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People are starting to remember why Republicans kept getting elected all those years.

The Economist magazine, October 30, 2008:

On the financial crisis his performance has been as assured as Mr McCain’s has been febrile. He seems a quick learner and has built up an impressive team of advisers, drawing in seasoned hands like Paul Volcker, Robert Rubin and Larry Summers. Of course, Mr Obama will make mistakes; but this is a man who listens, learns and manages well…

In terms of painting a brighter future for America and the world, Mr Obama has produced the more compelling and detailed portrait. He has campaigned with more style, intelligence and discipline than his opponent. Whether he can fulfil his immense potential remains to be seen. But Mr Obama deserves the presidency.

The Economist magazine, March 26, 2009:

HILLARY CLINTON’S most effective quip, in her long struggle with Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination last year, was that the Oval Office is no place for on-the-job training. It went to the heart of the nagging worry about the silver-tongued young senator from Illinois: that he lacked even the slightest executive experience, and that in his brief career he had never really stood up to powerful interests…

The failure to staff the Treasury is a shocking illustration of administrative drift. There are 23 slots at the department that need confirmation by the Senate, and only two have been filled. This is not the Senate’s fault. Mr Obama has made a series of bad picks of people who have chosen or been forced to withdraw; and it was only this week that he announced his candidates for two of the department’s four most senior posts…

If Mr Obama cannot work with the Republicans, he needs to be certain that he controls his own party. Unfortunately, he seems unable to. Put bluntly, the Democrats are messing him around. They are pushing pro-trade-union legislation (notably a measure to get rid of secret ballots) even though he doesn’t want them to do so; they have been roughing up the bankers even though it makes his task of fixing the economy much harder; they have stuffed his stimulus package and his appropriations bill with pork, even though this damages him and his party in the eyes of the electorate. Worst of all, he is letting them get away with it.

No. Executive. Experience. He has never even managed a Dairy Queen. That’s how a bright guy can end up looking like such an ignorant fool, because he is ignorant – by definition – about something he’s never done. No hiring. No firing. No working with budgets. No making hard decisions that absolutely must get made.

You see what we got now people? Nobody’s piloting the ship.

It appears that Barney Frank a man who is a liar, tax cheat, buffoon and a politician (but I repeat myself) has taken the this hope and change thing really to heart.  Has decided that he can finally come out of the closet for real — Barney, it appears, is a communist. It seams that Barney wants the government to dictate the salaries of ALL employees — this is communism. From the Washington Examiner:

the “Pay for Performance Act of 2009,” would impose government controls on the pay of all employees — not just top executives — of companies that have received a capital investment from the U.S. government. It would, like the tax measure, be retroactive, changing the terms of compensation agreements already in place.

First of all.  Laws throughout our history have NEVER been applied retroactively.  This is a new wrinkle brought on by the communists in this country a.k.a. The Democrat Party.  This I am sure is an effort to more smoothly bring about more hope and change than we ever could imagine in our sickest nightmares.

Let me off this ride please.  I grew up in a country where the sky is the limit because no joker, be it some elected buffoon like Barney, or some bureaucrat like Geithner could hold me back.  My pay was a function of my talent and my ability to sell it.  I had a market in which to sell my wares, and I have walked away from jobs where felt I was not appropriately appreciated.  I have taken risks, and some have paid off handsomely.  Others … I leave that to the imagination of the gentle reader.

This is only the beginning.  If the federal government will feel empowered to do this for one reason, the states will do this others, and the federal government will then reach further.  One does not even need to have total federal control for the impact to became pervasive throughout the market.  For the naysayers whose knee jerk reaction will be to bray (like the jackasses they are) that, “This can’t happen here!”  Well, look how far we have come in 70 days?  These characters are on a power grab.  They are not letting the crisis go to waste.

Anyone living in Sterling Park and its surrounding communities knows 2008 was a very tough year. Crime was on the rise in the eastern end of the county. Not all, but much of that spike in criminal activity, ranging from petty theft, burglaries, gang violence, rape and murder came at the hands of illegal migrants having relocated to Sterling Park from jurisdictions less accommodating in their treatment of those who aren’t supposed to be here in the first place. It seems that Loudoun County is gaining a reputation among the illegal alien criminal community as one of those places where elected officials have rolled out the welcome mat. Sterling has become an attractive base of operation for certain illegals wishing to ply their trade. Certain elected officials, such as Dulles Supervisor Stevens Miller, decided Loudoun County’s approach should be more like that of Montgomery County, Maryland. First, create an environment where illegal aliens are welcomed, and then deny their effect on the worsening conditions. It appears Supervisor Miller wants to be Virginia’s version of Ike Leggett, the hapless Montgomery County Executive, who would not know an illegal alien if he or she landed in his lap.

