31. May 2008 by admin.

The DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee is meeting today to decide what to do with the delegates from the errant states of Michigan and Florida.  Conventional wisdom is they will be Solomonic and divide the delegates in twain, either by allowing only 1/2 of the delegates to be seated or giving each only half a vote (note to the DNC: do the latter.  The delegates are going to be a lot angrier about being kept away from the convention than not given a full vote.  They’re going to Denver to PARTY, and 1/2 a vote justifies their attendance.)

This will end nothing.

Sen. Carl Levin has already said he will appeal any ruling that doesn’t result in the entirety of Michigan’s delegates being seated with full voting rights.

This has taken on a life of its own.  Democratic voters in both states are threatening to cross party lines and vote Republican in November; both Democratic leaders in Congress are leaning on uncommited Superdelegates (do they have their undies outside of their longjohns and wear pansy red booties?) to finally get off the damn fence; and the Speaker of the House using the term “scorched earth” to describe any future Clintonian attempts to take the fight to the convention.  I think Nancy is wrong.

Let the fight go to the convention.  It would make for great theatre, and would draw attention to the convention like nothing has in YEARS.   Incorporate mud wrestling bouts between Obamaites and Clintonings as side shows/reality t.v. spinoffs.  Let the whole thing be settled in a death match with wild tigers a la Gladiator.  Let the victor eat the losers spouse and children.  After all the whetting our appitites have gotten for blood throughout the nominating process, it would be a terrible disappointment to see all of this get settled in a dry meeting of lawyers.

Unless afterwards they were all defenestrated into a pit of alligators.  That would be cool.

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30. May 2008 by admin.

I won’t often get a chance to say this, but the presidential candidates have been trumped by naked red people with bows and arrows.

According to Survival International, they discovered an “uncontacted” tribe in the backcountry of the Amazon in Brazil.  If true, this is very cool.  But I wonder how they know the tribes have not had contact with the outside world?

The website (http://www.survival-international.org/) has some cool pictures showing thatched huts with women and children.  In my favorite photo, a pair of red skinned males attempt to shoot the airplane taking the pictures.  I wonder what they would have done if they had managed to bring it down?.

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29. May 2008 by admin.

When I heard that the DNC was thinking of seating 1/2 of the delegates from Florida and Michigan I got the vision of them being chopped in twain.  I guess they’ll half to do it horizontally, so they can get the keisters on the seats.  Also a good symbolism for how much of a pain in the ass this has been.

Hillary is now talking about appealing the delegate ruling to whatever committee has oversight, and is still threatening to make this a divided convention.  I think this is counterproductive for her at this point.  If she’d conceded gracefully when the delegate count had turned against her, I think she would have been seen as a grand stateswoman and would have built positive support for a later run, or perhaps a higher position (Veep, or Supreme Court Justice).  At this point though she seems to be coming across as a desperate whiner who doesn’t know when to quit.  If she creates havoc at the convention, I wouldn’t be surprised if she becomes a pariah within the party.

Non-political: US Air has just announced it’s joining the other airlines in boosting prices by about $60.  No surprise there.  But now they’ve announced they’re no longer offering peanuts or other in-flight snacks.  Hmm, increasing prices and cutting services, yeah, that’s worked in the past .  How about bumping the prices up $70 but then offering real food and full cans of soda (or other beverages)?  People will pay more if they perceive a corresponding increase in their return.  But by adding a bevy of additional fees while removing amenities, the airlines are decreasing the incentive to fly in a time when they need to be driving as much business as possible.

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28. May 2008 by admin.

Not really. Except that last part.

Scott McClellen seems to have decided he’s not interested in working in a McCain administration with his defenestration of President Bush and his administration. Allegations of lies internally, deceit externally, lambasting Iraq & the Katrina response, and trash talking fellow administration peers will not endear him to many in the Republican/conservative job market. And his ability to play nice and keep his mouth shut won’t win him any points in a Democratic administration or campaign either. I hope he got a large advance for his book, it looks like he might need to live off of it for a while.

I was especially touched about his description of at their first meeting after it was decided Scott would go. Describing President Bush: “tears were streaming down both his cheeks.” Wasn’t that one of the Hillary’s detractors arguments against electing a woman, that she’d be too emotional?

