Wreckovery Summer in the City TWO. Michelle

Buy one get one free. Not so much.

Yessiree, Michelle O is going to be the president’s secret weapon this year. One of his best assets. Will she hold another beer summit in the White House?

More Chicago flash mob reaction. It wasn’t just a suburban biker–two doctors in town for a convention were attacked–on or near what we call here the Magnificent Mile. You know, near the lake. Near the Gold Coast where Oprah has her perch. A comment from the Tribune story:

  Sick-of-the-Chicago-Way at 8:02 AM June 07, 2011 We have a president and Congress that wants to redistribute wealth.  These kids simply chose to remove the middle man from the deal.  Perhaps the solution is a government program that directly gives “disadvantaged” youth Ipads and Iphones

Yes we can. Let’s Move.

P.S. Why does Chicago have one of the highest crime rates in the country? Why is Chicago’s population back to 1920’s levels? In other news, Dems overturn the 2010 midterms in Illinois. …Maybe these women will wise up this time and be immune to Michelle’s message. Especially if they can’t move.

Related post: Women take the long view, drop O in droves

  –crossposted at BackyardConservative

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Insufferable prig can’t wrap noble head around voter revolt

But he certainly finds the voters revolting. The Boston Herald on HRH John Kerry, who’s beginning to feel the ground beneath his feet trembling:

Yes, the commonwealth’s senior senator engaged in what can only be described as a 40-minute whine-fest at a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce appearance yesterday, customizing congressional Democrats’ pre-election talking points for a local audience.

He complained at length that his party isn’t getting the credit it deserves for rescuing the economy – indeed the very nation – ever since a “pale and agitated” Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson came to Democrats begging for a Wall Street bailout in the fall of 2008. [. . .]

“It’s absurd. We’ve lost our minds,” Kerry said. “We’re in a period of know-nothingism in the country, where truth and science and facts don’t weigh in. It’s all short-order, lowest common denominator, cheap-seat politics.”

It’s just too vulgar.

Do these guys know how to energize the base, or what?

H/t: HotAir

Cross-posted at P&P.

Jerry Brown: “It’s all a lie”

Stephen Gutowski of Eyeblast.tv has a remarkably candid video clip of a 1992 interview with a former Governor Jerry Brown admitting he had no plan for California; it was all a lie:

Interviewer: You said something a moment ago that I have to follow up on and I have to draw you out on. You said you don’t have to lie anymore now that you’re not a politician. What did you lie about when you were governor?

Jerry Brown: It’s all a lie. You’re pretending there’s a plan…

Interviewer: What did you lie about?

Jerry Brown: You run for office and the assumption is “Oh, I know what to do”. You don’t. I didn’t have a plan for California. Clinton doesn’t have a plan. Bush doesn’t have a plan.

Interviewer: You said you had a plan for California and you lied because you didn’t have a plan?

Jerry Brown: You say you’re going to lower taxes, you’re going to put people to work, you’re gonna improve the schools, you’re going to stop crime… crime is up, schools are worse, taxes are higher. I mean be real!

Watch the video here. With just a week to go until the election, Meg Whitman appears to be losing ground in her race for Governor. Whitman is not a natural-born politician but she has invested her hard-earned money in the race with a genuine desire to put California on the path to fiscal sanity. She has demonstrated this leadership as a CEO in the private sector. Brown, when he is being honest, admits most politicians don’t have clue how to make these things happen.  Chris Christie is one notable exception.  Jerry Brown is no Chris Christie.  Why on earth would anyone send him back to elected office, particularly when things are so dire, is beyond me.

Today’s must-read

PJ O’Rourke:

This is not an election on November 2. This is a restraining order.

Read the whole thing.

Are women more conservative?:)

Depends on your definition:) A look at the gender gap and what’s driving it. TWS.

Apropos, the Independent Women’s Forum column in The Daily Caller: Stiletto Nation: a new agenda for women

Meanwhile, the president teams up with his radical nannies to go after the “women vote”:

President Obama focuses on women in the economy during his visit today to Seattle. It’s part of a four-day campaign swing through five states in which Obama is urging voters to help Democrats maintain control of the U.S. House and Senate.

