Man Loses Eye In Beating

Reminiscent of other groups of random beatings administered by feral teens in Milwaukee, a 76 year old man lost an eye as a result of being beaten by five thugs acting out of what one claimed was boredom.

A 76-year-old man’s right eye was surgically removed after he was beaten last week by a group of at least five people – including at least three teens – motivated by boredom and peer pressure, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday against one of the accused attackers.

J.T. Downs was pushing a cart through an alley in the 3300 block of N. 26th St. about 6 p.m. Friday when he was attacked, according to the complaint against 18-year-old Leroy Bentley III, who is charged with being party to the crime of aggravated battery.

Unbelieveable. A man cannot walk down a street minding his own business without being viciously attacked by thugs.

From the Sentinel Journal’s summary of the complaint:

Bentley told police that he and others had chased and tripped people in the alley before.

Bentley “could offer no explanation for why he did this to those other people, and to J.T. Downs, other than boredom,” the complaint says.

When I was 18, and this isn’t that long ago, my parents gave me a solution to boredom. It was something called a job.

But I am willing to bet that Bentley didn’t even finish high school, and I’m also willing to bet that the other thugs involved in the beating of Mr. Downs are either high school dropouts or habitual truants from broken homes, the break-up of which we subsidized.

Recall the Charlie Young beating in 2002, an incident which made national news. Little was done to the vicious thugs that beat Mr. Young to death in terms of real punishment. Excuse after excuse was made for the thugs, and the message was clear to the rest of the urban street thugs in the Central City: go ahead and do what you will to your innocent victims. You won’t be held accountable and the usual suspects will defend you and make excuses for you.

There have been far too many mob beatings in the Central City to recall, all by feral teens and feral young adults who essentially raised themselves.

It’s innocent people such as Mr. Downs who pay the price for the continued excusing of such vile thuggish acts by people who should know better and the failure of the criminal justice system to hold the bad guys accountable for their actions.

Instead, our lawmakers would rather have cops pulling over drivers simply for not wearing a seat belt.

Doyle: Raising Gas Tax ‘Worthy’ Of Consideration

“We should not, we must not and I will not raise taxes.”

That’s Gov. Jim Milhous Doyleone in 2005 before seeking a second term as Wisconsin’s governor.

Now, today, Diamond Jim has endorsed yet another tax increase, on top of the onerous tax increases in the current budget, on top of the $1.2 billion in tax increases he just rammed through the Legislature and in addition to the $2.1 billion in new taxes and tax increases he wants in the next biennial budget.

This one is a hike in what is already one of the nation’s highest gas taxes and in addition to the oil franchise fee he seeks, which will be passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices at the pump.

Madison – Gov. Jim Doyle said a proposal to raise the gas tax by 3 cents a gallon was worthy of consideration, despite a 2006 campaign promise not to increase that tax during his second term of office.

He also repeated comments made in December that the state probably should not have eliminated annual increases in the gas tax, even though he signed that change into law in 2005.

Doyle said his preference would be to tax oil companies rather than consumers, as he has long supported. But that proposal may not gain approval in the Legislature, which is searching for money to pay for roads and close a $5 billion, two-year shortfall.

Doyle’s proposal would bar oil companies from passing the tax on to consumers, but critics say that provision violates the U.S. Constitution’s protections of interstate commerce.

Tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax and tax.

Don Doyleone is concerned about the shortfall in the state transportation fund. Maybe he and the Legislature should have thought about that before they raided that fund to pay off the state teachers union and the other political hacks that contribute mightily to the Democrats.

Memo to the RPW, aka The Stupid Party: if you cannot beat Jim Doyle in 2010, you are finished as a political entity in Wisconsin.

How To Save $80 Million

H/T to the esteemed James Wigderson, proprietor of the Library & Pub.

The Anointed One wants his minions to save $100 million in a $3.5 trillion budget, the fiscal equivalent of bailing out the Titanic with a tea cup.

Senate Republicans have come up with a way to save $80 million of that $100 million: keep Club Gitmo open and leave the jihadists there instead of turning them loose on the streets of American cities.

Belling & Lazich

Mark Belling has been scoring some direct hits on state Sen. Mary Lazich (RINO-New Berlin) lately over her tarnished conservative credentials.

RINO, by the way, stands for Republican In Name Only. Lazich certainly qualifies.

