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  • Quantive Easing Meets Peter Gun

    A light hearted take on a serious subject.
    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvh60dJ-hTQ?rel=0]

  • No Street Money in Chicago; Could Obama Lose Illinois? Cook County?

    A lot of anger in the rank and file because Barack Obama is not handing out the typical “street money” to hire thugs to work the precincts and intimidate black voters into showing up at the polls. Obama’s balking at the $2 million that would cost because the campaign can’t afford to spend it.

    This could cost him enough votes in Cook County for Romney to win it…and thus the state.

    Sound incredible? It is. That’s true. But a lack of street money makes this possible if not probable.

    via Kevin DuJan @ Hillbuzz.

    This is not exactly a shakedown but it is another common occurrence on the Chicago’s West Side (and I understand the South too.)  I’ve seen it first hand in a local race… it’s bizarre.

    Kevin DuJan has excellent sources.  If he says this appears to be a problem then it’s going to be a problem.

  • Mitt Romney on the Federal Reserve

    “Yeah, it’s interesting…the former head of Goldman Sachs, John Whitehead, was also the former head of the New York Federal Reserve. And I met with him, and he said as soon as the Fed stops buying all the debt that we’re issuing—which they’ve been doing, the Fed’s buying like three-quarters of the debt that America issues. He said, once that’s over, he said we’re going to have a failed Treasury auction, interest rates are going to have to go up. We’re living in this borrowed fantasy world, where the government keeps on borrowing money. You know, we borrow this extra trillion a year, we wonder who’s loaning us the trillion? The Chinese aren’t loaning us anymore. The Russians aren’t loaning it to us anymore. So who’s giving us the trillion? And the answer is we’re just making it up. The Federal Reserve is just taking it and saying, “Here, we’re giving it.’ It’s just made up money, and this does not augur well for our economic future.

    via Glenn Beck.

    You can only live on borrowed money for so long.  After awhile someone comes looking for what you owe… plus the vig.

    Refi that house now because if you think it’s bad now but wait until we have 9.0% unemployment and 9.0% inflation.

    The wheels are falling of the bus.

  • The Real Romney: Mitt Romney, This is Your Life

    Ken Smith runs a hospital for U.S. Veterans.  You won’t believe what Romney does for them.  “Romney’s generosity has helped tens-of-thousands of veterans.”

    Four short stories at the link.

    via TheBlaze.com.

  • Everything (the GOP does) is Racist

    Or at least so says the Left.  Bill Maher is only the latest:

    HBO host and Obama donor Bill Maher has accused journalists like NBC’s Tom Brokaw of encouraging the birther movement by failing to label it as racist.

    In a blog post endorsing Chris Matthews’ recent on-air attack against RNC chairman Reince Priebus during MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Maher accused Brokaw and other reporters of stoking the coals of birtherism by championing “‘balance’ over objectivity,” citing Brokaw’s attempt to defend Mitt Romney’s remark about his birth certificate as an “awkward joke.”

    “How did [birtherism] grow to the point where half of Republican primary voters believed it? It wasn’t just the silence of Republican leaders, it was the failure of people like Tom Brokaw to just dismiss it as racism from the beginning,” Maher wrote.

    via DailyKenn.

    Sometimes the best way to show the absurdity of a position is through comedy.  Meet Bob.

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1o0ooNn8Qc?rel=0]

  • How Mitt Wins

    Yesterday I read something over at Hillbuzz that got me thinking:

    Today I want to think about just who are the people who will be voting for Obama in November and see how that compares to the people who voted for him in 2008. I don’t believe anyone who DIDN’T vote for him last time liked anything about him and will be voting for him THIS time. I also don’t believe the people who sat the last election out because of John McCain will be staying home again.

    via Hillbuzz.

    So I spent a few minutes and created the table below.  It only has states that Obama won in 2008.  I left out states where Obama took >60% (except for Illinois b/c I was just curious.)  It’s sorted by the percentage of voters in that state necessary to jump from Obama to Romney in order to flip the state.

      Raw Votes Percentage    
    State Obama McCain Obama McCain FlipVotes FlipPercent
    North Carolina 2,142,651 2,128,474 49.70% 49.38% 7,089 0.16%
    Indiana 1,374,039 1,345,648 49.85% 48.82% 14,196 0.51%
    Florida 4,282,367 4,046,219 50.91% 48.40% 118,074 1.26%
    Ohio 2,940,044 2,677,820 51.38% 46.80% 131,112 2.29%
    Virginia 1,959,532 1,725,005 52.63% 46.33% 117,264 3.15%
    Colorado 1,288,633 1,073,629 53.66% 44.71% 107,502 4.48%
    Iowa 828,940 682,379 53.93% 44.39% 73,281 4.77%
    New Hampshire 384,826 316,534 54.13% 44.52% 34,146 4.81%
    Minnesota 1,573,354 1,275,409 54.06% 43.82% 148,973 5.12%
    Pennsylvania 3,276,363 2,655,885 54.47% 44.15% 310,239 5.16%
    Nevada 533,736 412,827 55.15% 42.65% 60,455 6.25%
    Wisconsin 1,677,211 1,252,393 56.22% 42.31% 212,409 6.96%
    New Mexico 472,422 346,832 56.91% 41.78% 62,795 7.57%
    New Jersey 2,215,422 1,613,207 57.14% 41.61% 301,108 7.77%
    Oregon 1,037,291 738,475 56.75% 40.40% 149,408 8.18%
    Michigan 2,872,579 2,048,639 57.33% 40.89% 411,970 8.22%
    Washington 1,750,848 1,229,216 57.34% 40.26% 260,816 8.54%
    Illinois 3,419,348 2,031,179 61.85% 36.74% 694,085 12.56%

