The Camp Of The Saints

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

RULE 5 CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN: 22 DEC 2009

The TCOTS Rule 5 Compliance Committee has voted unanimously to initiate a Countdown To Christmas. With so much bleak news enveloping us this year, The Committee feels a duty to provide a moment of relief, so from now until Christmas, the gals are on us.

In our second entry we have decided let our subjects pass along their Christmas advice...

DENISE MILANI wants you to make sure everything is hung with care...

SANTA wants you to make sure you're careful when packing your gifts...

SPECIAL NOTE: Tomorrow's Countdown To Christmas entry will be our normal Hump Day affair.

22 dec 09 @ 9:22 pm est Comments

DEVIOUS BASTARDS

Over at Red State, Erick Erickson reports on a little known provision of the Senate version of Obamacare [emphasis Erick's]:

If ever the people of the United States rise up and fight over passage of Obamacare, Harry Reid must be remembered as the man who sacrificed the dignity of his office for a few pieces of silver. The rules of fair play that have kept the basic integrity of the Republic alive have died with Harry Reid. Reid has slipped in a provision into the health care legislation prohibiting future Congresses from changing any regulations imposed on Americans by the Independent Medicare [note: originally referred to as "medical"] Advisory Boards, which are commonly called the “Death Panels.”

It was Reid leading the Democrats who ignored 200 years of Senate precedents to rule that Senator Sanders could withdraw his amendment while it was being read.

It was Reid leading the Democrats who has determined again and again over the past few days that hundreds of years of accumulated Senate parliamentary rulings have no bearing on the health care vote.

On December 21, 2009, however, Harry Reid sold out the Republic in toto.

Upon examination of Senator Harry Reid’s amendment to the health care legislation, Senators discovered section 3403. That section changes the rules of the United States Senate.

To change the rules of the United States Senate, there must be sixty-seven votes.

Section 3403 of Senator Harry Reid’s amendment requires that “it shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment, or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection.”The good news is that this only applies to one section of the Obamacare legislation. The bad news is that it applies to regulations imposed on doctors and patients by the Independent Medicare Advisory Boards a/k/a the Death Panels.

Please, please, so take the time to click here and read the full report.

Harry Reid is a tyrant.

He has violated his oath of office. And anyone in the Senate who votes for this tyrannical measure will have violated his or her own oaths. This is pure lawlessness. Erick is spot-on when he says 'We Are No Longer A Nation Of Laws'. We are now a Nation Of Men—a Nation Of Tyrannical Men.

22 dec 09 @ 1:52 pm est Comments

SNEAKY BASTARDS*

And you thought the Stupak Amendment in the House version of Obamacare would stand. I mean, hey, that's what a good number of House Democrats said, right? How come then HHS Secretary Kathleen 'The Abortinator' Sebelius is smiling with a s--t-eating grin?

Could be the way she looks normally....nah, just kidding with ya...Ed Morrissey and Philip Klein have the details here and here, respectively.

*And that's insulting the bastards.

22 dec 09 @ 1:39 pm est Comments

NO RETREAT, BABY, NO SURRENDER

Sixty-five years ago today, General Anthony C. McAuliffe issued his reply to the Germans who had demand that he surrender Bastogne to them [The Battle Of The Bulge].

To those on the Left who have demanded that we surrender The Constitution Of The United States to them, I give the same reply...

NUTS!

22 dec 09 @ 1:23 pm est Comments

Monday, December 21, 2009

RULE 5 CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN: 21 DEC 2009

The TCOTS Rule 5 Compliance Committee has voted unanimously to initiate a Countdown To Christmas. With so much bleak news enveloping us this year, The Committee feels a duty to provide a moment of relief, so from now until Christmas, the gals are on us.

In our initial entry we have decided to honor some unsung gals of Christmas...

THE PAJAMAGRAM GALS...

21 dec 09 @ 7:41 pm est Comments

THESE DAYS*

In the wee small hours of the night, the Senate voted along party lines to move the process of socializing the American health care system further down the road to perdition. I've been sailing through The Ether on a ship made of sorrow, gathering odds and ends of related commentary and information on what's been going on and what the future holds...

-As to why the vote had to be taken at 0101 hours in the morning, Bryon York explains it very well:

...But the fact is, there is no reason the Reid Amendment vote could not have been held at a more reasonable hour. One a.m. Monday was the earliest moment that Senate rules allowed a vote, but there is no rule keeping the Senate from voting at some time after 1 a.m. If Reid had scheduled the vote for, say, 11 a.m. Monday, that would have been fine. If he scheduled it for 4 p.m. Monday, or 10 a.m. Tuesday, that would have been fine, too.But Reid is determined to pass the national health care bill by Christmas, and to do so he has to get the cloture vote on his amendment done at the earliest moment. The timeline is Reid's and Reid's alone. "The bottom line is, Sen. Reid schedules the floor," says one well-connected GOP aide. "He is the only one who can schedule the floor." If Reid had scheduled the vote during business hours on, say, Tuesday, a final vote would not have taken place until the day after Christmas -- an outcome Reid apparently found unacceptable.

Please do take the time to click here and read Mr. York's full explanation.

