We’re Just Right:
I don’t customarily resort to abject name calling but, following a move that hasn’t been pulled in roughly 25 years (the Democrats having slammed the senate door and entered into closed session yesterday), the Left revealed their colors to such an unprecedented degree that I thought: these guys are nothing but puerile, petulant pansies. And thus P-Cubed was born. Or if I could write superscript: P3.

As I wrote in response to a recent post and on a number of other blogs:

Here’s what I think is actually starting to happen to the Dems: they really ARE starting to fray. They’ve tried just about every move possible to this point and, despite the fact they perceive GWB to be quite stupid, he’s just not giving up and his entire regime hasn’t fallen in flames. Michelle Malkin calls them Unhinged, and I really believe they are beginning to completely unravel — despite the fact they are shouting the GOP is in tatters — which it is not.

What the GOP recently showed is this: it can disagree with itself, make adjustments, and come right back. The GOP is NOT in tatters. Karl Rove was NOT indicted, nor was Libby on the original charge. Delay got a different judge (they do things like that in Texas) and Frist isn’t giving interviews behind bars.

The Dems are beginning to act like cornered animals, and the Rule 21 invocation is, I think, just the beginning.

I believe we should be prepared to have every card pulled, every trick played, every lie told.

They’re Just Wrong:
A few minutes ago, I happened to catch a bit of Randi Rhodes from Air America. She said the Democrats had been more than patient insofar as they have been awaiting apologies from Dick Cheney and GWB, but to no avail. They waited and waited and waited! So they couldn’t take it any longer and boom, Rule 21!

And, of course, she says today is the anniversary of the stealing of the second Presidential election.

Weapons of mass destruction! she said. Smallpox! she said. And that ridiculous bird flu! she said. How can you believe it? she asked.

About this time Gen. Honore’s phrase “stuck on stupid” comes to mind.

Where Are The Solutions?
This is a Democratic Party in disarray, in tatters, whose future seems to brighten for just a moment and then, the air is released. I posted about this yesterday. But here’s the rub: the GOP is the party of solutions. Of ideas. Let’s try this; let’s do this; let’s see if this works. No, the Democrats say, no, you can’t do that. We don’t want this. No. No.

They remind me of a two-year-old with folded arms: no, I won’t, and you can’t make me (note the out-thrust and quivering lower lip).

On one hand, this is getting tiring. On the other hand, it’s kinda fun watching them implode and crumble, brick by brick.

Guys: BABAGOI. By the way, Alito is going to be confirmed.

Yeah — you can drag it out.

But you can’t stop it.

I’ve written about this three or four times, but a Michelle Malkin article I recently discovered confirmed my thoughts.

But first, let me step back a bit.

For the past few years the basic battle cry from the Dems via the DEM is: “there has never been this much hate, dissension and discontent between the aisles.” And then, naturally, the finger gets pointed at the GOP for their alleged stirring of the pot. It’s the GOP’s fault; they are the obstructionists. More specifically: it’s George Bush. He’s uncooperative. What’s happened to the Republicans under Bush? They’ve never been this disagreeable before! It’s not us; we haven’t changed!

To a degree, I would concur. But it’s larger than just GWB: the Republicans (and more importantly, their supporters) have changed.

So what happened to “create” this so-called hate and discontent? What has changed?

In a word: information. And the dissemination of and access to information.

Because it’s all about the power and, for the first time in recent political memory, the Democrats don’t have an absolute stranglehold on the control of information and, consequently, their power has diminished. Because, after all, information is power and where politics are concerned, it’s always about power and money.

When did this begin? What dynamic changed the situation?

In my opinion, it wasn’t a dynamic, it was a person. One little bitty radio person who started a talk show on KFBK in my home town, Sacramento, Fornicalia. Rush Limbaugh.

Rush Limbaugh gave voice to an entire generation, an entire strata of persons who thought they had no voice, who had no idea there were so many others just like themselves. Conservatives began to realize: I’m not alone. Perhaps I’m simplifying things but I think not; Rush started an actual revolution of conservative self-realization — a very important concept and a base upon which was built a subsequent generation of conservative talk show hosts attempting to capitalize on Rush’s success, his cash and, more importantly, fundamentally conservative leanings.

Now don’t go thinking this is a post all about Rush; it’s not. It’s simply a starting point for a trend that has mutated into an entirely new paradigm of how we, as Americans, access and process our news and information. And how we have become much more politically aware of what goes on about us.

Perhaps this would be a good place to hand my blog, temporarily, over to Michelle Malkin:

The 2004 election gave syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin an up-close view of unhinged liberals. In fact, she received so much hate mail and witnessed so many loony acts by the left that she wrote a scathing book, “Unhinged,” about the tirades. She shared her reasons for writing the book with Human Events’ Robert Bluey.

BLUEY: Why are liberals so unhinged?

MICHELLE MALKIN: I think a lot of the left has been off the rail since the monopoly on the control of information was broken by conservative media. There was a time when they had a complete grip on how news and information was disseminated. And thanks to conservative talk radio, the rise of the Internet and blogs, and, of course, Fox News, that monopoly has been completely shattered.

