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Anybody Else Miss Norm Coleman?

Posted by The Hermit Crab on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 3:18:35 PM
As I watch the struggles over Cap-and_Trade, the Health Care Hostile Takeover bills, etc., I think "It sure would be nice if Norm Coleman were still a Senator from Minnesota."  As I recall, the election went down to the wire on election night, with Coleman holding a narrow lead against Democratic candidate and former comedian Al Franken.  The Democrats spent the next 72 hours creating votes for Franken, while the Republicans, with naive trust in the electoral system (and apparently forgetting Florida 2000), sat on their hands instead of demanding that all ballot boxes (or their Minnesota equivalent) be impounded immediately after the polls closed.  Syndicated columnist Ann Coulter tried desperately to get the Republicans to act, but their hesitation proved fatal. 
 
The Coleman campaign and the Republicans in Minnesota and on their Senatorial Campaign Committee share the blame for this loss, of course, but they're not alone.  I remember many sanctimonious conservatives declaring that they would stay home rather than vote for John McCain for President.  A friend of mine was among them, but my friend is a reasonable man, and he agreed to vote for good Republicans on his local ballot even if he didn't vote for Johnny Mac.  I wonder how many of his fellows stayed home altogether, rather than vote for a less-than-perfect candidate?  I wonder how many in Minnesota?  Enough to swing the election?
 
Norm Coleman was not perfect, to be sure.  No man or woman is.  We can be sure, though, that he would have stood with his party to fight these horrific proposals.  Every "Simon-pure" conservative who stayed home rather than vote for John McCain helped elect Franken, and shares the responsibility for our current problems.
 
Thanks a lot, you pompous twits.
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Clinton and Long-Term Consequences

Posted by The Hermit Crab on Monday, November 03, 2008 4:22:29 PM
A quick note to those conservatives who think that a O'Carter election will lead to another conservative Republican renaissance, and that we can easily weather whatever harm Baby Barry can do in four years.  Please recall the gas price shock of earlier this year (not truly gone yet), and recall that by the most pessimistic estimates we would have already been receiving oil from ANWAR for at least one year -- if President Bill Clinton had not vetoed it in 1997 (I think -- I'm within a year either way).  One decision by a President eleven years ago, and we are still paying for it every time we gas up our cars.
 
Less pain with McCain!
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Irreverent Thoughts for a Sunday

Posted by The Hermit Crab on Sunday, June 15, 2008 9:28:58 PM
The global warming crowd is always eagar to tell us that natural disasters are either man-made or a manifestation of the abused planet's wrath.  I see the recent terrible flooding in Iowa as a sign from an angry God.  He is telling us"I gave you corn for food and oil for fuel.  What makes you think that I got that backwards -- I, the Lord?  As long as you are stupid enough to take food and put it into your gas tanks, I will put it underwater!"
 
Heed my words, mankind, and beware God's wrath...
 
 
 
I'm sorry that Tim Russert died so young, but the enconiums to his even-handed unbiased approach to the news and to his show are beginning to nauseate me.  A blogger named Cassandra has not been swept up in the tsunami of bathos, and gives several examples of Russert's leaning-to-port approach.  I never forgot the two times I saw Newt Gingrich on Russert's show.  Russert could barely contain, and could not conceal his hatred for his guest.  He never - never - spoke to a Democrat like that, at least not in the years I watched him.
 
I'm sorry he's gone so soon, and I wish him well in the hereafter, but the reaction of his fellow reporters to his passing reminds me once again of one of my favorite definitions in the Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce):
 
Saint (n) -- a dead sinner revised and edited.
 
 
 
Republican Senator John McCain, who is a dim-bulb when it comes to energy policy, declared that he would never support drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (aptly referred to by Mark Steyn as the Arctic National Mosquito Refuge), saying that the area should remain "pristine".  Jonah Goldberg of National Review (who has actually journeyed to that barrendesolation) informs us that "pristine" means "unspoiled, virginal, in an original state".  Actually, the area that we'd be drilling in is "In summer, ... is mostly mosquito-plagued tundra and bogs ... In the winter, it reaches 70 degrees below zero (not counting wind chill, which brings it to 120 below) and is in round-the-clock darkness."  (This is quoted from Goldberg's June 13th article.)  To me, it sounds like one of the few places on earth which could be beautified by carpet-bombing.
 
Virginal?  I'll wager that very few places on earth are as completely screwed...
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Accumulated QuickNotes

Posted by The Hermit Crab on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 1:31:37 PM
Once again I'm short of (lunch)time, so let's dispose of the quick stuff:
 
We of the internet or talk radio public are familiar with the "tinfoil-hat brigades"; those wacky people who are convinced that the government's satellites are reading their minds, or at least they are whenever the brigadier is not wearing his protective tinfoil hat.  I find it amusing that the people in our society who are most worried about the government reading their thoughts are the most likely to be having no  thoughts worth reading.
 
 
 
Bitter Irony Department:  The main office for the Welfare Department in Sullivan County, NY is in the town of Liberty.  (If you don't see the irony, you need to learn more about the deleterious effects of the welfare system.)
 
 
 
I've seen several conservative authors who I respect lamenting the recent awarding of the multi-billion dallar tanker plane contract to EADS (the military wing of Aerbus) and its American partner, Northrup Grumman.  They fell that that good all-American firm, Boeing, should have received the contract so as to keep the American defense industry American.  Apart from the fact that Northrup-Grumman is just as all-American as Boeing is (the Grumman Hellcat is my favorite carrier plane of World War II), maybe Boeing might have had a better shot at the contract if they hadn't tried to defraud the government the last time 'round.  That dirty deal (which resulted in a few prison sentences) was shot down (I love military puns) by Senator John McCain.  For this he deserves our thanks.  Thieves never like a good watchdog, though, for obvious reasons...
 
 
 
Just think – if Juanita Broderick’s husband had shot her rapist the way many honorable men would have, we would have been spared 16 years and counting of the Clinton contagion. Mull that over for awhile.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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