    This means if 7,089 people in North Carolina who voted for Obama last time vote for Romney this time then Romney will win NC. Regardless of whatever the polling says.

    If Kevin DuJan at Hillbuzz is correct, it’s pretty safe to say that North Carolina, Indiana, Florida, Ohio, and Virginia should all go Romney.  In these state Romney needs <2% of voters to flip.  That should not be a problem.

    Should that happen, Romney will have 265 or 266 electoral votes depending on how Nebraska splits.  You can see the map here.

    That means that Romney must also win, Colorado or Iowa or Wisconsin or Michigan, or Romney must win at least 2 votes from Nebraska AND New Hampshire.

    That my friends is how Romney wins.

  • Limbaugh, Fluke, Maher, Romney, Obama + Allred

    The insanity continues:

    Rush Limbaugh has drawn the ire of celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred, who sent a letter to the Palm Beach County state attorney requesting an investigation into whether the popular radio host should be prosecuted for calling a law student a “slut” and “prostitute” last week. …

    In a letter dated March 8, Allred, writing on behalf of the Women’s Equal Rights Legal Defense and Education Fund, requested that Palm Beach County State Attorney Michael McAuliffe probe whether the conservative radio personality had violated Section 836.04 of the Florida Statutes by calling Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke the two derogatory words.

    via POLITICO.com.

    You see, the Left cannot bear to have this story fade away.  It’s critical to their efforts to lure women voters to Obama in November.  … At least, that’s what they think.

    And lest we think this is not newsworthy, this is the #1 top viewed story at Politico over the last 12 hours.

    — Back to the story:

    [Allread cites] Section 836.04 of the Florida Statutes. … The statue stipulates that anyone who “speaks of and concerning any woman, married or unmarried, falsely and maliciously imputing to her a want of chastity” is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

    So my questions is, would it be a violation of this statute to call Allred a media whore?

  • Limbaugh, Fluke, Maher, Romney + Obama

    Will this ever end?

    Current and former White House aides on Thursday rejected demands by a conservative group that a Super PAC supporting President Obama refund a $1 million check from comedian and talk show host Bill Maher because of coarse comments he’s made about Sarah Palin and other Republican women.  …

    Carney said “language that denigrates women is inappropriate,” but it is not the President’s place to be the “arbiter” of every controversial statement.

    “He chooses to lead by example or tries to,” Carney said of the president, adding that “he chooses to try to practice that civility himself and he calls on everybody to do just that.”

    Earlier on Thursday, Penny Nance of Concerned Women for America sent a letter to White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew charging Maher is a “serially vile misogynist” because of a list of nasty comments directed at conservative women.

    Nance noted that since Obama recently reversed his own opposition to Super PACs by giving his public blessing for Democrats to donate unlimited sums to Priorities USA Action, he should direct that the Maher contribution be rejected and tell top White House aides like David Plouffe to stop raising money for the group.

    via Fox News.

    Two odds things about the White House’s reaction to this:

    • If the president wanted to “lead by example” then shouldn’t he give back the money?  Or is Obama setting the example such that when someone goes on TV and calls women all the horrible things as Bill Maher has done, and then when that person donates $1 million to your Super PAC that you’re supposed to keep the money?
    • Wouldn’t a far better response by to say that, “Well, the law says that there cannot be any coordination between the campaign and the Super PAC.  As such, it’s not our decision — and would illegal for us to make such a decision — to return the money.  So the next questions is, did Obama just admit to illegal coordination between his campaign and the super PAC?

  • Limbaugh, Fluke, Maher… now + Romney

    While slamming Mitt Romney for not standing up to the “strident voices” on his side, a top Obama advisor is planning to spend some quality time with one on his own, The Daily has learned.

    David Axelrod, President Obama’s senior campaign strategist, is scheduled to appear on Bill Maher’s late-night talk show within the next few weeks, according to Kelley Carville, an HBO spokesman.

    As the controversy over Rush Limbaugh’s comments about Sandra Fluke continued, a former Obama White House official today joined Republicans in pointing out that Maher, who recently donated $1 million to a pro-Obama super PAC, has a history of his misogynistic slurs.

    Last year, he was rebuked by the National Organization for Women for calling Sarah Palin a “dumb tw*t.”

    via The Daily.

    Hello pot, meet kettle.