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• The Delivery Presents – Republicans, Cell Phones, Sock Puppets, and Other Things That Will Hurt You!
• Clearing the Browser Tabs – Democratic Debt Mutiny Wednesday Edition
• Sooper Genius Anthony Weiner’s Path to Electoral Victory: Sell Republican Books!

The Delivery Presents – Republicans, Cell Phones, Sock Puppets, and Other Things That Will Hurt You! Posted: 01 Jun 2011 09:36 AM PDT Episode 96 had it all: 1) Not-so-gentle mocking of DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. 2) Mentions of Anthony Weiner that didn’t include body parts. 3) A special appearance by my good friend, Occasional Spokespuppet Socky the Sock Puppet. 4) A surprise #WeinerGate revelation. 5) An introduction to the matter of over-hyped college degrees. 6) A special birthday message to my friend, the superlative musician Darryl Johnson. Okay, there’s some downer stuff in the first half about how Medicare is doomed unless we do something fairly radical to make sure it stays around and how the Democrats’ “plan” is to saving Medicare what stomping on a choking man’s crotch is to saving his life. Don’t worry, though. You’ll laugh and get a bit ticked off at what’s being done in Congress in your name. In the end, that’s a good thing. We need more happy warriors, and if you can stay angry at the silly political games going on right now while having a good laugh, you’re just where you ought to be right now. FYI, I’m looking for an actual Socky, so if you want to help in that regard, let me know. The chat room will thank you. The Delivery - Episode 96 This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Clearing the Browser Tabs – Democratic Debt Mutiny Wednesday Edition Posted: 01 Jun 2011 03:10 AM PDT The House of Representatives refused to raise the debt ceiling yesterday in a vote the MSM is deceptively calling “symbolic”. So much for objectivity, huh? Why it’s almost like the media were using a talking point provided by the House Democratic leadership or something. If this vote was purely symbolic, then why did almost half of the Democrats vote to slap down President Obama and their own leadership? I’ll tell you why. The game has changed. The days when Congress could simply throw our money down any number of ratholes has come to an end. The next debt ceiling vote, the one the MSM won’t call “symbolic”, is going to come with quite a few strings attached. The Democrats want those strings to be radically higher taxes, not just on the “rich”, but on every single one of us. Republicans will be looking to hack away at the budget with a chainsaw. One of those approaches will be good for us. The other will simply be an excuse to do business as usual. Let us hope that the Democrats who mutinied today continue to buck their leaders and vote wisely. Our future truly does depend on it. And now, links! Stacy McCain strips away the silliness of #WeinerGate and explains why it really is news, and why simple declarative sentences need to come back into journalistic fashion. There’s a new Republican Senate candidate in the 2012 race, and his resume looks promising. Check out Old Line Elephant for more. Wow. Sarah Palin really does drive the MSM out of their minds. Good for her. Herman Cain has a new campaign video out and it’s pretty good. I’m going to pitch them an idea of my own very soon and we’ll see where that goes. I’ve only heard of the singer Adele from friends, but I like the cut of her non-musical jib. Well, it appears that Jon Huntsman is serious about taking the fight to President Obama. Are we really surprised that the Obama administration has shut the MSM out of its fundraisers? The Lord of the Rings trilogy is coming back to theaters, for one month only. I may have to make a few trips to the movies!

Sooper Genius Anthony Weiner’s Path to Electoral Victory: Sell Republican Books! Posted: 31 May 2011 01:26 PM PDT I’m going to do something a bit daring today and write a post about Anthony Weiner that doesn’t involve his crotch. Last week, he laid out the Democrats’ plan to end the Republican majority in the House. It is, I admit, a clever plan. His idea is to use the Republican plans to save Medicare and Social Security against them and he’s doubly excited because those foolish, foolish young Republicans actually put their plans into a book. That you can buy! House Republicans have laid out the pathway to their own decline, some liberal Democrats said this week. “Young Guns,” a book authored last year by GOP leaders Eric Cantor (Va.), Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) and Paul Ryan (Wis.), was packaged as a blueprint for a new brand of conservatism under a Republican-controlled House. But Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) said the book also provides a roadmap for the Democrats to retake the House in next year’s elections. [...] “We should just give everyone a copy of it, because they also propose privatizing portions of Social Security,” he said. “I hope to get a spike in Amazon of people buying that book.” So do I, because the plans to save two programs that do need to be saved are worth knowing. Heck, I’d encourage Weiner to get together with the Sooper Geniuses at the DNC and buy every American a copy of the book. Drop them from helicopters like they were turkeys at a WKRP Thanksgiving Day stunt. Buy the e-book rights and make the whole thing available on the web for free. That’s a winning strategy, right there. If only the GOP has an effective social media team in place right now to take advantage of that. I bet they could make sections of the book available to anyone who wants it, complete with Anthony Weiner’s eager endorsements. They might even have people banging away on Facebook and Twitter and a hundred different blogs spreading the message that the Democrats’ plan, boiled down to its essence, is to let old people die. Weiner’s goal here couldn’t be more clear. He’s not concerned about Medicare, even though it’s collapsing like a popsicle-stick bridge under an elephant parade (see Veronique de Rugy’s new spending projections for the very scary details). It doesn’t matter to him, or his cohort Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, that his party treats our senior citizens like drooling morons who will die unless the Democratic Party leads them to safety. He doesn’t even care that the “death panels” he insists do not exist are on their way (via memeorandum). Nope. All he cares about is scaring the bejeezus out of enough voters to eke out a win for his side in November of 2012. That is his strategy — his entire strategy. That makes me just a tad bit angry. I hope it does the same to you.

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