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Total Electoral War in Wisconsin

I'm sure that the spectacle is repugnant to most Wisconsinites.

By certifying the 6 Republican recalls a month to a couple of weeks before any of the 3 Democrat recalls, the Wisconsin GAB gave the Democrats an advantage in preparation for the recall elections. The Republican response was to gum up the works by forwarding pseudo-Democrat candidates to run in those elections. Now the Dems are returning the favor:

The Democrats and their union comrades are pulling out all the stops in the Wisconsin in their attempt to seize control of the State Senate. An unholy alliance of public sector unions and their Democrat enablers have joined together under the banner of an innocuous sounding organization called We Are Wisconsin. The plan is a tried and true staple of leftist politics, get involved in the Republican primary elections and manipulate the process in order to ensure victory in the general election.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that in an email Kelly Steele, communications director for We Are Wisconsin said "it would be in the interest of Democrats to run candidates in the Republican primaries," adding that "it would be in the interest of flipping the Wisconsin Senate that interested Democrats contact the Democratic Party of Wisconsin."

Steele claims that his strategy has been developed to counteract a similar primary strategy that he says the Republican Party is trying to implement. Kelly Steele came to Wisconsin along with numerous other Democrat operatives and union thugs during the ugly public sector union protests earlier this year. The Democrats' hired gun is no stranger to the gutter warfare of the left as he has been credited by many in the party for his role in saving Harry Reid's senate seat last year.

Every maneuver the Democrats have made has taken advantage of any and all options that they could muster: For example, the GAB determination that the Fleabaggers could use campaign funds to offset their expenses while refusing to do their jobs out of state, or the ridiculous maneuverings of Marianne Sumi, or the recounts of JoAnne Kloppenburg, or the attempts to prevent lawmakers from being able to conduct business in the Capitol, or the Madison mayor's attempt to prevent the publication of Walker's budget bill.

Naturally, they cry foul when the other side decides to play hardball, too, because it's only ethical when they do it.

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What I’ve Learned While Moving

Because, after all, it really is all about me.

1.  It's exhausting.

2.  It's possible to put Cadillac horns on a Mini Cooper.

3.  We need to get rid of a bunch of stuff.

4.  Glass should not be wedged between boxes anywhere above floor level.

5.  Hiring pros is the way to go if you want to salvage friendships.

6.  You never really have enough boxes.

7.  You never really have enough time.

8.  It's exhausting.

9.  I don't care about Wieners, Weiners, or Weeners, when I'm climbing 100 flights of stairs over the course of a week. 

10.  I need some ice.

11.  And a drink.

12.  We're just going to start packing now for our next move.

Adam Wells

Living life at 84 mph and 7000 feet. All I ask is that you don't block traffic, act like a professional, and don't act all surprised when your actions have consequences. Oh, and don't complain about the refs; trust me, they don't care if your team wins or not.

Remember When Obama Insulted the Supremes During the State of the Union?

Or when he invited Paul Ryan to sit in the front row, so he could get a good look at Thug Boy lying about his budget plan?

Shortly after the photo-op meeting and “working lunch” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the one that saw President Obama openly chastised by the Prime Minister for Obama’s earlier public comments regarding wanting to see Israel return to its 1967 borders, the president verbally “went off” on Richard Daley in the private study area that adjoins the Oval Office. President Obama’s verbal attack was clearly heard by numerous staff up and down the West Wing hallways.

The essence of the president’s rage and embarrassment can best be summed up with him yelling out very loudly, “What the f-ck was that!?” That phrase was apparently repeated a number of times in the span of about five minutes, a time period in which Obama’s voice became “louder and louder” and culminating in Obama exclaiming, “Never again! Do you understand me? Never again!” Any response by Bill Daley back to the president, if given, was not overheard.

Punks really hate it when they get punked, don't they? Is it already a Downfall parody?

Via @phelony_jones

Correction: As Andy points out in comments, it's Bill Daley, not Richard. Ulsterman gets it right elsewhere in the piece.

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Andrew Sullivan and the Palin Emails [UPDATEDx2]

I haven't been so stupefied by a shocking revelation since Geraldo opened Al Capone's safe.

