The 60th vote: Republican Richard Shelby to vote for cloture on Hagel; Update: Deb Fischer too?

My Choice

Schadenfreude on May 18, 2013 at 12:55 AM

Waited all day to share this :)

Schadenfreude on May 18, 2013 at 1:02 AM

Lazy river

Schadenfreude on May 18, 2013 at 1:13 AM

Good evening, Schadenfreude. :) Wonderful to see you, my friend.

thatsafactjack on May 18, 2013 at 1:11 AM

:) I knew you’d like it, incl. the fancy attire of the audience.

Evening fair lady.

Schadenfreude on May 18, 2013 at 1:15 AM

Here’s another one

Schadenfreude on May 18, 2013 at 1:18 AM

My favorite writers are Melville and Jackie.

SparkPlug on May 18, 2013 at 1:26 AM

Mine is Axe.

Schadenfreude on May 18, 2013 at 1:34 AM

I haven’t. I am. I will.

Axe on May 18, 2013 at 1:51 AM

It’s short and absolutely delightful. He was born in Canada, to a very Catholic family and Transition is all about how his mom wanted him to become a priest but he didn’t…even the powers to be in the seminary helped him not to. Not giving away much. It is simply a delightful read, all autobiographical, and how he began to write. He was one of the greatest as far as documenting humanity/civilization, or as I call them ‘humanity’ and ‘civilization’, because they are mostly neither.

Schadenfreude on May 18, 2013 at 2:02 AM

The IRS is easy to demonize, but it doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It got its heading from a president, and his party, who did in fact send it orders—openly, for the world to see. In his Tuesday press grilling, no question agitated White House Press Secretary Jay Carney more than the one that got to the heart of the matter: Given the president’s “animosity” toward Citizens United, might he have “appreciated or wanted the IRS to be looking and scrutinizing those . . .” Mr. Carney cut off the reporter with “That’s a preposterous assertion.”

Preposterous because, according to Mr. Obama, he is “outraged” and “angry” that the IRS looked into the very groups and individuals that he spent years claiming were shady, undemocratic, even lawbreaking. After all, he expects the IRS to “operate with absolute integrity.” Even when he does not.

– Kimberley Strassel – she is grat.

Schadenfreude on May 18, 2013 at 2:04 AM

In his 2012 State of the Union address, Obama lamented that the American people couldn’t function more like the military. Soldiers aren’t “consumed with personal ambition. They don’t obsess over their differences. They focus on the mission at hand. They work together. Imagine what we could accomplish if we followed their example. Think about the America within our reach.” Never mind that we have a military to keep us free, not to be a role model. Translation: I wish Americans would fall in line and follow orders.

It’s a funny thing. In his address to Congress right after the 9/11 attacks, George W. Bush said, “Every nation in every region now has a decision to make: Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.” For the better part of a decade, many liberals bizarrely insisted that this warning to terror-supporting states abroad was in fact a kind of fatwa encouraging persecution of Bush’s political opponents at home.

And yet, nearly every day, President Obama divides the country between the forces of truth and reason and the forces of deceit and selfishness. He and his supporters are the “ones we’ve been waiting for,” while his opponents, well, we don’t need any more talk out of them.

So fine. Obama probably didn’t order the IRS to keep his opponents from talking. But these bureaucrats certainly acted like ones he’d been waiting for.

–Jonah Goldberg

Schadenfreude on May 18, 2013 at 2:13 AM

Nite Axe.

We tease you because we like you.

Schadenfreude on May 18, 2013 at 2:22 AM