On April 15, the day of the national tea parties, Belling talked at length about how the Republicans failed to pass the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) when they had the numbers in the state legislature. It would have been a constitutional amendment — not requiring the signature of Gov. Jim Milhous Doyleone — and would have required a two-third majority of both houses of the state Legislature to raise taxes, something that would be very handy right now seeing as we are facing an onslaught of onerous tax increases under Democrat rule.

But the Republicans couldn’t get the job done, even though they had the numbers. Why? Because of RINOs, Republicans who act like tax-and-spend Democrats and had become accustomed to the ways of big government.

In 2004, one of those RINOs was state Sen. Mary Panzer, a RINO from West Bend since unseated by current state Sen. Glenn Grothman. Panzer was blocking any vote on TABOR. At the time, Lazich was a proud and public opponent of TABOR until called out by Belling. She then promptly flip-flopped and called for a vote.

That vote never came, because the Democrats took over the state Senate in November 2006 and the GOP frittered away its chance to limit the power of the state to tax its residents to the hilt.

Well, not content to let sleeping dogs lie, Lazich e-mailed Belling to demand a retraction of his remarks. You can read her e-mail as well as Mark’s reply here.

Belling also reminds us of what a liar Lazich was in the devious selection of another RINO, Sgt. Dale “I Know Nothing” Schultz (RINO-Ethanol). If nothing else, it serves as an excuse to rerun this classic Photoshop:

If you recall, the two candidates for Republican leader in the state Senate were Sgt. Schultz and Scott Fitzgerald. Schultz opposed TABOR while Fitzgerald supported it.

The vote, expected to be in Fitzgerald’s favor, wound up a stunning 9-8 verdict in favor of Schultz. No one could figure out who the ninth vote for Schultz was. All eight supporters of Fitzgerald identified themselves. Lazich made a public claim that she voted for Fitzgerald.

Someone was lying through their teeth. It took the Citizens For Responsible Government to unmask the liar. It was Mary Lazich. She lied and in reality voted for Sgt. Schultz, the anti-TABOR candidate, in exchange for a plum committee assignment no less.

Publicly revealed to be a lying hypocrite, Lazich was forced to go on Charlie Sykes’ radio program to ‘fess up.

You can read more of the e-mail debate between Lazich and Belling here and here. The latter contains an accusation from Lazich that Belling is filled with “hatred and bitterness.”

That’s what you get from RINOs when you reveal them to be the hypocrites that they are. You are accused of being bitter and hate-filled. According to the RINOs, you need to be bipartisan (read: sacrifice your beliefs to agree with Democrats).

That’s why the Republican Party of Wisconsin gets no money from me. Too many RINOs. Limp-wristed, linguini-spined girlie men who stand for nothing and fall for everything. The Go Along, Get Along Gang. A collection of sycophants crying “Me too! Me too! Me too!” after every bad idea offered by the Democrats.

Case in point: a string of bad legislation that recently came out of the Joint Finance Committee. One of those items is a Safety Nazi provision to make failure to wear a seat belt a primary enforcement violation. For those of you who graduated from Racine Unified, that means police can now pull you over simply for not wearing a seat belt.

It passed the JFC with all Democrat votes and some Republican votes, one of which was state Rep. Robin Vos of the 63rd Assembly District in Racine County. Now, Vos is no RINO, he’s generally conservative but I called him out in an e-mail for his vote to regulate what is essentially a personal choice that impacts no one but me.

I wrote:

I read in the Journal Sentinel about your vote on the JFC to allow cops to pull over drivers for not wearing seat belts. I cannot believe any Republican especially after Wednesday’s nationwide tea parties would support that type of invasion of personal privacy. Wearing or not wearing a seat belt, whether you think it is reckless, is my decision, not Big Nanny Government. I am an adult. I stopped needing a Mommy and Daddy years ago. And when the Safety Nazis decided I wasn’t enough of a grown-up to make the right decision and told me I had to. Why stop there? Why not tell me I have to eat my vegetables and brush and floss after meals? It’s all good common sense, but why must common sense have to be made law? It;s my choice; it affects no one but me.

It’s why I hold out little hope the Republican Party — which I call The Stupid Party on a regular basis — will ever find itself and defeat the assortment of fascists, socialists and communists in office here in Wisconsin and in Washington. When we become “me-too! me-too!,” voters lose the ability to distinguish, and people like me become discouraged and just stay home.

