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- Exit Project Gunwalker; Enter Project Frogmarcher?
- The Delivery Presents – Hey, We Have the Internet Too!
- Football, Inspiration, and Stacy.
- Clearing the Browser Tabs – #OccupyMyBlog Monday Edition
| Exit Project Gunwalker; Enter Project Frogmarcher? Posted: 03 Oct 2011 10:25 PM PDT
Holder’s out here is that he could stretch the definition of “the last few weeks” so that it reaches all the way back to April. It would certainly be a better excuse than the one his office offered CBS News.
I smell the origins of a perjury defense, but not a very good one. Here’s how I know that the Department of Justice served up a snow shovel full of cow-flop for its boss: the only reason you would ever use the excuse “no, those memos to the Attorney General involved another operation where some Attorney General, who wasn’t named Eric Holder at all, let guns walk into the hands of murderous drug cartels” is if you knew that revelation couldn’t hurt you worse than the truth. Then he just upped the feebleness of the excuse with the backup “…and I knew there was an operation called Fast and Furious, but I didn’t know a doggoned thing about it even though a veritable blizzard of memos about it crossed my desk.” I strongly suspect Holder knows he is cooked. Rep. Darrell Issa, who chairs the committee looking into Fast and Furious, said back in July that he was convinced “absolutely” that Holder didn’t tell the truth when he testified. I don’t know if Issa had these documents in hand already without Holder’s knowledge, but I think that’s a reasonable supposition and its very likely he has more. Issa has not been the sort of person to declare certainty without a handful of proof. That doesn’t mean Holder won’t go down swinging. Issa will have to have a real “smoking gun”, some clear link that shows he either approved of at least one “walking” operation or that he knew one of them happened and did nothing about it. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this document exists and it’s most likely in the hands of Issa’s committee already. So, does that mean we’ll see Eric Holder frogmarched out of the White House? Maybe. There are two possibilities. If Operation Fast and Furious began and ended with him, then we’ll get the march the left so badly wanted to see from Karl Rove (and won’t that be the most wonderful day ever?). But if the operation started above Holder, then he’ll probably flip on that person to get whatever deal he can cut with Issa (or a special prosecutor) to stay out of prison. In that case, we could see Rahm Emanuel or Valerie Jarrett under oath, or even the President of the United States. Operation Fast and Furious could very well do to this administration what the left desperately, and with every ounce of its strength tried to do to the Bush administration for eight year. If that happens; if we get impeachments and jail sentences and photo after lovely photo of corrupt Chicago political goons in cuffs getting hauled out of the White House, the progressive left will lose its collective mind. Even if we don’t, and Holder is the only one who spends time working out how Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell works in Cell Block D, the progressives will not be happy at all since this will all extend well into 2012 and the height of the campaign season. Either way, you might want to lay in a stock of popcorn now, because things are going to get very entertaining.  |
| The Delivery Presents – Hey, We Have the Internet Too! Posted: 03 Oct 2011 01:26 PM PDT
The theme is obvious in the first half, mostly because I very nearly yelled it a couple of times. It is not so obvious in the second half, but it’s there if you look closely. Actually, the second half of this show is one of the more enjoyable segments I’ve done. I had only intended to spend a few minutes talking about “The Matrix Reloaded”. Instead, I basically outlined a brand-new movie with a compelling villain, a protagonist who has some room for growth, and real conflict between the two. The theme of stupidity comes into play when you consider that all those elements exist in the movie as it is, but the Wachowski Brothers made a conscious decision to feed us a cardboard villain, an indecipherable hero, and a series of set pieces toward what was an almost inevitable conclusion wrapped up in what I greely admit was gorgeous packaging. We could have have a much better movie, and I don’t doubt the brothers could have delivered that, but they didn’t. At some level, probably one they don’t even know exists, they decided we weren’t worth their very best movie. That happens far too often, in entertainment and politics, and I don’t like it one bit. [audio:http://www.takethatproductionsusa.com/podcasting/td/TD113.mp3|titles=The Delivery - Episode 113]  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Football, Inspiration, and Stacy. Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:48 PM PDT I was reading Stacy McCain’s blog today and came across something very useful to me that I believe will be useful to you as well. He is suffering from a malady that strikes every blogger at some point in their writing career — chopped liver syndrome — but it’s hitting him particularly hard today and, in a search for inspiration and a certain renewal of spirit, he linked to a piece he wrote a couple of years ago about football. Except the piece really isn’t about football. It’s about fatherhood, determination, and (in a way) a line I’ve never forgotten from a Dr. Seuss book. His conclusion has lit a bit of a fire in my belly.
See, I’ve been feeling a bit overwhelmed myself lately. I’m still fairly new to the world of self-promotion and discouragement comes far more easily than I’d like. But Stacy’s article set me straight. It might just do the same thing for you, if you’ve been feeling a bit down on your condition lately. Do read the whole thing, then go on over and Stacy’s delicious smackdown of a smug has-been whose claim to relevant political expertise expired a decade ago. Hey, I’m no Instapundit, but I can throw a few hits myself. See, I didn’t come this far…
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| Clearing the Browser Tabs – #OccupyMyBlog Monday Edition Posted: 03 Oct 2011 11:27 AM PDT I should have known, when I wrote about the Day of Rage, a couple of weeks ago that it would become the Month of Rage. After all, the participants weren’t exactly plucked from the ranks of the gainfully-employed (unlike the Tea Parties) and the Professional Left has been looking for any reason to dump money into a headline-grabbing stunt. Now we have the stunt. On Twitter, you can follow the hashtag #OccupyWallStreet and read the ongoing travails of a mixture of always-ready anarchists, bored rich kids, and earnest progressives who have yet to learn that money follows power and not the other way around as they broadcast their doing on the iPhones, iPads, and other communications tools of corporate manufacture. The real story here, from what I’ve seen, is the presence of the Professional Left, who have used their union, political, and media contacts to turn the small outpouring of youthful angst into a headline-grabbing cry for more government meddling in our already gut-shot economy. Already, the MSM is at work comparing the protests to the Tahrir protest in Iran wherein brave people were murdered by their tyrannical government. Thankfully, some of the MSM have shown restraint and have compared #OccupyWallStreet to the Tea Parties. Neither comparison is appropriate or welcome. And now, links!
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