Campaign to reelect Obama underway: Swing state Missouri Governor vetoes voter ID requirement

Pardon me, Governor Jay Nixon, but your liberal slip is showing. Nixon vetoed a measure passed by the Missouri legislature requiring voters to provide ID at the polls. “This [photo ID] mandate would disproportionately impact senior citizens and persons with disabilities, among others, who are qualified to vote and have been lawfully voting since becoming [...]

“All military personnel will continue in normal duty status … [and] will serve without pay until such time as Congress makes appropriated funds available to compensate them for this period of service.”

So explains a Pentagon directive about the potential government shutdown. This is a shift from the last shutdown. Via the Army Times: When the government was shut down in 1995, military personnel continued to report to work and were paid, but the planning guidance sent to the services and defense agencies says a shutdown this time [...]

A thousand words? Unnecessary.

One works to describe how absolutely wonderful this looks: Hallelujah!  Via Drudge.   From Fox, the whopper of the day courtesy the former Speaker: At her final press conference as House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said, “Deficit reduction has been a high priority for us. It is our mantra, pay-as-you-go.” The numbers tell a different story. [...]

At least the Communist media acknowledges what our “liberal progressives” really are

 Via fellow Potlucker Nice Deb, a clip from Russian TV:   Nice Deb calls it for what it is: an attempt to normalize communism.  But it goes further than that.  When the language of self-avowed “communists” echoes that of our President, I get the willies. From the clip, the lady communist who says “it’s more [...]

More idiots coming out of the woodwork

As per the WaPo’s GOP voters are racist idiots, we have another look-at-these-bitter-clingers-who-vote from a University of Wisconsin political scientist.  (Seriously, is that any surprise?) Via Byron York, “Top Political Scientist: U.S. voters are pretty damn stupid.”  Heh. Franklin was responding to a question from Bill Lueders, news editor of Isthmus, a weekly alternative newspaper in [...]

WaPo: Well, of course GOP voters are racist idiots!

From this morning’s fishwrap Washington Post mourning celebrating the “political divide” in the country: The Republican Party’s big gains in the House came largely from districts that were older, less diverse and less educated than the nation as a whole. Democrats kept their big majorities in the cities. Ah, the cities, where Democrat majorities have prevailed [...]

Saturday Night Swoon: Rubio address

Via Hot Air: Love. Him. I pray he and others are able to hold the GOP’s feet to the fire and make something of this conservative resurgance rather than squandering it a la Gingrich. Ed Morrissey’s explanation of why the Democrats feared a Rubio win is spot-on: If you want to see why Democrats feared [...]

Liberal angst and anguish: post-election edition

Oh my.  From Vanity Fair, liberal bedwetting on display from the editor, h/t Hot Air headlines: The general anti-Obama rage out there is palpable. But it’s no more virulent than the anti-Bush sentiment that has pervaded the country for much of the past decade—although this being America, there’s an attendant hatred for Obama that has more [...]

“This is our morning in America”

SarahPAC via Hot Air: Question: how will liberals continue to abuse the “tea-partiers are racist” meme with Congressmen-elect Allen West and Tim Scott sworn in? It’s worth noting that the first two Indian-American governors are both Republican, and the first Hispanic female governor is a Republican.  Among myriad others.  (Um, RUBIO?)  Just sayin’.  Speaking of Rubio, [...]

Feeling like an ingrate for being so disappointed after unwrapping all the gifts

Like Pundette, I woke to disappointment upon hearing Dirty Harry won.  And Senator Ma’am. And Barney.  Bitter disappointment given how the pro-life amendment here in Colorado fared. It took a little surfin’ to assuage my angst.  A little Jen-Ru to brighten your morning: The prospect of an eight or nine or 10 Senate-seat pickup for [...]