Supervisor Miller having attended emergency community meetings at Park View High School was forced to acknowledge the substantial increase in crime, yet for reasons unknown, he was unwilling to connect that crime with the presence of illegal migrant criminals. Not only was Supervisor Miller not going to connect the dots, he had the gall to lecture the citizens of Sterling not to hijack the crime wave as a rationale to combat the presence of illegal aliens. We were to unconnect the dots, ignore cause and effect and pretend the problem was home grown. Ignore the evidence, illegal migrants were not to blame.

Supervisor Miller, Please meet Arnold Mancia-Morales.

Arnold Mancia-Morales is a convicted rapist and Illegal Migrant from South America who took residence in Loudoun County. It is uncertain how long Mr. Morales has been in Loudoun, however, we do know he is no stranger to our criminal justice system, having been arrested and jailed five times from November 4th 2007 to November 19th 2008 in both Clarke and Loudoun Counties.

Most notable among Mancia Morales atrocious behavior is his propensity to beat and rape defenseless elderly women. Mancia Morales beat and sexually assaulted a 76 year old woman from Sterling Park. Thankfully, for the citizens of Loudoun County, one of our elected officials, Commonwealth’s Attorney Jim Plowman through a vigorous prosecution, has ensured Mancia Morales will never again be free to claim another victim. Mr. Plowman’s prosecution resulted in a sentence of life plus 53 years. Good-bye Morales.

Supervisor Miller having shown he is completely out of touch with life in Sterling Park, now wants to carpet bag his way into being our next elected Delegate in Richmond.

Supervisor Miller apparently believes in the concept of failing upward.

For all you nay-saying liberals out there I just want you to know the truth.  During the invocation at the Martinsville NASCAR race, the minister said, and I quote: “…and we pray you give us hope; REAL HOPE, in these economic hard times.  Thank you for giving us your one and only son and it is in Jesus’ name we pray, AMEN.”

Now I knew who he was talking about when he said “real hope” but the Jesus part just cinched it.  Your Pope-of-Hope-on-Dope is a fraud.  I am now the second one to tell you.  It is time for you to convert! 

If there was ever a question whether most Americans hold conservative values, recent media ratings reports remind us. The liberal-leaning news organizations are taking it in the neck from the one outlet that dares to publish conservative viewpoints:

Post-Obama election, CNN is tanking, big time.

Fox News is in the stratosphere. Below is from today’s Drudge Report

CABLE NEWS RACE
THU., MARCH 26, 2009

FOXNEWS O’REILLY 3,420,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,987,000
FOXNEWS BECK 2,374,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 2,160,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 1,940,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 1,888,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,322,000
CNNHN GRACE 1,300,000
MSNBC MADDOW 1,208,000
CNN KING 1,144,000
CNN COOPER 1,118,000

Fox is not just ahead. Fox has lapped the field.

The top three Fox News program ratings are all over 90% higher than those of the next nearest network, and cumulatively Fox News is to all of its competitors like Coca Cola is to your local lemonade stand.

Incidentally Rush Limbaugh’s ratings have doubled since Obama was sworn in.

Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi have reignited conservative thinking on public policy in America. Thank you, Democrats, for that.

The American people have made it clear they are more in line with “conservative” than “liberal” ideas. The question remains whether enough Republicans will take up the mantle of conservatism in upcoming elections to make a difference. Based on past history, I cannot guarantee they will.

“Vengeance is mine” says our Lord and though we ought not presume to ask our Lord in what manner He ever plans to execute that vengeance, we hope He will forgive us for proffering the suggestion that in the case of Westboro Baptist Church protesters every last one of them might be swept up by the wind and thrown off a very, very high cliff.

We will leave that to the Almighty. But we will continue to hope.

For those who don’t know, Westboro Baptist Church are the people who show up at the funeral processions of American service men and women and attempt to disrupt the services by chanting and waving signs with messages like “God hates fags.” Their rationale is supposedly something like “God is punishing America for its tolerance of homosexuality by allowing our men and women to be killed in combat. Thus the deceased is not a hero to be praised but a dupe to be ridiculed.”

