Would Obama really give Hillary the Secretary of State job?

Did Obama offer Hillary the Sec.State job solely to “find out” that he “can’t” give it to her because her husband is a walking scandal machine?  He gets to pretend that he wanted her while other elements in the party trash her up one side and down the other?

In other words, is this all a double-bluff in order to remind everyone that Hillary comes with Bill, Bill is bad news and ultimately eliminate her power in the party?

*UPDATE*

...and will it work?  Are the Clintons well and truly over?

Posted by JimK at 01:19 AM on November 18, 2008
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I need this bumper sticker

While I will NOT suffer from New BDS - Barack Derangement Syndrome - I just thought of something I kind of want on my car.  Not so much as a protest against Barack Obama, but more as a protest against what the Republicans did (and will probably still do until they wise up or implode) to good and decent men.  I want this on a bumper sticker:

Yeah...I’m all sorts of funny.

That having been said, I will NEVER play that “He’s not MY President” game.  Barack Obama will be my President.  What concerns me much more is that my Congress is full of old-school demagogues and big, BIG spenders with no one to stop them.  If you thought Pelosi and Reid were unconscionable before?  Shit...you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Be far more worried about Congress than what Obama may or may not do.  And with that I congratulate Obama, his supporters and retire for the evening to hunt through the Wastelands of D.C. for a dog to keep me company. [/fallout3] I’m sure there’s a lesson in there somewhere, or a metaphor or something.  You figure it out...I’m gonna go play. ;)

Posted by JimK at 02:13 AM on November 05, 2008
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What comes next

Obama will win.  It’s 9:23 PM on election night and there’s a mathematical possibility that McCain can win, but let’s face it - he never really had a chance.  Not at his age, and not by turning UberRepublicanRovianStyle Republican.  He needed to be conservertarian and he wasn’t.

So what do we do now?  LET THE DEMOCRATS RUN WILD.  Sit back.  Say nothing for a year or so.  Let them destroy the economy and attempt to become Europe Junior.  Anyone with any sense knows that is a recipe for disaster.  The economy will go the way it always does when men like this are at the helm.  LET IT.

Do whatever you can to cash in.  Take all the “free” money you can get your hands on.  Milk the system.  Take take take.  Break it.  Break it all.  Watch the lamentations of the populace as things get worse and worse and worse.

8 months before the midterms, step up and offer to get the adults back running things again.  People will clamor for center-right conservative/libertarian leadership.

Drink yourself silly tonight, and maybe this weekend too.  Get ready for 2010 and 2012. The country will be begging for relief from the Euro-lite policies of a Democrat government run amok.

Posted by JimK at 11:22 PM on November 04, 2008
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VOTE

Gonna go cast my essentially useless vote today, as I live in a blue-to-its-heart state.  Hopefully I can cast my vote...I just called the State Elections Commission to find out if the typo of my name on the rolls will prevent me from voting.  The helpful lady at the hotline said no.  I should be good to go as long as my address matches and my name can be discerned.

Can’t wait for the day to be over.  Cross your fingers, everyone. Republican, Democrat, Independent, Red, Blue, Purple, Yellow Dog, Redneck, Hippy, Liberal, Conservative, Green, Libertarian...whatever you are, cross your fingers and PRAY the answer is settled before dawn.  NO COURT DECISIONS.  That’s what we *all* want.  A simple, decisive answer.  Let’s all hope that is how this goes.

Now if you haven’t yet...go vote.

Posted by JimK at 04:36 PM on November 04, 2008
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A note about the use of “raising all boats” as campaign rhetoric

The ONLY way to raise everyone’s boat evenly?  YOU HAVE TO CREATE MORE WATER.  Some people don’t seem to understand that they are misusing the phrase.

Learn how creating more water applies to this election and vote accordingly.

Posted by JimK at 06:10 PM on November 03, 2008
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Limit government to its constitutional powers? That’s crazy talk!

Instapundit:

SO PEOPLE ON THE LEFT AND RIGHT ARE BOTH worried sick about the election. Both seem more worried about the other guys controlling the White House than anxious to win themselves.  (Some are very worried).  They’re right to be worried, of course, at least to a degree.  The Presidency is an office of great power.

On the other hand, if the federal government were properly limited to its constitutional powers, there would be much less to fear, and elections would be less stressful for all concerned.  Just a thought.

WHAT. HE. SAID.

Posted by JimK at 03:31 PM on November 03, 2008
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Redistribution

Posted by JimK at 02:53 PM on October 31, 2008
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Do I have this mortgage disaster right?

I just want to see if I can boil this whole thing down to the most basic elements possible.

