CPAC Interview: Michelle Lee Muccio
posted at 4:05 pm on February 26, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Flight to DC: around $400.
Stay at hotel: around $600.
Chance to make my co-blogger go green with envy: priceless.
You’ve seen her on YouTube and on national TV, and now you can see Michelle Lee Muccio here. I caught her between commitments for just a few minutes, thanks to Stacy McCain, but be sure to give this a watch. She’s common-sense, sharp, and direct:
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I missed my big chance! Which, er, I wouldn’t have had even if I’d been there!
Ah, beta-maledom. So bittersweet.
Allahpundit on February 26, 2009 at 3:55 PM
You were there in spirit, buddy.
Ed Morrissey on February 26, 2009 at 4:02 PM
jesus h christ that womans a looker. we need a berlusconi clause in the constitution…at least 1/3 of a presidents cabinet must be supermodels with brains.
ernesto on February 26, 2009 at 4:08 PM
oh hell no you didn’t…
Kaptain Amerika on February 26, 2009 at 4:10 PM
I’d buy Allahpundit a beer, but I’m not sure if beta-males are into that.
Tacitus_SGL on February 26, 2009 at 4:10 PM
What a hardship you have there, Ed.
cryptojunkie on February 26, 2009 at 4:10 PM
Nice get, Ed.
Spirit of 1776 on February 26, 2009 at 4:11 PM
So, is she single?
rbj on February 26, 2009 at 4:11 PM
That was my exit question. +1
Tacitus_SGL on February 26, 2009 at 4:12 PM
Ziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing
Inappropriate. I know.
Tacitus_SGL on February 26, 2009 at 4:12 PM
A smart, hot economist…priceless
youngO on February 26, 2009 at 4:13 PM
She’s cute. I like her.
promachus on February 26, 2009 at 4:13 PM
Four things I dig about this lady:
1) She’s hot.
2) She’s smart.
3) She’s conservative.
4) She’s hot.
Doughboy on February 26, 2009 at 4:14 PM
I will fight any man here to win her love…
…once I’m officially rejected by KP, that is. Until then, go for it!
Allahpundit on February 26, 2009 at 4:15 PM
I think military R&D is good government stimulus. But that’s about it.
Spirit of 1776 on February 26, 2009 at 4:15 PM
She certainly seems to understand stimulus.
Buford on February 26, 2009 at 4:16 PM
You mean, rejected again, right?
Sorry, too easy.
Spirit of 1776 on February 26, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Just stab me in the heart. It’s less painful.
Allahpundit on February 26, 2009 at 4:17 PM
She just thought Ed was hot. She saw him and saw “Stud” flash before her eyes.
amerpundit on February 26, 2009 at 4:18 PM
Why? Because of the end product (new military hardware), or because government research employs scientists?
ernesto on February 26, 2009 at 4:18 PM
Now why couldn’t my economics professors have looked like that?
AubieJon on February 26, 2009 at 4:18 PM
She is drop-dead gorgeous, but she’s saying what everyone else (with a triple-digit IQ) is saying!
stonemeister on February 26, 2009 at 4:20 PM
Ed, one word for you….
DUDE!
BobMbx on February 26, 2009 at 4:21 PM
She is probably creating a lot Keynesians...that is stimulating demand.WashJeff on February 26, 2009 at 4:21 PM
Poor Allah.
toliver on February 26, 2009 at 4:21 PM
First because it’s the responsibility (preamble) of the government to protect it citizenry, and in today’s world that means R&D, so it’s Constitutional oriented, but economically because the technological advancements make their way into the private sector and stimulate all kinds of growth.
Heh. Well, it was just hanging up there like a pinata.
Spirit of 1776 on February 26, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Sorry to interrupt the indepth analysis ;0
Is there an alternative way or site to view Ed’s vids? I can’t view any of them today. Thanks.
LAW on February 26, 2009 at 4:22 PM
I can’t listen to her say “stimulus package” without blushing.
yo on February 26, 2009 at 4:22 PM
A good investment, yes, but spending is simply not stimulating.
Count to 10 on February 26, 2009 at 4:23 PM
You just thinking about missle technology because of Michelle Lee Muccio.
WashJeff on February 26, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Try convincing my wife of that.
BobMbx on February 26, 2009 at 4:24 PM
Hey , don’t mess with Joe..
the_nile on February 26, 2009 at 4:25 PM
I am predicting that this thread will hit at least 600 comments, by the end of which Allahpundit will be reduced to sobbing in front of his shrine to KP.
