You’ll forgive me for having watched this 2 minute clip featured by The Washington Free Beacon with the SOUND OFF, as it’s been YEARS since I could physically tolerate the sound of The One, much less Lil’ Mika & her two silicone brains, but WOW: MSNBC’s Morning Joe committed a RARE act of journalism assembling the Sgt. “I know nothing” Schultz pattern of this administration.
Has Obama lost MIKA? It is the end of the world.
This is the story, in full, as posted, exactly as it looked at 6:11pm, Monday, October 29, 2013 before Jay Carney or some WH thug called NBC and ordered a “friendlier” version which went up around midnight. Surprised it took so long 😉 …This is still America, right?
PS: Note to WH thugs: It’s printed, on paper, along with every other important document on my hard drive, and I have multiple, redundant OFF LINE back up protocols in place for my hardware. So knock yourself out. It ain’t, and *I* ain’t going anywhere. By the way, if you find my 2nd child’s second grade Christmas program, will you let me know? That’s the one document, prior to all my back up protocols were in place, that I can’t seem to reproduce. Thanks, guys. Have a nice day 😉
The way DC pols pick conferees to hammer out budget and other matters has got to be altered. Immediately. Because it never works; won’t work, will never work, as it’s currently done, with each side picking 6. All this does is guarantee the most hard-line Dems will face off against the most hard-line Republicans.
It’s insane.
It results in gridlock.
Every damned time.
So naturally they keep doing it.
Here’s what I propose:
Each side picks 2 of their own, 2 from the other side, and the remaining 2 are bipartisan picks. Like this:
DEMS pick 2 DEMS
GOP pick 2 GOP
GOP pick 2 DEMS
DEMS pick 2 GOP
Then those 8 DEMS & GOP together pick 4 more, 2 DEMS + 2 GOP.
That way each side gets 2 clean picks from their own side to be as hard-line as they want, 2 from the other side each side thinks they can negotiate with, and the remainder are picked by consensus of both sides, which, theoretically means that they can act as a bridge to an agreement. In the absence of an agreement among the 8 (surely a bad omen), seat the longest serving 2 members of each party and the newest 2 members of each party; of course, newest will require another qualifier since (apart from special elections/appointees) every other January there are a whole bunch sworn in, so there will have to be some other metric to choose them, and I frankly don’t care what it is, as long as it’s not a corrupt choice (like the most populous state/district, because that will mean nobody from “flyover country” will ever be chosen). Putting all the names of the freshman in a hat is fine with me. Whatever. Just so long as new blood is seated with “old” blood in the event of a stalemate.
I’m open to suggestions for how to pick the last 4 bipartisan conferees. But that’s my first thought.
Thems is fightin’ words, girlfriend.
A former Obama Administration OFFICIAL, Melody Barnes – so not some back-bencher talking head – ACTUALLY said on national television (well, MSNBC so only the political class saw it and maybe 3 people outside the NY/DC corridor) that we should “back off” protesting Obamacare.
Way to pour gas on the flames, sister.
All it’s done is steel my resolve even deeper.
(Transcript/Video via Newsbusters:)
MELODY BARNES: It is to everyone’s benefit that people back off of what was the Reagan administration legacy that government is bad, government workers are bad and think about how we’re going to make this work because what we’ve seen time and time again with Katrina and moving forward is if we don’t have an effective federal government people get hurt. In fact people can die.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Hold on a second. why would I back off if I think health care policy is bad for the country in the the long run, the federal government is not competent enough to run it, and the launch has been terrible. Sam Stein asks the question are Republicans going to do their best to help this implementation? No, I don’t think they are. And I don’t think it means they are unpatriotic if they don’t. Obviously what happened over the past few weeks, Sam, absolutely idiotic and self-defeating but why should the Republicans say hey listen we want to help you implement a program that we think will end private insurance over the next decade? That goes against everything I believe and millions and millions of Americans believe.
Thank GOD for Kevin Jackson.
I’ve been admirer of his since the first time I saw him appear on The Glenn Beck program on Fox early in Obama’s first term. He’s a fearless black conservative and he has written a piece (just another in a long line) reflecting that. I heartily recommend it. It’s at American Thinker (which I have recommended many times before as mandatory daily reading.) He tackles what I’ve observed for YEARS about Democrats: they’re all STILL the same bunch of racists they were during slavery! The “soft bigotry of low expectations” undergirds everything they believe in: blacks are, according to them, less capable, less able, than others of different pigmentation to get a picture i.d., compete with others of different pigmentation without being spotted points, or, monolithically, it seems, able to assume personal responsibility for a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g.
I have this mad notion that blacks are every bit as capable of thinking, learning, and functioning like everyone else, but that, it seems, make ME the racist.
*sigh*
And makes Kevin Jackson an “Uncle Tom,” a “sellout,” etc… which kinda brings me back to my original point:
Democrats haven’t changed a bit.
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How the Left Treats Obama Like a Child
By Kevin Jackson
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