Tuesday News and Musing Shoot Around

When the bunny intercepts and distracts Joe, a look comes over the man's face as if to say, 'Man, it's happening again.' This blog believes 'Dr.' Jill* is being groomed for the top slot in the corporation.

This blog would not be the first to point out the nation's gerontocracy. Joe, Nancy, Chi-Fi...It's a bipartisan thing. Chuck Grassley is 88 and running for reelection. Cocaine Mitch is a spry 80 by comparison. 

Speaking of... a great piece at Hot Air on Cocaine Mitch's leadership. This blog agrees with every word in the article. One of the judicial appointments he strongarmed overturned Joe's mask mandate yesterday. Mitch for Majority Leader, 2022! 

Don't get cocky, as the Instapundit says. The House will be a walk, but the Senate will be a slog. Google Herschel Walker and check out his baggage. He has a tough fight ahead. Cautiously though, things are coming together. 

Oh look, we went and got ourselves listed by the indefatigable Sarah Hoyt. A small sales spike follows. Thanks!

We are told by our sources on the ground that Russia's offensive in Eastern Ukraine has begun. The ground should favor Russia, and they have probably learned from mistakes, no? Or dare we say, nyet? So far Russia has shown no ability to adapt. We shall see. Developing....as Drudge used to say. 

Stroock's Books still predicts the war ends with major concessions from Ukraine. These include ceding the east, recognizing Ruski control of Crimea, and a guarantee not to join NATO. All of which could have been accomplished without war. 

Australian Gray Connolly has a twitter story about the New York Times falling for satire. These are the same people that fell for Jussie Smollett. They really think the world works like this. JFC.

We are reading Collapse, the Fall of the Soviet Union. Interesting stuff. Learning tonnes. 

As we have said before, our own Governor Phil Murphy knows how to read a room, 'Gov. Phil Murphy has ended the rule requiring face coverings on NJ Transit, a day after a federal judge voided the national mask mandate covering airplanes and other public transportation.' Smart man. 

Allright, that opening presidential inauguration chapter is really coming together. Haig listening in to the political part, Rumy and Cheney listening to the military part, a foreign leader listening to the foreign relations part...is what we need to write today. We have consulted with some of you people about this. We're thinking starting with the German Chancellor and bouncing over to the French president. That ought to set the European scene, right?

*EDs, not a real doctor.

Saturday Updates

We wake up this morning with a sore knee. What's up with that? Probably our walk yesterday. We had a good week of working out at the gym. Two weight sessions, one with the machines, one on the treadmill. 

The post-Ida basement is half finished. We're talking to flooring people yesterday and today. We and the Stroocklettes will paint it ourselves. What to do with all those books.

We are generally disgusted with the state of things, freedom, speech, lockdowns and the like. We've committed several acts of mask defiance in recent weeks. Nothing happened. We have no idea where things are headed, but nowhere good. We expect the GOP to wipeout the Dems in 2022. Heck, they may even win Virginia next month. So what? As Ace has said, we're not voting our way out of this. Ace* is always right.

But generally we were at a loss all 2020 and remain so in 2021. Last year we did something we've never done before. This Gen-X slacker volunteered. We went out and made phone calls for Tom Kean, candidate for NJ-07. We've thought about creating a twitter account to cover news and make trouble here, with the sub-goal of pestering our own congressman Tom Malinowski. We'll see.

The things:

Work is coming along slowly on World War 1990: The Final Storm. We are quite distracted. Nevertheless the plot has been advanced and we expect the Tornado bomber raid on Yedrovo to be completed by next Friday. From there we'll do another airstrike scene. No idea who (whom?). I dunno. We'll have to work out a way to differentiate from scene to scene. Otherwise it's just more, 'Target acquired in three...two...one...release!' Tracer's followed Hewson's F-111 as is broke off west...