Because they don’t control how news is framed, I think what we see on a daily basis–when conservative media call them on their lies and propaganda–are their fits. They can’t get away with it any more. Just like my 5-year-old and my 2-year-old, when they don’t get what they want, we see the results of that-a lot of whining and foot stomping. That’s the most benign example.

As I show in the book, they’ve really crossed the line. Certainly, the presidential losses in 2000 and 2004 exacerbated their condition. I think also the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have made it difficult for them to cope with the fact that we live in a time of war, and the kind of non-leadership the Democratic Party had been offering before September 11 is unacceptable now.

First there was talk radio. Then there were more political magazines. Then television. Then the internet and political websites and information sources like WorldNetDaily and NewsMax. Then, of course, blogs. In the meantime, the alphabet TV DEMs continue to hemorrhage viewers, newspapers bleed readers, circulation drops, and the ratings for Fox skyrocket.

What to the uninitiated (or those with an underlying agenda) looks like rancor on the right is simply the right being better organized, distributing information and allowing more and more people to stand up and give voice to their concerns and issues. The left’s reaction is essentially continued shock at the backlash and the ongoing loss of power and prestige, for which they were unprepared and had not foreseen.

Even now it rankles horribly: Bush is in his second term, he hasn’t been impeached, the GOP holds the majority in Washington, we’ve drawn worldwide lines in the sand, John Roberts will be seated as SCOTUS Chief Justice and Karl Rove walked into his office today minus handcuffs.

I see the Dems just pulled Rule 21. More to follow. . .

Hugh Hewitt, this evening, says the chance of any resistance to the confirmation of SCOTUS nominee Samuel A. Alito is “over.” Slam dunk. Gone.

An immigrant dad. His son in Princeton. Hugh says the President loves to tell a story and, because of this, the President would logically make this choice.

It is becoming patently clear to me that, from day one, almost from hour one, the Dems by way of the DEMs got into the DEM vein and immediately began to self-destruct. The gang of 14 has already, somewhat, hinted that they will collectively not recommend a filibuster of this nomination and may, in fact, go for the-so-called Nuclear Option.

They have not yet totally coagulated on the issue but it was indirectly hinted there may be unanimity soon. Senator Mike DeWine (R, Ohio) so much as came directly out and said so during the Hugh Hewitt show.

The Dems appear to be drawing the line in the sand from the start. It is theorized that this will be the one nomination that may, in fact, change the face and focus of the court for decades to come. The Battle Royale is indeed coming. Will we be bled by leeches and paper cuts, or will it be from tanks, artillery pieces and the Nuclear Option?

A small aside: I just heard Alan Colmes tonight, on Fox’s Hannity & Colmes label Alito as “an extreme conservative” and ask: “is the appointment of Alito a distraction from the indictment of Scooter Libby?”

Folks, a clarion call: Let the Games Begin!

It got Really Silly (I call this RS) from moment one. Little Chuckie Schumer first had this despicable thing to say regarding Alito:

This morning, I went and visited Rosa Parks in the Capitol Rotunda, to pay my respects. Being in the presence of Ms. Parks was awe inspiring. This was a woman who changed history with one thin dime. She paid her fare, and took her rightful seat on the bus, and America was never the same again. Like Rosa Parks, Judge Alito will be able to change history by virtue of where he sits. The real question today is whether Judge Alito would use his seat on the bench, just as Rosa Parks used her seat on the bus, to change history for the better, or whether he would use that seat to reverse much of what Rosa Parks, and so many others, fought so hard, and for so long, to put in place.

This, on its face, is a ridiculous and straitjacket-moonbat comment regarding an individual that ALL his Democratic cronies confirmed in 1990. No dissenting votes. NOT ONE. Hello? For those of you just tuning in to this post: not ONE Democratic dissenting vote against confirming Alito to the 3rd USDCA in 1990.

LCS, Little Chuckie Schumer, may in fact be eligible for my very first weekly BZ Moonbat Comment Award (the BZ-MCA) — but I’ll hold that in abeyance until I finalize the graphics for this esteemed award.

Then there was the Chris Matthews comment and about it Hugh Hewitt said:

HH: I thought that would be the worst slander of the day, but then Chris Matthews began Hardball tonight, and I want to read this. I’m sitting here holding in my hands a disgusting document, said Chris Matthews, put out not for attribution, but it came from the Democrats. They are circulating it. I can say that. It’s a complaint sheet against Judge Alito’s nomination. The first thing they nail about this Italian-American is that he failed to win a mob conviction in 1988. They nail him on not putting Italian mobsters in jail. Why would they bring up this ethnically charged issue? This is either a very bad coincidence, or very bad politics. Either way, it’s going to hurt them, this document. Not abortion rights, not civil rights, but that he failed to nail some mobsters back in 1988. This is at the top of their list of what they’ve got against this guy. Amazingly bad politics.

Amazingly bad politics indeed.

What will be the Dems Talking Points?

