ride.

Modest Expectations From An Obama Supporter

Cincinnati Survives West Virginia Nov 8th 2008

A wild and crazy end to the UC WVU game last night.

What party is he?

Here's a pol having a good time

A Jersey City councilman has reportedly been arrested for urinating on a crowd of concertgoers from the balcony of a Washington D.C. nightclub.

The New York Daily News reports in Sunday's editions that two-term Jersey City councilman Steve Lipski has been charged with simple assault.

The newspaper says 44-year-old Lipski was removed from a place called the 9:30 Club on Friday night.

That's after club staffers saw him relieve himself onto the crowd from a second floor balcony during a concert by a Grateful Dead tribute band.

Messages left at Lipski's council office, and a Jersey City listing under his name were not immediately returned.

The piece doesn't mention his party affiliation so the question is..... What party is he?

Hint... He was just demonstrating the coming administration policies towards the taxpayer.

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Unlike my previous post on the hilarity of Obama "winning over the press", here's a journalist who has it right.

This one titled....

A love story: The press and Obama

The late Jerome Holtzman, a sports writing institution in Chicago, wrote a book 35 years ago called No Cheering in the Press Box.

It's still true. Up in the press box, partisan rooting is not tolerated. It will get the reporter tossed, credentials stripped. I've seen this happen to a local TV broadcaster in Toronto who whoop-whooped a Leaf goal during a playoff game.

The irony is that sports scribes – often belittled for working in the "toy department" – could teach their tall forehead colleagues a thing or two about professional conduct and impartiality.

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This is a joke, right?

This headline is out of The Onion, right?

How Obama Can Win Over The Media

Here are some other ideas.

- Avoid urinating on them... literally.

- Only allow them to clean up the First Family's dog dropping once a week.

- Promise to father a child with their spouses using your superman like sperm.

- Tell Chris Matthews to keep his tingling leg outside of a five mile radius from The Messiah.

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The conservative cause wasted

P.J. O'Rourke with a long, but excellent analysis, on the wasted 28 years of the conservative movement.....

Liberalism had been running wild in the nation since the Great Depression. At the end of the Carter administration we had it cornered in one of its dreadful low-income housing projects or smelly public parks or some such place, and we held the Taser gun in our hand, pointed it at the beast's swollen gut, and didn't pull the trigger. Liberalism wasn't zapped and rolled away on a gurney and confined somewhere until it expired from natural causes such as natural law or natural rights.

In our preaching and our practice we neglected to convey the organic and universal nature of freedom. Thus we ensured our loss before we even began our winning streak. Barry Goldwater was an admirable and principled man. He took an admirably principled stand on states' rights. But he was dead wrong. Separate isn't equal. Ask a kid whose parents are divorced.

Another point...

Conservatives should never say to voters, "We can lower your taxes." Conservatives should say to voters, "You can raise spending. You, the electorate, can, if you choose, have an infinite number of elaborate and expensive government programs. But we, the government, will have to pay for those programs. We have three ways to pay.

"We can inflate the currency, destroying your ability to plan for the future, wrecking the nation's culture of thrift and common sense, and giving free rein to scallywags to borrow money for worthless scams and pay it back 10 cents on the dollar.

"We can raise taxes. If the taxes are levied across the board, money will be taken from everyone's pocket, the economy will stagnate, and the poorest and least advantaged will be harmed the most. If the taxes are levied only on the wealthy, money will be taken from wealthy people's pockets, hampering their capacity to make loans and investments, the economy will stagnate, and the poorest and the least advantaged will be harmed the most.

"And we can borrow, building up a massive national debt. This will cause all of the above things to happen plus it will fund Red Chinese nuclear submarines that will be popping up in San Francisco Bay to get some decent Szechwan take-out."

Yes, this would make for longer and less pithy stump speeches. But we'd be showing ourselves to be men and women of principle. It might cost us, short-term. We might get knocked down for not whoring after bioenergy votes in the Iowa caucuses. But at least we wouldn't land on our scruples. And we could get up again with dignity intact, dust ourselves off, and take another punch at the liberal bully-boys who want to snatch the citizenry's freedom and tuck that freedom, like a trophy feather, into the hatbands of their greasy political bowlers.

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Noemie Emery:

"Refusing to take Ronald Reagan's famous advice--don't just do something, stand there--conservative machers are all in a swivet, reading the leaves of the 2008 verdict, plotting to pick off this or that set of voters, opining on what it all means. Actually, just standing there seems like a pretty good option, at least for the moment, and perhaps for the next few weeks and months. Plans made right now may turn out to be useless. There are too many things we don't know.

