December 2002

Moseley-Braun everything bad about the Republican Party?

ArchPundit December 23, 2002 No Comments

I received some feedback asking how I could use Moseley-Braun as an example of everything wrong with the Republican Party. From the original post there are several things she has done that I would like to have only occur in the Republican Party:

1) coddling murderous dictators
2) Corporate tax breaks for no purpose besides coddling favor with corporate leaders
3) Campaign Finance Fraud–errrr…irregularities
4) Backing a political hack over a decent human being to curry favor with an group of political hacks
5) blatant patronage politics

I’m happy to admit that many Democrats do these things, but as a Democrat, why should I tolerate it.

Back tomorrow

ArchPundit December 23, 2002 No Comments

Swamped with holidays, family and work. Back sometime tomorrow.

For those having problems with Blogger, consider blogstudio–a free version is available and for $15/year you get comments and RSS. I believe stats are being tested, but might be more than the $15 when introduced. No problems with the archives like Blogger is having–though you have to generate them everyone once in a while. Blogstudio isn’t perfect and has some down time, but nothing like what I experienced with Blogger.

Illinois News is amazing
–Ryan Tied to scandal finally–indictments sure to follow
–Moseley-Braun tries for a rematch
–Fitzgerald pulls head out of butt and realizes he may be facing black woman and criticizes Lott
–Rolando Cruz and others pardoned. Birkett still doesn’t get it
–Long series on a death row lawyer in Trib
–Series on Murder in Chicago in Trib Editorial pages
–Daley has one token opponent who is running on police brutality–damn, even the police and firefighters might vote for Daley this time

Who is the Senate’s Jim Leach?

ArchPundit December 19, 2002 No Comments

As much as I appreciate Joe Conason’s plug the other day, there is one person I disagree strongly with him over and that is Jim Leach. In 1998 Leach brought down Gingrich by refusing to vote for him as Speaker. This would mean that Leach and some of his allies would abstain or vote for Bob Michels. In doing so, they would have thrown the plurality to Dick Gephardt.

Is there a Jim Leach amongst the Senate Republicans? You’d think Chafee would refuse to vote for Lott or Nickles. Does he have a backbone? Probably not, he is a bit of a flake. What about Susan Collins? Hagel? Lugar? Warner? Snowe?

I guess I still think Lott has a shot unless someone pulls a Leach. As I have mentioned before the Senate is a chummy place and taking out a leader is pretty tough.

If anyone at Blogstudio Reads this

ArchPundit December 19, 2002 No Comments

Ummm..that wasn’t a denial of service attack, that was me trying to access the site. My connection was down today because of a report by blogstudio, so most posting will begin again tomorrow. Well, if I get my connection back.

CofCC Funny?

ArchPundit December 18, 2002 No Comments

While we all should be concerned about these fruitcakes having some actual influence, looking around the St. Louis chapter’s web site turns up some great pics.

Go here and scroll all the way down. I mean, with that goatee and purple jacket don’t we have the survivalist meets the Joker pretty well down?

Go here and see how white people are also significantly affected by lead poisoning in St. Louis.

In a desperate effort to get flamed in the most wordy manner

ArchPundit December 18, 2002 No Comments

possible Kevin Drum pokes fun:

POSTSCRIPT: As long as we’re on the subject, my all-time most detested writing advice is: write the way you talk. Have you ever read a transcript of an impromptu discussion? It’s practically unreadable, sort of like a Steven Den Beste essay. So whatever else you do, please don’t write the way you talk. Write better than you talk.

Ashcroft’s Revisionist History

ArchPundit December 18, 2002 No Comments

No not in the Southern Partisan, but in the history of his own campaigns.

Via Calpundit on Larry King Live tonight (no transcript yet):

"Can I call you John?" Sure, no problem. "Any comment on the Trent Lott situation?" Not really. You know, in Missouri we integrated pretty easily after the court decision.

Lest we forget this September 7, 1990 gem from the Post-Dispatch:

As attorney general and governor, Ashcroft has complained about the costs of desegregation programs in St. Louis and Kansas City and called them ”educationally counterproductive and bankrupt.’

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For those with any doubt, Ashcroft rode the wave of resentment in rural Missourah and South Saint Louis over the outrage of providing equal resources for the urban districts. This is a bipartisan sport with current AG Jeremiah Jay Nixon doing the same later. However, Ashcroft had been a particularly strong advocate against court ordered desegregation efforts.

Thanks and be patient

ArchPundit December 17, 2002 No Comments

First, thanks to Joe Conason for the link–scroll down for the post. Unfortunately, Blogstudio, which I have praised in the past, is having connectivity issues with its vendors. I’ll be back tonight or tomorrow. Expect continuing problems through Thursday. Impeccable timing.

What Lott Really Meant

ArchPundit December 16, 2002 No Comments

The Good Dr. Luntz just pronounced that what Lott meant when he said a Thurmond Presidency would have avoided all these problems was that Bill Clinton and his loose moral standards wouldn’t have occurred. We could have avoided them with a Thurmond Presidency. IOW, Bill Clinton’s genitalia wouldn’t have become the cause of every modern problem.

The problem is that Strom was so randy, he’d put Bill to shame. Besides marrying very young women, he also is reported to have slept with a woman on the way to her execution. His behavior as a younger man was well known. If Bill Clinton’s moral failings were a problem, imagine if we’d had a segregationist serial adulterer as President. So the Good Dr. Luntz seems to have a Polisci degree without knowing any history.

Update:

From the transcript:

MATTHEWS: … because you?re an analyst of public opinion. We?re going to have a poll in a few moments about what?s going on here. He was asked by Ed Gordon, a very effective, I thought, interviewer tonight on Black Entertainment Television. What problems were you talking about when you said we wouldn?t have them if we?d voted for a segregationist back in ?48. What do you believe he thinks those problems are that we?ve avoided or that we?ve incurred because we didn?t vote racist back in ?48?
LUNTZ: It has to do with problems that we?ve had over the last eight or nine years. I don?t want to speak…
MATTHEWS: He said we wouldn?t have these problems if we had voted for Strom Thurmond in ?48 for president, a segregationist who ran against Harry Truman. What is he talking about there?
LUNTZ: I think that some of the issues that he?s talking about, quite frankly, and I don?t know if he would agree or disagree, but I think some of it has to do with Bill Clinton and the things that happened in the 1990s, the moral decay of the country. The acceptance of certain types of behavior. If…
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) come on.
LUNTZ: … you-if you…

So there you have it, voting for a man who had probably slept with a death row inmate, would have solved the problem of Bill Clinton’s genitalia.

Mike Royko Memorial Award

ArchPundit December 16, 2002 No Comments

Today goes to Best of the Web:

Now, what’s "white" about names like Laurie and Jill? Wouldn’t a fair comparison have included some odd-sounding white names, like Dweezil or Moon Unit? And if employers discriminate against people with "black" names, how come Latonyas and Latoyas were more likely to get called back than Emilys were?

Let’s see
Kenya vs. Moon Unit. Raise your hand if you can see a difference. Thousands of Horseshacks are beating out Taranto here.

One should ask oneself why a name other than Fucknuts Dipshit should matter in who gets a call back. What reason besides race accounts for the difference?

Mike Royko wrote a rather stupid column years ago that made the same argument. He was then hit on the head and reminded of folks from the neighborhood named Stanislav. Perhaps they don’t have people with ‘weird’ names where Taranto’s upbringing occurred.