Then it hit me. You can’t be called a hypocrite, if all you’ve ever aspired to be is a weasel.

That’s why Senator John Edwards is not a hypocrite. That is why David Letterman is not a hypocrite.

That’s why President Obama is not a Hypocrite for not replacing Ben Bernanke.

That’s why you couldn’t even get a left-wing talk show or news show off the ground, even if you raided the local children’s charity fund, or sold weapons to Iran.

It will never occur to the left-nut shills and sabatuers that the reason talk radio and cable news doesn’t cover their favorite issue, is NOT because it wasn’t chosen by the person they love to denigrate. Rather, they don’t hear themselves on a national stage because the US is mostly conservative, and, except we make a mistake and give them the stage every few years, mostly, nobody cares about your strawmen.

Like a huge boat, the US will right itself in a few years, and we will begin taking stock of the damage done, this last time we let our NOBILITY and IDEALISM override our common sense. We let the desire to be cared for, override our independence and ability to take care of ourselves.

We let our sense of racial equality, and desire to help the poor, hand power to the crooks, creeps, liars, and con artists that were waiting in the wings.

I just hope we can also find a way to spank a few crooked Republicans in the process of finding our way back to respectability.

I suggest you check out http://www.shadowstats.com for an accurate evaluation of the current and future effects of Bernanke’s inflationary policies. Where do you see deflation, by the way—in the equities markets, for example? where the P/E of the S&P500 is incalculable, but probably near 100.

The effect of the Fed selling off the toxic assets on its balance sheet remains to be seen, and it may use much of the proceeds to purchase Treasurys rather than extinguish the dollars it receives. Purchasing Treasurys, which is going on apace right now through Quantitative Easing and the Fed’s back-door, undisclosed foreign purchases is inflationary by definition. It’s this simple, icr: the government is using “printing press” money to make purchases or transfer payments in the open market today using money that wasn’t there yesterday. If that’s not inflationary, nothing is.

It’s deflation:
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/10/deflation-threat-what-deflation-threat.html

In any case, they are missing the critical problem. While they trivialize the issues by chasing after the Van Joneses, Ben Bernanke is quietly and secretly confiscating middle-class wealth through inflation, accomplishing what the left-loon radicals can only dream of amid a cloud of marijuana smoke. Instead of exposing the collusion between Washington and, say, Goldman Sachs, they go after ACORN. No doubt they all see the financial sector as the premier example of free capitalism, when in fact it is a far greater threat to freedom in this country than wacko leftist moles running around the White House.

That’s why anti-regime dissenters should try to get one house of the state legislature in one or more states elected by statewide party-list (open or closed list) PR. You only have to look at the examples of Geert Wilders or the Freedom Party of Austria to see why this makes sense. It’s at least worth a try in some states with initiative and referendum.

That ratio is probably more like 1/300, once the (boorish) people who give away copies of their favorites as Christmas gifts are factored in.

Heh. Let’s be honest about this. The only thing that Liberals would like more than Palin coming out on top of the 2011 Primaries as the official face of the Republican Party is if she then picked Michelle Bachman as her candidate for VP.

It won’t happen, sadly, but it would be sweeter than angel tears.

Partisans of all stripes are fond of thinking that deep down, once unduped by the spin doctors of the other side(s), the majority will clear the fogg off their windshields for good and all and discover what they’ve felt all along, buttressed by selectively-interpreted polling data, and embrace its true and inner progressive/libertarian/Saraphim Palinite/5th-Day-Dittoheadventist, &c. It is very easy to fall down that slope, especially if Dear Leader has had a book at #1 on the NYT bestsellers list, for weeks at a time. Gosh, a book at #1? Seems the whole country must be talking about My Guy, right? And as the author makes his book-tour rounds across the plain of the political chat shows and sees clips of bookstore crowds lined up round the block, viewers think the gasbag is taking the country by storm – at #1, no less?

As it happens, even the top-selling book of any given year in this category, that of hardcover nonfiction, sells roughly one million copies – which means that, leaving aside the issue of bulk buying by interested parties with deep pockets, for every American adult who bought your hero’s book in hopes of taking back “their” country in the twele months since its release unto a benighted republic – 225 did not.

Beware the echo-chamber of the members of the political class who mistakes the fact that his phone never stops ringing for the belief that he has America on the line – and who mistakes an anecdote for an antidote.