The Democrats en-masse have been bleating to anyone who will listen that it is the Republican's fault, but let us not forget Rule #1 of Bob Belvedere's Rules For Leftists:

If you want to know what the those on the Left are doing in a particular situation, just look and see what they're accusing the Right of doing. You've heard of 'The Big Lie', this is 'The Big Deception'.

-Michelle Malkin has the full Cash For Cloture Bribe List up at her place. She also has the 411 on one of the most outlandish features of Obamacare: the mandate to cover adult children.

-Over at AmSpecBlog, Matthew Vadum is dead-solid-perfect:

The current iteration of ObamaCare is classic Mussolini-style Fascism (i.e. corporatism). It forces Americans at gunpoint to purchase health insurance, a requirement never before imposed on the American people. The big insurance companies and the federal government have combined to subject the public to this tyrannical mandate that Americans overwhelmingly oppose. This is the economic essence of Fascism.

Indeed it is.

-In but four simple words, Pat Austin sums up the Left's actions regarding Obamacare [emphasis mine]:

And in the dead of a cold winter's night, it's coming. Your cheap, bought-off representatives in Washington are sneaking the big one over on you. Destroying the American economy, capitalism and free enterprise. Making us like Europe, like someone we don't want to be.

If it's so great, why isn't Congress going to be covered by this abomination? Because they KNOW it's bad.

Cheap. Tawdry. Insidious. Filthy.

That was from a Sunday posting of her's. Here's a snippet from what she wrote this morning:

While you were sleeping last night you got a little closer to losing America as we know it. While you were sleeping, you came closer to losing some of your individual rights and freedoms. You're ever so much closer, for example, to no longer being able to say, "Why no! I don't believe I want to buy health insurance this year!"

My only quibble with Pat: 'some' is not strong enough because, once our health care is socialized, we will no longer own our own lives. The government will be able to regulate practically anything we do under the guise of 'protecting' our health.

-If you think I'm being over-the-top and melodramatic, I draw your attention to this by Carol over at Carol's Closet:

I'm going to paraphrase Sen. Harkin's remarks during the announcement that the Dems have the votes for ObamaCare:

This is not a mansion. This is a starter home. It has has a good foundation and a good roof for protection AND IT HAS ROOM FOR EXPANSION.

Do not doubt for one moment that once the Dems jam this bill through the race will be on to expand it and expand it until they have the single payer, government run system that they have wanted all along.

The truth is out there for all of us to see.

-Dan Riehl is optimistic that the vile things being done by the Leftists will rouse the passion of the American people:

There are Tea Parties aplenty still taking place. Whether she herself runs, or not, Sarah Palin inspires a great many Americans, with plenty of them not so previously engaged. And we have issues. Ones on which the Right, not the Socialist-Democrats are on the right side of in the hearts and minds of most Americans.

They need to come to understand that, certainly. But there is time for that, too. Time and passion. I predict we will see a huge burst of energy on the Right as we go forward confronting all this. I can imagine activists who previously weren't picking up phones doing so, even working for campaigns - issue, or candidate related. Add contributing money to the mix.

-Roger Kimball is too:

The trouble for the Democrats is that the will of the American people, once aroused, is not something you can ignore. It rebels against long trails of “abuses and usurpations.”

I suspect that the “tea parties” of the last several months will look like modest dress rehearsals once people get a handle on what the Obama-Pelosi-Reid triumvirate are attempting to do to us.

-Chris, over at WyBlog, is slightly optimistic, but, like the true conservative he is, he hasn't quite lost his cynicism:

The majority of the sheep in this country are too busy this week hustling for the last Zhu-Zhu Pet or Wii Fit to be paying much attention to Harry Reid. But maybe when the full specter of what the Democrats have done to us finally sinks in they'll awaken from their slumber. Maybe the tide of public opprobrium will hang this albatross around the neck of every last one of them and sweep their despicable slimy political carcasses deep into the abyss from whence ObamaCare emerged, perhaps even before our way of life is irrevocably destroyed.

I hope Dan and Roger are right, but I remain standing beside Chris for now [its in my nature].

-Over at Another Black Conservative, Clifton is in a fighting mood and issues a call to arms:

I want future generations to know, what it is like to achieve the American Dream like I have, like my parents have and like my grandparents before them. This is why I choose to fight for my dream, the American Dream. I will not simply run to the polls come 2010 or 2012, instead I will work tirelessly to speak out against the progressive agenda, now and ways. I will attend Tea Parties, I will go to protests, and I will do what it takes to align the stars for my dream, the American Dream. Are you willing to do the same?

That's a question we all must seriously consider. If we are willing, I think we also have to look straight in the eye QUESTIONS WE CAN NO LONGER AVOID.

-The Classic Liberal does his classic aggregating thing brilliantly once again.

-The Left Coast Rebel is dead on the money:

... One of the worst things about this disaster is the Christmas Eve vote. Whereas Christmas Eve is a celebration of a gift of life to Mankind, the United States Senate is giving us a closed-door gift of death nearly in secret.

