Van Jones' Progressive October Offensive

A lot of people think this is not meaningful.  Never underestimate your opponent - that's all I'm saying.  True Van Jones is not as powerful as this video portrays.  True progressives have lost an awful awful lot of credibility since 2008 and it showed in the 2010 midterm elections and is showing in president Obama's underwater approval ratings.

Gingrich: Contract with America 2.0

Sure, Newt may be unelectable, he won't be the next president.  But since the first Contract With America was such a success, the sequel deserves a listen.  The video below is a full hour about the 21st Century Contract With America.  Give it a chance, because whether Newt is a serious contender or not, the ideas here are worth consideration.

The other big takeaway from this - when exactly did C-SPAN start allowing their videos to be embedded? That's a win for the blogosphere, particularly us on the right.

President Elect's first map for 2012 looks promising

The website President Elect is now engaged for 2012.  The site is a treasure trove of information about historical presidential elections and does a terrific job forecasting the next election from an electoral college perspective.

So far 2012 is looking good.  You have to see this.

Bizarro World America

Blame...Canada???

I've always said I wanted to become an American citizen.  The country is truly great.  Other than the Democratic party and it's destructive progressivist influence, what's not to love about the country? I've said that someday I will try to become an American citizen, and even joked that given the left's push for amnesty I might go illegally and end up voting against them once they grant me a path to citizenship.  I'd never do that.  But it seems like Canada is receiving the brunt of the U.S. government's border protection policy.  Mexican gangs are killing people along the U.S. border (apparently with weapons provided to them by the Department of Justice - no kidding), millions of Mexicans have streamed across the border to take jobs provided for illegal aliens, to draw welfare or to commit felonious crimes. Don't try to say they are streaming across the border illegally to engage in legal activities.  They by definition, can't.  Drugs pour across the southern U.S. border with a volume akin to Niagara Falls.  Iran is supposedly sending ships to patrol the Gulf of Mexico.  Clearly the Canadian border needs protection.

In which I cut Obama some slack

It's not race-related, it's a family allegory.

Obama is guilty of a lot of things - mismanaging or ignoring the economy, eroding freedom, forcing an unpopular health care mandate, running up debt, numerous scandals that were buried by the media,  the oceans stopping their rise (what? I thought more oceans would be a good thing), the list goes on and on.  That would be a good place to end this post, but alas, I found something on which I have to cut the president some slack.

Better democracy equals less democracy???

You can go with this or you can go with that.

You know the liberals are in touch with reality when they realize they are losing and start proposing some insane ideas.  I don't like using superlatives and I don't like using derogatory comments instead of fact-based arguments, but this is really serious when you read it.  It would also be less worrisome if it were only one person.  But when two prominent figures make the same argument then it's already approaching meme status.

By the way, what happened to all the liberals who were steadfastly sure, George Bush was going to suspend the 2008 elections and impose martial law?  Are they standing behind this foolishness?