Rep. Vos responded:

[A]s you heard from my comments about primary enforcement in the Joint Finance Committee, I agree with your comments and do not support the provision.

What we did do however was not as simple as you described. The Democrats indicated that they were going to pass it whether we objected or not (pretty much the norm unfortunately for most things) so we did successfully get them to lower the fine from $25 to $10 and to change a minor part of the bill to allow us to get federal highway aid into the transportation fund. The motion did not endorse primary enforcement it just did those two things. So while I accept the fact that we could not stop it, I do not accept the idea that we just went along with primary enforcement. In fact I think our actions made something horrible a little bit less so, which is pretty much all we can do when liberals are in control of all of state government. Wouldn’t you agree?

Unfortuantely, that didn’t connect with the quote in the newspaper, in which he said:

We are giving another reason for law enforcement to pull people over.

That to me is a back-door endorsement of a police state. Why should anyone who poses no risk to another human being live in fear of being pulled over by the Gestapo? Republicans — at least those who say they value liberty and freedom, even the freedom to be an idiot — should not give us the argument that this is the best they could get so they had to vote for it.

It’s also time for the states to say “Not just no, but HELL NO!” to the federal money with the strings attached. As I see it, the Republicans with one exception went along with primary enforcement, once again becoming the “Me Too!” Party along with the statists that call themselves Democrats.

Poison Partisan Politics

H/T to Charlie Sykes.

The Wall Street Journal expounds on the devastating impact on the American political scene of the decision made by Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama to give His assent to show trials of Bush administration officials over the use of harsh interrogation tactics on captured jihadists at Club Gitmo.

Mark down the date. Tuesday, April 21, 2009, is the moment that any chance of a new era of bipartisan respect in Washington ended. By inviting the prosecution of Bush officials for their antiterror legal advice, President Obama has injected a poison into our politics that he and the country will live to regret.

Policy disputes, often bitter, are the stuff of democratic politics. Elections settle those battles, at least for a time, and Mr. Obama’s victory in November has given him the right to change policies on interrogations, Guantanamo, or anything on which he can muster enough support. But at least until now, the U.S. political system has avoided the spectacle of a new Administration prosecuting its predecessor for policy disagreements. This is what happens in Argentina, Malaysia or Peru, countries where the law is treated merely as an extension of political power.

This is a big, wet, sloppy kiss to the moonbat America- and troop-hating Left, still ravaged by Bush Derangement Syndrome. The likes of Code Pinko and Moron.org. No surprise that the Democrats’ Dr. Evil himself, George Soros, is encouraging these banana republic-style show trials. Another partisan hack, Senator Depends, Patrick “Leaky” Leahy, is chomping at the bit to get started.

Bill O’Reilly took the same tack on The Factor last night, essentially saying it will be over for The Anointed One once the show trials begin.

This is a spectacle you’d expect to see in some third world banana republic, when the ruling junta is overthrown and the radicals put the former rulers on trial in the name of the people.

You wonder — you really wonder — if that’s not what really happened here last November.

Obama: The Next Chavez?

Writing at the Jerusalem Post, Shmuley Boteach asks why the World’s Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama smiles so much at dictatorial thugs like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez.

The State Department maintains that Chávez has attacked democratic traditions and has put Venezuelan democracy on life support with unchecked concentration of power, political persecution, and intimidation. Foreign Affairs magazine says that Chávez is a power-hungry dictator with autocratic and megalomaniacal tendencies whose authoritarian vision and policies are a serious threat to his people. In testimony before the US Senate, the South American project director for the Center for Strategic International Studies said that Chavez’s government engages in “arresting opposition leaders, torturing some members of the opposition (according to human rights organizations) and encouraging, if not directing, its squads of Bolivarian Circles to beat up members of Congress and intimidate voters-all with impunity.”

In spite of a presidential term limit of six years, Chávez has suggested that he would like to remain in power for 25 years.

After reading that part of the column, I don’t see a whole heck of a lot of difference between Chavez and The Messiah Himself. Especially the latter part. I just don’t see the purported Constitutional term limits on the Chocolate Jesus being able to stop Him from ruling as long as He wants.

I’d argue there’s so much affection and smiling between Obama and Chavez as well as other dictatorial thugs because they are ideological soulmates.

Remember the anti-American tome Chavez gave The Messiah as a gift? Bush would have just handed it back to him. Reagan would have thrown it back at him. Kennedy would have told Chavez to stick it where the sun doesn’t shine. Teddy Roosevelt would have beaten him senseless with it.