The trip comes at a time when Democrats are struggling with the womens’ vote, a key part of their constituency.

As our colleague Mimi Hall writes in USA TODAY:

Female voters, once a reliable force for Democrats, are roughly split this fall between the Democrats and Republicans running for Congress and governor. Recent Gallup polling, assuming a traditional turnout for a midterm election, finds that Republicans are favored by female likely voters, 49% to 46%.

And Michelle harvests sweet potatoes. But is it enough?

On Constitution, O’Donnell is right, Coons and liberal media are wrong

What happened, via Michelle Malkin and Politico:

Delaware GOP Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell questioned on Tuesday whether the Constitution provides for the separation of church and state.

The comment came during a debate on WDEL radio with Democratic opponent Chris Coons, who argued that local schools should teach science rather than religion, at which point O’Donnell jumped in. “Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?” she asked.

The audience at Widener Law School was taken aback, with shouts of “whoa” and laughter coming from the crowd.

Coons then pointed to the First Amendment, which states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

“You’re telling me the First Amendment does?” O’Donnell interrupted to ask.

Following the next question, Coons revisited the remark — likely thinking he had caught O’Donnell in a flub — saying, “I think you’ve just heard from my opponent in her asking ‘where is the separation of church and state’ show that she has a fundamental misunderstanding.”

“That’s in the First Amendment?” O’Donnell again asked.

“Yes,” Coons responded.

O’Donnell was later able to score some points of her own off the remark, revisiting the issue to ask Coons if he could identify the “five freedoms guaranteed in the First Amendment.”

Coons named the separation of church and state, but could not identify the others — the freedoms of speech, press, to assemble and petition — and asked that O’Donnell allow the moderators ask the questions.

“I guess he can’t,” O’Donnell said.

Jeffrey Lord:

Well. Isn’t this interesting.

As John R. Guardiano has noted below, Democrat Chris Coons and the liberal media have gotten the Constitution totally wrong. [. . .]

This is one very, very big issue. The notion that Coons was wrong is bad enough. The audience not understanding the fundamental founding document that is the U.S. Constitution?

Downright scary — and a glaring warning sign of just how far off-track the American left-wing and secularists have gotten this country.

Christine O’Donnell — she the supposed unqualified candidate — got this 100% correct.

And Coons — the Ivy Leaguer — got it wrong, and not just wrong but abysmally so.

In this one exchange Americans can see two of our big problems at work. Ignorance of the Constitution — and arrogance from self-appointed elitists about a supposed intellectual superiority they quite laughably don’t even come close to possessing.

Pass it on. This is being misrepresented far and wide.

Obama Laugh Track

At you not with you. Gilbert & Sullivan go more modern. Video via RCP.

And what’s with Delaware?

Tantalizing

Jim Geraghty would tell us if he could:

And then, sometimes my day includes exchanges like this:

Reliable GOP Source: Hey, you can’t print this, but we just had a poll come back saying that [House Democrat who everybody figured was pretty safe] is down 20.

Me: Well, that’s swell. But why can’t I use this?

Reliable GOP Source: We don’t think the Democrats know this guy is this much trouble, so we don’t want to tip them off.

Me: Well, thank you for sharing really cool information that I cannot share with readers.

Reliable GOP Source: I thought it might be helpful with you determining which challengers to watch. While it would be great to have you break this news, I think it’s more useful to us to keep the Democrats in the dark.

I’ll give you a hint, DCCC. This incumbent is bigger than a bread box.

Hmmmm. I guess that rules out Dennis Kucinich?

[bah-duh-boom]

Demplosion!

This is a heady video:)

The mild-mannered RCP’s Jay Cost had a map like this just for the Midwest. It was a stunner.

What we’re fighting for if we can just bring it in on Nov. 2.

Politico notes the House that Rahm Built may be crashing down:) (Pooor Rahmbo, accosted on the streets of Chicago)

Dems losing among seniors.