Tacitus_SGL on February 26, 2009 at 4:25 PM
FINALLY!!! I feel stimulated!!!
fumpbump on February 26, 2009 at 4:27 PM
I was going to say “my package is stimulated” but I thought that would be crude!!!
fumpbump on February 26, 2009 at 4:27 PM
Frickin Ed is stammering because he is mesmerized. The girl is cool, she gets a little better every time she talks. Let’s face it though, if she wasn’t super hot nobody would care. Everything she is saying is all common sense, boilerplate Conservative logic that all of us tout every day.
echosyst on February 26, 2009 at 4:28 PM
At last, a guest that knows how to mic themselves.
And so darned hot too….
Ed you jammy bastard ;)
LimeyGeek on February 26, 2009 at 4:32 PM
I humbly wait by the doorway, tip jar in hand.
RepubChica on February 26, 2009 at 4:32 PM
She’s got mojo baby….if you’ve got a face like a bulldog chewing wasps that’s your misfortune ;)
LimeyGeek on February 26, 2009 at 4:33 PM
What did she say?
the_nile on February 26, 2009 at 4:34 PM
Held it together the entire time. Good man, Ed!
Christien on February 26, 2009 at 4:34 PM
Too bad Allah’s little Smooochio has exchanged her bloodline Italiano accent for that of a ‘Bama gal.
Zetterson on February 26, 2009 at 4:36 PM
C’mon, don’t kid yourselves. Michelle Muccio is way out of everyone’s league here.
The facts are that she makes her living as a macroeconomist in the outrageously expensive DC area. She routinely sees trillion dollar numbers every day. She’s already pretty darn secure at this point in her life but knows she’s going to hook up with some fabulously weathly guy in a year or two.
People like us just don’t measure up to her standards. I mean, why would a woman like Michelle Muccio even take a second look at 6’1″ blue-eyed independent businessman in his mid-thirties with a six figure income, a deep voiced Texas drawl, and a sculpted, Greek god-like ass?
Dude.
ScottMcC on February 26, 2009 at 4:37 PM
She’s sitting on my lap, as I type.
Y’all just back the hell off.
OhEssYouCowboys on February 26, 2009 at 4:38 PM
You had a chance to interview her and you were thinking of . . . Allah?
hit and run on February 26, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Another argument that conservative women are smarter and hotter than liberal wymyn.
Mallard T. Drake on February 26, 2009 at 4:39 PM
She seems so bright in the video… or is it she kills off IQ points in me just watching her? I hope the latter but fear the former.
michaelo on February 26, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Ed, you magnificent bastard!
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on February 26, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Not all of us though echosyst. More like 48% at the moment. And her hotness demands attention from both sides of the isle. There’s her value.
Zetterson on February 26, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Sarah who?
*tingle*
Michelle Lee Muccio…
More stimulating than HR1…
Then again, Helen Thomas is more stimulating than HR1
Need a better metaphor…
Someone help me.
turfmann on February 26, 2009 at 4:41 PM
“what would you say would be a genuinely stimulating activity…an economically stimulating activity?”
Did I see a wee grin creep across Ed’s face?
Christien on February 26, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Second look at better marketing for Republicans!
ScottMcC on February 26, 2009 at 4:42 PM
She Brings back memory of scene from “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” where Judge Reinhold is watching Phoebe Cates in the pool,
Dire Straits on February 26, 2009 at 4:44 PM
Along the lines that word gal that O’Reilly has on his show, someone needs to have this woman on his or her to do a nightly feature tearing Obama’s economic plans to shreds.
Think of the ratings.
Paging Glen Beck.
BuckeyeSam on February 26, 2009 at 4:44 PM
Oof! She’s used to being tackled!
The world is that girl’s oyster. Seriously.
Kensington on February 26, 2009 at 4:45 PM
He just tried to focus his mind..
the_nile on February 26, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Dayem. Just dayem.
:-)
-Dave
Dave R. on February 26, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Careful, Michelle. Talking about “the people” = POPULISM
Jim Treacher on February 26, 2009 at 4:50 PM
Ed should have asked for her website number. ;p
Christien on February 26, 2009 at 4:51 PM
Ed, it’s not just your co-blogger that’s green with envy, color me a very dark shade of green with envy! She’s friggin HOT and smart!!
Uh, does the first-mate know about this?/I kid I kid!
