May 23rd, 2011
Yet another passel of news:
With the new state budget moving toward passage, the State of Texas will actually spend less money next fiscal year than it did last year, the first state in 50 years to actually implement a real reduction in spending. No wonder liberals hate Texas so much; the probably didn’t realize that was actually possible.
Continuing his trend of trying to sound like the second coming of Ronald Reagan, Tom Leppert rails against the Obama Administrations NLRB ruling on Boeing. Maybe we should refer to him as “Leppert 2.0.”
Speaking of Leppert 2.0, he was seen at a fundraiser for Mitt Romney. Maybe the two of them got together to commiserate on being unfairly dinged for little things like actual governing records.
Gay activist and Stonewall Democrats of Dallas President Omar Narvaez laments the disappearing act of Leppert 1.0: “[Tom Leppert] was our friend [when he first ran for the office] but when he decided to run for higher office, suddenly he wasn’t our friend.”
Speaking of Texas Senate candidates, Elizabeth Ames Jones complains about the Obama Administration’s unwillingness to speed up offshore drilling permits.
Jonathan Chait is buying into Obama’s Latino strategy. But this ignores Micky Kaus’s point: How many times can Obama verbally flog amnesty without actually do anything about it before pro-illegal alien voters realize he’s all talk and no action? How many times can Lucy snatch away that football before Charlie Brown finally wises up?
Why did the media endlessly hype the Rapture predictions of a few far-out-of-the-mainstream evangelical Christians? Easy: “smug superiority and cheap laughs…There’s a cruelty underlying our desire to laugh at this story—a desire to see people humiliated and to revel in our own superiority and rationality—even though the people in question are pretty tragic characters.” True, as far as it goes, but it’s missing one important reason: the loathing of all forms of Christianity by urban atheist adherents of competing religious beliefs (big government liberalism) and unlikely eschatologies (global warming).
Ex-Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney pops up to condemn the bombing of Libya. From Libya. I think the over/under for how long it will be before she’s actually endorsing Hamas suicide bombings against Israeli preschools is two weeks.
Democratic Senate candidate Sean Hubbard hopes to raise $5,000 by the end of the month. That would seem to be a reasonable goal, but he’s going to need (at a minimum) about ten times that if he wants have even a dark-horse hope of derailing the DNC coronation of Ricardo Sanchez. Surely there are still enough nutroots Code Pink types in Texas that disgruntled by Obama’s continuation of “Bush’s Wars” to come up with that to oppose the “Abu Ghraib” candidate…
Tags: 2012 Election, Abu Ghraib, Border Controls, Cynthia McKinney, Libya, Sean Hubbard, Texas, Texas Senate Race, The Rapture, Tom Leppert
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May 23rd, 2011
“The arrest of a mediocre international civil servant in the first-class cabin of his jet isn’t just a sex story: It’s a glimpse of the widening gulf between the government class and their subjects in a post-prosperity West. Neither Geithner nor Strauss-Kahn have ever created a dime of wealth in their lives…the Great Men of the Permanent Governing Class cannot be bound by the rules they impose on the rest of you schmucks.”
As always, Iowahawk is on the case.
This is disturbing. Remember the McMartin Preschool case, where numerous people were charged bizarre, contradictory and flat-out-impossible charges of ritual sexual abuse of children? Unfortunately, Texas has its own equivalent in the “Mineola Swingers Club” case. Unfortunately, unlike the McMartin Preschool case, people have actually been convicted.
Liberals manage to kill Texas campus carry bill. Sponsor Sen. Jeff Wentworth blames House Speaker Joe Straus.
Tags: Bernard-Henri Levy, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Iowahawk, Jeff Wentworth, Joe Straus, LinkSwarm, Mark Steyn, McMartin Preschool, Mineola Swingers Club, Timothy Geithner
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May 19th, 2011
My main computer is still in the shop, so here’s another roundup of brief updates…
Erick Erickson at RedState tears into David Dewhurst six ways to Sunday, actually comparing him to Florida’s turncoat governor Charlie Crist. That’s got to sting…
Man living his life as 350 pound bed-wetting adult baby by choice is doing it on your tax dollar. Bonus: Threatens to kill himself if the government takes away his checky-wecky. I think we have a new poster boy for the welfare state…
Obama proves once again that, when it comes to the Middle East, he has no idea what the hell he’s doing.
Tags: David Dewhurst, Israel, LinkSwarm, Obama, Welfare State
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May 18th, 2011
The French are incensed that French elites are not above American law. And who could possibly believe that prison was so primative? “‘There are numerous very heavy barred doors that make a noise each time they are opened or closed,’ French lawyer Gerald Lefcourt told the paper. Worse still, he said, ‘The food is terrible.'”
Iconblog doesn’t think Perry is running for President, not least because most of his campaign team has signed on with Gingrich.
NRO’s Kevin D. Williamson says much the same thing.