Our Lord and Savior? Takes it with a smile and says “I’m a reader.” Dignifies a piece of anti-American propaganda filled with lies and hatred. I wonder what Obama would do if someone gave him a copy of The Great One, Mark “F. Lee” Levin’s book, Liberty & Tyranny. After all, he’s a reader.

As far as the rest of it:

• Attacking our democratic traditions? Check. See how open, honest debate was cut off on the porkulus bill. It had to be passed right now (!) and the time for debate was over. Actually, it never began. Any broad sweeping legislation that is fast-tracked threatens that. That includes the original TARP bill. Or ACORN and its collection of fraudulent voters making real votes meaningless. Third-world banana republic material.
• Unchecked concentration of power? Check. Although the process of reconstructing the imperial presidency preceded The Messiah, He has vast;y accelerated the process. Becoming the first president in American history to fire private citizens from private jobs. Telling heads of private businesses that He is the only thing standing between them and His ACORN rent-a-mobs, just like Vito, Rocco and Fat Tony of the protection rackets.
• Intimidation? Check. Starting with the campaign. Using political hacks already employed in the Justice Department to threaten criminal prosecution of anyone who raised questions about voter fraud. Now using the Department of Homeland Security to label domestic political dissenters as “right-wing extremists” and potential domestic terrorists.

And describing Chávez as “a power-hungry dictator with autocratic and megalomaniacal tendencies whose authoritarian vision and policies are a serious threat to his people” comes close to describing The Anointed One Himself. We have a egotistical narcissist with a messianic complex. It’s what you get with a demagogue who foments crisis after crisis, tells the frightened people what they want to hear then offers Himself as the solution to all their problems.

In Germany in the 1930s, the German people had their messiah. He blamed the Jews for all their problems. Now, we have our own version, blaming right wing extremists for theirs. How long until we have to wear government-issued insignias to identify us as extremists who support liberty, life and the Second Amendment?

These people in turn react with emotion as opposed to intellect. Demagogues prey on those emotional responses. And The Christos is pure demagogue through and through.

As El Rushbo expounds:

The problem with people that have a strict emotional response or an emotional attachment to an agenda is that you can’t get to them. There is no rationality for their belief, that’s why you can’t argue with them. You make a fool of yourself trying to argue with somebody who is simply emotionally attached to something.

[T]hey live in a worldview that’s a cocoon, and it’s created in their emotion. In many cases, the people we’re discussing, it’s a desire for utopianism where everybody loves everybody and there’s no crime and there’s no arguments and there’s no differences between people. They all have same amount of money, same housing, same car, nobody has any advantages and so forth. Anything that challenges that worldview, they cannot deal with and they strike out and try to silence it. They don’t want to hear it. And that’s what we’re up against.

The big problem is that we have irresponsible politicians that play to that emotional cocoon worldview simply to get votes. They’re called demagogues, and the current demagogue is Barack Obama.

Barack Hussein Obama: the first American Idol President. But far more dangerous than any ordinary American Idol contestant.

The Criminalization Of Conservatism

Looks like the Left doesn’t just want to defeat us at the polls or even shut us up. They want to send us to jail for our opinions. Psst: here’s a little secret. This is how totalitarians operate. Nazis, socialists, communists, fascists, whatever. Dissent will not be tolerated and you will either toe the party line or it’s off to jail, the gulag, the re-education centers, whatever.

Power Line’s John Hinderaker notes:

Many liberals don’t just want to defeat conservatives at the polls, they want to send them to jail. Toward that end, they have sometimes tried to criminalize what are essentially policy differences. President Obama hinted at another step in that direction when he said today that he is open to the idea of bringing criminal charges against the Justice Department lawyers who wrote opinions to the effect that waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods could legally be used on al Qaeda detainees. Obama said the question was a complicated one, and the decision will ultimately be made by Attorney General Eric Holder.

The idea of prosecuting a lawyer because a wrote a legal analysis with which the current Attorney General disagrees is so outrageous that I can’t believe it would be seriously considered.

He also notes that another end result might be the end of Republicans serving in public life, since few might be willing to risk criminal prosecution for political beliefs once Democrats regain power.

That is, if Democrats ever lose power again.

