Posts Tagged ‘just deserts’

Nothing like a democratic administration to make republicans popular

Posted: July 10, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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You know sometimes you have to let people actually figure it how much worse it could be for them to figure it out.

Voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on eight out of 10 key electoral issues, including, for the second straight month, the top issue of the economy. They’ve also narrowed the gap on the remaining two issues, the traditionally Democratic strong suits of health care and education.

The Captain then comments on the most telling

The political class question is most revealing. Those who consider themselves apart from the political class trust Republicans more on the economy by a wide margin (58%-28%), while those inside the political class support Democrats … 99%-1%. No, that is not a typo. It’s a demonstration of the slavish devotion to Democrats within the political class, and the breakout indicates that the Democrats have more trouble than even this poll shows on voter trust.

You know I don’t even think it’s the corruption itself. Americans are big boys and know the ways of the world, I think its the fact that it’s so damn blatant.

We always get the government we deserve, always!

This woman is NOT Sicilian

Posted: July 6, 2009 by datechguy in oddities, tech
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…via Glenn a story that is very serious but just you just can’t help laughing.

Sir John Sawers is due to take over as chief of the Secret Intelligence Service in November, putting him in charge of all of Britain’s spying operations abroad.

But entries by his wife Shelley on the social networking site have exposed potentially compromising details about where they live and work, their friends’ identities and where they spend their holidays. On the day her husband was appointed she congratulated him on the site using his codename “C”.

Lady Sawers had put virtually no privacy protection on her account, making it visible to any of the site’s 200m users around the world who choose to be in the open-access London social network on Facebook.

My Sicilian mother would be shaking her head in disgust, even if you have nothing to hide why tell everyone your business? Then again why do I get the feeling that if this was 1959 instead of 2009 Lady Sawers would be blabbing at a dinner parties instead?

As I’ve said over, over and over again if you put it on the net it isn’t private.

(In fact I think my mother thinks I put up too much on the blog).

Update: Hotair notices via Fausta.

Hounds, You’re using HOUNDS?!

Posted: July 3, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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I had put this as a secondary bit in my last post but the more I think about it the more the idiocy sinks in.

Does the GOP really think that an ad that features HOUNDS chasing after the first black president’s policies is a smart ad? Hounds! Doesn’t anyone read or remember history around here? Do you have any idea what the MSM is going to do with this ad?

Of course these are the same guys who wanted to dump Toomy who are backing up Reichert and other who backed Cap and Trade?

Yeah, and people are worried about Sarah Palin being the image of the party?

Can’t anyone play this game?

Update: Maybe I’m paranoid but I see this going Trent Lott/Strom Thurmond at the begining of next week. It’s a gift to the democratic party, they don’t have to answer the substance of the ad, they can point to Republicans and hounds and symbolism and it will be all over the MSM.

IDIOTS!

Update 2: A friend just pointed out that Michael Steele is going to be asked about this ad. Do you want to be Steele answering that question?

Update 3: The Palin Resignation effectively makes this a non-story

I haven’t blogged about the corrupt firing of inspectors etc…

Posted: June 25, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…for one simple reason:

This guy is a Chicago Machine Pol with no achievements and or accomplishments of note before actually winning the White House. What makes you think that such an empty suit is going to be either clean himself or surrounded by clean people?

There was always a chance that he would turn out to be more than he seems, everyone remembers this quote from Eddie McCormack from the 1962 senate campaign in Massachusetts:

“if your name was Edward Moore instead of Edward Moore Kennedy, your candidacy would be a farce.”

McCormack was the AG and the nephew of the speaker of the House of Representatives John McCormack but nobody remembers his second quote part of which applies very well here:

I ask my opponent, What are you qualifications?…You are not running on qualifications. You are running on a slogan…”

(You can find the full quote in the excellent book Man of the House by Tip O’Neil). Now given 20-40 years and only one body Teddy has become an effective senator who never met a dollar that he wasn’t willing to spend domestically and never met a foe of America that he wouldn’t support.

Remember it was this same Ted Kennedy who floor managed the 1965 immigration bill and assured us:

“The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs.”

Yup this is the same guy who wants to nationalize healthcare before he dies. And remember this guy is the example of the EXCEPTION who might turn out all right.

“Yes we can” is just a slogan. We found out here in Massachusetts that slogans like “Together we can” are no better a basis for successful government than some farcical aquatic ceremony.

As Americans we always get the government we deserve, we are getting what we deserve right now and if this trend continues beyond 2010 and 2012 we will deserve that too.

But don’t come to me shocked about this administration’s corruption, and broken promises. If you didn’t see it coming it’s only because you weren’t looking or didn’t want to see it.

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