Now, I know everyone's been busy pounding Weiner so often and hard that they're liable to go blind, and I know that Joanie Baloney and Alex Pareene have gotten (some of) the shit they deserve, and Chuckles Green Footballs, and that there are loads of scores still left to be settled on Weinergate coverage, but with regard to the Palin emails . . . what about the evidence that Trig is actually the child of Bristol? Wouldn't Palin's staff, complicit as they were in the greatest political cover-up EVAR, have used some kind of coded language to communicate their manipulation of the press and all that stuff?

Oh, wait. Maybe Palin's not so stupid. Maybe she used her personal account! Then . . . oh, yeah. We've seen those emails, haven't we?

It's going to be fun watching loony Andrew contort over this. I'd like for you to help make sure he has to take the issue up.

Politico, via Insty:

After Sarah Palin revealed she was pregnant with son Trig in March 2008, her office quickly zeroed in on then-state Senate president Lyda Green as the source of rumors that Bristol Palin was actually carrying the baby, according to emails released Friday.

The series of emails reflect the former Alaska governor’s deep frustration over the issue, which would later gain national attention after an active network of gadflies, bloggers and authors on the left sought to raise doubts about the circumstances surrounding the birth of Palin’s fifth child.

UPDATEx2: In the headline, The Daily Mail states that Palin "plays God" in reacting to Trig's birth (whereas aborting him would have been prudent), but in the article, it states that she's imagining what God had in mind, giving her a son with Down Syndrome:

The letter also makes unlikely conspiracy theories that have long been circulating on blogs that Trig was actually born to Mrs Palin's unwed daughter Bristol.

"Makes unlikely"? They've always been batshit insane.

The week that was, according to Andrew's Acolytes at the Daily Dish:

Monday: "Monday on the Dish, Andrew demolished the Republican agenda as a fulfillment of Christian ideals."

Tuesday: "Tuesday on the Dish, and Andrew backtracked on his original defense of Weiner since the lying complicates things."

Wednesday: "Wednesday on the Dish, Andrew marveled at American puritanism about sex, and picked apart what it means to live, both online and off, while we all seek out our authentic selves."

Thursday: "Thursday on the Dish, Andrew dismantled AIPAC's disproportionate popularity in Congress. He also pinpointed the moment our political system became decadent, and poked Limbaugh for thinking anyone in the world thinks Palin is sane and stable."

Friday: "Today on the Dish, Andrew analyzed testosterone as a blessing and a curse (for gay men and straight). We eagerly awaited the Palin emails . . . ."

Cape and tights. Large.

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#Weiner Sextstress No. 5 and the London Slutwalk

By now, you'll have read that Pelosi, Steve Israel and Wasserman-Schultz have all written to @repweiner to say that he should resign. You've also read that Weiner continues to say that he won't resign (many say because he needs the money and doesn't really have anything to fall back on) and that he is going to get treatment and that he has asked for a leave of absence from the House to get his belfry house in order.

Weiner is now focusing not on his dick and super heroism but on “becoming a better husband and healthier person”.

You see… He’s not a randy dickhead. He’s ill. He can be made better. He can be cured. It’s not him. It’s the disease.

Yesterday, the "racy" DMs that he shared with Dick Tracy . . . I mean, Traci Lords . . . sorry, with Traci Nobles, a 24-year-old gym teacher, came out. I hope that she doesn't lose her job over them. If a school has a phys ed teacher who is interested in a 46-year-old man, they should count their blessings.

Sychronically, the likeness of the Congressman appeared in a baguette, which, as far as I know, has not yet been offered for sale on eBay.

Velvet Hammer has a nice summary, here, and Ace is dropping the Bannerhammerung on commenters wanting to get out ahead of the DE police investigation. If I were to guess at an endgame, without getting ahead of the police investigation, I would say it's likely that this opens the possibility that Weiner may be offered a plea deal to cop to a charge of suborning false statements to the police. At present, he is mostly in trouble for making false statements to the media.

London had its Slut Walk today. Among the signs was this:

"Hijabs, hoodies, hotpants, our bodies, our choices"

Well, yes. But as feminists debate whether or not it's a good idea for women to adopt the misogynist expression "slut," there's still the question of whether or not most of those women who wear hijabs really are doing so out of choice. Perhaps in London, the majority are. Or perhaps they are having that "choice" imposed on them by a religion of misogyny and the men who espouse it. Certainly the rape of Lara Logan proved that it's a very bad idea to go to an Egyptian "freedom" rally dressed in Western garb.

