Got this at Reaganite Funnies:

The year we send Obama packing!! (hoping and praying...)

NRO always does a predictions piece, I like the first one by John Derbyshire:

Barack Obama will lose the U.S. presidential election in November. The GOP will win a record share of the non-Hispanic white vote.

From your mouth to God's ears, John.

Read the rest, these are always interesting. Happy New Year!!

Saw this one over at NRO:

Honestly, the way the Republicans shoot themselves in the foot sometimes is maddening. Here's Charles Krauthammer's take on the two month payroll-tax debacle:

The final compromise appears to tweak this a bit to make it less onerous for small business. But what were they thinking in the first place? What business operates two months at a time? The minimal time horizon for business is the quarter -- three months. What genius came up with two? U.S. businesses would have to budget for two-thirds of a one-quarter tax-holiday extension. As if this government has not already heaped enough regulatory impediments and mindless uncertainties upon business.

But making economic sense is not the point. The tax-holiday extension -- presumably to be negotiated next year into a 12-month extension -- is the perfect campaign ploy: an election-year bribe that has the additional virtue of seizing the tax issue for the Democrats.

What a completely stupid thing to agree to. C'mon guys. We can do better.

Why are we putting up with this crap?

Scruffy progressive protesters locked themselves together across railroad tracks, blocked traffic, and shouted profanities at police on Tuesday in a coordinated "West Coast Port Shutdown." Truckers lost wages. Shippers lost business. This is what the Occupy Wall Street movement calls "victory."

Why aren't each and every one of these idiots being carted off to jail?

Well, they did it. Our "objective" media has destroyed another conservative candidate, this time Herman Cain. I don't know if he's guilty of any of this stuff swirling around him or not. That's the point - neither does the Left. Guilt does not matter, though. Creating doubt about a conservative, especially an uppity black conservative, is the objective. His detractors are of questionable background and believability, but no matter. They got the job done. They created enough doubt among Cain's supporters that he had to suspend his campaign. This kind of "journalism," unfortunately, has become the norm. The major media in this country is so in the tank for the Democrats that it has become obvious to anyone daring to seriously look at the issues and the way they're covered. And yet - we'll still hear morons shouting about the "slanted" coverage on Fox News. What a mess.

Seems that more and more people, including Democrats, are doubting the survival of Obamacare in its current form. Walter Russell Mead has a great piece up about how even Obama campaigned against the individual mandate at one time.

As they sweat out the months before the Court issues its decision, the healthcare experts who drafted the bill don't know if it's dead, but revealingly enough they are already talking about what they should have done differently.

President Obama campaigned against the individual mandate at the heart of the controversy over constitutionality, and the decision to embrace it was not a natural one for him. 

What's natural for Obama is to insert as much socialism into this country as he can, while he can. If that means an individual mandate, who cares about constitutionality?

Occupy news from around the Blogosphere:

From The Corner at NR:

The Post reached a new low in MSM glorification of these parasites the other day, when the whole front of the Style section described how "A Square Gets Hip" and "improvises a vibrant urbanism," illustrated with a huge map showing the encampment, which appears to have named the paths crossing the square after Occupy heroes, including Che Guevara and Angela Davis (what, no Stalin Boulevard?).

Occupiers protest a conservative conference in Denver.
 
Man found dead at Occupy Salt Lake camp.

Hours after a man was found dead inside a tent at Pioneer Park, Salt Lake Police Chief Chris Burbank announced Friday he could no longer allow camping in the park or anywhere in the city.

"We can no longer have individuals camping on our streets," Burbank said. "We as a city just cannot tolerate this going on."

It's about time somebody had the guts to tell these parasites to go back home to their parents' basements.

Michael Moore's embrace of the Occupy vermin and trying to make himself look like one of them (well, physically he does, but I digress) is absolutely laughable.

Initially, Moore tried to deny that his massive wealth made him a member of that one percent. Even when forced to admit the obvious, Moore suggested that he was not always among the one percent, based on his income: "Other years, like last year, I don't have a job (no movie, no book) and so I make a lot less."

The fact is that Moore is so wealthy that he does not need to worry about his income. According to public tax records, Moore owns a massive vacation home on Torch Lake, Michigan-one of the most elite communities in the United States-in addition to his posh Manhattan residence.

Through an independent source, Big Hollywood has obtained exclusive photographs of the house matching the address of Moore's waterfront mansion. It is the kind of luxurious summer home that 99 percent of Americans can only dream of owning.

Tracking Liberal Media Bias Since 1996
Tuesday November 08, 2011 @ 09:09 AM ET

 

1. Gingrich Schools NBC's Curry on Liberal Media Obsession with Cain Controversy
Appearing on Monday's NBC Today, Newt Gingrich took co-host Ann Curry to task for grilling him on allegations against Herman Cain: "...when the news media goes and finds an anonymous report about an anonymous incident...and you decide that matters more than every other issue in the campaign, that may put your judgment in doubt, as you, being the institutional news media." Curry began the segment by wondering: "...to have a Republican nominee for president, with unanswered questions about sexual harassment, what would it do to your party's chances of defeating Barack Obama?" Gingrich shot back: "What does it mean to the elite news media that nobody in the country ever walks up to us and raises questions you all raise?"

2. Defensive Networks Devote 84 Stories to Herman Cain Scandal, Hit Him for 'Lashing Out'
From Friday night through Sunday morning, the big three networks devoted an additional 21 reports to the Herman Cain sexual harassment story, bringing the networks' grand total to 84 in one week. Even as they continued to pile on, these same networks defensively chided Cain for daring to criticize their coverage. On Sunday's Good Morning America, David Kerley hit Cain for "lashing out" at journalists. On Sunday's Today, David Gregory indignantly suggested Cain has "created this alternate universe" where he says to supporters, "You see, this is- this is what the media does..."

3. CBS Reporter Recites Media Bias Critique on Cain Coverage
On Monday's Early Show, CBS's Jan Crawford spotlighted conservative criticism of the broad media coverage of the Herman Cain sexual harassment charges. Crawford stated that Cain's "testy exchange" with reporters "could help...because a lot of conservatives...think there's this huge liberal bias against conservatives. You know, the media didn't cover Bill Clinton...like they're doing Herman Cain." The correspondent noted the right-leaning argument in response to a statement from anchor Erica Hill about a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll that had Cain just barely behind Mitt Romney at the front of the GOP presidential pack: "It would seem these allegations didn't have much of an impact in the latest polling." Just prior to this, the morning show played a sound bite of Cain refusing to answer a reporter's question on the controversy at a weekend press conference.

4. NYT: OWS Troublemakers Merely Fringe, But Tea Party 'Responsible for the Behavior of People'
The New York Times today: "Many protesters say the lawless visitors constitute a tiny fringe and are not representative of the movement....the criminal and antisocial elements are a small minority..." Versus a Times reporter's 2010 book on the Tea Party: "It was difficult, if not disingenuous, for the Tea Party groups to try to disown the behavior. They had organized the rally, and under their model of self-policing, they were responsible for the behavior of people who were there. And after saying for months that anybody could be a Tea Party leader, they could not suddenly dismiss as faux Tea Partiers those protesters who made them look bad."