Tim and Alissa Birkel
Even Napoleon isn't sure about this argument.
George Orwell’s Animal Farm taught us that while all animals are equal, some animals are more equal than others. Now, we have E.J. Dionne (whose…unique…brand of logic and argumentation Tim has noticed and argued with since his days at the Ball State Daily News op-ed page) to tell us that all broken campaign promises are equal, but some are more equal than others. Specifically, any broken promise that helps further a leftist cause–why, that can hardly be called a broken promise at all, and definitely not a lie. read more…
History books, which certain people seem not to have learned from.
Well, the holidays are over, we’re back from vacation, and we know you all missed us. So you know what that means. That’s right, the Birkels are back. We’re rested, ready, and raring to go. So, without further ado, on to what you came here for.
With more and more Democrats sticking fingers in the air and deciding the political headwinds are too strong to even attempt a re-election bid, the race is on to perform a post-mortem on the leftist “Obama revolution,” which is failing to outlive its infancy, or indeed to much materialize in the first place. Why, leftists are wondering, is the country not ready to lie down and be quietly led towards a new leftist Utopia?
Columnist Harold Meyerson’s answers in the Washington Post are manifold–and revealing.
Semantics–the study of meanings and interpretation of meanings-can be fun. Take, for example, the liberal blog ThinkProgress. On its website, the blog proudly touts that it is “a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. The Center for American Progress Action Fund is a nonpartisan organization.” Yet, in the very next paragraph, they trumpet being named one of the “Best Liberal Blogs” as an accomplishment.
So how can the CAP run a hard-core leftist blog (and one that is decidedly partisan in favor of anyone with a D in front of their name) and still maintain that it’s “nonpartisan.” Semantics, my friends. All just semantics. All a matter of how you define partisan, and how you define who “own” and “runs” what site.
And now comes this post, titled “Beck Peddles Discredited Rumor To Claim The Obama Administration ‘Borders On Treason.” The rumor the site refers to involved Ben Nelson, moderate Democratic senator from Nebraska, who it was reported, received a little love-note from the Obama White House informing him that if he did not vote for ObamaCare, he would have to watch as all military bases in Nebraska were closed. read more…
A Spoonful of Saccharine: The Filibuster is Now A Tool for Evil (Nevermind The Last Eight Years)
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It has always been a source of amusement to us that many leftists love to quote Orwell and use “Orwellian” as one of their favorite anti-conservative insults. Yet day by day they perform activities that seem ripped straight from the pages of Orwell’s works. Take, for example, Monday’s Rachel Maddow show, which does an admirable job of shoving the recent history of the filibuster down the memory hole to make way for a leftist re-write. read more…
Still not as much smoke as the Church of Global Warming is currently blowing.
By now, hopefully you are all up to speed on Climategate–the faking of research data to support the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis and its accompanying hysteria. Of course the scientific establishment, with its clear interest in perpetuating that hysteria and the lucrative funding it provides, had to strike back at some point. The talking point that Climategate consists only of “stolen emails” (when in fact it includes far more evidence, i.e., the corrupted data, computer code detailing how the evidence was faked, etc.) is already out there. Now, climate scientists and their defenders are taking to the newspapers to plead the public help them sweep Climategate under the rug. read more…
Rachel Maddow took a moment from her busy, busy schedule Wednesday night to mock Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). She did so, because he said something that hits perhaps just a little too close to home for leftists like Maddow who believe in the transformative power of government to fix all our ills.