On the Great Nuclear War of 1975 front, gaps are filled in, breaks are written out, changes are made. We'll be printing out a copy this weekend and giving it to a guy for beta reading. There's just nothing more we can do to this thing. We hope this makes a faster formatting process. It's certainly made a better book.

Boy did we get a good idea for the week of 10/10/21, thanks to you bastards. I curse. I curse with great alacrity and depth. 

*Okay, not about McConnell. Nobody's perfect. Yes, Mitch kicked the can down the road and has told the Dems to use reconciliation. He can argue, 'I gave you your extension and you still can't get it done. Your problem, not mine'. This is just another headache for Schumer, who remains the worst Jew in North America. Mitch McConnell remains Cocaine Mitch.

Will's Failproof Debt Plan

This blog is aware of the large subsection of MAGA Americans that think Mitch McConnel is a GOPe corporatists sellout. If reader(s) don't understand that Mitch has completely outmaneuvered the Dems on the debt ceiling and budget then they don't understand politics and should look for something else to follow. I know. How about  a spelling bees?*

Cocaine Mitch snorts fat lines through hundred dollar bills and messes with Dems, and he's all out of fat lines.

For the record, this blog supports defaulting on the debt. We're going to have to come to grips with our crippling National Debt sooner or later. Might as well get it over with. That 30 trillion isn't real money anyway. The experts predict doom. This blog predicts nothing will happen.

[So how would you payoff the debt, mate?-Ed]

Quad B, that's how.

[Quad B?-Ed]

Yes. Balance the Budget on the Back of the Boomer. We'd cut a hundred billion bucks from social security and another hundred billion from Medicare, follow on with a hundred billion cut to Medicaid and wrap it up with a hundred billion cut to the defense budget. 

[But the military...-Ed?]

...is bloated and top heavy. Worried about the military being underfunded? Well, just don't deploy it. There. Done. Prediction, the new Ford Class Aircraft Carrier will be a massive bust and boondoggle.

After that we'd slap a debt tax on gas as well as subway and bus metro cards so the urbanite feels the pain just the same as an American. We'll tax all purchases of entertainment, downloads, movie tickets, etc. [Know your class enemies?-Ed] That's right. We'll tax capital gains as total income, not a separate item. Sorry, no more 20% on your stock options (that's another tax that falls heavily on the Boomer). 

[You really don't like Boomers, do you?-Ed]

Who does?

*If you don't get that reference, stop reading this blog, Huckleberry. 

Twelve (12!) Years on

Twelve years ago this morning, as Barry Soetoro was inaugurated, we were metaphorically wandering metaphorically dazed through the wreckage of the neo-conservative movement. So confident and cocky after W's win in 2004 were we. We thought we'd cracked the code and the Dems had a serious long term problem. Stop laughing...okay? Just stop. 

The Dems annihilated the GOP in 2006 and then again in 2008. McCain (Self-promoter, Media) never really had a chance, even before the financial meltdown. On January 20, 2009 we asked ourselves, what now? 

We knew that new ideas were needed. We thought the GOP should move away from tax cuts and toward tax reform. We still believe that, actually. We started following some of the new reformist conservative blogs that were out there. The most important for us was David Frum's New Majority. Would you just please stop laughing?... It didn't take us long to realize Frum was interested in a kind of lib-light conservativism that was palatable at DC parties.  It was at that year's CPAC that Rush Limbaugh, clad in black, himself annihilated the likes of Frum and challenged the right to stay the course. When did the left ever compromise or change, Rush demanded. That's always stuck with us.

We knew Obama and the Dems would overreach, and so they did with the failed Porkulous and of course, Obamacare. 'But this time you've got me,' Barry told nervous Dems. Now we laugh. And so the Tea Party was born and in 2010 the GOP and the Tea Party did indeed annihilate Obama and the Dems. 