We don't know yet what happened on Tuesday, and what kind of win it will be: a pivotal one, like 1932 and 1980; or a transient success--1964, 1976, 1988, 2004--that at the moment appeared monumental, but four years later had turned out not to be. How much of the glow now surrounding the Democrats is due to themselves, and how much to the nature of Barack Obama, who has a personality that comes along twice in a century, and how long will this last?

Which Obama will turn up to govern, the man of moderate temperament, or the functional liberal, whose record is way left of center? When the phone rings for real at three in the morning, who will pick it up: the oh-so-cool cat who was so self-possessed while campaigning, or the neophyte who, outside of campaigning, has never faced a real test in his life? How big will the recession be, and will he prolong it? Will he gain or lose ground in the war on terror? Will we have a new terror attack? If he governs well, he will win again in the next go round, and nothing done now will change it; if he blows a big test on the world stage, then nothing will save him. No grand schemes hatched now will change that."

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Modest Expectations From An Obama Supporter

Mrs. Gekko and I are looking for a new place since our mortgage is currently way to small to worry about it already.

Looking for a much bigger place to not worry about somewhere in the mid 1,000,000's if you know of one please forward.

What a turd

John McCain seemed to have no problem calling out Bill Cunningham, radio talk show host, for using Barack Hussein Obama's full name at one of his rally's but when it comes to actually defending his own running mate against some of the most absurd charges around; where exactly is one, John McCain?

The Weekly Standard has some of the charges here....

One of the biggest complaints conservatives like myself always had with McCain was his willingness to sell out conservatives in a moment's notice.

This whole episode just reinforces it.

I guess that's why I should have followed the lead of the other 5 million conservatives that voted for Bush in '04 and sat this one out.

By the way, if any of these things were true, McCain should step up and smooth this over. After all, what does this ultimately say about his judgment?

The maverick is a total tool and we conservatives can go back to hating him again.

This is good judgment?

So you're looking to turn around the economy.

Maybe the best move is to select the worst governor in the US to be on your economic team.

Gov. Jennifer Granholm was named to President-elect Barack Obama's transition team on the economy Thursday, and will meet with him and 16 other advisers today in Chicago.

Granholm's appointment to the panel -- former Macomb County Congressman David Bonior also is on the committee -- comes on the heels of the dual roles she played in the late stages of the Obama-Biden campaign. She was a stand-in for Sarah Palin when Joe Biden was practicing for the vice-presidential debate, and was tapped by Obama as a traveling advocate for alternative energy.

Other members of the blue-ribbon economic advisory committee include billionaire Warren Buffett, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.

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Life in "Progress" City

So democrats are the party of allowing for democratic choice?

Tell that to the people in California who shot down gay marriage. Yeah that same paradise of "progressive" life.

A report from a black couple....

It was like being at a klan rally except the klansmen were wearing Abercrombie polos and Birkenstocks. YOU NIGGER, one man shouted at men. If your people want to call me a FAGGOT, I will call you a nigger. Someone else said same thing to me on the next block near the temple...me and my friend were walking, he is also gay but Korean, and a young WeHo clone said after last night the niggers better not come to West Hollywood if they knew what was BEST for them.

The party of open mindedness.

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Modest Expectations From An Obama Supporter

Since Obama is willing to pay for our mortgages and gasoline, I'm wondering if he'd be willing to pick up my bar tabs?

teacher belittles soldiers child for supporting McCain

Conflict of Interest

The man overseeing Minnesota’s contentious recount between incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and comedian turned candidate Al Franken is a known Democratic cheerleader with ties to far-left organizations including ACORN and the Communist Party of the USA.

Secretary of State Mark Ritchie has not carried out his role in the traditionally non-partisan manner expected of the office by contributing money to the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Laborer Party and speaking with press at the Democratic National Convention about “ways Democrats can sway rural voters.” Most alarmingly, officials from ACORN and the Communist Party of the USA endorsed his candidacy for Secretary of State. Ritchie even highlighted ACORN’s endorsement on his campaign website.

Ritchie once worked as a leader of a coalition group that coordinated with ACORN in 2004. As Executive Director of the National Voice, Ritchie worked with a slew of left-wing get-out-the-vote organizations like ACORN and the People for the American Way under the umbrella group "The November 2 Project."

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Modest Expectations From An Obama Supporter

Out of curiosity I wonder when I need to quit paying my mortgage?

Anyone out there know the date?

He's Gonna "Change the World"

Karl Rove:

"What Mr. Obama and his team achieved was impressive. But in 75 days comes the hard part. We saw a glimpse of the challenge Tuesday night. The president-elect's speech, while graceful and at times uplifting, was light when it comes to an agenda. That may have been appropriate, but it also continued a pattern.

