Actor-comedian Steven Colbert is the on-air personality of The Colbert Report, a Comedy Central TV show that could be called the Leftist Dummy Report, since many of its fans get their only news there.
You may recall that when the Dems ran the House, Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration invited Colbert to testify in character on his vast 10 hour experience working in the fields. That session turned into a sideshow, upsetting John Conyers and other Democrat committee members as well as Conservative Hero Steve King. You can read about it in this CBS report, which amusingly changes Lofgren's last name to Longfren -- presumably to protect her innocence.
When Colbert decided to show how bad the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision was by starting his own PAC, the real hilarity started.
Want to exercise your freedom of speech and association? First get a lawyer, and then ask the Federal Election Committee for an exemption!
Sunday, May 22, 2011
The Man Who Should Be President
If likability and intelligence are the criteria for electability, and, along with a firm understanding of conservative principles, the sine qua non for candidates worthy of conservative support, then Pat Toomey, freshman Republican Senator from Pennsylvania, is certain to be nominated for President someday.
Don't know him?
Don't know him?
Democrats Cover Up True Story of Financial Crisis
As the election approached in September of 2008, John McCain briefly pulled ahead of Barack Obama in the polls. Then the roof fell in on the unfortunate Republican as the financial industry locked up tight and New York money managers stopped loaning to each other. They did so because of the doubtful viability of mortgage-backed securities comprising huge fractions of the financial industry's portfolio, and comprised of terrible mortgages the government had forced the mortgage industry to make. The potent question after Lehman Brothers went down without a trace was whether there would be any more US government bailouts.
TARP followed, and in the aftermath, the government put together a commission to review that credit crunch, and that commission concluded that -- wait for it --
TARP followed, and in the aftermath, the government put together a commission to review that credit crunch, and that commission concluded that -- wait for it --
The IMF Rape
No. Not the charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn for sexual assault in New York, about which you have heard on the news this weekend.
Rather, the International Monetary Fund Rape is the conversion of the IMF from an advocate of the Washington Consensus -- a largely conservative set of recommendations tempered with a bit of welfare state seasoning for financially troubled emerging economies to restore themselves -- to an advocate of Socialist/Keynesian spend-to-win policies.
The recommendations of the Washington Consensus called for unilateral liberalization of trade on the part of the troubled county in exchange for loans to cover its debt, and were reasonably successful at increasing trade with, and improving the productivity of countries that accepted them.
Of course, the IMF rape victims include most citizens of those states that accept the IMF's new collectivist recommendations, whose economies revert to stagnation.
Rather, the International Monetary Fund Rape is the conversion of the IMF from an advocate of the Washington Consensus -- a largely conservative set of recommendations tempered with a bit of welfare state seasoning for financially troubled emerging economies to restore themselves -- to an advocate of Socialist/Keynesian spend-to-win policies.
The recommendations of the Washington Consensus called for unilateral liberalization of trade on the part of the troubled county in exchange for loans to cover its debt, and were reasonably successful at increasing trade with, and improving the productivity of countries that accepted them.
Of course, the IMF rape victims include most citizens of those states that accept the IMF's new collectivist recommendations, whose economies revert to stagnation.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Kohl (D - WI) Won't Run Again. Paul Ryan to Consider Senate Run.
Senator Herb Kohl (D - WI) announced his retirement Friday. Paul Ryan is thinking about it.
That shouldn't take long. Ryan has super-star popularity with a national conservative base. Raising money should be easy for him.
Wisconsin has been trending more conservative for quite a while. The Wisconsin public employee's union's state-collected-dues cash stream should have dried up by then.
Ryan'll be in by Friday.
That shouldn't take long. Ryan has super-star popularity with a national conservative base. Raising money should be easy for him.
Wisconsin has been trending more conservative for quite a while. The Wisconsin public employee's union's state-collected-dues cash stream should have dried up by then.
Ryan'll be in by Friday.
Stick a Fork in 'Em. They're Done
Michael Barone offers here a perceptive analysis of Mitt Romney's "front-runner" standing in the polls. Barone knows what is easy to see: give people a lit of ten possible candidates for the Republican nomination, and the best known ones will get 14-16%. Interestingly, last night, Mike Huckabee -- another one of the sixteen percenters -- did what I figured and hoped he would do: he dropped out.
The pregnant question is where Huckabee's social conservative supporters now turn.
The pregnant question is where Huckabee's social conservative supporters now turn.
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