Thursday is such a crap day. In HS football Thursday was walk through day, so nothing really was going on except mentally focusing on the end of the week and dominating. In college Thursday was a the last day of classes for me because when I was a junior I stopped taking classes on Mondays and Fridays so I would go party. Now, it’s still like the last day of the week. I don’t count Friday because nothing really happens of Friday in the real world because people are just anticipating that 5 o’clock domination. So, here a bunch of stories and my short take.
#1 – Alvin Greene hasn’t even been elected and he’s one of the top 11 most corrupt political officials of 2010. Who is this self-righteous a-hole who’s hating on Alvin Greene? What is his problem? As Alvin Greene himself said, the state ha d program to rehab first time offenders and they failed to use it in his case. We want justice. The punishment should fit the crime.

#2 – The greatest campaign ad ever, which features me as a government official was posted on the front page of Hot Air this morning. I’m famous. I’m a great actor. I need to hire an agent and move out to L.A. STAT!

#3 – Obama was on The View. Who the hell cares? It’s being treated like he decided to end our relationship with Israel or something. HE WENT ON A STUPID TALK SHOW! IT DOESN’T MEAN ANYTHING BEYOND THAT. And Fox is trying to make a big deal about him missing the Boy Scout Jamboree to go on the show.  What a load. If you expected Pres. Obama to go to any Boy Scout event you’re an idiot. Yet another consequence of 24/7 media coverage. They’ve got to have shit to talk about.

#4 – Shirley Sherrod is suing Andrew Breitbart. This is what she should have done from the very beginning. It’s like defamation of character. Editing that video the way he did was straight character assassination. He will pay.

#5 – In other “Why is this story news” news, Chelsea Clinton is getting married and the media is campaign outside this thing like it’s the Woodstock of weddings. Why can’t we just let this chick get married and let it go? Our society is so awkward it hurts.

Going through my morning news I read this article on the Huffington Post. – “Democrats are planning to link the tea party and Republicans, overlapping the two groups to paint the GOP as a party of extremists and the grassroots activists as tools of the establishment.” How is this a strategy? The Tea Party is Republican. How many Democrat candidates have they endorsed or campaigned for? None. The Tea Party Express, which was famously kicked out of “the movement” last week, had endorsed one Dem candidate in Idaho, but who really cares about Idaho? Also, the candidate denounced the endorsement after the incident in question. But I’m not sure how you could argue the the Tea Party isn’t a Republican movement. First off, there is no formal Tea Party organization. There’s like 15 different groups. Tea Party Patriots, Tea Party Federation, Tea Party Nation, Tea Party Confederation, Tea Party Movement, Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, ect. But their champions are Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Fox News and they are Republican. And again, none of the people they endorse are Democrats and they don’t openly promote an agenda that would suggest they would be in line with Democratic principles. Even the most casual observer know that the Tea Party is a Republican movement. Period.

Two other articles of interest:

#1 - This article is by conservative columnist Michael Medved, who I read on occasion, it’s a different take from my article from earlier this month but still the message is the same. The Republicans have a strong message, but I’m not sure the messenger or the message is particularly compelling or substantive.

#2 - Democrats are firing back. They’ve claimed that there are more house seats in play for them than the polls are initially letting on. I’ll reserve judgement until I see some Karl Rove polling because I trust his polling and take on the scene. Again the biggest thing for me is when the Dems do decide to punch back, which is going to happen,what do the Republicans have to come back with? I’m not a party official so I don’t know the full story, but if there is a strategy, they aren’t testing it or sharing it. Let’s take the deficit for example. In the last two days I’ve seen two different Republicans give two different budget strategies. Paul Ryan and John Thune both have been on television recently to let the world know they have a plan. Why can’t these guys call each other, get together and work it into something of substance? It’s a tragedy really, but we’ll see what happens.

Huffington Post Article - Antiwar Democrats have a rare opportunity to knock down a war funding bill, just days after Wikileaks released more than 90,000 documents confirming their worst fears about the direction of the conflict.

