The Superior Masada Complex

A reference to the Jewish last redoubt in the wake of the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D., whose members committed mass suicide rather than be captured.

There's more than a passing parallel in Jack Conway's Aqua Buddha obsession.  How lame has it become?  He's now been taken to the woodshed by a Tingle:

Attempting to find a logical explanation for Chris Matthews' aberrant behavior, Ensign Ed suggests that the dean of the MSNBCCCP lunatic asylum is seeking to remain consistent about zealously guarding pols against attacks against their religious beliefs in case Republicans (or [ahem] Dem primary challengers) try to bring up Uncle Jeremiah against Barack Obama a year and change from now.  I don't really buy that, but neither do I believe that Tingle has suddenly developed a streak of human decency, either.  My theory?  He's disgusted at the depths to which Conway has debased and humiliated himself with this nonsense because he knows it isn't going to work.  If you can't win, in other words, then lose with a modicum of dignity and self-respect.

Yeah, I know, a guy who well earned the nickname "Tingle" doesn't have a lot to teach us about dignity or self-respect.  But I didn't say I had a good theory; just one that was better than the other two.

I suspect Chrissy had Jim Oberstar in mind:

On cap-and-trade legislation aimed at reducing carbon emissions, which Oberstar voted for before the bill failed to advance, Cravaack said the nation can’t afford higher energy costs. He claimed increased costs for electricity from the carbon-cutting effort could kill Minnesota’s taconite industry.

Oberstar countered that taconite and steel industries are afforded a credit in the version of legislation he voted for, saying the nation needed to make some progress in stemming carbon emissions widely blamed for spurring global climate change.

“It’s changing our way of life. We have to deal with this issue’’ of climate change, Oberstar said to boos and cat calls from Cravaack supporters. Oberstar said the claims carbon cutting legislation will put “our industry [out] of work is fundamentally wrong.’’

When the heckling on climate change grew louder, Oberstar accused the Cravaack supporters of being in the “flat earth society.’’ When he tried to rattle off statistics on warming trends, he was shouted down again with calls of “liar.’’....

Bear in mind that the economy of the district Oberstar used to represent (about to be in more ways than one), Minnesota-8, is heavily dependent upon mining - it's called the Iron Range, for Chrissakes - and its inhabitants are as eager to have greenstremists lay waste to their livelihoods over pagan Marxist fairy tales as the energy-dependent residents of the Gulf States were to have their jobs destroyed by Barack Obama's cynically opportunistic drilling ban.  And the Donk incumbent whose votes he needs to stay the frak away from the yokels for another two years just pissed in their faces.

This ass either knows he's going down or just doesn't give a damn one way or the other.  And I'm leaning toward the former:

When asked what their first priority would be if elected to Congress, Republican Cravaack said he would “get rid of Obamacare’’ to shouts of glee and applause from his supporters.

“I want to make sure that never happens,’’ DFLer Oberstar snapped back, adding that he would work to protect health care reform. He said his top priority would be to pass a federal transportation funding bill to put construction workers back to work rebuilding the nation’s highways, rails and airports. …

Oberstar countered that “health insurance company bureaucrats’’ already are standing between patients and doctors, denying coverage and looking after corporate “bottom lines’’ rather than patient care.

And having Obamunist Regime bureaucrats take their place will be an improvement how, exactly?  Yep, Oberstar DEFINITELY knows he's toast.

He's got that fear-stink to him, when you feel like your stomach is in free-fall and you start sweating buckets and you start getting nauseous.  It's driven Jack Conway batty, it's eroded Dave Oberstar's verbal continence, and it's led other Dems into fits of mass delusion:

Representative Mike McIntyre (D-NC7) said that not only would he not back Pelosi (D-CA8) for Speaker again, but also that he’d heard she would not seek another term in that position.

“From what we’re hearing, she’s probably not going to run for Speaker again,” McIntyre told WWAY-TV in North Carolina. “And if she does, I’m confident she’s going to have opposition, and I look forward to supporting that opposition.”…

McIntyre joins the growing flood of Democrats who are saying they will oppose Pelosi as Speaker if Democrats retain the majority. An additional crowd of Democrats — most recently Staten Island Representative Mike McMahon (D-NY13) — have refused to say how they would vote.

Since when do a dozen or so condemned Blue Dogs constitute a "flood"?  And, again, what reason is there to buy the bad comedy that any House Dem wouldn't vote to keep the Big F'ing Gavel in Granny Stoneface's iron fists?  Especially if the killer "red" wave miraculously subsided and they kept the majority?  And don't even waste my time with this "I hear she won't run again" flapdoodle.  No Speaker described as "the most authoritarian ever" is going to exit that office any other way than feet-first.  And no, I don't base that on what she claims, but rather on the fact that I'm not a dumbass, which McIntyre obviously considers his constituents to clearly be.

Well, either that or "flat earthers".

And then there are the Jackasses who put their money where there, um, mouths are:

Longtime Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank has given his re-election campaign $200,000 as he faces his toughest race in years.

A campaign finance report filed Tuesday showed that Frank, the chairman of the powerful House Financial Services committee, lent himself the money Tuesday…

A longtime public servant, Frank isn’t exactly a rich man. Financial disclosures filed with the House show he has assets between $560,000 and $1.5 million. He is not required to disclose the worth of his primary residence.

Anybody seen a poll of this district since the one that showed Lollipop "only" up ten points and and made Sean Bielat a household name?  I'm interested in knowing if that was a snapshot of an object in warp drive or the apex of the Marine badass's meteoric rise.  'cause B.F. Dribblings, er, coughing up two hundred grand at this stage suggests the former.

And no, the hilarious irony of one of the architects of the Democrat Financial Logic Bomb having to (My God, I hope so) mortgage his home to keep his, uh, seat is not remotely lost on me.

And if he lost his seat to Bielat anyway?  Multiple orgasms, my friends.

I picture Lollipop and Countrywide Dodd in some sort of reality TV show along with Misteres Frank.  Kind of an [cough] Odd Couple for the twenty-first century.