• Alito is an Extreme Conservative
• He will, by his very nature, overturn Roe v. Wade
• He is an elitist; just look at what the GOP said about Miers; c’mon: Princeton?
• There’s a great deal of difference between 1990 and 2005
• He’s another Oppressive White Male (OWM)
• He DEMANDED that females ask for PERMISSION from males prior to abortion (WRONG!)

A few more Moonbat TPs:

• He defended NC in re: Sasquatch v. Northern Cascade logging;
• He believes in Global Warming and the eradication of thousands of local ports
• He thinks that the UN should be the final arbiter of the United States

I suspect that the Dems and the DEMs are absolutely apoplectic because Bush made 1) an End-Around Appointment and 2) the Libby Issue is MAAN: “Much Ado About Nothing.”

We Don’t Hand Over American Soldiers To Spanish Judges
This Spanish Judge sounds more like he’s trying to win plaudits on the cocktail circuit than get to the bottom of a “crime”:
“A judge has issued an international arrest warrant for three U.S. soldiers whose tank fired on a Baghdad hotel during the Iraq war, killing a Spanish journalist and a Ukrainian cameraman, a court official said Wednesday. Judge Santiago Pedraz issued the warrant for Sgt. Shawn Gibson, Capt. Philip Wolford and Lt. Col. Philip de Camp, all from the U.S. 3rd Infantry, which is based in Fort Stewart, Ga.
Jose Couso, who worked for the Spanish television network Telecinco, died April 8, 2003, after a U.S. army tank crew fired a shell on Hotel Palestine in Baghdad where many journalists were staying to cover the war.
Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk, a Ukrainian, also was killed.
Pedraz had sent two requests to the United States — in April 2004 and June 2005 — to have statements taken from the suspects or to obtain permission for a Spanish delegation to quiz them. Both went unanswered.
He said he issued the arrest order because of a lack of judicial cooperation from the United States regarding the case.
The warrant “is the only effective measure to ensure the presence of the suspects in the case being handled by Spanish justice, given the lack of judicial cooperation by U.S. authorities,” the judge said in the warrant.
The Pentagon had no immediate information and said it was looking into it.
U.S. officials have insisted that the soldiers believed they were being shot at when they opened fire.
Following the Palestine incident, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell said a review of the incident found that the use of force was justified.
…De Camp, who is now an adjunct mathematics professor at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va., said three investigations into the incident — two military investigations and one by the Committee to Protect Journalists — had exonerated all three men.”
What this judge in Spain wants or thinks about what happened is irrelevant. It’s a settled matter as far as we’re concerned and we don’t recognize his right to even question those men. He has no more right to demand that our soldiers answer his questions than the manager of a Burger King in Germany does.
Furthermore, may I add that this is exactly the sort of thing we’d see all the time, despite assurances we’ve been given to the contrary, if we signed up for the International Criminal Court. An American soldier accidentally killed a journalist from Belgium in a war zone? Well, he’ll have to be tried in Europe. Oh, this time an Air Force bomber killed some Iraqi insurgents, but their friends claim they were innocent, so let’s put him in front of some ultra-left wing judge from France.
No thank-you to that. We investigate our own troops, in our own country, and if we decide that they’ve done something wrong, we’ll punish them for it. That’s how it is and how it should continue to be.

There are Dems and there are DEMs.

We all know the Dems are Democrats. What’s a DEM? My new name for the MSM (Mainstream Media), the DEMs: Defeatist, Elitist Media.

The world is cracking; Bush’s approval rating is the lowest of anyone, ever (a lie). Global Warming will cause oceans to rise a foot next year (a lie). Everyone in the Bush Administration is being indicted (a lie — and Libby’s indictment is pretty flimsy — like I can remember what I had for dinner last Thursday). Everything is BAD and getting worse! It’s all because of that evil, deadly, uncaring, contemptuous, arrogant, warmonger Bush! Arrggh! We’re all gonna die!

What a load. How about this:

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones) – Growth in the U.S. economy picked up in the third quarter to a 3.8% annualized rate, the Commerce Department said Friday.

Or:

Economists surveyed by Dow Jones were expecting GDP to increase 3.6% in the third quarter.

Economists said the report shows the economy in good shape before the hurricanes struck the Gulf Coast. But they said the jury was still out on the impact of the storms.

Stocks rose after the report was released.

Bonds were initially lower on the faster-than-expected growth rate.

Inflation cooled down. Core consumer prices increased at a 1.3% rate in the quarter, the slowest quarterly increase since the second quarter of 2003.

That report was issued Friday, October 28th. Today, US incomes grew by 1.7% in September. Per gallon gas prices have dropped, in Sacramento, Fornicalia, by 15-cents in the last week, to an observed $2.62.

My question: were you aware of this? Did the DEM alphabet networks scream it? Big newspapers make it their top of the fold headline?

Aw, heck no; that would give some kind of credence to the Bush Administration and, for gosh sakes, we sure can’t have that!

DEMs: Defeatist, Elitist Media.

By the way, steal my DEM logo and use it everywhere applicable.