Were you aware that none of the rape convictions in Sweden in the past 5 years was against a native Swede? Well, it's profiling even to mention it.

Never mind, though. To try to impose our values on other societies, even those unassimilated ghettos within our midst, would be a form of cultural imperialism, as really it is for anyone to be insulted by the behavior of Congressman Weiner.

Via Shawsblog.

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First Disturbing Revelation in Palin Emails

Man, these objective, non-partisan journalists at the WaPo really thought this through, didn't they?

Among the emails Sarah Palin fielded while she was on the campaign trail were a batch of vicious threats against her life.

On Sept. 12, 2008, she received a message through the state of Alaska's website that accused her of being racist and suggested that she would have joined the Ku Klux Klan if she were a man.

"She doesn't belong to the NRA to support the right of each citizen to have weapons in an aim of self-defence, but just to support the right of every Southern white citizen to shoot all non-white people legally!" wrote the sender, identified as Dominique Villacrouz. "Sarah Palin MUST BE KILLED!"

Plenty more progressivism where that came from.

Meanwhile, Jim Hoft makes a very good related point.

Ace bulls the MSM into the end zone, sacks it, picks up the ball and spikes it in their face. Flagged for excessive celebration.

Some schadenfreudelicious remembrance from Stacy, and the story of 17-year-old "Ethel's" visit from the NJDE Police [thanks, Bingley] regarding Weiner messaging, which you'll have read about already.

Gyne-speleologist Andrew Sullivan hardest hit.

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Confessions of a Weiner Sextstress

Five of the supposed six Sextstresses of Congressman Anthony Weiner have been identified, and speculation as to the identity of the sixth is rampant. The speculation can now stop.

I am Weiner's sixth Sextstress.

Using the Twitter handle @genevrafontasi, I said #YesWeiner and was accepted into the then very select circle of @repweiner's online friends. As far as he knew, I was nineteen, so nothing wrong with that!

We talked a little dirty, shared some laughs and became good acquaintances. He seemed like a normal, modern, high-functioning kind of online guy to me, until I accidentally sent my own dic pic publicly from this (the wrong!) avatar. Then, I was dropped like a ton of bricks by that trannyphobe.

I am humiliated, embarrassed and ashamed, and I take full responsibility for it. But I'm staying on Twitter!

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DoJ Freaking Out Over Gunwalker Probe

Darrell Issa's had a lot on his plate. So much that it seems he can hardly make headway on any one issue.

The DoJ stonewalled repeatedly over requests that they turn over documents requested by Issa's committee. When they did permit the investigators to view documents at DoJ offices, they redacted so much that pretty much all that was left was participles and prepositions. So . . .

Officials at the Department of Justice are in "panic mode," according to multiple sources, as word spreads that congressional testimony next week will paint a bleak and humiliating picture of Operation Fast and Furious, the botched undercover operation that left a trail of blood from Mexico to Washington, D.C.

The operation was supposed to stem the flow of weapons from the U.S. to Mexico by allowing so-called straw buyers to purchase guns legally in the U.S. and later sell them in Mexico, usually to drug cartels.

Instead, ATF documents show that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms knowingly and deliberately flooded Mexico with assault rifles. Their intent was to expose the entire smuggling organization, from top to bottom, but the operation spun out of control and supervisors refused pleas from field agents to stop it.

Only after Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry died did ATF Agent John Dodson blow the whistle and expose the scandal.

First question: what approval did they get from the Mexican government? Because all of those people who fumed over Reagan's back door funding for the Contras have to ask themselves whether this could be construed as an act of war.

In another massive fail, Illinois is spending $230 million more that they don't have in trying to keep businesses from moving out of state after their radical tax hikes.

Everyone knows that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is evil, but Minnesota's getting ready to send out 36,000 pink slips to government workers on July 1, because Gov. Dayton wants to raise taxes on high-income earners in Minnesota, and the legislature wants to decrease the deficit through spending cuts alone.

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