-I've saved the best for last. Paco has made the best overall comment on all of this mehshigaas [this is worth quoting at length; I hope Paco doesn't mind, but it is so spot-on and so well-put]:

There can be no compromise, no negotiation, no comity, no assumption of good faith by Republicans in their future dealings with the Democratic Party’s left wing (and considering how the so-called blue dogs were bought off with lucre and sweetheart deals for their constituents, any contrast between the left wing of the party and its “center” represents a distinction without a difference).

Our strategy should be to unite behind candidates who pledge to repeal this monstrous legislation and to break the power of the federal octopus that is within reach of delivering us into the clutches of a socialist bureaucracy. This is not the America that the voters wanted, the foolhardy vote for Obama and Democratic “moderates” by many citizens notwithstanding. This is the America of hardline statists for whom any actual improvement in health care quality and coverage is a matter of indifference. The whole point of “health care reform” is about enlarging the power of the state at the expense of the freedom of the individual. It is Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi making decisions for us because they have decided that we cannot be trusted to make the “correct” decisions ourselves. And it will not stop with health care.

Who will be content to live in the dystopia created by these grave-diggers of liberty? Once the precedent has been established that the federal government has the right to do absolutely anything, whose property – and life, for that matter – is truly safe? We are currently involved in an ideological civil war – what Ed Driscoll and others have referred to as a “cold civil war” – and the sooner we admit it, the sooner we can dispense with the notion that what we are seeing is business as usual, and that we can blithely go about our lives ignoring the ramifications of the decisions being made in Washington by a combination of hard-core leftists acting in concert with centrist quislings.

The votes we cast in 2010 and 2012 are likely to be the most important we will cast in our lifetimes.

Amen.

LEFTISM DELANDA EST

*Click here for the video of These Days.

21 dec 09 @ 5:32 pm est Comments

TO THE FOLKS AT IMDB...

...ah...you might want to rephrase the headline by putting quotes around the movie title:

21 dec 09 @ 4:42 pm est Comments

SHELDON WHITEHOUSE IS VILE

During the Senate session yesterday, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island delivered a truly amazing speech—amazing in the sense that it was one of the most over-th-top diatribes I have ever witnessed in the Congress. The full speech is available here [text and video][tip of the fedora to William Jacobson]. Here are a few ~~high~~lowlights:

Madam President, as we are here in the Senate today, Washington rests under a blanket of snow, reminding us here of the Christmas spirit across the nation -- the spirit that is bringing families happily together for the holidays. Unfortunately, a different spirit has descended on this Senate. The spirit that has descended on the Senate is one described by Chief Justice John Marshall back in the Burr trial: "those malignant and vindictive passions which rage in the bosoms of contending parties struggling for power."

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Hofstader captured some examples in his famous essay, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics."

The "malignant and vindictive passions" often arise, he points out, when an aggrieved minority believes that "America has been largely taken away from them and their kind. Though they are determined to try to repossess it and to prevent the final destructive act of subversion." Does that sound familiar, Madam President, in this health-care debate? Forty years ago he wrote that.

Hofstader continued, those aggrieved fear what he described as "the now-familiar sustained conspiracy" -- familiar then, 40 years ago; persistent now -- "whose supposed purpose," Hofstader described, "is to undermine free capitalism, to bring the economy under the direction of the federal government, and to pave the way for socialism." Again, familiar words here today.

More than 50 years ago, he wrote of the dangers of an aggrieved right-wing minority with the power to create what he called "a political climate in which the rational pursuit of our well-being and safety would become impossible."

A political environment "in which the rational pursuit of our well-being and safety would become impossible."

The malignant and vindictive passions that have descended on the Senate are busily creating just such a political climate. Far from appealing to the better angels of our nature, too many colleagues are embarked on a desperate, no-holds-barred mission of propaganda, falsehood, obstruction and fear.

History cautions us of the excesses to which these malignant, vindictive passions can ultimately lead. Tumbrels have rolled through taunting crowds. Broken glass has sparkled in darkened streets. Strange fruit has hung from Southern trees. Even this great institution of government that we share has cowered before a tail-gunner waving secret lists. Those malignant movements rightly earned what Lord Acton called "the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict upon wrong."

And...
How are these unprecedented passions manifested in the Senate? Well, several ways:

First, through a campaign of obstruction and delay, affecting every single aspect of the Senate's business. We have crossed the mark of over 100 filibusters and acts of procedural obstruction in less than one year. Never since the founding of the republic, not even in the bitter sentiments preceding the Civil War, was such a thing ever seen in this body. It is unprecedented.

Second, through a campaign of falsehood about "death panels" and cuts to Medicare benefits, and benefits for illegal aliens, and bureaucrats to be parachuted in between you and your doctor. Our colleagues terrify the public with this parade of imagined horrors. They whip up concerns and anxiety about "socialized medicine" and careening deficits. And then they tell us the public is concerned about the bill. Really.

Third, we see it in bad behavior. We see it in the long hours of reading by the clerks our Republican colleagues have forced. We see it in Christmases and holidays ruined by the Republicans for our loyal and professional Senate employees. It's fine for me, it's fine for the president; we signed up for this job. But why ruin it for all of the employees condemned by the Republicans to be here?