Dems losing among the young.

Dems losing in hardscrabble districts they’ve taken for granted.

Even Huffpo is smelling the coffee.

But not our president Barack Obama. I’ve only read part of the NY Times magazine piece but he seems particularly clueless, even for The One. And Rush is talking about what the story is between Barack and Michelle.

Ann Marie Buerkle

Catch the resume:

Hat tip: Stacy McCain. He likes her.

Is O’Donnell making the Dems sweat?

They’re shifting resources to Delaware to prop up their bearded Marxist turned bland tax and spender? Per RedState.

As one commenter stated:

Whether O’Donnell wins or not (and I pray she does)…

she’s done a huge service to all Republican candidates by being the “lightning rod”. The media are so obsessed with her, that it’s taken the heat (and potentially negative stories by the left-wing media) off other GOP candidates around the country.

I liken her role to that of Oliver North in ‘94: the media obsessed with embarrassing him, that it deflected criticism from other candidates, who successfully flew under the radar to win.

This move, though, looks like they think they might lose:) But perhaps they’re just taking no chances.

Wouldn’t it be a huge BFD embarrassment if they lost both the Obama and Biden Senate seats:)

Women detest him

Though he tried to paint his opponent as a Taliban-style oppressor of women, it’s Alan Grayson who is despised by female voters:

Female voters are anything but ambivalent about Grayson — “They really loathe him,” Lee reported. With Grayson’s 33/53 favorable/unfavorable rating among women, Webster’s lead among females is much stronger (45/33 over Grayson) compared to a statistical tie (41/40 Webster) among males.

Wake up, fellas. In a very competitive field, Grayson just may be the biggest creep in Congress.

H/t: Michelle Malkin

Quote of the day

Andy McCarthy, Contra Buckley:

The movement now ascendant in the country is not about anything so small as the question of which party has control over the Senate in 2011. It is about the future of freedom and prosperity, about the kind of nation we will be. Its goal is to return the United States to a pre–New Deal understanding of the Constitution’s limits on federal power, and to a pre–Baby Boom Left’s appreciation of the greatness of America. That is not a project for one election cycle. It is the work of a generation.

The Buckley Rule has no place in that enterprise. The object is to make Big Government pols of both parties members of an endangered species. And unlike the callow GOP establishment, the tea party is bold enough to believe good ideas — applied, limited-government conservatism — can win even in Delaware . . . and Massachusetts.

The GOP establishment will either get the message or it will go the way of the failed candidates it has backed. If it had done its job, if it had undertaken to represent rather than thwart the public will, it wouldn’t now be asking itself how you get Christine O’Donnell elected. It would have found a better Christine O’Donnell.

Read the rest.

Sean Bielat money bomb starts tomorrow

Via Facebook
Sean Bielat needs our help to defeat the despicable Barney Frank:

STAFF POST: We make a conscious effort not to “grovel”, but the fact remains that we need donations to get our message out and defeat Barney Frank. He has 100% name recognition and access to millions of dollars in special interest money and we are a “start-up”, grassroots campaign. Our first online “money bomb” starts “sizzling” tomorrow and will “detonate” at Midnight on 9/12. Please stay tuned for details!

Michelle Malkin recently threw her support behind Sean reminding us three decades of Barney Frank is enough:

His name is Sean Bielat. He’s a businessman. He’s a Marine. He’s a young father fed up with “systemic corruption” in arrogant Washington. He opposes cap-and-tax, will fight other oppressive Obama eco-policies that are squeezing fishermen, supports a strong national defense, and believes “It’s time for our leaders to return to and abide by the Constitution.” He launched a RetireBarney campaign back in April.

His new radio ad takes on Frank and the Dems’ failed stimulus and bailout policies. Listen here.

Donate here.

Barney Frank has held his seat for 29 years. Three decades is enough.

