Holy Carp
Wed   22 Oct 2008   12:32 by Kevin McGehee 1 comment [Our Times] [Get Offa My Lawn!] [Here's Your Sign] [Wackadoodle] [Media Ochre]	Before this election campaign is over, the only word that won’t be read as a “code word” for race will be “race.“ Unless it’s a NASCAR race, of course. » Read more "Holy Carp"

You Were Thinking It Too
Fri   17 Oct 2008   12:04 by Kevin McGehee 1 comment [Humor?] [Get Offa My Lawn!] [Media Ochre]

Preemptive Surrender
Tue   14 Oct 2008   14:18 by Kevin McGehee 75° and mostly cloudy in Coweta County, GA 3 comments [Asides] [Get Offa My Lawn!]	Seems that a lot of people out there are starting to argue over what kind of condiment is best to put on the $#!t sandwich that an Obama presidency would represent. I assume “mayonnaise” would be a racist choice.

Too Late to Bail Out on the Bailout

Tue   14 Oct 2008   10:21 by Kevin McGehee 66° and sunny in Coweta County, GA 3 comments [Get Offa My Lawn!]

They can’t say they weren’t warned. Just how bad has the bailout plan been for Republicans in the House and Senate? Some senior Senate Republicans aides now believe that it’s not a far out idea that Democrats could gain a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority, while Republicans House members who voted for the bailout are seeing their polling numbers drop in the past ten days. [...] Those Republicans who stood against the bailout bill aren’t seeing similar drops. In fact, some House members who remained against the bailout were seeing five to seven point gains in their district polling. » Bailout Backlash Limbaugh has been blaming 2006 on “macaca” and Mark Foley, but he’s overlooking the contribution of such things as the Abramoff brouhaha (which was somehow “a Republican scandal” despite more Democrats being implicated than Republicans; sound familiar?) and the attempt by the Bush Administration to foist amnesty-by-any-other-name on an unreceptive nation. In 2008, the Stupid Party has once again shot itself in the foot with this bailout bill. If Republicans manage somehow not to be annihilated on Election Day, it will be only by the grace of a forgiving God.

Psy Ops

Fri   10 Oct 2008   9:14 by Kevin McGehee in Coweta County, GA 0 comments [Get Offa My Lawn!]

Four years ago, Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) waited until Election Day to start the panic-mongering among Republican voters, with exit-poll information cherry-picked from certain locations, and false reports of exit polls from others. It didn’t work very well, since the main effect was only on people who hadn’t voted early that morning. Midday voters tend, so I’ve read, to be Democrat voters. Well, in 2008 they’re starting much earlier. The polls are all over the place. Something screwy is going on. On Election Day 2004, having seen comment threads and blog posts reacting to the phony exit-poll numbers—and having nothing to go on but my own sense that something wasn’t right—I wrote: Those early exit poll numbers showing Kerry winning states where Bush had a lead going into Election Day? Ignore ‘em. They’re bogus. [...] Good lord, people—some of us Bush supporters really are Spaniards, aren’t we? Godawmighty, is this what it’s coming to? Wipe your noses and unbunch your @#$!ing panties. Jeez! » What a Mess I’m tempted to stick this post to the top of the front page until all the polls have closed on November 4. Wipe your noses and unbunch your panties, people.

Will Anybody Care?

Thu   9 Oct 2008   15:25 by Kevin McGehee in Coweta County, GA 0 comments [Our Times] [Get Offa My Lawn!] [Wackadoodle]

More to the point, will enough people care? So Barack Obama was a member of an extremist political party established by the Democratic Socialists for America, the Chicago New Party, and they cheered his victory in his uncontested run for his Illinois state senate seat as a step away from American values, towards socialism. Does it really matter? » Barack Obama Was Member of Socialist New Party It’s an apt question. The kind of people flocking to Obama’s banner don’t care what the facts may be about their chosen leader. He is their brother’s keeper, and they will follow him wherever he leads.

‘We Have Taken Control of Your Political System’

Tue   7 Oct 2008   9:50 by Kevin McGehee in Coweta County, GA 1 comment [Get Offa My Lawn!] [Media Ochre]

“...we control the narrative. Do not attempt to adjust your thinking except in ways we desire.“ Knowing that the Republicans are attempting to distract voters away from the big issues of the day, “are we in the media going to aid and abet the McCain campaign’s obvious ploy?“ asks the WP’s Eugene Robinson. Even if reporters point out that that the allegations McCain’s campaign makes are false, “writing about them at all gives them wider circulation.“ Journalists “have a duty to avoid being turned into instruments of mass distraction” and must press for answers about the issues that really matter. “The McCain campaign has made clear that it wants to change the subject,“ writes Robinson. “We can, and should, change it back.“ » Drowned World Tour Is it really 1992 all over again? Back then, when George H.W. Bush was fighting for re-election against the media-endorsed Clinton-Gore ticket, a major media denizen was quoted as insisting that his industry would not allow the Republicans to win. The comment was picked up on by conservative opinion media at the time, but the media still got away with it and their preferred candidate was elected. Is 2008 really all that different from 1992? Can a nation be hoodwinked twice in living memory by an actively biased media doing the exact same thing it did before? Only the American people can decide that—but, “Fool me once, shame on you…“ would seem to apply.

Ahnuld to Congress: Giff Us $7 Billion!

Sat   4 Oct 2008   11:58 by Kevin McGehee in Chattanooga, TN 1 comment [Get Offa My Lawn!] [Here's Your Sign]

California is continuing to jockey for a multibillion-dollar emergency federal loan despite Friday’s congressional approval of a rescue plan for the nation’s troubled credit market. “We’re not out of the woods yet,“ Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said. The governor had sent a letter Thursday to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson warning that the state may be forced to turn to the federal treasury for help if it cannot quickly secure a short-term loan for up to $7 billion. » State may tap feds for loan McGehee to Ahnuld: Get stuffed. The American taxpayer shouldn’t have to keep bailing out the Democrat Legislature that keeps spending your state into bankruptcy—apparently about every four years. I thought the 2004 bailout was okay, but the idea was that you only get one visit to the well. And thanks to the banking bailout, the well’s pretty much dry now anyway.

Why the Bailout Bill Really Failed

Tue   30 Sep 2008   13:43 by Kevin McGehee 1 comment [Get Offa My Lawn!]

Even the big-government Democrats knew it was going to be an albatross. “All we needed was enough to potentially get us over the finish line, but we wanted the Republicans to be the ones to do it. This was not going to be a Democrat-passed bill if the Speaker had anything to say about it.“ » Democrat Leaders Played to Lose They could have passed it without a single Republican vote, but averting the end of the world as we knew it, took a back seat to the kind of bipartisanship these Democrats like to practice: that of shifting blame onto the other party. Meanwhile, the sun still shines and the birds still sing. Is this crisis really as bad as the Mainstream Media have been telling us?

Memo

Tue   30 Sep 2008   11:14 by Kevin McGehee 1 comment [Get Offa My Lawn!] [Media Ochre]

...to the Mainstream Media: Be careful what you wish for. Even more to the point, be careful what you risk your entire institutional reserve of credibility—such as it is—for. I probably should have been sending you this warning long ago—like, starting in 1992 maybe. Oh wait, I was. Along with a whole lot of other people. Well, how many times do you think you’ll be able to pull your own self-pwn3d arses out of the fire after another one of your magical Democrats self-combusts all over you? (I know what Bill Clinton did all over you wasn’t literally combustion, but combustibility was involved…) You have to know that once this election campaign is over, you’ll be back on the sidewalk again, trying to figure out how to withhold a little bit of money for yourself without your pimp finding out and beating you up.

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