Finally...
If they can cause this bill to fail, the truth will never stand up as a living reproach to the lies that have been told. And on through history, our colleagues could claim they defeated a terrible monstrosity. But when the bill passes, and this program actually comes to life and it is friendly -- when it shelters 33 million Americans, regular American people in the new security of health insurance, when it growls down the most disgraceful abuses of the insurance industry, when it offers better care, electronic health records, new community health centers, new opportunities to negotiate fair and square in a public market, and when it brings down the deficit and steers Medicare toward safe harbor, all of which it does, Americans will then know, beyond any capacity of spin or propaganda to dissuade them, that they were lied to.

And they will remember.

There will come a day of judgment -- and our Republican friends know that. And that, Mr. President, is why they are terrified.

The Senator is seriously delusional. I can only see this as a cry for help.

Let's take a look at some of the commentary in The Ether by rather more rational people...

-The aforementioned William Jacobson:

Those of us who stand for individual liberty and health care freedom have been called malignant vindictive people similar to those who hung blacks from trees and to the Nazis who ran through the streets breaking windows and beating Jews in the streets.

You really need to listen to this speech. It is almost beyond description. I cannot fully convey the full scope of this vile speech. It is scary to see a Senator on the floor of the Senate make such a speech.

It's even scarier to see that not a single Democrat objected to it on the Senate floor or afterward. Are we moving toward a Communist-like regime where people are viscously denounced in official settings by mealy-mouthed apparatchiks with the approval of those in power? Sure as Hell feels that way. These are extraordinary times we live in.

Another point: 'The Burr Trial' that he refers to was the trial of Aaron Burr for treason. So Whitehouse is accusing us of treasonous behavior it would seem. Hmmm...let's see: on one side you have those of us who have made the case that The Constitution forbids laws like Obamacare to be passed; on the Left side, you have people who have openly declared that what The Constitution says does not matter. Hmmm...who's treasonous? Just asking questions...

-Stacy McCain has been all over this one. He watched the speech live and here are some of his comments as he did:

...For crying out loud, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) reads Richard Hofstadter on the Senate floor. In other words, if you oppose this bill, you're a neurotic suffering from status anxiety. There can be no rational opposition.

And...

...That was one of the most villainous speeches I've ever heard by any Senator, and I hope to God that some of my friends who are Senate staffers will provide a Republican with a solid rebuttal to vile Adorno/Hofstadter psychoanalytic crap, which is no more valid today than when Buckley critiqued it in Up From Liberalism nearly 50 years ago.

-From a posting by Stacy later in the day over at AmSpecBlog:

There you have it, then: Nazis and militia kooks elect lying Republican senators who ruin Christmas and who oppose the bill only because they want to "break" the president and are terrified that if the bill passes, it will expose how they've engaged in fear-mongering propaganda.

'Ruining Christmas'? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!

-In an article in today's The American Spectator, Stacy provides a little history on the tactics being used by Senator Whitehouse. Here's a teaser:

Certainly this should sound familiar to conservatives, as Hofstadter's psycho-political theory -- derived from the work of Theodor Adorno -- was analyzed and dismissed by William F. Buckley Jr. a half-century ago.

"If you dismiss a priori the possibility that there are rational grounds for resisting the Liberal view of things, one necessarily looks elsewhere than to reason for explanations," Buckley wrote in his 1959 classic, Up From Liberalism. Buckley observed that "one needs no advanced degrees in clinical psychology and psychoanalytic theory in order to penetrate the fallacy of The Authoritarian Personality" -- the most famous work of Adorno, a leader of what has become known as the Frankfurt School of political theory.

Adorno claimed to have proven scientifically that American conservatism was rooted in psychological maladjustment, fostering a tendency toward authoritarianism, which he asserted was the fundamental source of European fascism.

However, as Buckley explained, Adorno's argument was a tautology based on the implicit presumption that all opposition to liberalism was illegitimate and therefore irrational. Adorno's theory was "marvelously convenient" for liberals, Buckley said, and it has been recycled periodically ever since.

This is well worth a read because it is a quick lesson in how the majority on the Left think about the Right [hint: they think we're all deranged...no, really, they do, and that means there can be no dealing with people who think like that because they will treat you like an insane person and humor you, while they maneuver around you].

Also for additional insight [and to do the Time Warp], check out Stacy's other postings here and here.

-On the whole 'Republicans have ruined Christmas' bit, I think Carol, over at Carol's Closet, said it best:

...But as to your staffers ruined Christmas, go flipping home. The Republicans aren't keeping you there. Republicans don't want you there. Nobody asked you to cram this down our throats. In fact, we asked you not to. You didn't listen. You're not listening now. You stand on the floor of the United States Senate and speak like a petty, third world tyrant. Sen. Whitehouse, I will give the respect that you have earned. None. Kiss my ass.

Mine too.

-Erick Erickson, over at Red State, is spot-on:

There you have it — gone are the days when Democrats compared American soldiers to Nazis on the floor of the Senate. Today, Democrats condone one of their own calling, from the floor of the Senate, the majority of American citizens Aryan hate mongers rooting for the assassination of the President of the United States.

