Update III: Where’s Obama’s Midas Touch?

Democrats, Elections, Politics, Republicans, States' Rights

Obama stumped energetically in the two governor races in which the Democrats have lost miserably:

Conservative Republican Bob McDonnell’s victory in the Virginia governor’s race over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds and moderate Republican Chris Christie’s ouster of unpopular New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine was a double-barreled triumph for a party looking to rebuild after being booted from power in national elections in 2006 and 2008.

The Obama mediacrats are worried sick: Is the Republican’s victory a referendum on Obama’s polices? Or so they’ve been quizzing themselves throughout the day. As much as the Obama media has tried to console itself to the contrary, the conclusion is inescapable.

I did want to see Conservative Doug Hoffman, for the 23rd Congressional District of New York, win in the historic challenge, but it seems he’s trailing Owens (D) by about 4 percentage points.

For the rest, I don’t have a dog in the fight.

Update I (Nov. 4): ABC: “Bill Owens defeated Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, in a race that highlighted fractures inside the GOP that resulted in the Republican candidate dropping out of the race and endorsing Owens.”

It was close: Owens’ 49.3% to Hoffman’s 45.2%. And you’re talking about the atrophying, socialist New York!

Update II: Not yet a year after the elated election of a messiah-like figure who won some unlikely traditionally conservative states, the tide is turning. Yet, as MSNBC, the megaphone of that messiah reports,

“The White House distanced itself Wednesday from Democratic losses in two states, saying the races for governor hinged on local issues and were not a referendum on President Barack Obama.”

Sadly, the fork in the road leads to a dead end: to Republicans, their fake shows of fiscal conservatism and phony promises. So this nation has doomed itself to one of two false choices.

Update III: It’s rather funny how Democrats are diminishing the significance of their election losses (Virginia and New Jersey) and exaggerating their wins (the 23rd District of NY). How do you reconcile that?

Update II: In Limbaugh (On Blowhards & Blonds)

Barack Obama, Bush, Conservatism, Iraq, Military, Republicans, Ron Paul, War

He voted for McMussolini.

He finds great merit in the crocodile tears Bush shed in his presence over soldiers the former president as good as coffined. Obama’s grim visit to Dover, Delaware, to bear witness to the sad specter of young men carrying the coffins of their fallen comrades—this he find utterly unbelievable.

He “thinks” the “president should give the generals, the commanders on the ground, as many troops as they need to win.”

To insure the estimated 12 million uninsured, he suggests taking “some of the unspent stimulus. We have 85 percent of the stimulus unspent. … For 35 to $40 billion a year, you could insure those people, not $2 trillion, not 1.4.”

Vis-a-vis ObamaCare, he doesn’t know “any Republican who would try to take over one- sixth of the U.S. economy.” Evidently this Oracle had not heard of the Bush Medicare prescription-drug program. It may not have been a sixth of the economy, but George sure began the ball rolling with that behemoth of a bill.

Neither is he familiar with “one Republican who would put forth the — this irresponsible cap-and-trade bill.” How about that hypocrite he voted for? McCain fulminates against Obama’s tax-and-trade, but “in January 2003, the Senators from Arizona, together with Joseph Lieberman (D-CT), “introduced legislation to cap and trade emissions of greenhouse gases.” (While electioneering, McCain suspended this particular plan to sunder the economy.)

I give you the King of Irrational Partisanship, RUSH LIMBAUGH, in a Sunday interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace.

Update I (Nov. 3): From the Comments Section: “When somebody more ‘acceptable’ turns out an effective opposition to the left maybe I’ll get excited about Rush’s shortcomings.”

That’s amazing. Republican’ chest-thumping warfare projects have brought us to this economic disaster. Yet, nothing changes in the mind of the dyed-in-the-wool Republican. Ron Paul exists; vigorously so. I exist. Chuck Baldwin exists. But no matter how often you point out the deep chasms between Republicans, on the one hand, and Constitutionalists, Taft Republicans, and classical liberals, on the other—the same people keep cheering for the blowhards and blonds of the Stupid Party. Face it, people are collectivists who have to belong to a group, no matter how errant it is in its philosophy.

It’s no use, but here’s my two-cents:
Addicted To That Rush
It’s About Federalism, Stupid!