In reality, as our friends at Equality Loudoun point out, what the Westboro protesters accomplish is to get in a situation where they can sue people who take offense at their actions. Like, when you read the previous paragraph you probably thought “I’d like to punch them in the head.” Well, technically, it is often not against the law to disrupt a funeral, and punching people is almost always against the law, so you punching them in the head would end up with you giving them your house.

Some smart gay rights people have turned the Westboro shitheels into a fundraising opportunity, and this is what they are doing in response to the Westboro appearance at George Mason University on Monday, March 30.

I say, smart move and one that we should all support.

As many of our readers know, Equality Loudoun and I are not always on the same page, but we are on the same page with this issue. If you are ticked off about Westboro Baptist Church, please give money to the fundraising effort. They are going to send a notice afterwards to Westboro’s leader detailing how much money they raised.

If you want to see the Westboro vermin firsthand, show up at Braddock Rd and Rt. 123 Monday morning. NO PUNCHING – that is what they are trying to get you to do. Instead, bring one of those aerosol boat foghorns. Whenever the Westboro people speak, blow the horn.

If you are in the “I’d like to punch them in the head” camp but want another way to show your support to the opposition, please take a close look at the Patriot Guard Riders.

PGR is a national organization of bikers, many of whom are veterans, who show up in force at the funeral processions of our fallen heroes and line up with their bikes and American flags and, singing the National Anthem, form a screen between the Westboro protesters and the funeral procession. They have grown into a huge nationwide effort and they were formed specifically to offset the Westboro Baptist Church protesters.

Here is the Wikipedia entry.

The San Diego Patriot Guard Riders appeared at the ICCFA Convention last March – the keynote address was by a funeral director explaining all the PGR has done for the funeral profession.

If there were ever great Americans, the Patriot Guard Riders are great Americans. Click here to send them a donation.

The most inept presidential administration in modern U.S. history continues to make the news. This time at the plate: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton:

During her recent visit to Mexico, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an unexpected stop at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe and left a bouquet of white flowers “on behalf of the American people,” after asking who painted the famous image.

The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was miraculously imprinted by Mary on the tilma, or cloak, of St. Juan Diego in 1531.

The Obama administration thus far is a very badly managed organization and this is evident from the top down. The Secretary of State pays an official visit to what is probably the most significant cultural site in Mexico – or at very least in the top three – and no one has bothered to provide a 200 word briefing paper? Because that’s all it would have taken, a paragraph copied from any travel guide.

These “missteps” are not resonating with the public yet because the public as a rule does not hang on every day’s news, and the “news” for that matter is mostly an institution in its last gasp which has abandoned any semblance of competence itself. Thank goodness it’s going out of business.

Eventually the public will get the message – but you can bet the leaders of other nations already have the message loud and clear: This crew in the White House does not know what it’s doing.

ACTivist made an interesting observation the other day: Except for a brave and commendable couple of visitors, all those Obama supporters from the pre-election period have been pretty darn quiet since he took office. There has been little substantive support of the candidate since his administration went into action. This is telling. Our liberal visitors are not stupid, but it is apparently too early for them to admit their support for Obama was a mistake. So … crickets.

Anybody want to make a guess what will happen when Barack Obama wades into this pool next week?

GORDON BROWN’S carefully laid plans for a G20 deal on worldwide tax cuts have been scuppered by an eve-of-summit ambush by European leaders.

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, last night led the assault on the prime minister’s “global new deal” for a $2 trillion-plus fiscal stimulus to end the recession.

“I will not let anyone tell me that we must spend more money,” she said.

The Spanish finance minister, Pedro Solbes, also dismissed new cash being pledged at Thursday’s London summit.

World leaders are roundly acknowledging that massive “stimulus” without any plan to balance the books – precisely what Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress are trying to pull off – is the recipe for societal suicide.

Unless he has the teleprompter attached to his shoulder 24/7, Obama is going to have to some real thinking and honest speaking, neither of which are part of his toolkit, or he is going make a mess of this appearance at the G20 Summit. He does not spend a lot of time in environments in which he is challenged by opposing arguments. Not comfortable with that sort of thing. Should be interesting.