And yes, Whitehouse was referring to the majority of American citizens. How do I know? Because every single poll is showing the majority of Americans opposed to this health care deform legislation. Whitehouse labeled everyone opposed to the legislationas racist hatemongers rooting for bullets against the President.

That is sad, sick, pathetic, and should be condemned by every other Senator.

In fact, you should call your Senator at 202-224-3121 and ask if he condemns Senator Whitehouse for saying, from the floor of the Senate, that opponents of the Democrats health care legislation want Barack Obama to be assassinated — the only clear interpretation of his remarks.

The only good thing here is the Left's targeting of us instead of the soldiers. Let the bastards abuse us—its the least we can do for the troops.

SHELDON WHITEHOUSE DELANDA EST.

21 dec 09 @ 2:38 pm est Comments

WASHINGTON DC: THUGGERY IS THE NEW NORMAL

Via the incomparable Smitty, I have learned of a great list William Jacobson has put together, over at Legal Insurrection, of some of the underhanded and corrupt things the Democrats have done lately:

How amazing is the number of circumstances which caused this perfect storm, without any one of which we wouldn't be on Obama's precipice: Massachusetts changes its rules for a second time to allow appointment of a Democrat in Kennedy's place rather than having to wait for the special election; Al Franken outmaneuvers and out-litigates Norm Coleman to steal the Minnesota race; Rahm Emanuel recruits "blue dog" Democratic wolves in sheep's clothing and people fall for it; the media covers up the Obama agenda during the campaign, portraying Obama falsely as a moderate; [added] George Allen says "Macaca," and so on.

As Smitty comments:

It would nearly, as a thought experiment, be fun to let this Progressivism run its fell course, collapsing our whole friggin' world into an autocracy. You know why? Because these jackass lefties that think this road a great one would be singing the loudest about how bad it sucks. Imbeciles.

I sympathize with the sentiment.

Perhaps the most perfect example we've had lately of the way things are done under the Leftists in this comment made by our beloved Black Caesar to Democratic Representative Peter Fazio after he voted against the climate change, bank bailout, and 'stimulus' bills [tip of the fedora to Michelle Malkin]:

Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother.

I'll let my hero John Shaft speak for me...

It warms my black heart when a namby-pamby college boy gets his black on and gets all Fred Williamson with some cracker....yeah, sure does...

Well...he's a complicated man...

21 dec 09 @ 11:34 am est Comments

JUST A REMINDER: BEN NELSON IS A CHEAP WHORE

With so much going on, I think it important that we all remember that Senator Ben Nelson is a cheap whore. I know many of my Friends In The Ether think Ben Nelson is a cheap whore...

-Carol, over at No Sheeples Here, is pretty set in her opinion:

... think most will agree that there is no cheap whore cheaper than Ben Nelson. K Street ain’t the only place in Washington where you’ll find a cheap whore.

Quite.

-While not directly calling Ben Nelson a cheap whore, Roger Kimball implies that he is and, like all cheap whores, predicts that Ben Nelson may develop a figurative nasty rash:

I hope that Ben enjoys his final two years in the Senate.

OK, that’s not quite right. Since it was Ben Nelson of Nebraska that finally got Harry Reid his desperately needed 60th vote for socialized medicine, I hope 1) that the next two year are unpleasant for Sen. Nelson and 2) that he loses in 2012 by a landslide.

I’m still not being entirely candid. Nelson is a pathetic pawn in this game. He’s history and I hope he has plans for a new day job. He’ll need ‘em.

He'll probably be appointed chairman of a death panel.

-Mark Steyn, too, implies that Ben Nelson is a cheap whore, but also implies that Harry 'School Marm' Reid is the lowest of the lowest kind of John: one who doesn't even use his own cash for the transaction:

This line from Representative Cantor caught my eye:

They're allocating taxpayer dollars as if those dollars belonged to the senators. It borders on immoral. Just look at the way Senator Landrieu put her vote up for sale. Senator Nelson did the same.

You can't even dignify this squalid racket as bribery: If I try to buy a cop, I have to use my own money. But, when Harry Reid buys a senator, he uses my money, too. It doesn't "border on immoral": It drives straight through the frontier post and heads for the dark heartland of immoral.

-Jim Hoft, aka the Gateway Pundit, has done the digging and found that hookers are protesting this association with cheap whore Ben Nelson. From the Canada Free Press, Joy Tiz reporting:

Members of the world’s oldest profession are infuriated by the relentless and invidious likening of their industry to the world’s second oldest profession. Word on the street, literally, is that hookers are prepared to exact an apology for the defiling of their good names.

Even those not well acquainted with the whoring business should be able to appreciate the asymmetry between a freely bargained for and mutually beneficial exchange, versus extorting taxpayer funds in the service of tyrants.

Paid escorts everywhere are especially aggrieved by the hooker title being conferred upon thoroughly contemptible politicians; including Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson. Nebraska Democrat Nelson, who was elected on a pro life platform, sold millions of unborn babies in exchange for extravagant tax payer funded perks for his soon to be former home state.

...

Hookers are also quick to admonish that unlike congress, working girls outside of the D.C. area only infrequently take taxpayer money.