The House is bringing the bill up under a suspension of the rules, which require a two-thirds vote. Only 144 votes would be needed to to stop the war funding. The vote is expected to occur mid-afternoon.

Sometimes my political instincts are so good it hurts. I said it was a farce from the beginning and no doubt it is still a farce. When posturing against the military in this country, you can not win. Period.

Enjoy your evening.

I’m constantly reading stuff about who’s going to take on Barack this next Presidential go-round, mostly about Palin and the 2012 Presidential Elections, but I focus a ton of energy on the Presidency because I’m going to be there some day. Two articles from Politico made the front page this morning. One talking about how John Thune, Senator from my grandmother’s home state of South Dakota, is gearing up for a Presidential run. The other is about Tim Pawlenty getting his ducks in a row for his shot at the title. Now, the most disturbing of these articles is the Palin one. Allahpundit does a fine job of break this thing down, but the thing that scares me the most is that we absolutely cannot let the Left pick our candidate again. Palin would be a disaster and with names like Thune, Gingrich, Pawlenty, and Romney I think either of those guys would be a more solid choice. And if you doubt for a second that Palin isn’t running for President you might as well forget it. She’s get momentum and it’s not going anywhere. I’ve said this before in some conversations, but I’ve heard a TON of names out there and I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw 15+ Republican candidates for President in 2012. Here’s a rough list of any potential candidate I’ve heard of:

Sarah Palin

Mitt Romney

John Thune

Mike Huckabee

Tim Pawlenty

Newt Gingrich

Rick Santorum

Chris Christie

Bobby Jindal

Ron Paul

Bob McDonnell

Jeb Bush

Mitch Daniels

Haley Barbour

And these are just he one’s I’ve read that are contemplating running. I know there are some wild cards out there Judd Gregg, Jim DeMint, Roy Blunt or Paul Ryan. Ryan and Blunt being the longer of the long shots at going after the Presidency, but I wouldn’t write them off completely. They may give it a go. It will be interesting to see what transpires. In the age where Obama can come seemingly out of no where to snag the nomination, we may be looking at a field of hopefuls thinking they are the better than the next Obama. One things for certain. They should all call me because I’m available and I know how to win elections.

I wake up this morning and as I’m eating some left-over lasagna I read this story about how WikiLeaks is causing members of Congress to consider not voting for funding the war in Afghanistan and how the “unpopular war is losing it’s support.” Get real. We’ve been around this merry-go-round before. Remember back in the ‘07 there was a big hullaballoo about not funding the war and guess what, it got funded. You don’t want to fund the war? Why don’t you take your anti-American ass and move to Canada? See. I wasn’t even trying hard and I made you want to vote for funding the war. I hated this story arc then and I hate it now. There is no way on earth that they don’t fund the war and to be honest posturing is a waste of our time. Period.

I’ve got to say that when I sat down to write this last one for the day I really couldn’t put what I was feeling into words until I read what Ed Morrissey wrote on Hot Air. There’s really nothing new in this stuff. I read a ton of the WikiLeaks stuff and didn’t find any of the stuff particularly moving. Without hesitation, the blogging lines were drawn and were not out of the ordinary. The Huffington Post’s headline spoke of War Crimes and Politico’s open thread asks if what was leaked counts as treason. Realistically, we already knew that the situation in Afghanistan sucked. We’ve known for years. I’ve written on this before and even though I’m not an international sensation, I’ve only been around for a couple months. The meat of the report is about attacks on NATO troops and other ground level briefs that mean relatively nothing. It’s not even a big deal that they were leaked. It’s not. Information gets leaked all the time and nothing really changes. While we as a nation would much rather not have to deal with this crap, people know that the U.S. is up to just like we know what everyone else is up to. If you honestly believe that the majority of our government secrets are actually kept secret and confidential then you are in denial. On top of that, after reading the Morrissey piece I just don’t think people realize the what actually goes on is not news to those that pay attention and think about the situation. Yes, it is a tragedy that this guy is willing to release classified documents, but it also shows that everyone that pays attention already knows what’s going on. To me, much ado about nothing.