Over at Instapundit.
Earlier thread here.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
On The Anniversary Of The First Tea Party
The Tea Partiers have won a great victory:
Speaking now on the Senate floor, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) says he is “sorry and disappointed” to announce that he does not have the votes for the omnibus spending package. Instead, he will work with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) to draft a temporary continuing resolution to fund the government into early next year.
Reid says nine Republican senators approached him today to tell him that while they would like to see the bill passed, they could not vote for it. He did not reveal the names of the nine. A top Senate source tells National Review Online that “it looks like Harry Reid buckled under the threat of Republicans reading [the bill] aloud.”
Mr. Smith has come to Washington, again.
[Update a couple minutes later]
More links from Instapundit. “Brave Sir Harry Ran Away.”
Heh.
[Update a minute or two later]
I should note that I haven’t had much to say about the horrible NASA appropriations in this bill (three billion dollars for SLS and MPCV — how in the world would they have sensibly spent $1.8B on a heavy lifter in 2011, with only nine months left in the fiscal year?), because I wanted to wait and see if it was actually going to pass.
I think that we will be on continuing resolutions as far as the eye can see, at this point, or at least until 2013, and the big battles over the NASA budget will be what goes into rescission bills, starting early next year. The job of people who really want to see progress in space is to make sure that the SLS is on the top of the chopping block, at least restricting it to studies in the next couple years instead of pouring hundreds of millions into obsolete technologies.
You heard it here first.
I Don’t Think It Can Last That Long
“It can’t last another decade.”
Even if Washington bails out Sacramento. Because if it does crazy things like that, Washington can’t last another decade.
Party Like It’s 1773
It’s been 237 years since they dumped the tea into Boston Harbor. And this year’s elections shows that the spirit of 1773 remains alive.
That Pesky Constitution
It just keeps getting in the way of the agenda and “progress.”
The Dishonest “Tax Cut” Debate
My thoughts, over at PJM.
Evil Versus Evil
Thoughts on the continuing academic cover up of the evil of communism. We should have the goal of making Marxists as much of a social pariah as Nazis, both on and off campus. Including the idiot Che admirers.
Am I Crazy?
Repeal DADT for non-combat roles, but keep it in place for combat troops. What’s wrong with that? OK, I know what’s wrong with that — it is politically incorrect. But it conforms to military polling. Unless you think that’s irrelevant.
A Sad Anniversary
I think that today is the thirty-eighth anniversary of the day that Gene Cernan climbed back into the LEM and headed off to lunar orbit with Jack Schmitt to meet up with the command module for the trip back to earth (perhaps depending on what time zone you use). Humans haven’t walked on the moon since, for many reasons, but foremost because too many people think that the only way to return was the way we went the first time, with massive government expenditures and a big rocket. This false perception has held us back for almost four decades now.
Not That Many Shopping Days Until Christmas
I really appreciate the shopping that people have been doing at my Amazon link (over there in the left sidebar) — it really helps reduce the stocking coalage, especially the Kindles (though the cameras and printers and laptops are great, too).
But for that Tea Partier in the family, all of Bill Whittle’s Firewall videos have been compiled into a DVD, so it’s a great stocking stuffer, too. I don’t get a direct cut, but I’d like to see Declaration Entertainment succeed, because I’d like to do well by doing good consulting with things like the solar fiction movie that Bill wants to make.
[Update a while later]
If anyone else is having trouble using the Amazon box, like my commenter, this link