Well, I want to assure the hookers that we don't mean to defame the sexual caregiver profession in and of itself. No, no. Rather, what we're saying is that Landrieu and Nelson are CHEAP whores. Now I think we can agree that its the cheap whores who drive down prices for the non-cheap whores, so I think there's no offense to be taken by hookers who play by the rules and maintain a respectable level of hygiene.

-By the way...let's not forget it was Stacy McCain who first labeled Ben Nelson a 'cheap whore'.

-And finally...

21 dec 09 @ 10:28 am est Comments

Saturday, December 19, 2009

RULE 5 SATURDAY

The TCOTS Rule 5 Compliance Committee, in full compliance with Stacy McCain's Rules & Regulations, has decided to spotlight a gal who a bit of an enigma. You never quite knew what thoughts were occurring behind those captivating eyes. She could be as cold as a glacier one moment and then smiling seductively at you the next. Most of the time she seemed world weary, like she had seen it all before. She smoldered with lust, yet somehow seemed to radiate a lingering sadness. Without further adieu, it is with great pleasure that The Committee presents....

GENE TIERNEY...

19 dec 09 @ 8:33 pm est Comments

HOW ABOUT A LITTLE [CHRISTMAS] BREATHER...

First of all, if you're one of those folks who will be going offline for Christmas, let me wish you a
Very Merry Christmas

-I don't know about you, but I think one of the greatest Christmas movies ever made is A Christmas Story. The Left Coast Rebel has some great links related to the movie and the 411 on what happened to the house they shot the film in.

-As I mentioned in a previous posting, over at Right, Wing-Nut!, The JerseyNut has been celebrating the eight days of Hanukkah by featuring a different Hanukkah Honey each day. His final one may be the best [and contains links to the other seven].

-This past Thursday was the 60th anniversary of the birth of Paul Rodgers, one of the great rock and roll singers of all time. He was also the lead singer of one of the greatest bands of all time, Bad Company [Feel Like Makin' Love is a classic]. Over at American Power, Donald Douglas has up a video of the band singing one of their best: Shooting Star.

-Over at Wizbang, Michael Laprarie comments on the joys of looking back on Christmas's past. He has great photos and links. I especially liked this pic:

Ah, innocence!

-Red has a great story up from her fatheron how he got banned from COSTCO. Man, old folks do have a lot of time on their hands and some are just plain evil.

-Over at WyBlog, Chris has been wandering around for a little too long in the blizzard that's raging today in Jersey, so long in fact, that he's having visions of Christmas babes on beaches. I'm hauling my butt outside.

-There's nothing like a good Christmas Carol well sung and we are very fortunate today because Stacy McCain has graced us with renditions of two—count 'em two—holiday tunes: Winter Wonderland and Let It Snow. Some of you may not know but Stacy sang with rock and roll bands in his youth, so the singing here is spot-on on-key. As additional treat, we get to see his two youngest children doing what they do best in a snowstorm: play. After all watching all of the awful things going on in our nation's capital, these videos have really lifted my spirits. Thanks my friend.

-Paco has done it again and provided us with two great music videos. First off, he gives us The King Of Western Swing Spade Cooley & His Band doing Miss Molly. Then he treats us to the lovely intonations of WWII pin-up gal Nan Wynn who claims she Ain't Misbehavin' [like Paco says 'too bad']. Here's a couple pics of Miss Wynn:

-I'm off to put together this week's Rule 5 Saturday....

19 dec 09 @ 6:00 pm est Comments

END-OF-YEAR 'BEST OF...' LISTS

I'm one of the chaps who rarely likes year-end 'Best Of...' lists, but occasionally one comes along that moves me...

The New York Post, which John Derbyshire decribes accurately as 'America's true paper of record', has compiled a forty-five image photo gallery of the 2009 Best Lingerie Images. Its quite stirring IYKWIMAITYD. Here's a sample:

I guess that one on the right would be considered 'sustainable'.

19 dec 09 @ 5:13 pm est Comments

ARE YOU SERIOUS?

I was fully intending to publish a bunch of serious postings today on various issues, but I think I'll let the immediately previous posting stand as the only one for today because (1) it is the most important issue immediately confronting us and (2) that issue is enough for one day, especially on the Saturday before Christmas. I'll try to make up for this decision either tomorrow or at the start of Christmas week.

19 dec 09 @ 4:09 pm est Comments

BEN NELSON IS A CHEAP WHORE

The illustrious and principled Senator from Nebraska, Ben 'Hooker' Nelson, has decided to vote with Harry 'School Marm' Reid after being paid rather handsomely considering his low-rent classification amongst his fellow pros ['Ben Nelson is a cheap whore'].

From The Washington Post, Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery reporting:

Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.), the final Democratic holdout on health care, announced to his colleagues Saturday morning that he would support the Senate reform bill, clearing the way for final passage by Christmas of President Obama's top domestic policy priority.

Asked if he had secured the 60 votes needed to overcome a Republican filibuster, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) told reporters, "It seems that way."

To seal the deal on this transaction the John, Harry Reid, had to pay the going street rate for skanky chippys. From Politico, Chris Frates reporting, we learn the details of the transaction [tip of the fedora to Stacy]:

Sen. Mary Landrieu got the "Louisiana Purchase." Sen. Ben Nelson got the federal government to pick up most his state's future Medicaid tab -- forever.