Many Americans were drawn to Mr. Obama because they saw in him what they wanted to see. He became a large vessel into which voters placed their hopes. This can lead to disappointment and regret. What of the woman who, in the closing days of the campaign, rejoiced that Mr. Obama would pay for her gas and take care of her mortgage, tasks that no president can shoulder?"

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Rahm

I've always found Rahm Emanuel kind of slimy with all his connections to the Klinton Administration. Guess we're going to see a lot of him in upcoming years.

Testosterone oozes into the humid air space between the two men. Bush invites Emanuel down to Texas to do some real biking. "So I said, 'I'll make you a deal, Mr. President. I'll bike if you swim.' Now he didn't exactly say swimming was a wussy sport, but you could tell.... So I said, 'Mr. President, Laura can put your water wings next to the lake. You can have your water wings.' "

At that point you might think this graduate of the Evanston School of Ballet would leave well enough alone. But Emanuel is hard-wired to go for the jugular: Politics Chicago-style are part of his DNA. So he sharpens his drill bit on the leader of the free world. "I said to him, 'You're not one of those tribathletes, are you, Mr. President? You know - steam, sauna, shower?'

"And Bush goes, 'That's g-o-o-d.'"

Banter with a U.S. President is nothing new to Emanuel; he was at Bill Clinton's side as a political advisor inside the White House for six years and still talks strategy with him at least once a month.

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The market taking a liking to Obama

Dow down 900 points in two days.

I thought the market had already factored in Obama's tax hikes?

The good news? The national news media will report this as a slight correction in a market inflated by poor Bush policies.

Man, for some reason those Wall Street problems seem to be impacting my Main Street 401k.

Exactly where is There?

This excerpt from Obama's victory speech caught my attention...

I know you didn't do this just to win an election, and I know you didn't do it for me. You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime — two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us. There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after their children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor's bills, or save enough for college. There is new energy to harness and new jobs to be created; new schools to build and threats to meet and alliances to repair.

The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year, or even one term, but America — I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you: We as a people will get there.

Exactly where is there? Is it somewhere between New Utopia and East Shangri La. Maybe it's a suburb of Nirvana? Could it be the south side of Chicago that he's improved so much already?

Just wondering.

Thank you for not voting

Somewhere, our society has turned non voters into social outcast the likes of a leper who smokes.

Let me just say, if you are the type of person who thinks that voting for one candidate over another means you won't have to worry about your mortgage anymore....

Then, I want to personally thank you for not voting.

Good news from the election

There are some good things to come from last night's train wreck.

Obama hasn't even had to take the oath and global warming is already improving.

The fight against climate warming has an unexpected ally in mushrooms growing in dry spruce forests covering Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia and other northern regions, a new UC Irvine study finds.

When soil in these forests is warmed, fungi that feed on dead plant material dry out and produce significantly less climate-warming carbon dioxide than fungi in cooler, wetter soil. This came as a surprise to scientists, who expected warmer soil to emit larger amounts of carbon dioxide because extreme cold is believed to slow down the process by which fungi convert soil carbon into carbon dioxide.

Knowing how forests cycle carbon is crucial to accurately predicting global climate warming, which in turn guides public policy to curb greenhouse gas emissions. This is especially important in northern forests, which contain an estimated 30 percent of the Earth's soil carbon, equivalent to the amount of atmospheric carbon.

Or this.....

Recent historical Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclone inactivity is compared with the strikingly large observed variability during the past three decades. Yearly totals of Northern Hemisphere ACE are highly correlated with boreal spring sea-surface temperatures in the North Pacific Ocean and are representative of an evolving dual-gyre, trans-hemispheric correlation pattern throughout the calendar year. The offsetting nature of EPAC and NATL basin integrated energy and the strong dependence of combined Pacific TC activity upon ENSO suggest a hypothesis that overall Northern Hemisphere TC behavior is largely modulated by global-scale, non-local climate variability.

Soon to come.... all the homeless will have homes.

Wheel of History

Rod Dreher:

"The modern conservative movement began with the decisive loss of Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater in his 1964 presidential race. And it ends with the decisive loss in the 2008 presidential race of the Arizonan who holds Goldwater's Senate seat. But also a hopeful thought, certainly for Democrats, but maybe too for Republicans on down the line: If you had to pick a time and place when modern liberalism destroyed itself, it would be Chicago's Grant Park in 1968, in the riots accompanying the Democratic National Convention. That would be the same place where neoliberalism, of a sort, was reborn last night with Barack Obama's victory speech. The wheel of history keeps on turning."