Actually three minutes of Frank is enough but three decades is excruciating.   Sean Bielat is an amazing candidate but he is going to need our help to tackle the leviathan Frank war chest.  No one is more intrinsically linked to the policies that “drove us in a ditch” than Barney Frank.  Sean Bielat is poised to take away Barney’s keys. You can help make that happen, Donate to Sean Bielat here.

How much is it worth to you to see the faces of Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as they report on the demise of Barney Frank?

Obama rings Rangel’s bell

Turns on him. Because Barack’s so squeaky clean. Sure. So dignified. A new kind of Obama hope:

He’s somebody who’s at the end of his career,” said Obama. “I’m sure that what he wants is to be able to end his career with dignity. And my hope is that it happens.”

Bush ad guru and Obama admirer Mark McKinnon is less than impressed these days. It’s been two years and the blame Bush game is getting old. Now Charlie Rangel–how to explain that one.

Is this not the Charlie Rangel our President Barack Obama thought he knew?

The Tea Party bell is ringing. Ask not, Mr. President, for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for you.

More. Ruby Slippers on the Rangel death panel. Nice Deb with nice graphic.

Confidence in Congress at new low

Via Memeorandum
Of the 16 institutions Gallup asked respondents to rate for their levels of confidence, Congress ranked dead last once again:

Note the drop in expressed confidence for the presidency over the past year while the institutions frequently targeted by the President made some gains. Confidence in the medical system received the largest gain among institutions targeted by the President and Congress.  Though big business and HMO’s are still quite low in terms of public confidence, the repeated attacks made against them in order to sell unpopular legislation could have resulted in at least some loss of confidence. Instead the Presidency, Congress and surprisingly the military take the biggest hits. Perhaps the news General McChrystal voted for Obama and naively expected a fair interview from Rolling Stone shook some confidence in the military.  Fortunately most are wise enough to see our military as our most trusted institution.

Note too, the historic expression of confidence in Congress as measured by Gallup:

Since Democrats gained control of Congress in November 2006 confidence has steadily declined.  The minor gain in 2009 is likely explained by the Hope and Change election that many believed also gave Democrats control of Congress as well.   As we now know, many Obama voters mistakenly believed Republicans were in control.   I wonder if Democrats have noticed approval is now seven points lower than the last time they lost control.

Cross posted at Ruby Slippers

Also the latest JournoList revelations – JournoList: Trashing Sarah Palin

Related – Karl Rove: Friendly Fire on Capitol Hill

Obama’s Promise to Unemployed “I expect to be held accountable” Reaches Expiration

A scant two days ago Obama gave his assurance to the unemployed he expects to be held accountable for their continued joblessness:

“We are going to be doing everything we can to create the environment where the private sector can come in and start creating jobs. But, I’m not any more satisfied than they are and until they can find a job, I expect to held accountable.”

As with all of Obama’s promises, his assurance had an expiration date.  In the scheme of things, this promise was particularly short-lived as Obama used his weekly address to point fingers at Republicans for filibustering recovery and obstructing progress:

“But again and again, a partisan minority in the Senate said “no,” and used procedural tactics to block a simple, up-or-down vote. Think about what these stalling tactics mean for the millions of Americans who’ve lost their jobs since the recession began. Over the past several weeks, more than two million of them have seen their unemployment insurance expire. For many, it was the only way to make ends meet while searching for work – the only way to cover rent, utilities, even food.”

Obama  doubles down on the counsel of Nancy Pelosi that unemployment insurance will jumpstart the economy:

“The fact is, most economists agree that extending unemployment insurance is one of the single most cost-effective ways to help jumpstart the economy. It puts money into the pockets of folks who not only need it most, but who also are most likely to spend it quickly,”

There you have it folks, the entire recovery is hinged on those unemployment extensions.  Who knew?  Those nasty Republicans are filibustering and obstructing all the hope out of Obama’s “Recovery Summer 2010.”   Never mind the fact that  every blessed aspect of Obama’s agenda has stifled private sector investment and job growth; it is all about Republican efforts to give tax cuts to the rich, take food from the poor and kick a few kittens while they’re at it.