A British member of the EU Parliment gave Prime Minister Gordon Brown a verbal drubbing that left the PM wonderfully … speechless.  Grinning like some circus troop monkey, Gordon just sat there and took his drubbing in silence.  Mr Hannen in short called him out and the PM was shown to be wearing no clothes.  Hannen starts with the PM’s penchant for talking out of both sides of his mouth (like someone else we know) …

    Prime Minister, I see you’ve already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate. You’ve spoken here about free trade, and amen to that. Who would have guessed, listening to you just now, that you were the author of the phrase ‘British jobs for British workers’ and that you have subsidised, where you have not nationalised outright, swathes of our economy, including the car industry and many of the banks? Perhaps you would have more moral authority in this house if your actions matched your words? Perhaps you would have more legitimacy in the councils of the world if the United Kingdom were not going into this recession in the worst condition of any G20 country?

The British PM came into office in June 2007.  It appears he is a good leading indicator of the treatment we are in for.  Britain began its experiment of spending its way out of recession almost two years ago.   The ‘spend-money-like-mad-dogs‘ policy does not appear to have worked out to well for the British economy.  Einstein said insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result each time.  We excoriated Rumsfeld for repeating the errors of  McNamara 30 years after McNamara micromanaged the Vietnam war.  Now, Obama is repeating the mistakes of Brown two years after Brown took Britain down this garden path, can’t he wait longer to repeat a mistake?

Hannen then illustrates the fact that Britain is broke.  The real frightening part is we are even more broke.  The Brits carry a debt of ~$40K/child we owe about $50K.  The other similarity is that the British media ignored this poignant speech, just like ours.  This is where the fourth estate has really let us down.  Actively ignoring the voices that criticize one side of the political spectrum is a disservice to the  society as a whole.  The corollary for this is the fourth investigates only one side of the political spectrum; this is also a disservice to the  society as a whole.  Newspapers are failing not because people don’t read anymore, but because the ‘blarney-o-meters’ have been red lining for many years now.

    The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around £20,000. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child. Now, once again today you try to spread the blame around; you spoke about an international recession, international crisis. Well, it is true that we are all sailing together into the squalls. But not every vessel in the convoy is in the same dilapidated condition. Other ships used the good years to caulk their hulls and clear their rigging; in other words to pay off debt. But you used the good years to raise borrowing yet further. As a consequence, under your captaincy, our hull is pressed deep into the water line under the accumulated weight of your debt. We are now running a deficit that touches 10% of GDP, an almost unbelievable figure. More than Pakistan, more than Hungary; countries where the IMF have already been called in. Now, it’s not that you’re not apologising; like everyone else I have long accepted that you’re pathologically incapable of accepting responsibility for these things. It’s that you’re carrying on, wilfully worsening our situation, wantonly spending what little we have left. Last year – in the last twelve months a hundred thousand private sector jobs have been lost and yet you created thirty thousand public sector jobs.

The similarity is shocking.  We are in as bad a shape as the British.  Our debt load is as high.  Obama’s recipe for curing our ill’s is to increase government from 20% to 40% of GDP.  This is a recipe for paupering the country.  Can someone in our legislative body please stand in the road and shout, ‘STOP!!’?  Like Barak, Gordon flunked economics.  The British PM is of the opinion that increasing overhead increases efficiency.

    Prime Minister, you cannot carry on for ever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit. You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. And when you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we’re ‘well-placed to weather the storm’, I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line. You know, and we know, and you know that we know that it’s nonsense! Everyone knows that Britain is worse off than any other country as we go into these hard times. The IMF has said so; the European Commission has said so; the markets have said so which is why our currency has devalued by thirty percent. And soon the voters too will get their chance to say so. They can see what the markets have already seen: that you are the devalued Prime Minister of a devalued government.

Saul Alinsky would be proud of the Obama administration.  Obama and his crew came in at a time of recession. The world wide housing market bubble was bursting.  The previous administration was as clueless as the rest of the world going about lessening its impact.  But Obama came in and made it worse with his rhetoric.  Markets hate uncertainty.  Obama and Co.  did everything imaginable to increase uncertainty.  The end result?  We are on the verge of a depression — markets are down 40% SINCE Obama was elected; China is preparing to call in our debt; our currency is to be discarded in favor of some new universal script.  The Obama apparatchik/drone Tim Geithner, whose sole job is to protect the dollar, showed us he is ready to toss it over the side.   Can Obama administration take us to an even more devalued state?  ‘Si se puede!!’