Obama evidently didn’t listen to his family discuss their history very closely, mistaking which Nazi death camp his uncle helped liberate. I’m not sure which is more amusing, Obama accidently giving himself a quasi-Godwin or the Republican attempts to use it as fodder against him.

And from the “You Know It’s Over” file: the ONLY mention I could find of Hillary on the Washington Post’s, NY Times, or Fark.com was a NYT article on Hillary’s new campaign t-shirts.

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26. May 2008 by admin.

The important thing first: if you haven’t bowed your head and said thanks to those who died defending your nation, whatever nation that may be, do it now.

Much less important:  I finally opened a store at Ontheblob.net and Paperbagninja.com.  Right now it’s only T-shirts, but as I have time to be creative I’ll branch out.  If there are story quotes or comics people are interested in buying, email me at customer_service@ontheblob.net and I’ll get them made for you.

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25. May 2008 by admin.

Hillary has been staying in the race hoping for a Macaca moment.  It happened, only it’s happened to her.

She’s actually been pushing the RFK angle for months, but the recent cancer dagnosis by Sen. Ted Kennedy gave the MSM an excuse to suddenly notice. The sharks were already circling the Clinton campaign but with the new blood in the water watch for a bloody froth to drip from your newspapers.

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22. May 2008 by admin.

So now Hillary is saying she’s willing to take the FL & MI delegates battle to the convention.  So even if the Superdelegates all decide for Barack on 3 June, the Democratic clusterfuck could drag on till August where the candidate can be decided in smoke free back rooms (I doubt you’re allowed to smoke inside the convention hall any more).

At this point, someone needs to ask Clinton nicely:  “What is it going to cost to make you go away?”

And the Daily Mail ran an article on how Chelsea might be setting up a run in 2016.  Their evidence?  A vendor in Florida was selling “Chelsea 2016″ buttons.

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22. May 2008 by admin.

In my last entry, I remarked on how the Bush administration made mocking our government easy.  Well, the Dems aren’t going to make me work any harder.

So Congress passes a huge farm bill, that is only marginally related to farming, and send it to the president.  The president vetoes it, as promised, and sends it back.  The House overwhelmingly votes to override the veto, and gets ready to send it to the Senate.  Simple so far, right?

No.  It seems when Congress printed up the Farm Bill, they  forgot to include, oh, about 34 pages.  So the bill vetoed by the president was technically a different bill than the one passed by Congress.

The upshot, it looks like Congress will have to go back and redo the thing from the start.

Considering the billions being spent on pork and unnecessary subsidies, couldn’t Congress afford to hire a proofreader or two?

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21. May 2008 by admin.

Last week Pres. Bush, in a speech to the Israeli Knesset, mocked those who would negotiate with “terrorists and radicals” as appeasers to the Nazis.  Today we discover in the NY Times that Israel and Syria are engaged in exactly those kind of talks with the aim of creating a comprehensive peace agreement.  The kicker is, according to the Times, the talks “were coordinated with the United States”.  So now we have a president who is criticizing his own administration?  Or is the president out of the loop?

I’m going to miss the Bush administration.  They make this blog so easy.

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21. May 2008 by admin.

As predicted, Hillary took Kentucky while Barack took Oregon. About the only interesting thing is the MSM is screaming about how Hill took Kentucky in a landslide 65%-30%, but according to the New York Times interactive graphic on their website, Barack took Oregon 68%-31%. Now, I’ll be the first to admit I suck at math, but even I can tell that means Barack took Oregon by two more points than Hillary took Kentucky. WTF?

Looking over the results this morning, I was struck by the thought that all three candidates are lying to us by pretending this is a three way race still. The only person who can reasonably believe that is Clinton, with the hope that Obama has a ‘macaca’ moment that implodes his campaign.  This is the only chance she has of winning the nomination, and with the worshipful attitude the MSM has adopted toward Obama so far, it would be interesting to see how much bending the MSM would do before something became a ’scandal’.

I thought Barrack’s comments about Hillary were very nice, especially when contrasted with Bill’s accusations of sexism.  I’m not sure Bill should be allowed to use that word, it makes too many people giggle uncontrollably.

It’s sad to see Mr. Straight-Talk start talking at an angle.  His pandering to the Cuban population in South Florida about the Cuba Embargo is at odds with his position in 2000.  Yes, they’re one of the most important voting blocks in one of the most important states, but there has to be a more honest way to earn their votes, like pimping out his daughter.

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