That Obama repeats Nancy Pelosi’s laughable economic construct  “unemployment insurance will jumpstart the economy” should be all the proof anyone needs Obama hasn’t a clue about the economy or job creation.  Nevertheless, it serves as a useful deflection from his short-lived promise he “expects to be held accountable.”  Rest assured Mr. President, accountability is coming –  like it or not.   I can see it from my house.

New Fury at This Year’s Townhalls

Citizens video again.

The outrage is palpable, this time on the New Black Panther case and our inJustice Dept. Our voting rights are sacrosanct to most Americans.

Watch, via Powerline.

This is not going away, Democrats. November is coming.

More. Michelle Malkin. NY Post. NRO with more hateful Panther video.

Felons for Franken

“Felons Voting Illegally May Have Put Franken Over the Top in Minnesota, Study Finds.” Sen. Franken last made big news doodling and falling asleep at the Elena Kagan hearings.

Jill and Carol note vote fraud claims by Hillary voters in the Dem presidential primaries.

Voters’ perceptions are that women are more likely to have integrity in politics.

Plus, “at a time when people are down on government and corruption is so big, people tend to rate women as being a bit more honest and having a bit more integrity,” MacManus said.

This folds into other issues for this fall–are we a country of laws or not?

Sen. Franken (D-MN) is on the Judiciary Committee.

Democrats’ roadmap to victory in 2010

1) Make Obamacare an issue. Seriously:

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is doubling down on healthcare reform, betting that it will do Democrats more good than harm in November’s elections.

She and her leadership team have seized on new polls that suggest healthcare overhaul’s popularity is rising, and they are urging members of Congress to use this week’s recess to tout the new law.

Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the party leadership have sent lawmakers back to their districts urging them to hold town hall-type meetings to highlight the law’s benefits, in the belief it could help Democrats avoid major losses in November. [emphasis added]

2) Set up a website to collect gaffes that may be used to smear candidates:

The Democratic National Committee is seeking “Macaca” moments. The party today is opening a website, http://www.accountabilityproject.com, designed to recruit and display embarrassing audio and video of Republican candidates, as well as information about their schedules and copies of their mailers. [. . .]

The DNC hopes campaigns and journalists will use the footage in ads and news coverage. The site targets both 2010 candidates and 2012 hopefuls.

3) Instead of defending your record, look for dirt. Jim Geraghty:

This is a sad, strange little party, and it has my pity:

The Democratic Party is moving faster and more aggressively than in previous election years to dig up unflattering details about Republican challengers. In House races from New Jersey to Ohio to California, Democratic operatives are seizing on evidence of GOP candidates’ unpaid income taxes, property tax breaks and ties to financial firms that received taxpayer bailout money.In recent weeks, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has circulated information to local reporters about Republican candidates in close races… Jon Vogel, executive director of the DCCC, said Democrats are merely pointing out that some Republican recruits in competitive House races are “flawed candidates.”

4) Re-conjure the magic of ’08:

To avoid such losses, the Democratic National Committee has committed to spending tens of millions of dollars to re-create (or come somewhere near re-creating) the 2008 election model, in which Democrats relied heavily on higher-than-normal turnout from young people and strong support from African American and Hispanic voters.

The DNC’s plan is ambitious, to say the least: In the space of a few months, the strategists hope to change the composition of a midterm electorate that, if history is any guide, tends to be older and whiter than in a presidential-election year. Put that way, it sounds crazy — and it has drawn considerable skepticism from independent observers.

5) Send the charismatic greatest-orator-since-Cicero out to campaign for all those vulnerable candidates:

You can’t be seen with Obama if you’re a Democrat who wants to win in 2010: “PPP has polled on the impact of a Barack Obama endorsement in 5 key Senate races over the last month, and it’s looking more and more clear that there’s just about nowhere Democratic candidates would benefit from having the President come to campaign with them.”

Oops. Scratch #5. But that leaves them with four sure-to-win strategies. Bring it on.

Related reading:
Obama loses independent voters
Charlie Cook predicts disaster for Dems in 2010

Cross-posted at P&P and the Green Room.