McConnell had this to say about funding President Obama‘s expanded troop deployment to Afghanistan:
We know the stimulus failed. We’re looking for a way to fund several years of the war. I would suggest unexpended stimulus funds would be good place to start. read more…
A Spoonful of Saccharine: Geopolitical Realities No Barrier to Maddow Blaming Bush for All Problems
By now, you’ve all seen President Obama’s speech, wherein he agreed to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan (though most definitely not a surge of the kind used in Iraq and suggested by many for quite some time now, we are assured). Now, Rachel Maddow often tries to walk a peculiar line in which she appears anti-war and drifting close to anti-military, yet somehow still pro-defense and pro “a stronger America.” Obama’s latest decision would appear to fall afoul of her anti-war stances. One might think she would take this time to examine her stance, and wonder if it isn’t misguided if even her hero Obama has decided not to end the war in Afghanistan. But no, Tuesday night she just used it as a cheap excuse to blame everything on former president George W. Bush read more…
A Spoonful of Saccharine: Maddow's Continued Blindness to Irony, Hamsher's Continued Inability to Let the Past Go
Last night’s special live post-election Rachel Maddow show was about as one would expect: Maddow and her guests touched briefly on the election results, and then jumped right into the pre-arranged leftist talking points. You know the ones: this election in no way reflects on Barack Obama. This election is not a precursor to 2010. This election shows that conservatives are only interested in extremist candidates. The election has no bearing on the health-care bill, which must move forward as fast as possible. Never mind that the winner in New Jersey, Governor-Elect Chris Christie, is very moderate. Never mind that though Doug Hoffman lost his election to Bill Owens who ran against Obamacare and was the only Democrat of the night not endorsed and stumped for by President Obama. It was all by-the-book leftist spin on display, and about what we expected given the results last night.
But on a night when the news focused on newly-elected officials, Maddow found time to invite on Jane “Blackface is Still Funny, Really” Hamsher to attack her long-time nemesis Senator Joe Lieberman in an amusingly ironic fashion. read more…
Watching the Rachel Maddow Show, it’s quite easy to wonder if the receivers in her brain are tuned to quite a different reality from the one the rest of us inhabit.
Take, for example, her continued commentary on the NY-23 House race. That would be the race in which the Republican candidate, Dede Scozzafava, was so liberal that she garnered next to no support from anyone but the most stuanch “party-berfore-principle” Republican. Scozzafava withdrew from the race earlier this week.
To a lefty like Maddow, this race is an example of the right “purifying” and “purging” itself by “kicking out [Republican] moderates.” It shows that conservatives will only vote for “fringe” candidates, and indeed that conservatives (despite being a self-identified 40% of the nation) are a tiny, tiny “fringe.” It’s proof that, in her words, read more…
Rachel Maddow, not exactly a defense expert.
Last night, Rachel Maddow spent a good deal of her show crowing over the death of a “military boondoggle†– though really, when has a leftist like her ever labeled military spending as anything but a wasteful “boondoggle.†The program she refers to is the F-22 Raptor, what was supposed to be the backbone of America’s Air Force into the 21st century, but is now more of an afterthought. Maddow was, of course, delighted to see the death of the program, and trotted out a seemingly interminable series of dubious claims against the aircraft. But what she fails to understand is how this leaves a potentially serious gap in America’s defense plans. read more…
A Spoonful of Saccharine: Rachel Maddow Fails to Understand a Little Thing Called Context
If you look up “blindly partisan” in a dictionary, there won’t be a picture of Rachel Maddow next to the words. But maybe there should be. After all, this is the woman who routinely uses her show as a platform to attack any and all Democrats who show the slightest hint of moderation and deviate even the tiniest fraction from her far-leftist ideals. This is the woman who routinely invites ultra-lefty blogger Jane “Watch Me Fail to Get Ned Lamont Elected” Hamsher to talk about “primary-ing” moderate Democrats while Maddow cheers. And now this is the woman who on Tuesday amusingly misread the mood of the entire nation to attack Republicans and conservatives over a House of Representatives race from New York. read more…
A Spoonful of Saccharine: Alan Grayson Will Not Apologize, Will Compare Himself to Jesus
If you are among the (increasingly few) people who watch MSNBC, and in particular, the Rachel Maddow Show, you are no doubt aware that she frequently turns her program over to the Democrat celebrity du jour to use as a stump speech platform. Monday’s show was no different, with Special Guest Congressman-Star Alan Grayson attempting to shove his own feet farther into his mouth.
Grayson, you’ll remember, was a congressman who only became (in)famous when he declared that “Republicans want you to die quickly” and called health care in America a “Holocaust.” You would think that he would have the good grace to slink quietly away and never be heard from again, but, being the loony-leftist that he is, Grayson had to find the biggest stage he could and open his mouth again. This time, Grayson chooses to cast himself in the role of Jesus, and Republicans in the role of Judas. Or Jewish high priests. Or maybe the Roman officials. It’s hard to tell. The man is no Shakespeare when it comes to metaphors. read more…