This is in light of Our Lord and Savior reversing himself once again and saying He is OK with show trials and prosecution of Bush administration officials, up to and including President Bush himself, for the approval of harsh interrogation tactics used against jihadists after 9/11.

This in spite of the fact that The Anointed One’s own national intelligence director said the harsh interrogation tactics, including waterboarding, actually worked.

WASHINGTON – President Obama’s national intelligence director told colleagues in a private memo last week that the harsh interrogation techniques banned by the White House did produce significant information that helped the nation in its struggle with terrorists.

“High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa’ida organization that was attacking this country,” Adm. Dennis C. Blair, the intelligence director, wrote in a memo to his staff last Thursday.

Nice work, guys. Tell the enemy what we did that worked and that we won’t do it again.

Just whose side are they on again? Certainly not ours.

From the Wall Street Journal:

In a saner world (or at least one that accurately reported on original documents), all of this would be a point of pride for the CIA. It would serve as evidence of the Bush Administration’s scrupulousness regarding the life and health of the detainees, and demonstrate how wrong are the claims that harsh interrogations yielded no useful intelligence.

Instead, the release of the memos has unleashed the liberal mob, with renewed calls in Congress for a “truth commission” and even, perhaps, Judge Bybee’s impeachment and prosecutions of the other authors. Mr. Obama has hinted that while his Administration won’t prosecute CIA officials, it may try to sate the mob by going after Bush officials who wrote the memos.

One major concern here is what Mr. Obama’s decision to release these memos says about his own political leadership. He claims that one of his goals as President is to restore more comity to our politics, especially concerning national security. He also knows he needs a CIA willing to take risks to keep the country safe. Yet Mr. Obama seems more than willing to indulge the revenge fantasies of the left, as long as its potential victims served a different President. And while he is willing to release classified documents about interrogation techniques, Mr. Obama refuses to release documents that more fully discuss their results.

All of this might appease the President’s MoveOn.org base, but he can’t expect to satisfy them without also weakening American intelligence capabilities. The risk-averse CIA that so grievously failed in the run-up to 9/11 was a product of a spy culture that still remembered the Church Committee of the 1970s and the Iran-Contra recriminations of the 1980s. Mr. Obama needs to stop this score-settling now, and he can start by promptly releasing the documents that reveal what the CIA learned from its interrogations.

Vice President Dick Cheney has called The Messiah’s bluff and demanded the release of everything, including what information the harsh interrogations revealed.

The CIA confirms that one thing waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 183 times prevented was a 9/11-style attack on Los Angeles.

(CNSNews.com) – The Central Intelligence Agency told CNSNews.com today that it stands by the assertion made in a May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo that the use of “enhanced techniques” of interrogation on al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) — including the use of waterboarding — caused KSM to reveal information that allowed the U.S. government to thwart a planned attack on Los Angeles.

Before he was waterboarded, when KSM was asked about planned attacks on the United States, he ominously told his CIA interrogators, “Soon, you will know.”

According to the previously classified May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo that was released by President Barack Obama last week, the thwarted attack — which KSM called the “Second Wave”– planned “ ‘to use East Asian operatives to crash a hijacked airliner into’ a building in Los Angeles.”

When the next 9/11 happens — not if — all of those jihadist enablers that helped bring it about deserve to be waterboarded themselves. scre

Our November Revolution

John Griffing writes at The American Thinker about the glorious November Revolution and its long term impact on freedom and liberty in the United States.

It ain’t a pretty picture, folks.

In our recent election, many Americans voted for a Savior, not a president.

Americans were enamored with the idea of making history in this election, and in that sense we have gotten what we wanted. Unfortunately, Barack Obama is the wrong man, and this is definitely the wrong time.

In fact, the timing couldn’t be worse. We have in recent years vastly expanded the powers and autonomy of the Executive Branch, removing checks and balances along the way. Owing in part to well-intentioned conservative attempts to more effectively fight Islamic terrorism, the machinery of US dictatorship is already in place. Security measures like The Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, recent revisions of the Posse Commitatus Act, and National Presidential Directive 51 have all served to strengthen our national security in the short term, but with long-term threats to our individual liberties and great risk of abuse in the wrong hands. Now we have handed this power over to the most unabashedly leftist radical ever to hold Presidential office.