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Jeffrey Shapiro:

"The treatment President Bush has received from this country is nothing less than a disgrace. The attacks launched against him have been cruel and slanderous, proving to the world what little character and resolve we have. The president is not to blame for all these problems. He never lost faith in America or her people, and has tried his hardest to continue leading our nation during a very difficult time.

Our failure to stand by the one person who continued to stand by us has not gone unnoticed by our enemies. It has shown to the world how disloyal we can be when our president needed loyalty -- a shameful display of arrogance and weakness that will haunt this nation long after Mr. Bush has left the White House."

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Kaus on Obama presidency

More Kaus.....

My Obama Hangup: My main hangup in voting for Obama today is his support of "card check" legislation that would eliminate the secret ballot in union recognition elections. That would be both a violation of democratic priinciples and a practical drag on the economy, threatening to spread Detroit/UAW-like inefficiencies while reviving the wage-price spiral of the '70s.

If Obama wins, and Democrats gain the expected majorities in Congress, "card check" will be hard to stop. I'll even concede that it will be harder to stop "card check" under Obama than it would be to stop the equally significant, equally misguided "comprehensive immigration reform" under McCain. But there's still a chance--even a good chance. It's not easy to defend "card check" in public. Will Democrats want the public to know that carrying Big Labor's water was their first priority upon gaining unified control of the government? Press coverage won't help their cause. Some moderate Democratic Senators--Mark Warner?--might balk at cloture-time.

But suppose "card check" passes, and unions mount their expected organizing campaigns. If the new law has the expected semi-disastrous consequences, its impact will be partially self-limiting (unionized firms will lose business). And Democrats won't be able to avoid accountability for any economic deterioriation. It will certainly be a lot easier to reverse "card check" than reverse the impact of a failed immigration semi-amnesty. Misguided labor laws can be repealed (think Taft-Hartley). If a failed immigration law legalizes 12 million new Americans and attracts another 12 million illegals hoping to become legall, that will create irrevocable 'facts on the ground"--including millions of new voters and political support for further amnesty.

Isn't a focus on these discrete legislative issues inappropriate, given the grand election themes of war, peace, justice, liberty, hope and change? Not really. If you look at what Clinton actually accomplished in his 8 years, you could be excused for giving a prominence to the welfare reform of 1996--a prominence vastly exceeding the issue's coverage in the press. The same would be true of "card check," though I suspect with a different historical verdict. Both laws alter fundamental economic institutions, with consequences that tend to outlive presidencies.

Even this guy sees the the future job killers coming down the pike....

Thank you Ohio

This is a good video of Mickey Kaus (liberal) thanking Ohio for not electing John Kerry in 2004. His treatise?

Thank you, Ohio! Tomorrow, if all goes as expected, Democrats should pause to be grateful that John Kerry didn't get 70,000 more votes in Ohio in 2004. What would have happened if Kerry had won? 1) He would have presided over a slow motion loss, or continuing stalemate, in Iraq. No way Kerry would ever have approved the "surge." 2) He would also have presided over the current housing and financial collapse that has both broken economic growth and, apparently, destroyed any chances of the incumbent party retaining the White House. Democrats don't bear the main blame for this crisis, but is there any reason to think they would have prevented it? I can't think of one. We'd be looking at a Republican wave instead of a Democratic sweep. ... 7:46 P.M.

Red versus Blue still holds true

Regular readers to this blog have already seen my "red" state - "blue" state breakdown by county.

While Ohio went "blue" this election, the state by county, looks very much the same as it did in 2004.

All the state's urban centers are blue and the rural, suburban counties are red. (I can't seem to print a hard copy yet but link to it here).

So once again, I throw the challenge out to the libs out there. What's so wonderful about life in Cleveland, Dayton, Cincinnati, Toledo, Akron, Canton, Youngstown?

Is it the murders?

Maybe the high taxes?

Maybe it's the flight of people out of those areas?

What about those great schools?

Or the unemployment?

Run down properties?

The homeless population?

I'm still waiting on a lib to tell me what exactly is it that makes all these urban centers, run by democrats for generations, so wonderful to live in.

The fact is, liberals have turned our cities into cesspools and now that they have the Axis of Taxes (Obama, Pelosi, Reid) working overtime in DC to advance their liberal policies, they'll turn our country into the United States of Youngstown in no time.

PS.... For those who are looking at the map and see rural Athens county in the blue. Just remember they have the noble distinction of having the highest population of people living in poverty.

What's so "progressive" about turning our country into Gary, Indiana?