Update II: We’ve had this attempt at a conversation whereby a non-interventionist foreign policy—my own—was mischaracterized for the purpose of discrediting. Constitutional principles aside, the mind boggles at the blind support for the Bush war boondoggles given their miserable failure.
So let me repeat—probably not for the last time—what I wrote here:

“We’ve adjudicated the last 8 years of foreign policy here on BAB in blog posts and in article on IlanaMercer.com. My perspective, which comports with that of Paul, albeit with some differences, has been vindicated. I’m surprised war mongers are unrepentant, and are still plumping for preemptive war against countries that have not aggressed against the US given the lessons of Iraq. I guess when it’s not your kid who’s hobbling around on prostheses or dead, it doesn’t much move the mind, much less the heart. The “isolationism” pejorative is lobbed by neoconservatives when they wish to discredit those of us who believe in fighting just wars only. It’s like pacifist.”

The idea that defending your borders and controlling who enters your country and stays in it are passive is ludicrous. We don’t do any of these basic housekeeping duties; but we level far-away countries and drop dumb bombs on their impoverished neighborhoods. Way to go! How brave! Individuals who still support this moral perversion are twisted sons of bitches.

Oh, there’s another thing ditto heads forbid, so let me break the rule as is my wont. The military most certainly does commit atrocities. Ask Abeer Qasim Hamza. Wait a sec; you can’t, becasue she’s dead, raped first by the American untouchables.

The Real War is At Home.
Facing the Onslaught of Jihad

The Motor City: A Microcosm Of South Africa

Crime, Human Accomplishment, Political Correctness, Race, Racism, South-Africa

Steven Malanga, the author of “Feral Detroit,” an only slightly politically incorrect City Journal tract, fails to mention the Other Method deployed in driving middle-class whites away: cruel, craven, targeted crime.

“Over the last half-century, [Detroit’s] population has shrunk by 50 percent, from about 1.8 million people to fewer than 900,000. Since 2000, the city has lost 35,000 residents. Detroit officials acknowledge that they see little prospect for a population turnaround soon. …”

“Though some blame Detroit’s population losses on larger economic forces, economists Edward Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer argue in a groundbreaking paper that the city’s problems are mostly self-inflicted. (The paper, called ‘The Curley Effect,’ gets its name from legendary Boston mayor James Curley, who favored Irish residents and pushed other groups out.) After winning election in 1973, Detroit’s first black mayor, Coleman Young, consolidated his power, driving white residents, who had voted against him, out of the city by withdrawing services from their neighborhoods. Eventually, Glaeser and Shleifer write, Detroit became ‘an overwhelmingly black city mired in poverty and social problems’—and shrinking fast.”

[SNIP]

In South Africa, the wanton acts at Wichita and Knoxville are a daily occurrence. And here’s a filthy little secret I discovered in researching my near-complete book, Into The Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons For America From Post-Apartheid South Africa: Whites are being culled in greater proportion to their numbers in the population. (Stay tuned)

The caliber of Anglo- and Afrikaner human capital lost to black crime is inestimable. An example is Brian Hahn, my husband’s (Ivy-League educated) mathematics professor at UCT. (“After completing his BSc in applied mathematics and physics and his BSc (Hons) in theoretical physics at UCT, he undertook a PhD on the optimisation of scattering amplitudes at the University of Cambridge.”)

There are hundreds of examples of true brilliance extinguished by barbarism. Other than untold sorrow, what are the financial costs of such losses?

The Hue of Hatred III

Crime, Justice, Law, Race, Racism

“It was brutal,” the mother of murdered anchorwoman Anne Pressly said. “Blood all over the walls; [I] could not recognize her.” Curtis Lavelle Vance crushed the face of the Little Rock, Ark., TV presenter beyond recognition. “Five days after the attack, Pressly’s brain stem ruptured and she died.”

As was already mentioned in “The Hue of Hatred II”:

The details of the crime indicate, very plainly, that the murderer wanted to obliterate his victim, make her exist no longer. The intention of the title is to point to the near-complete unidirectionality of violent crime—black on white—both in my new and former homelands.

Vance needs killing. If justice is served, he will get his just deserts.