Redistricting may get rid of Lloyd Doggett by making his district a majority Hispanic district based in San Antonio.
Tags: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, LinkSwarm, Lloyd Doggett, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry
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May 17th, 2011
Conceding defeat graciously, Wisconsin Democrat style: “Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your families will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks.”
The Madison Project endorses Ted Cruz. “All things being equal between Ted Cruz and Michael Williams, we have chosen to endorse Ted Cruz for his ability to raise the kind of money it takes to win a primary like the one in Texas.”
What if the federal budget was a single family’s budget?
Rick Perry considering a Presidential run?
Tags: 2012 Election, LinkSwarm, Michael Williams, Rick Perry, Ted Cruz, Texas, Texas Senate Race, Wisconsin
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May 16th, 2011
I’m having some computer issues, so expect blogging to be light for the next few days.
Trump decides not to run.
Tom Leppert bashes the IMF. Just because I doubt Mr. Leppert’s conservative bonafides doesn’t mean he’s wrong.
Speaking of Leppert, he’s put up a No Amnesty petition. The Race to Replace Kay Baily Hutchison is not impressed: “Tom Leppert governed as a Liberal and wants Republicans to believe he is a conservative.”
Tags: 2012 Election, amnesty, borde, Donald Trump, Illegal Aliens, Texas, Texas Senate Race, Tom Leppert
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May 13th, 2011
Those of you in RRISD should be aware that school board elections are tomorrow, Saturday, May 14. A list of voting locations can be found here.
Holly Hansen, who follows RRISD far closer than I, has endorsed Brian Sellers and David Dziadziola.
If you’re a homeowner like me, RRISD takes a good amount of taxes from you every year, which is reason enough to vote if you’re eligible…
Tags: Brian Sellers, David Dziadziola, education, Holly Hansen, Round Rock ISD
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May 12th, 2011
A smattering of senate race updates:
Iconblog is not impressed with Ricardo Sanchez’s declaration of candidacy: “Repeating standard Democratic talking points word-for-word in Texas is not a winning strategy. Sanchez completely missed an opportunity to explain his candidacy—he just defined himself as a standard-issue Democratic candidate running on the same things consultants write all over the nation.” Plus an inside joke from The Wire.
Politico’s David Catanese thinks Sanchez is a good choice that will still lose: “No matter who the GOP nominates, it’s likely that in 10 months, the Republican will still be the odds on favorite over Sanchez.”
Report on Elizabeth Ames Jones’ testimony before the House Science, Space and Technology Committee on fracking.
Tom Leppert’s statement on Obama’s latest Illegal Alien Amnesty speech. You’ve got to give the Leppert campaign credit; they’re doing the damnedest to make the most liberal candidate in the Republican field sound like the most conservative…
Tags: 2012 Election, Elections, Elizabeth Ames Jones, Ricardo Sanchez, Texas, Texas Senate Race, Tom Leppert
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May 11th, 2011
Various news outlets are reporting that former U.S. general Ricardo Sanchez will be announcing his Senate run today.
I’m linking to the USA Today story of Catalina Camia because, unlike her journalistic brethren, she actually noted that Sean Hubbard was already running. It’s nice to know that at least one member of the MSM is, in fact, capable of using Google.
As for Hubbard, well, I hope he enjoyed his time as de facto Democratic front-runner, since it ends today…
Tags: 2012 Election, Catalina Camia, Democrats, MSM, Ricardo Sanchez, Sean Hubbard, Texas, Texas Senate Race
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May 11th, 2011
A few 2012 election tidbits, on the Senate race and others.
Since I dinged them over inaccuracies in their reporting on the Texas Senate race, it seems only fair to praise Ryan Murphy and Matt Stiles for this nifty interactive map of Q1 fundraising by incumbent Texas congressmen.
2011 hasn’t been kind to Elizabeth Ames Jones thus far, but today she’ll be talking to the U.S. congress about fracking. And not the Battlestar Galactica kind.
Roger Williams sets up a separate website to slam Obama’s job on the economy and boost his own chances. This strikes me as a good move, but I think the site is a little lite on content right now; a splash page and a video are a nice start, but he should have links to more information for each of his four subheads. There’s plenty of ammunition for the charge that Obama has screwed up the economy, and the more he can put up there, the more likely voters are to consider Roger Williams’ campaign.
Speaking of Obama, he was in Texas yesterday to raise money and pander to the amnesty crowd, but was too busy to look at the areas of the state ravaged by wildfire.
Newt Gingrich will run for President. Gingrich would make an excellent Presidential contender…in 1996. Today, with Gingrich already pulling sellout moves like pandering to the ethanol lobby, I see no reason to believe he would be the best choice for President.
Tags: 2012 Election, Elizabeth Ames Jones, Energy Policy, Newt Gingrich, Obama, Roger Williams, Texas, Texas Senate Race, wildfire
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