America is now seeing the results of its own revolution, a peaceful November Revolution unlike Russia’s of almost a century ago, responding to multiple staged crises with pleas for our new leader to save us from ourselves. Our leader is ready and willing, and we have given President Obama the keys to the kingdom. Many of us warned of the dangers of expanding presidential powers, arguing that what might work under a trustworthy administration might be dangerous in the hands of an unscrupulous one. But even we could not have imagined the speed with which our most dire warnings might come true. Had Obama’s ascendency been foreseen, we’d have won that argument hands-down. He’s the poster-child for the worst case scenario.

Conservatives and libertarians who fretted about the expansion of presidential power under the Clinton and Bush administrations are vindicated. Power used correctly is one thing; power in the hands of a wannabe dictator is another.

Remember this quote from Our Savior the campaign trail in 2008?

We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

Griffing expounds:

Obama has followed through on this pledge, and with the passage of H.R. 1388 the Obama youth corps has been born, with a stated purpose to “combine the best practices of civilian service with the best aspects of military service.” The bill mandates that 50 percent of the new corps will be comprised of “disadvantaged youths,” including high-school drop-outs, those with limited English proficiency, and those with criminal records. No offense to these disadvantaged youths, but won’t this dramatically increase the probability that armed groups of malcontents with grudges against America will be policing the streets under the guise of “disaster relief?”

Add Obama’s willingness to take away citizens’ use of guns for self defense, and the possibility of reinstating the Clinton assault weapons ban, and suddenly the words “it can’t happen here” ring hollow.

And this should be a chilling thought to anyone but the most lobotomized Kool-Aid drinking Apostle of the Chocolate Jesus bleating “O-Baa-Ma! O-Baa-Ma! O-Baa-Ma!!”:

President Obama has even begun making preparations for martial law, stationing 80,000 troops in the US as a part of his new “Consequence Management Response Force” to deal with the domestic upheaval and strategic social chaos caused by mass unemployment and a vacuum of public morality.

In a great twist of irony, his blatant violation of laws restricting the domestic use of the US military was made possible by the convenient revisions of the Posse Commitatus Act under the Bush Administration. Now the man of the hour is Barack Obama, and he is looking for an opportunity to cross the Rubicon.

And just how did we get to this point? El Rushbo weighs in:

These things happen in stages. How did it happen is simple. It’s been developing over 50 years are. You dumb down the education system. You stop teaching American history. You teach the Constitution as a constraint and limit rather than what it really is: a limit on government. You teach the Constitution as something that keeps the government from doing even greater things for you. And then you eventually nominate a candidate who’s a demagogue, who can create, among his followers, a cult. People who are emoting, not thinking.

And people who are so fed up with what they see as constant bickering, somebody can come along and say, “Okay. The old, tired ways of the past, we need to get rid of them, and we’re all going to get along.” You promise people you’re going to pay their mortgage. You promise people they’re going to have health care. Really, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do, is tell people you’re going to give them everything, because the liberal Democrats have created more and more people who think that that’s their entitlement as American citizens. So it didn’t just happen overnight. It has been building and the lack of an opposition to it, I think, is probably due to the fact that the Washington-New York elite culture — from the Ivy League schools down to the halls of government, to the lobbying places — are all made up of people whose jobs resolve around government, and the bigger it is, the richer they get. And the more power government has, the more power they have. So we just, you know, turn the meaning of the Constitution and the founding of the country upside down.

’99 Red Balloons’

Another one-hit wonder from the 80s. Nena and “99 Red Balloons.”

Another Drive-By Catch On The $100 Million

ABC’s Jake Tapper also caught the spin and hypocrisy of the White House making a big deal out of finding $100 million in cuts in a $3.5 trillion budget, or .003 percent, the cost of a latte to a $100,000 household. It’s something we blogged about here.

The exchange involves Tapper, White House Minister of Propaganda Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and al-AP’s Jennifer Loven. Here’s the portion between Tapper and Gibbs after the latter bragged about the significance of $100 million in cuts:

TAPPER: You were talking about an appropriations bill a few weeks ago about $8 billion being minuscule — $8 billion in earmarks. We were talking about that and you said that that…

GIBBS: Well, in terms of — in…(CROSSTALK)

TAPPER: …$100 million is a lot but $8 billion is small?

That’s right. The same folks making a whoop-de-do about .003 percent savings in a $3.5 trillion budget were just telling us that $8 billion in pork in an appropriations bill signed by Our Lord and Savior was no big deal.

I’d call that MPS math, but I don’t even think MPS is that bad.