As part of the deal to win Nelson's support, the federal government will pay for Nebraska's new Medicaid recipients. It's a provision worth about $45 million over the first decade.

Medicaid is usually paid for with a mix of federal and state funding, but Nelson's carve out means that any Medicaid beneficiaries who join the program after the bill passes will be paid for in full by the federal government.

As Stacy McCain put it:

... Ben Nelson is a cheap whore. I think other bloggers will agree that there is no cheap whore cheaper than Ben Nelson.

[Google-bombs Away! Take to the Ether Sky and join us!]

The purchasing of Ben Nelson's ~~services~~, er, vote sets in motion this process:

The Senate is expected to work its way through a series of procedural motions over the next few days, with a vote on the legislation scheduled the evening of Dec. 24th. A conference with the House to produce a final bill would likely extend into January, Senate aides said.

A Christmas Eve vote! Well Senator Nelson: Ho Ho Ho!

Stacy, by the way, has published another posting that contains some very good quotes and links of reaction to this ~~bribe~~, er, deal. In that post, he makes this comment:

Ben Nelson could realize how badly he has dishonored himself and commit seppuku. Unlikely, of course, but theoretically possible.

...Readers who think I'm actually advocating that Nelson engage in ritual disembowelment are mistaken. Seppuku is an expression of the shogun's honorable acknowledgement of his own dishonor. Nelson obviously has no sense of honor. He's a Democrat.

QUIBBLE: Wikipedia defines seppuku as:

Seppuku ("stomach-cutting") is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment.

If Sen. Ben Nelson doesn't have enough honor to 'take his Luger and go into his den and do the right thing', it seems to me this may be the right time to revive the old Patriot custom of Tar & Feathering. Such times seem to, sadly, cry out for such measures.

Over at The Sundries Shack, Jimmie Bise comments on the implications of Ben Nelson being the cheap whore and scoring his deal:

...Remember, next year when your state is cutting essential services and jacking up taxes to cover the new costs of Obamacare, that Nebraska won’t be feeling any of that pain.

In other words, Ben Nelson gets a big, fat, McCain-Feingold exempt bribe for his re-election campaign and more control of your life. You get a bigger federal and state tax bill, more expensive health care, longer waiting lines for medical treatments, and rationing.

Of course, the great Michelle Malkin is all over the story of Ben Nelson being a cheap whore.

The Gateway Pundit, the ever-intrepid Jim Hoft, has two great postings up so far [here and here] on cheap whore Ben Nelson.

As you've come to expect, The Classic Liberal knows that Ben Nelson is a Cheap Whore.

The Left Coast Rebel is short, sweet, and to the point about Ben Nelson being a cheap whore:

Disgusting, enraging, maddening. Ben Nelson is a whore, a caricature, a buffoon and a disgrace.

Stogie, proprietor of Saberpoint, is fed-up and thinks the time may have come for some serious actions:

At this point conservatives should worry less about kicking the Democrats out in 2010 than in how to either nullify the Democrats' new socialist laws or secede from the union.

It's time.

I don't know if its gotten to that point yet, but I do know there are QUESTIONS WE CAN NO LONGER AVOID.

One final word from me:

19 dec 09 @ 3:28 pm est Comments

Friday, December 18, 2009

ALBUM COVER RULE 5

A semi-regular feature...enjoy...

18 dec 09 @ 8:40 pm est Comments

MEN OF HONOR

Earlier this week, in celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the premiere of Gone With The Wind, Stacy McCain wrote a great little essay celebrating the character of Rhett Butler. A highlight:

While those around him scrupulously obey the superficial social conventions of the age, Rhett scoffs at his own disrepute and brashly invites scandal, as when he shocks Atlanta society by bidding $150 for the honor of dancing with the recently widowed Scarlett. And while Ashley is torn by doubt, Rhett is the embodiment of decisive certainty.

He has a way with the ladies, but Rhett is indisputably a man's man. When his blunt skepticism toward the South's prospects in the impending war enrages the touchy pride of his hosts in the drawing room at Twelve Oaks, Rhett is insulted by young Charles Hamilton, but declines the challenge. "I apologize again for all my shortcomings," Rhett says as he excuses himself. The hot-tempered Hamilton imputes this to cowardice -- "He refused to fight!" -- only to be informed by Ashley that Butler is a notoriously deadly duelist, "one of the best shots in the country."

That's true honor. A true man of honor protects those who are foolish, with a false sense of honor, from their disastrous impulses.

That essay may be found here over at The American Spectator.

In a posting over at The Other McCainthat starts off promoting the above essay, Stacy also defends the movie against those who charge that it is raaaaacist. He then talks about his conversation with Baldilocks about why white people so fear being labeled a raaaaacist. A highlight:

Vicious race hustlers who plague America's universities are a major reason an absurd flinch-reaction to the "racist" label is so commonplace among our educated elite. Just ask Sergio Gor what it was like when left-wingers at George Washington University perpetrated an anti-Muslim hate hoax against the campus chapter of Young America's Foundation. Or ask YAF's Jason Mattera about the reaction to his "whites-only scholarship" protest at Roger Williams University.