Liberty or Death on February 26, 2009 at 4:52 PM
The same could be said for NASA. What on earth would we do without Tang??!?!?!?
All kidding aside, there are other sectors besides defense that produce the sort of technological development you’re referring to. Broader aerospace is one of them. Composite materials, semiconductor fabrication, high energy lasers…theres other worthy research fields…
ernesto on February 26, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Ok, I’ll be your huckleberry beta male…/ ;-)
Liberty or Death on February 26, 2009 at 4:54 PM
Wow she sounded goofy…lets throw her under the bus.
tomas on February 26, 2009 at 4:54 PM
When I said “us”, I meant Conservatives. And no, she doesn’t “demand” attention. We like her, but the libs can hate her just as easily as any other person who espouses Conservative values. She is not the first good looking lady to do this. Our own Ms. Malkin has been demonized time and again. They will trash this girl too as soon as she gets on their radar.
echosyst on February 26, 2009 at 4:59 PM
Uh, oh. The smile and hair touching at the end. Ed’s toast.
/
Christien on February 26, 2009 at 4:59 PM
I don’t doubt that at all. The question is if government should be the driving force or the private sector. Hence my case for M R&D.
Spirit of 1776 on February 26, 2009 at 4:59 PM
So government gets to be the driving force in military R&D but nothing else? I mean there are plenty of areas where the government isnt going to be making the best decisions but Lockheed and Boeing werent going to get us to the moon all on their own…
then again im a radical on that front. id be ok with all sorts of government research if it got us colonizing space any faster.
ernesto on February 26, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Damn it turfmann, you just had to mention the old sea hag Thomas and blow the whole fantasy I was having…now I have to scrub my mind with bleach…damn your eyes!!
Liberty or Death on February 26, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Don’t worry, you’ll be first on the list.
Jim Treacher on February 26, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Seems to be a pretty big umbrella to me.
Two comments:
The race to the moon was a military project, for all extents and purposes.
The return to the moon may very well be by private enterprise. Tickets for space travel are already being sold by companies with an eye toward the stars.
Spirit of 1776 on February 26, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Let’s see… Will it be:
Muccio/Palin 2012?
Palin/Muccio 2012?
Either one is, shall we say, a hot ticket. Every red-blooded conservative male in America will be lining up at the polls.
UltimateBob on February 26, 2009 at 5:10 PM
Well yes, the moon race has military implications, but its budget was both federal and non-defense…though there is considerable overlap. It is this overlap that I think represents a real bridge between ideologies on determining federal priorities going forward. There is alot of cutting edge science in fields like nanotechnology that have both civilian and military implications. I believe liberals and conservatives can both realize this, and make real headway on creating a 21st century federal responsability to science as both economic engine in its own right (the more scientists we employ, or attempt to employ at good wages…the more students take science seriously as a career path)…as well as a derivative of sorts producing spinoff technologies to be developed on their own by private entities.
its the idealist in me, but its 2009, i really really think we gotta start looking into real research bringing about a real 21st century society.
ernesto on February 26, 2009 at 5:13 PM
Precisely my point. The R&D stimulates growth via technological progression.
You are arguing that the pubic sector will pay enough to scientists not only compete with the private sector, but also attract more students?
Spirit of 1776 on February 26, 2009 at 5:19 PM
ROFL!
Be watching for an angry e-mail from the National Association of Sea Hags telling you that if you don’t cease and desist likening Helen Thomas to sea hags they will sue you back to the stone age.
turfmann on February 26, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Meh. The chick you had on earlier is cuter.
Darth Executor on February 26, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Can she please not say “stimulate” anymore? It’s taking my mind somewhere I don’t want to go. Oh, great, she just said “slap” too. dangit.
mauipundit on February 26, 2009 at 5:27 PM
$1.8 million for swine odor and manure management in the ’stimulus’ bill – how epic is this?
Entelechy on February 26, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Not quite. He was thinking “thank God!” :)
irishspy on February 26, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Yep. I love it when libs try to talk about the great results we’ve gotten from government spending … and their examples are always from the military.
progressoverpeace on February 26, 2009 at 5:36 PM
She looks just like Famke Janssen
Conservative Gunman on February 26, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Ed is a lucky man.
Great interviews today!
Ted Torgerson on February 26, 2009 at 5:49 PM
What kind of softball league do you play in?!
cadetwithchips2 on February 26, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Such common sense is not welcome in Washington. It’s unnatural and physically painful to politicians in Washington. She must be… A WITCH!!!!!
