HARRY REID: “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.” That’s right. You ethnics stay on the plantation where we all-seeing, all-knowing, mostly white, “intellectuals” can take care of you.

UPDATE: Florida Republican senatorial candidate Marco Rubio, er, disagrees.

OBAMA APPROVAL INDEX matches previous record of -22. The approval index is the percentage of strong approvals less the percentage of strong disapprovals in the Rasmussen Presidential tracking poll.


In just a bit less than 19 months, the President’s approval has plunged 52 points, from a high of +30 on his second day in office to today’s record low.

Democrats who insist on following this guy are like lemmings – suicidal.

LIBERAL BLOGGER: Racism “barely materialized” in 2008 campaign. The intellectual dishonesty of the liberal mind is astounding. And the fact that the Washington Post would publish this tripe is, well, to be expected.

WHITE HOUSE ADVISERS flee as economy sinks.

"It does make one suspicious that some of these senior economic advisers know the economy may go back into recession and they are escaping before it's even more obvious," said Chris Edwards, a tax policy expert at the Cato Institute.

Ya think?

MAYBE GOVERNMENT SALARIES are a wee bit high.

But then there’s no corruption like government corruption.

DEMOCRATS WANT TO RAISE TAXES – but only on red states.

HOW TO GIVE A CAT A PILL.

Pick up cat and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right forefinger and thumb on either side of cat’s mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding pill in right hand. As cat opens mouth, pop pill into mouth.
Allow cat to close mouth and swallow.

Retrieve pill from floor and cat from behind sofa. Cradle cat in left arm and repeat process.

Retrieve cat from bedroom, and throw soggy pill away. Take new pill from foil wrap, cradle cat in left arm, holding rear paws tightly with left hand. Force jaws open and push pill to back of mouth with right forefinger. Hold mouth shut for a count of ten.

Retrieve pill from goldfish bowl and cat from top of wardrobe. Call spouse in from the garden. Kneel on floor with cat wedged firmly between knees, hold front and rear paws. Ignore low growls emitted by cat. Get spouse to hold head firmly with one hand while forcing wooden ruler into mouth. Drop pill down ruler and rub cat's throat vigorously.

Retrieve cat from curtain rail. Get another pill from foil wrap. Make note to buy new ruler and repair curtains. Carefully sweep shattered figurines and vases from hearth and set to one side for gluing later. Wrap cat in large towel and get spouse to lie on cat with head just visible from below armpit. Put pill in end of drinking straw, force mouth open with pencil and blow down drinking straw. Check label to make sure pill not harmful to humans and drink one beer to take taste away. Apply band-aid to spouse's forearm and remove blood from carpet with cold water and soap.

Retrieve cat from neighbour's shed. Get another pill. Open another beer. Place cat in cupboard, and close door onto neck, to leave head showing. Force mouth open with dessert spoon. Flick pill down throat with elastic band. Fetch screwdriver from garage and put cupboard door back on hinges. Drink beer. Fetch bottle of scotch. Pour shot, drink. Apply cold compress to cheek and check records for date of last tetanus shot. Apply whiskey compress to cheek to disinfect. Toss back another shot. Throw tee-shirt away and fetch new one from bedroom.

Call fire department to retrieve the damn cat from the top of the tree across the road. Apologize to neighbour who crashed into fence while swerving to avoid cat. Take last pill from foil wrap. Using heavy-duty pruning gloves from shed, tie the little *&#%^'s front paws to rear paws with garden twine and bind tightly to leg of dining table. Push pill into mouth followed by large piece of filet steak. Be rough about it. Hold head vertically and pour two pints of water down throat to wash pill down. Consume remainder of scotch. Get spouse to drive you to the emergency room. Sit quietly while doctor stitches fingers and forearm and removes pill remnants from right eye. Call furniture shop on way home to order new table.

Arrange for RSPCA to collect mutant cat from hell and call local pet shop to see if they have any hamsters.

HOW TO GIVE A DOG A PILL.

Wrap it in bacon. Toss it in the air.

IF LIFE HANDS YOU A LEMON, don’t make lemonade without a government permit.

DEMOCRATS VOTE to let tax rates rise. More here.

SO TELL US WHAT YOU REALLY THINK. “These people are idiots. Idiots who’ve been entrusted with nuclear weapons, and their economic equivalents.”

ALFONZO RACHEL GOES TO BELL (CA) to find out what its residents get in exchange for awarding their representatives with obscenely high salaries and huge property taxes.

Link via Instapundit.

THE VIEW FROM MY WINDOW


A Saturday afternoon drive through the unspoiled Virginia countryside.

HMMM. Government Motors donates government money to government employees.

Makes you feel warm and fuzzy all over ....

SWEET REVENGE.

It is election night, 2012. The polls have closed. State by state, the votes are being counted, and gradually it becomes clear, to the bottomless horror of some voters and the unbridled delight of others, that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican presidential nominee, has bested President Barack Obama in the popular vote nationwide.

In Massachusetts, where Obama crushed Palin by a landslide of 79 percent -- the most lopsidedly anti-Palin vote of any state -- "bottomless horror" doesn't begin to describe the political reaction. For in 2010, Massachusetts joined the National Popular Vote compact, making a commitment to cast all of its electoral votes for the presidential candidate receiving the most votes nationally, regardless of the results in Massachusetts. The compact took effect in December 2011, when California became the 15th state to join, thereby combining enough states to control a majority of the Electoral College. Now Massachusetts, the bluest of the blue states, must award its presidential electors to a candidate Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly opposed.

The peril of getting what you asked for.

"YOU HAVE A PERFECT ECONOMIC STORM that's hit our middle class directly in every region, every segment of this country." Its name is Obama.

"THERE’S CERTAINLY A LINK between recent stock market gains and improvement of Republicans at the polls."

PLAN? WHAT PLAN? Sarah Palin fact-checks the fact-checkers.

PolitiFact doesn’t dispute the $3.8 trillion estimate of the cost of repeal of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. It admits that “Palin’s estimate of $3.8 trillion over 10 years is within a reasonable range, if you’re talking about all taxpayers.” And yet somehow it continues to argue that I’m wrong, based on a proposal it admits doesn’t exist which in turn is based on a phantom campaign pledge which Democrats have already broken anyway.

Like Breitbart, she’ll punch back twice as hard.

WHICH ONE is the party of the rich?

Read the comments too.

RIGHT NOW, I’d put journalists below Congress (but without raising the approval rating of Congress).

SMART GRID UPDATE

Xcel Energy's SmartGridCity experiment in Boulder, Colorado ... appears now to have been a failure. [Edison Electric Institute president Thomas] Kuhn ... said it appears the problem in Boulder was that the target population was just too affluent: Despite the known green-mindedness of Boulderites, a major factor in Xcel's selecting the small city for its smart grid test run, it seems most of them do not care all that much about the modest monetary savings they stand to make from paying attention to electricity usage signals.

It looks like it’s not just those dumb Red State yokels who are going against their best interests.

Actually the consumers are going against the greenie’s perception of what the consumer’s best interest should be ... exactly the same mistake Thomas Franks made with his book What’s the Matter With Kansas?.