RIGHT AFTER HE SAID HE’D VOTE YES ON KAVANAUGH, TOO: Taylor Swift Endorses Bredesen.
But dissing Blackburn like that? I’m old enough to remember when there was a special place in Hell for women who don’t support other women.
Archive for 2018
October 7, 2018
OPEN THREAD: Fill the comment section with your intelligence.
HOW FAR BACK DO YOU WANT GO? When Did They Become So Angry?
Maybe it started when Nixon addressed the Silent Majority. The average American who wanted to do what Americans have wanted for a long time: raise their kids, feed their families and respect their country.
Maybe it was after two generations when Republicans finally won the House of Representatives thus initiating a change in the country. Was this so much an acceptance of Republican values or a rejection of Democrats lurching too far to the Left? A loss of focus on what Americans want – small, but effective government.
Maybe it was that Republicans started to voice their own opinions. Voices like William F. Buckley came along and said it was polite to be a Conservative.
You could go back to the 1910s – the Wilson era was so crazy, by the end of the decade the original “Progressives” stole a base from laissez-faire conservatives, and rebranded themselves as “liberals” instead, as Fred Siegel wrote in his 2014 book, The Revolt Against the Masses.
IT’S COME TO THIS: Astronaut Scott Kelly apologizes after quoting, praising Winston Churchill.
Kelly, a retired American astronaut with multiple space flights under his belt, apologized Sunday after quoting Winston Churchill and calling the 20th century British prime minister “one of the greatest leaders of modern times.”
“Did not mean to offend by quoting Churchill. My apologies. I will go and educate myself further on his atrocities, racist views which I do not support. My point was we need to come together as one nation. We are all Americans. That should transcend partisan politics,” Kelly wrote on Twitter in the evening.
So public shaming followed by a re-education campaign. Jon Gabriel tacitly notes we’ve seen this before:
THEY’LL RECOMMEND CLERKS AND PRETEND NOTHING HAPPENED. LIKE A PAIR OF CEMENT SHOES TO A MOBSTER, THE FALSE RAPE ACCUSATIONS WEREN’T PERSONAL, THEY WERE JUST BUSINESS.
But it may feel a bit more personal than that to Kavanaugh.
Related: There’s Nowhere for Justice Kavanaugh to Go But Right. The lefties wooed Kennedy. They assaulted Kavanaugh. I don’t think the “Greenhouse Effect” will work here.
KAVANAUGH MAY BE THE DEMOCRATS’ WATERLOO:
This process has inflicted real damage to Judge Kavanaugh and Ms. Ford—enough to make any intelligent citizen wonder if it would ever be worth entering public service. But the most immediate casualty is likely to be the much-hyped November blue wave. If a vote for a Democratic majority in the Senate is a vote for the tactics of Sen. Feinstein, or for the boorish behavior of Sens. Blumenthal, Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, then that vote may not materialize at all.
In the Missouri Senate race, Republican Josh Hawley has overtaken incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill, largely in reaction to the Kavanaugh hearings. In North Dakota, Republican Kevin Cramer has opened up a yawning lead over Sen. Heidi Heitkamp. The newest Quinnipiac and NPR/PBS NewsHour polls show that the Democratic generic-ballot advantage has halved and the party’s enthusiasm advantage has vanished.
Napoleon counted on offensive bluster at Waterloo to give him victory, and it failed. By amplifying the politicization of the judiciary, Democrats may have achieved a Waterloo—but not the one they imagined.
Read the whole thing.
NBC REPORTER BECOMES FULL-BLOWN ACTIVIST AFTER SENATE’S KAVANAUGH CONFIRMATION:
NBC reporter Ken Dilanian tweeted on Sunday that states with varying population sizes should not get the same representation in the U.S. Senate.
Dilanian suggested in his tweet that it was unfair that Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court on Saturday, quoting a Washington Post article that said, “Senators representing less than half the U.S. are about to confirm a nominee opposed by most Americans.”
“It may not happen in our lifetimes, but the idea that North Dakota and New York get the same representation in the Senate has to change,” Dilanian tweeted.
Just think of the media as Democratic operatives with lavaliers, and it all makes senses.
NEW YORK TIMES: Why New Jersey Democrats Are Suddenly Worried About the Menendez Race. Don’t get cocky, kids.
So what are the Senate races where an injection of volunteers and donations might make a difference? I have some ideas, but I want yours.
ON THIS DAY IN 1893, Finley Peter Dunne’s fictional character, Mr. Dooley, first appeared in print in the Chicago Evening Post. For 33 years, Dunne furnished Chicagoans with wit and political wisdom though this amiable Irish immigrant bartender. Among Dunne’s better-known quotations:
EXPERTS: “A war expert is a man ye niver heerd iv before. If ye can think iv annywan whose face is onfamilyar to ye an’ ye don’t raymimber his name, an’ he’s got a job on a paaper ye didn’t know was published, he’s a war expert.”
THANKSGIVING: “The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans.”
TRUST: “Trust everybody. But always cut the cards.”
VEGETARIANS: “Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.”
There’s a lot more, some of which will sound familiar and some of which will sound fresh. Much of it was originally rendered in dialect, but (as you can see from the above) you’ll often find it in standard English.
THE TREATMENT OF KAVANAUGH IS SHAMEFUL, JUST LIKE ITS TREATMENT OF CLARENCE THOMAS: Yale Law School Devours Its Own.
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: What To Expect With Kavanaugh On The Court.
TWEET OF THE DAY:
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WELCOME TO THE 21ST CENTURY, when beer is “triggering.”
HMM: HPV Vaccine Expanded for People Ages 27 to 45. “If a person has already been exposed to a particular strain of HPV, the vaccine will not work against that strain. For that reason, vaccination has been strongly recommended for young people before they become sexually active. But even someone who has already been exposed to a few strains — but not to all nine in the vaccine — can still gain protection against the strains they have not encountered.”
WELL, MY USA TODAY COLUMN ON BRETT KAVANAUGH IS GETTING TOP-RANKED AT GOOGLE:
RICHARD FERNANDEZ EXPLAINS THE HORROR IN SOME QUARTERS:
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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: What To Expect With Kavanaugh On The Court.
MICHAEL WALSH: This is the High-Water Mark of the ‘Resistance’ — for Now.
When the judge reacted the way any normal man with a spine would, and punched back against his tormentors, Demorats and the media allies complained about his “temperament,” as if the foremost qualification for public office is how much abuse Kavanaugh could endure — or, to use the mot de jour much beloved by the Left, “survive.” Now they are complaining that the Court, with Kavanaugh’s ascension to its ranks, has lost “legitimacy,” and will continue to smear him with baseless charges, operating along well-orchestrated principles of Leftist argumentation:
- Post a counter-factual (Kavanaugh is a rapist)
- Argue it as if it were prima facie true
- Win by any means necessary
Read the whole thing.
Related: Christopher Caldwell on Kavanaugh Conservatives vs. Booker Democrats: “Suddenly there are two parties in this country: There are Kavanaugh conservatives and Booker Democrats. Maybe this will change. For now, those who claim to be weighing the balance between the two are obtuse, nostalgic, or trying to persuade their old comrades not to shoot them in the back as they make their way towards enemy lines. Americans of all political persuasions have woken up this week—some with exhilaration, some with despair—to the realization that, as the essayist Midge Decter once wrote, they are going to have to join the side they are on.”
JOURNALISTS KEEPING THEIR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT: According to my research, the meaningless “toilet paper stuck to Trump’s shoe” item was republished thousands of more times than one of their own being murdered in a Saudi consulate.
That’s just sick.