Election post mortem

The conventional wisdom of this election is that the democrats have a mandate to govern to a liberal agenda.

After all, by every measure, republicans took an ass-whoopin'.

None the less, the numbers aren't as conclusive.

For instance, there was this tremendous wave of new voters jumping in to vote for "change", yet the presidential election yielded roughly 3 million fewer voters in 2008 than 2004.

That same vote for change netted Obama all of 1% more votes for him than George Bush received in 2004.

In fact, if we were to line up Bush's results from 2004 against Obama's '08, it's a squeeker.

For instance, in Ohio - Bush (2004) 2,859,764 v Obama (2008) 2,618,612.... Bush flips 20 electoral votes.

Of course, Bush wasn't going to get 2.8 million votes in Ohio this year.

I've read in several places that Bush is uncomfortable campaigning while in office. He believes that it's beneath the office of the president. It was obvious that McCain suffered from the same syndrome. But the fact of the matter is, the presidency is a 24/7 campaign for advancing your agenda and beating down challenges.

Conservatives are sick and tired of the 24/7 beat down with no leadership to stand up to what's right and they abandoned McCain this election; plain and simple. Just think what this would have looked like for McCain without Palin.

Why did conservatives abandon McCain?

Take his stance on the Gang of 14, McCain-Feingold, immigration, etc. If you are a conservative what exactly distinguishes John McCain from from his democratic counterparts?

Bush and McCain both had an obligation to exploit the corruption of the CRA/ACORN/Fannie Mae scandals and expose the culprits (Frank, Obama, Schumer). They owed this to the party and they owed it to the country. Instead, they backed into small little talking points without hitting these guys hard.

Win or lose, conservatives are looking for someone to take the fight of conservative ideas to government and for the past 12 years, their leadership abandoned the cause like they didn't believe in those ideas.

The end result, conservatives saw this election as a vote between two democrats. They didn't care what flavor won.

Modest Expectations From An Obama Supporter

I have an appointment with my wealthiest client this morning.

But as I was getting ready this morning, I remembered this video, so I just left a message and told him "I'm canceling our appointment this morning because you're going to pay for my mortgage and my gasoline whether I show up for work or not. So go screw yourself".

Welcome to the United States of Detroit.

It's over man, Ohio dropped the big one

Fox just called Ohio for Obama. That seals it up.

The good news is. I can go to bed early.

The bad news is... the people who voted for The Messiah, will be the ones most hurt by the coming policies of a democratic president and congress.

Here's one prediction I'll back with money.... Two years from now the unemployment rate will be well in excess of the current 6 percent. And it won't be rich guys who will be populating the unemployment lines, it will be the working stiffs.

Philadelphia voter admits to CNN he voted multiple times for Barack Obama in Pennsylvania

Election map

Cavuto vs. Sen. Menendez on Obama's tax plan

I just heard this on Rush. The fact that this guy is a senator just confirms my belief that senators are lower on the food chain than paramecium.

Black Panthers blocking polling stations

James Moran Freakout

No biggie, Obama will take care of our housing for us.

Redistribution of Wealth

Why the hell do I even bother showing up for work?

Polling prediction

Battleground is predicting a Obama 50.2 McCain 48.3 break down.

In my mind, a spread that thin makes for a state by state war.

Obama civilian national security force.

Someone needs to keep track of Joe the Plumber

Barack Obama Defines Middle Class As 50-70K

BIG BROTHER Obama's wants Government

Gordon's Prediction

I've developed my pick in relation to the following facts.

1) No democrat has collected 51% of the popular vote since LBJ in 1964. Even Jimmy Carter, a southern populist against a mortally wounded Gerald Ford could only muster 50.1%. For those thinking this will be a blowout, go back to your crack pipe.

2) I still believe the polls have a large democratic bias. Especially since so many republicans flipped party affiliation in the primaries to vote for Hillary. I'm thinking that there could be as much as two percent swing based on party affiliation alone.

3) Outside of PA, this campaign has been fought on red turf from the inception. It has an Alamo type feel to it.

4) Who knows how much voter fraud is going on.

After all that, this one is easy. Whoever wins Virginia wins the electoral college. If McCain loses, it will be a bell weather of things to come in PA, OH, MO etc. If he wins, it means more work for Obama to flip other red states.

I do think McCain should win NC but GA might be the surprise of the night.

Just remember, I also picked the Bears and Patriots to win their respective Super Bowls.

Modest Expectations From An Obama Supporter

I guess there is a silver lining with an Obama presidency.

No more mortgage or gas payments. The homeless will disappear overnight. Those 400 annual murders in Chicago, never happened....