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Perry ThisClose

Written By: William F. B. O'Reilly - Aug• 08•11

from forbes.com

Politico is reporting that Texas Governor Rick Perry will all but announce his candidacy for President in South Carolina on Saturday.  The fact that he’s planning to run isn’t exactly a secret, but lots of candidates get right to the edge of the pool and never jump in.  This suggests he’s already in mid-air. 

The interesting thing to watch over the next 30 days is what happens to Michelle Bachmann’s numbers.  They will determine whether this will become a two way race, Romney-Perry, or a three-way-race, Romney-Bachmann-Perry. No one will be watching the Minnesota congresswoman’s numbers more closely than Mitt Romney’s people, who will be rooting for Perry and Bachmann to divide the Evangelical and Tea Party vote.  The only other unknown factor still out there is Sarah Palin.  Will she or won’t she?  Most people are betting at this point she won’t. 

 

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Pre-Revolutionary America?

Written By: William F. B. O'Reilly - Aug• 08•11

When I think of pre-Revolutionary America I tend to think of the Boston Tea Party, not the one sparked by CNBC’s Rick Santelli. But pollster Pat Caddell is suggesting that Americans have again reached a “pre-revolutionary” state of mind, based on alarming new polling data showing that just 17% of Americans believe that the U.S. Government “has the consent of the governed.” 

That’s a little dramatic, I’d say.  Count me in that 83%, but don’t expect me to reach for a pitchfork.  Like other Americans, I plan to do my fighting at the polls or on a word processor.  Besides, we are fighting ourselves this time.  We have no one else to blame.  We are the ones who put these guys in office.  Again, we are the ones we’ve been looking for. 

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Lucille Ball, Candy Shop

Written By: William F. B. O'Reilly - Aug• 07•11

http://youtu.be/uztA6JCKB4s

Lucille Ball would have been 100 yesterday.  With all the lousy news out there today, I thought we could all use a taste of her charms.  

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The Response Response

Written By: William F. B. O'Reilly - Aug• 06•11

from forbes.com

Just when I was feeling pretty good about 2012, I see photos like this one from “The Response”, the 30,000-person prayer rally headlined today by Texas governor and probable presidential candidate Rick Perry. It gives me a slight case of the willies. Maybe it’s because I come from the Northeast where we don’t wear religion on our sleeves. Or maybe it’s because I work to help elect Republicans in the Northeast, and joint Republican-Evangelical rallies don’t go over so well here. Or it could be the whole messianic candidate thing.Whatever it is, it is interfering with my reveries of a Republican being elected president next year. I run through the state electoral map in my head and begin crossing out states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

Perry has a great story to tell about job growth. I wish he would stick with it, but clearly he’s decided he needs to go the religious right to take on Bachmann in the south. 

So Bachmann wins Iowa, Romney wins New Hampshire and Nevada, Perry wins South Carolina…

Let’s not blow this people. 

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Making Lemons Out Of Lemonade

Written By: William F. B. O'Reilly - Aug• 06•11


Inflexible town officials and law enforcement officials around the country have found a new target to bully this summer:  Children illegally operating lemonade stands, according to a piece by National Review editor Rich Lowry in The New York Post today. The law is the law, these buzz killers say. In one case, an official demanded on the spot a $400 permit fee.  The children behind the stand predictably burst into tears.

“Invariably, the parents of illicit lemonade-stand vendors protest to the authorities, ‘but they’re just kids.’ That should be a clinching, self-evident argument. But not when an unbending legalism is ascendant, and there’s a law for everything. It’s in this spirit that we pat down children in the security lines of airports. People in authority are afraid ever to be caught rendering common-sense judgments.” Mr. Lowry writes. 

The NR editor has a simple solution: “There should be an easy rule of thumb for when enforcement of a regulation has gone too far: When it makes kids cry.” 

Let’s codify it. 


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Oh, the Irony

Written By: William F. B. O'Reilly - Aug• 06•11

 

Communist China released a statement last night in reaction to the S&P downgrade saying that the U.S. needs to cut its “bloated social welfare” programs. Communist China.  

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Quote of the Day, Peggy Noonan

Written By: William F. B. O'Reilly - Aug• 05•11

 

“There was drama at the White House this week when a man tried to hurl himself over the fence. But the Secret Service intervened and talked the president into going back inside and finishing his term,” Peggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal, 08-05-11

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The 235,413 to Blame

Written By: William F. B. O'Reilly - Aug• 05•11

 

from successsystemsnow.com

The culprits have been exposed.  Those greedy millionaires that President Obama and the Democratic Party have been pounding on for months have been identified.  There are 235,413 of them, according to solid reporting from Jennifer Epstein of Politico today.  They comprise .01% of the U.S. population.  A small subsection of them — 8,274 people– made more than $10 million last year. Bastards.

What should be done with them?  Tar and feathers? Should we ride ’em out of the country on a rail? Or should we go right to the guillotine, French revolutionary style?  They are guilty of success: Off with their heads!

Never before have so few done so much damage to so many — or so President Obama would suggest.  His class war should be easy to win.  It’s 99.9% – .01%. 

Or is it possible we are the ones we’ve been looking for?

 

 

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James at 50

Written By: William F. B. O'Reilly - Aug• 05•11

Anyone remember the show James at 15?  If you were around in the 1970’s, it would be hard not to. Lance Kerwin played the title character in the popular teen drama that became James at 16 before it ended. It was the story of a boy trying to make it in this day and age, in that day and age. Something reminded me of the show this morning, and I thought I’d check in on him.

Lance Kerwin is fifty. 5-0.  He is a pastor at a Christian rehabilitation center in Hawaii. He’ll be 51 this November.

Son of a b…

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Greener Grass; Draft Hillary

Written By: William F. B. O'Reilly - Aug• 05•11

University of Virginia Law School professor Christopher Sprigman tries to begin a Draft Hillary movement in the Chicago Tribune today. The former Obama supporter and Democratic National Committee lecturer blasts away at President Obama, writing:

“I’m not a political expert, so I don’t know if Obama can be re-elected. I only know he shouldn’t be. He has broken with the faith that has sustained Democrats since the 1930s — faith in the power of government to soften inequality, and to provide some measure of security for the old, the poor and the sick.

“Hillary, I’m sorry for not listening to you back in 2008. But perhaps you’ll give me another chance. Resign as secretary of state, and run against Obama in 2012. I will work my heart out for you. And I bet that millions of other angry Democrats will be with me.”

Sprigman is an occasional spokesman for the American Left, and his angry opinion piece today reads like it.  He is up in arms because the U.S. plans to cut around 5% of what we are borrowing over the next 10 year. We will still owe $22 trillion for programs Sprigman and his cohorts champion. I find it interesting, though, that he would abandon liberal Obama for far more centrist Clinton.  Maybe the Utopian state Sprigman is after is just plain unattainable in a rational world.

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