Did Morning Joe actualy say they are surprised by the president re-election numbers?

Posted: May 7, 2010 by datechguy in media, opinion/news
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Of course they did!

Apparently 50% of the public has said they would vote for a generic opponent to this president if the election was held today.

Joe & co are correct it is very early and a lot will depend on what happens over the next couple of years but if they are surprised by this then they just haven’t been paying attention.

His numbers have been poor for his policies for quite some time, they have even said so. The surprise was that his re-election numbers hadn’t tanked earlier.

Somebody has got to hit some of these people with a reality stick. FAST!

Oh and a word to Republicans remember it only took 9 months for the president for the meme to change from realignment to crash and burn.

Update: Believe it or not they actually managed to do worse just an hour later.

Answer: Because she uses logic as opposed to Arnold

Posted: May 7, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Q; Why should Little Miss Attila be Governor of California instead of Arnold?

She uses simple logic while Arnold used simple political expediency. To wit:

The logical response to Deepwater Horizon would be to encourage more drilling in shallow water, where the rigs are reachable by land and the engineering is less challenging and costly—it’s also easier, cheaper and faster to clean up around these platforms if something should occur.

But of course that’s not the reaction we’re getting. Instead, Schwarzenegger has scrapped offshore drilling in the safer, shallower waters off of California, and the drilling off of Virginia has also been halted. It’s as if someone had been killed by falling off a ladder, trying to get at the apples on top of the tree, and in response we eschewed picking the low-hanging fruit and trying to muddle along without apples.

Environmentalism was once about conservation, it has instead become a de-facto religion for people who wanted to run away from Christianity.

As for the Terminator; he has really gone the full Kennedy hasn’t he?

“Exercises in futility”

Posted: May 6, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news, war
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Lets see what happens when we use the re-written standard (amateur hour) to determine if something should be treated as a legitimate attack.

On November 22nd 1864 a brigade from the 15th Corps of Sherman’s Army was dug in as a rear guard during the march through Georgia. 3000 Militia under P. J. Phillips attacked.

The attack was amateurish, moving forward across an open field toward veterans who naturally blew them away each time they charged. When it was all over a 10-1 casualty ratio told the tale of a foolish and useless defeat.

Under our new standards does this battle count?

Ok now lets apply the rules that some are trying to apply to the attack attempt on Times Square and see if this marker should come down:

This shouldn’t count as a battle. The tactics used were obsolete, the person leading the attack had no experience in battle and wasn’t even smart enough to not charge across an open field. Yeah he has some connections to the Confederate Army but he was Militia so it wasn’t as if it was a professional army that was even attacking. They should have simply apprehended these guys and arrested them as insurrectionists.

Now naturally none of us are going to take the Battle of Griswoldville out of the history books or pretend it is not a part of the Civil War.

Likewise it behooves us not to pretend that what happened in NY was anything less than a battle in the war on terror. Of course the facts are making pretending otherwise less and less possible.

CNN channels Norah O’Donnell

Posted: May 6, 2010 by datechguy in media, opinion/news
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If there was ever any doubt that the liberal media plays from the same playbook here here it is.

As Glenn points out :

There was no Duke Lacrosse “sex scandal.” Just a wrongful prosecution — for which the prosecutor was punished — and miserable press behavior, which obviously continues unabated.

You know I should really be more jaded at my age, but this stuff still surprises me.

You know pointing out this stuff is kind of like being Allen Dexter as Parson in Paint Your Wagon:

It must be tough fighting over that same niche market.

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