The cringing fearfulness Shelby Steele describes in his book White Guilt has to be "carefully taught" -- to borrow with obvious irony the famous lyrics from South Pacific -- and our educational system now teaches white guilt as fanatically as Nazi schools taught Aryan superiority in the 1930s.

Acknowledgement of racial guilt is now de rigueur among white bien-pensants who, if we may continue this impromptu French lesson, are required to prove themselves amis des noirs if they wish to preserve their amour propre.

Terrorized by the very real risk of denunciation and ostracism if they dispute the regnant racial orthodoxy, whites internalize this politically correct fear. As is often the case when fear is hidden in the heart, however, they seek to resolve the inevitable cognitive dissonance by projecting their inner angst onto scapegoats.

Spot-on, Stacy, but, please, cut out the using Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkey words [use Latin].

Oh, and by the way, those of you stunted souls out there who still think Stacy McCain is a 'raaaacist' and 'white supremesist', let me direct you to his posting from today announcing the engagement of his lovely daughter Kennedy to an Argentine. As one of his commentators, Steve Poling, put so well:

Your kid is marrying a Christian and it's clear that's a bigger deal to you than him being a gen-you-wine MINORITY.

Some raaaaacist you turn out to be.

Go check out the full posting and the Comments Section, wherein I, your humble Dispatcher, shamelessly offer my 'special services' to the Father of the Bride.

18 dec 09 @ 8:11 pm est Comments

OH, THE WEATHER IN THE SENATE IS FRIGHTFUL

Over at WyBlog, Chris asks five great questions of those who still want to see Obamacare passed. Here's one:

2. One of the favorite tools in the progressive arsenal is the Interstate Commerce Clause. You guys use it to foist all sorts of regulations on us as well as to extend the reach of numerous laws. So, why can't we buy health insurance from another state?

And for that matter, why isn't such a common sense reform like cross-state insurance purchasing and/or association health plans a part of this monstrosity you're peddling?

Bravo, Chris. Those of us that are against this evil measure often forget this point [I'm guilty].

Please do take the time to click here and read the rest of the questions.

SIDENOTE: Big thank you to Chris for linking TCOTS in his latest FMJRA [check it out here for some interesting links and wonderful pictures of his daughter Sophie's birthday party].

18 dec 09 @ 7:39 pm est Comments

THE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT WEARING YOUR 'SAFETY' BELT

While reading this sad story in today's New York Post, one aspect of it hit me....

From the report, Larry Celona, John Doyle, Laurie Kamens, all reporting[emphasis mine]:

The bloodshed began when the killer barged into the family's third floor apartment and opened fire at around 1:45 p.m., near a string of upscale shops on Amsterdam Avenue near West 83rd Street.

Gunman Hector Quinones blew away 24-year-old Carlos Rodriguez Jr., and his father Carlos Rodriguez Sr., 52, and then repeatedly stabbed grandfather Fernando Gonzalez, 87, to death before the elder Rodriguez's wife and adult daughter walked unwittingly into the carnage in the apartment they all shared.

As soon as Gisela Rodriguez, 49, and her daughter, Leyanis, 28, walked inside, Quinones, 44, opened fire again at the mother, grazing the back of her head, cops said.

He then went after Gisela's daughter, who scrambled for safety and ran to a nearby bedroom. The killer was inches away from grabbing her but tripped over his low-slung pants, sources said.

There was more action and then:

Fleeing empty-handed, Quinones ditched his gun, a .380-caliber semiautomatic pistol loaded with hollow-point bullets, and made a dash down a rear fire escape.

But again, his low-slung pants fell to his ankles, tripping him and sending him falling three stories to his death, authorities said.

I'm sorry, but that's funny right there. I don't care who you are, that's funny.

And the taxpayer's have been saved the expense of supporting this murderer's sorry ass for the rest of his useless life.

18 dec 09 @ 5:34 pm est Comments

YOU CAN MAKE ME SCREAM

One of Julius Obamacus Caesar's favorite and most used phrases is 'the time for talk is over'.

He's used it one too many times as far as Pundette is concerned:

How very tiring is Obama's habit of telling everyone to shut up and do as he says....

One quibble Pundette: how very tiring are all of Obama's habits. He hasn't even been in office one year yet and already I'm hearing so many people say 'When he comes on the TV, I change the channel, because I'm sick of listening to him all the time'. You didn't hear that comment made about Presidents Bush II and Clinton by a large number of people until well-into their presidencies.

William Jacobson, headmaster of Legal Insurrection, is fed-up with the phrase too:

Yep, the speech Obama just gave in Copenhagen is basically the speech he gave last February to push through the Stimulus Plan, that foul piece of legislation which has turned into a paradigm of big government gone bad.

Let's bring that Stimulus mojo to the whole planet, because the time for talk is over. For everyone except Obama, that is.

Our Narcissist-In-Chief was born in 1961. This song was released in 1960. Perhaps Joe Jones was a prophet?...

18 dec 09 @ 5:03 pm est Comments

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