Due to lessened regulations and requirements of creditworthiness, billions of dollars was loaned to people who couldn’t qualify for a debit card much less a mortgage.  Those same people re-and tri-financed the same property, often taking ARM loans with large balloon payments down the road.

Meanwhile the banks and mortgage entities packaged up these mortgages, borrowed on them, invested that borrowed money in bad decisions and bad investments and lost it all.  They basically went to Vegas with our money and thought they could win enough to pay it back and keep the extra.

Then people’s ARM payments came due and they started defaulting, leaving the banks and mortgage houses holding worthless paper on both sides of the equation.

And now we’re all paying for it dearly.  Do I have it about right?  I’m sure it’s infinitely more complicated, but is that the gist of things?  It’s not really the defaulting mortgages, as that is only 5% or so of all mortgages.  It’s the fact that the banks borrowed against the mortgages, sold and resold the debt and in the end were playing a shell game, except there was no ball under any of the shells.  Is that about right?

By the way, the fact that most of the lawmakers that created this mess are Democrats means nothing to me.  There were Republicans sitting right next to them in Congress who voted for all of this crap.  No one is innocent here.

Posted by JimK at 08:55 PM on September 29, 2008
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McCain’s convention speech

As I expected, it didn’t wow me, but I didn’t hate it.  He was pretty reserved for McCain, and he pandered a bit to the hard religious right there at the end.  Part of why I don’t generally like him, that tendency to pander and call it “being a maverick,” but he did remind me of his good qualities.  So that’s something.  I’d be shocked to see the ratings for this approach 32-34 million.  I doubt he drew in new eyeballs.  Who doesn’t already know what John McCain is going to say?  He doesn’t generate excitement, which is a problem insofar as getting the media to talk about you in a positive way.

You know, like they were doing just two years ago before he started talking sense on the surge.  Remember when the media worshiped the ground he walked on, and Democrats would say “He’s the only Republican I would ever vote for?”

Yeah...me too.  They may not want me to remember it, but I do.

Posted by JimK at 04:22 PM on September 05, 2008
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What liberal media?

As of 4-ish PM today (ignore the timestamp on this post.  I cannot for the life of me make the server and the blog and my personal account agree on what time it is):

Results 1 - 30 of about 9,379 for obama convention ratings
Results 1 - 30 of about 1,854 for palin convention ratings.

Note the dates on the stories crowing about Obama’s numbers.  The morning after the speech, all the media wanted to do was crow about how many people watched Jesus Barack Kennedy Obama descend from the heavens on a cloud of ether and save America from itself.  Today?  No one wants to talk about how the entire country watched the hockey mom bitchslap an entire political party and never even smudge her lipstick.  Instead they’re trying to denigrate her, to demean her public life, impugn her private life and make every effort to destroy her entire family JUST SO THEIR GOLDEN CHILD WON’T LOSE AN ELECTION.

Oh, that liberal media.

Sarah Palin knocked it out of the park last night and didn’t utter a word about gay marriage, abortion or any of the other divisive crap that has threatened to destroy the South Park Conservative/Libertarian support for the GOP.  She spoke about things we (by which I mean (Conservo-Libertarian Americans) care about, things we can actually do, things that can change.  She targeted the idiocy that comes out of the Obama camp.  She kept her family front and center and dared these idiots to keep picking on them.  She dared them to keep attacking her as a hick and a mom and inexperienced.  And they are taking the dare.

NEVER INTERRUPT YOUR ENEMY WHEN HE IS MAKING A MISTAKE.  Let them talk, Palin supporters.  Let them speak unopposed for a week or so.  Let them tell all women in America that you cannot have kids and a career.  Let them mock small towns.  Let them attack young mothers.  Let them alienate half of the country.  Let it happen.  Let them try to equate Barack running a campaign with Palin running a state.  Let them attack her for being mayor of a small town.  Not only can it not hurt Palin and McCain, it will hurt Barack and Biden

As I said in a comment over at Rachel Lucas’ blog last night...my “ROSLIN ‘08 - SO SAY WE ALL” shirt is now even cooler.  We can actually vote for Laura fraking Roslin.  Plus I got nominated and seconded by the commenters for Rachel’s coveted “Chuck Norris Action Jeans ‘Unique Hidden Gusset’ Award For Excellence In Commenting.  Which kicks so much ass.  I mean it obviously has to.  It’s Norris-y.

Hey, you know what would be the awesomest ticket ever? Palin/Lucas ‘12.  SO SAY WE ALL.  The White House would be full of dead caribou and huge lazy dogs, and Rachel would teach Maggie to eat reporters instead of possums.

That’s genius.  We need to make that happen.

Posted by JimK at 03:56 PM on September 04, 2008
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