The Biden Regime is actually in a hell of a lot worse shape than the Soetoro Regime was in 2009. The Dems controlled the House and had a veto proof majority in the senate till Ted Kennedy joined Mary Jo Kopechne. Today the GOP is just a few seats away from controlling both, one death in the senate, heh. Mitch McConnel ran parliamentary procedural rings around Harry Reid back during Soetor's rein and he's in excellent position now. Still we can't help but feel the GOP is worse off. There's a huge problem with support and confidence from the base. No cocaine for Mitch till he figures that out. This blog is not optimistic.

Diet Coke or Coke?

Hey, anyone remember the articles of impeachment the House passed three weeks ago? We know we forgot.

A few days ago some fool in the media* was reporting that San Fran Botoxic Nan felt she had rattled President Trump and Senate Majority Leader McConnell. Why bother linking?

By the high sparrow, what are these people thinking?

Trump did business in the toughest media and real-estate environment on the planet, declared bankruptcy and celebrated by finding supermodels and porn starts to schtup. Rattled? Please. Upon passage of the impeachment articles Trump split a diet coke with Vice President Pence, straight man extraordinaire, and whispered, 'Everything is happening exactly as I have foreseen.'

As for McConnell, please. Cocaine Mitch starts his morning with a priority phone call to his suppliers in Bogota, does a line, and then confirms another half dozen judges to the Federal bench. Thanks for nuking the judicial filibuster rules Harriet Reid, thank you, madam.

Red State has the bad news for Dems about the impeachment rules:

As my colleague Nick Arama posted this morning, Mitch McConnell has secured the votes to go ahead and use the same rules that applied in the Clinton impeachment to conduct President Trump’s coming Senate trial. Even Lisa Murkowski is on board after making noise to the contrary during the holiday break.

Everything Red State is true, including the pro-nouns and modifiers.

What more can this blog say? Trump is a filthy liar. He said we'd win so much we'd get sick of it. We are not sick of winning.

*Is there any other kind?

Cocaine Mitch to Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Drop Dead

Via Hotair, Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell is a lying hypocrite:

Speaking at a Paducah Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Kentucky, McConnell was asked by an attendee, “Should a Supreme Court justice die next year, what will your position be on filling that spot?”

The leader took a long sip of what appeared to be iced tea before announcing with a smile, “Oh, we’d fill it,” triggering loud laughter from the audience.

Recall that this was the excuse McConnell used to block Merrick Garland.

Without hesitation this blog endorses, celebrates and embraces, to the fullest extent allowed by the laws of physics, McConnell's blatant hypocrisy.

This comes after 30 years of bastard Democrats screwing, slandering and blocking GOP judicial nominations, often with racist dog whistles harkening back to the Democrat party's dark heritage.

After Brett Kavanaugh it's all out war.

Reap what you so, motherfuckers.

You're goddamn right we're bitter.

Cocaine Mitch is all out of coke. Time to confirm some judges. 

Where's Ruth?

Nothing left to Snort

Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith defeated Mike Espy in yesterday's Mississippi special election. The final tally was 54-46. 

Robert Stacey McCain (PBUH) has some interesting thoughts on the race. 

Hyde-Smith's was a clean, solid victory and should put to bed any talk of the Dems breaking into the south. 

Alabama and Roy Moore was a yuuge anomaly. Democrat Stacey Abrams came close in the Georgia governor's race, gaining about 48 percent of the vote. Of course she did. This was an off year election with a minority candidate able to turn out the black vote. We suspect she'll win in Trump's second off year election of 2022.

A staggering 75% of white people voted against Abrams. Therein lies a yuuuuge problem for Dems. Abrams blames her loss on racism. This is a habit for Dems now. Already, as RSM points out, the media is calling the Mississippi senate election 'racially charged'-whatever that means. How is accusing white people of racism going to swing white voters? 'Vote for me, you racist,' does not seem likely to win over white votes.

Anyway, we have a senate that with 53 Republican seats. While San Fran Nan wastes everyone's time with House investigations nobody cares about, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has all the maneuvering room he needs. 

Cocaine Mitch snorts coke and confirms judges. He's all out of coke.