I am only left wondering … where is OUR Daniel Hannen?

There is a catastrophe taking place in the midwest. Where is the Obama administration?

At very least what we were promised from this crew was “competence.” What we are getting is crickets chirping. Despicable.

To borrow from one of the President’s campaign lines – it’s not a matter of whether this administration can walk and chew gum at the same time. The question is whether they can walk at all.

I love our blogroll. There are a number of other Web sites I regularly hit but in the end I spend most of my blog surfing time among the sites in our modest little corner of the blogosphere.

Here is a recent sampling of worthwhile stuff I encourage you to check out.

WHOA! Killer photo of the Monk with Robert Duvall, and an image from Gods and Generals to boot! Monk, that is awesome, definitely a life’s milestone. Congrats.

Ed of the invaluable MonkeyWatch, one of my daily stops, just had a crazy medical thing happen. Send him some positive thoughts.

Donny Ferguson notes the most recent victim of Canada’s “health care system”. Amen, bro’. My daughter lives there now so I’ve gotten to learn about it from a firsthand participant. Her summation: Most Canadians are like Americans without health insurance because they don’t bother going to the doctor until they are in a crisis – because the clinic workers have the medical expertise of 7-11 employees. During a recent visit for a mysterious ailment the clinician actually asked her “Well, what do YOU think it is?” Yeah – she, like so many Canadians, is a fan of the U.S. health care system.

Vivian Page has some pretty astute American Idol observations. I mean, she is good at this. Take it from me because after several years I have the music intelligence quotient of a deaf man, so I have great respect for anyone who can follow along with what is good or bad on that show.

My buddy LI is a very, very sensible man. (Be sure to read the comments).

Kat does not even get regular TV, but still has the links to ABC’s special on whether Satan exists. Interesting topic. I guess if I was not working so much, or, er, at the present moment SUPPOSED to be working so much, I might watch it. But the question was answered for me long ago.

Oh my: Barack Obama has a connection to a firm standing to benefit from the “cap-and-trade” proposal? For those not in the know, “cap-and-trade” means “quadruple your electric bill.” Thanks to Ric James, the hardest working blogger in Loudoun County.

Ben has some words of wisdom for the RINOs.

Some interesting 2nd Amendment related information at United Conservatives: A study of cop-attackers reveals none of the attackers interviewed was “hindered by any law–federal, state or local–that has ever been established to prevent gun ownership. They just laughed at gun laws.” Why does this butt-simple piece of common sense qualify as news? Because our “news” organizations are actually propaganda machines peddling nonsense – but thankfully they are all going out of business.

Nobody makes a haircut interesting like Eric does. Heck, nobody makes a LIFE interesting the way Eric does.

Attacking Business
The Democrats have misused the bully pulpit to attack corporate America. First they arrange with AIG to give a failing company’s employees bonuses. Many of these employees had nothing to do with the credit fault swaps.  Then these same Democrat politicians  rage on the air waves and then send members of the Service Employees International Union to harass these people in their homes.  First demonize someone and then attack them.  Sound familiar?  Is it only time before someone shouts a  21st century version of “Death to the bourgeoisie!!”?

The NY State Democrat Attorney General Cuomo is now threatening to name names of Corporate executives on Wall Street for making a profit.   Obama is now talking about government take over of companies that are still profitable.  This is rank nationalization of our industries. Obama is also calling for limits on all executive pay.  Since when is being successful something we are ashamed of in America?  Since when does the government get to decide what our salaries should be?  Is this good for the country?

Big Labor
The SEIU is the fastest growing Union in America.  They represent primarily immigrant workers, government workers and those in the health industry.  This is a busy bunch of people.  The SEIU has:

harassed the AIG workers at their homes

they contributed $31M to Barak Obama’s campaign

collected $500M for the Democrat party

they are seeking to enact the card check elections for unionizing shops — and are holding the $500M over the heads of Democrat politicians in order to coerce them to vote for the ‘Employee free choice act’

sent Union members to polling places to work for the Democrat party

they have been charged with unfair labor practices by its union employees

The desire for getting money out of politics is a good idea.  So, when are we going to shut down BIG LABOR?  They own the politicians as surely as any Rockefeller did back in the 19th century.  Is this good for the country?

The card check as a vehicle for unionization has been tried in several places already.  The results have not been pretty.  At the Dana Corp, the Union representatives harassed workers in the break room, the parking lot, and were banging on doors at night.  Is this something other than strong arm tactics?