Yakko77 on February 26, 2009 at 5:59 PM
No need to feel guilty, Ed. I warned AllahPundit that you would do this to him.
My collie says:
CyberCipher on February 26, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Man oh man, I knew I saw Ed here at CPAC earlier today and was pretty sure I had seen somebody who looked like everybody’s favorite economist too…little did I know our intrepid host was already waaaaay ahead of me! Congrats CE!
das411 on February 26, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Being that I’m Italian I’d like to point out that both of these HOT and intelligent women (as their last name’s indicate) are Italian!
Darth, what’s wrong with having two girlfriends?
Liberty or Death on February 26, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Damn, I didn’t know the NAOSH used a picture of Thomas as their logo, very apt indeed but alas now I will be sued for trade-mark infringement!
Double-damn it!
Liberty or Death on February 26, 2009 at 6:11 PM
You’re a cruel man Ed….
But I know how to get even. Forward the link to the
WhiteCorrupt House and thePresidentmessiah will force you to spread the wealth….Hog Wild on February 26, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Ed smitten…you can totally tell.
I don’t blame him.
(swoooooooooooooooooon!)
Handel on February 26, 2009 at 7:02 PM
I wonder when Obama’s minions will start trying to destroy her like they’ve done to others.
Powerglutes asks:
Have they proved that she didn’t give birth to Trig?
aikidoka on February 26, 2009 at 7:15 PM
Very. That replaced my Alfred E. Obama desktop background.
Thanks.
hillbillyjim on February 26, 2009 at 7:29 PM
Come on, people, join the Michelle Facebook Appreciation page
wryteacher on February 26, 2009 at 7:58 PM
Good for you Ed.
getalife on February 26, 2009 at 8:42 PM
Computer dudes:
Anyway I can have this streamed increasing video quality? Or is it like this?
BTW, I am a chick but I do have to ask…why SI didn’t pick her for Swimsuit cover?
Why Victoria’s Secret hasn’t signed her up? Gee, Kimberly Guilfoyle (sp?) was a VS model.
Was she ever a Miss Something?
Dudes, have an answer to any of these? I know you already are in Cloud 9, so…wanna see if I can up the ante ;-D
ProudPalinFan on February 26, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Muccio has my respect. She’s yet another concerned American who just isn’t going to take what the Marxists are doing to us.
She stepped up to the plate and said “no”
Maybe it’s just me.. but I see nothing but alarms all around me.. the people in control of the Federal Govt are actively bringing about their Collectivist wet dream and the Islamists are actively working towards a world without man-made Government.
And you folks want to say how hot she is.
Its like the stupid GOP politicians on CSPAN that I see “Oh Obama is such a nice guy. He’s so nice to talk to and he really cares”
If I was Muccio and reading these comments I’d be like “Why am I even bothering putting myself out there .. so people could talk about my looks”
You think she’s doing all this so she could become a model? Or because the economics of the govt is going to destroy us?
VinceP1974 on February 27, 2009 at 5:40 AM
Ed: WOW. Showing the free market at work… seeing an opportunity, grabbing it (but not rough-housing it too much!), mutual consent to mutual benefit. You go, man!!!
She is a delight. (For more detail, see below)
Maybe she could be a HotAir regular guest??
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To VinceP1974 on February 27, 2009 at 5:40 AM
Whoa – lighten up, dude. Reagan had a similar message, but I don’t think he was put off if women also dug his good looks and charm, and chattered about it between themselves.
Michelle Muccio is a babe, but there are lots of “babes” out there. The fact that she happens to be a free-marketer and a babe is just a great combination (actually, to me that’s what makes her an uber-babe!).
When’s the last time you saw a free marketer that didn’t look and sound like your 7th-grade (male) geometry teacher? OK, that’s probably a bit tough, but you get the point.
Lighten up & enjoy Muccio-Palooza. We are long overdue for some bright, fresh voices, and Michelle is that and a whole lot more.
Expedio on February 27, 2009 at 9:03 AM
Now there are 3 beautiful intelligent women that really know their stuff… Welcome to the pack of Michelle Maulkin and Megyn Kelly. All foxes……… All intelligent….All respectable speakers.
workingforpigs on February 27, 2009 at 9:27 AM
*coff* Mary Katherine Ham *coff*
DaveC on February 27, 2009 at 10:22 AM
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