Motley Moose – Archive

You knew it was coming.

You knew someone on the left was going to have a problem with Obama’s speech last week.

It wouldn’t make sense if there wasn’t at least one.

The Wall Street Journal has the scoop.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/…

Got a speeding ticket today for doing a 75 in a 50, pretty sure I was going anywhere near 75 because I had seen a parked cop car less than 30 seconds before another one pulled me over and lowered my speed from 60-50.

I don’t really want my insurance to go up, or 6 points added to my license, or to pay the stupid $100 a year fee New York charges you for getting 6 points on your license, so I don’t know whether or fight it or just deal.

First ticket, got a moving violation ticket ten years ago for not signaling when pulling out of a parking spot (a.k.a driving while a college student)

Hows your week been?  

A few months ago, Paul Krugman noted that allowing taxes to rise on the middle class during these tough economic times would be bad.

Now, he seems to have a change of heart…sort of.  

George Stephanopoulos spoke to Robert Gibbs this  morning and the result is a perfect example of what I’ve been talking about vis-a-vi the media.  

What is frustrated that no one has fixed the economy or created jobs, but feels good about nothing happening for the next few things, and thinks Congress should set the agenda even though they won’t compromise with President Obama?

so the White House may compromise on the Bush Tax Cuts. Obviously…the elections brought a Republican majority in the House. An new AP poll says 53% of Americans think we should keep the tax cuts on everyone.

But when news broke on the notoriously wrong Huffington Post that David Axelrod sorta, kinda, maybe hinted at the possibility that perhaps the White House would compromise on tax cuts, Blogistan erupted in furor, you’d think this is the first time we’re hearing this.  

I had a great debate with a co-worker of mine who’s a leftie radical. She said to me that the Democratic Party needs to stop “being afraid of voters and being afraid of the media”

She’s right. The caveat being they have every reason to be afraid of voters and of the media, because those are what decides if they get to implement the policies they fight for. Because they’ve been burned over and over again in the past century by voters who claim they want policies, only to reject them when the attempt is made to implement them.  

I’m back in New York after my weekend trip to Washington, D.C. to be one of 215,000 people to stand on the National Mall demanding sanity.

For me, someone so cynical and hopeless, it was important to be around those I rarely see or hear. Those who are rational and who just want things to work out. Those who reject the partisan fighting and the teabagging that has so enveloped our society. Those who, however, remain quiet.

So I left work early on Friday and traveled with my cousin and her fiancee to Washington, to be a part of the Rally to Restore Sanity, because there is very little sanity right now.  

From PPP’s Arizona Governor poll today, which has Jan “Deer in the headlights” Brewer 8 points up on Attorney General Terry Goddard who was kicking her ass before she signs the Driving While Latino bill.

37 percent of Latinos say they’re voting for Brewer

If anything else, it’s entertaining to see the professional left tie themselves in knots explaining this after telling us the immigration law would be an EPIC WIN for Democrats.

One week till doomsday, what are you up to?

Tyler Clementi’s suicide is distressing me in a way no other news story did because it hits close to home.

I cut my wrists when I was 20, suffering from extreme depression and just giving up. Five of my friends saved my life, and they’re still my friends.