Accusations about the UAW’s aggressive campaign to get signatures has ignited fury among plant workers, some of whom claim they were hassled, intimidated and harassed by union organizers until they signed the card.

By ending the right to secret ballots, the U.S. government and Democrat members of Congress have ensured that workers will be harassed until they fall in line with their new union masters.  Secret ballots are what our very own Congress is calling for in other countries; but they want to end this practice in ours?

A New American Army?
From a July 2 speech Obama said the following:

“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”

What did he mean by that?  Well, he is still thinking about bringing it into being — a call for it was brought about in another speech at the National Defense University.  What is this?  The recent bill called for …

It is the purpose of this subtitle to authorize the operation of, and support for, residential and other service programs that combine the best practices of civilian service with the best aspects of military service, including leadership and team building, to meet national and community needs.

A standing uniformed group with a cadre is a paramilitary organization.  This is something that plagued Europe back in the mid 20th century.  Do we want to go there?

It’s the Economy… Stupid
We have swung so far to the left the Europeans think we have gone off the rails.  The EU president said Obama’s economic recovery plans is a way to hell.  What happened to MSM’s fawning over any and all Euro-trash berating the American president?  Oh …  wait. That only happens when a Republican president get that treatment.  My bad.

Geitner continues to have that deer-in-the-head-lights air about him.   Some muttering about replacing the U.S. currency with some universal money and we lost a few hundred more points on the Dow.  I think the American economic system is well on its way to developing a case of Stockholm Syndrome when it comes to this administration.  Then again, it’s all about not wasting a good crisis.  Is this good for the country?

Dumbo or Dumb?
You have got to be kidding me.  This much chaos.  This much spending and the Republicans can’t come up with an alternative?  Granted every bill they present on the floor of congress gets voted down, but where is the rhetoric?  Where is the vision?  Is this good for the country?

Strange Brew
The current spat of Tea Parties are signs of lingering intelligent life here in the U.S.  I think this is the right idea.  We need to send a message to the thieves and poltroons in our Congress that stealing from us, our children, and our grandchildren, is unacceptable.  That is what this debt and over-the-top spending is doing.  Each family currently owes over $110K.  Servicing this debt alone will bankrupt us.  Since when does spending money like a drunken sailor lead to a full wallet?

I would amend one part of the activity.  Stop dunking the tea into the water.  Instead, find 6000 of your closest friends, go grab your congressional representative, crate him/her up and drop them in the drink.  Yes, this can be a truly bipartisan effort.  There are over 535 crates and bodies of water in the U.S.  Is this a coincidence?  I think not.   More importantly, is this not good for the country?

Virtual gold medallions go out to our friends at Too Conservative and Not Larry Sabato for their recognition as “Can’t miss clicks” in Washingtonian Magazine.

While I don’t agree with the respective premier bloggers Loudoun Insider and Ben Tribett all of the time, I have to admit I visit their Web sites at least once each day. Good on ye, gentlemen!

“He inherited these deficits like OJ inherited Nicole Brown’s head.”

Actually they are inherited, insofar as “inherited” means “tripled.”

UPDATE: See the chart here.

File this under “HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.”

One of the few campaign promises Barack Obama appears posied to keep is to close the Guantanamo Bay military compound. So far so good, if you are a progressive terrorist sympathizer. However, where are those individuals previously held at Guantanamo supposed to go?

Answer: The Democrat stronghold of Alexandria, Virginia.

… news that the Obama administration might move some detainees from their highly controlled military fortress at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Alexandria to stand trial at the federal courthouse.

“We would be absolutely opposed to relocating Guantanamo prisoners to Alexandria,” Mayor William D. Euille (D) said. “We would do everything in our power to lobby the president, the governor, the Congress and everyone else to stop it. We’ve had this experience, and it was unpleasant. Let someone else have it.”

That’s William D. Euille, who campaigned for Obama and, well did about as much as he possibly could to help the president get elected.

More than the entertaining, buyer’s-remorse irony, which will keep us entertained quite a lot over the next few years I imagine, notice the sheer mental deficiency of this rather extreme form of NIMBYism: We welcome the terrorists to come here and enjoy fair treatment under the law … but, please don’t come RIGHT here. Come to, say, Ohio, or maybe Nevada, so our conscience is assuaged and someone else can handle the messy aspects.

Classic.