1.) Palin vs. Coulter? — If you like Sarah Palin because she drives liberals crazy, and you like Ann Coulter because she drives liberals crazy, you’re now being asked to make a difficult decision. TheDC’s Jeff Poor reports: “On Tuesday’s ‘The O’Reilly Factor,’ substitute host Laura Ingraham asked conservative columnist Ann Coulter if Palin can maintain her status as a tea party favorite by stringing people along about her potential 2012 candidacy. ‘Maybe not,’ Coulter replied. ‘Newt Gingrich carried it on for 15 years and I kind of think that might be what we’re getting here, largely because of the polls…’ Coulter pointed out that conservatives are reluctant to criticize Palin for fear of a backlash. ‘Most Americans don’t want Sarah Palin for president,’ Coulter continued. ‘But she’s become sort of the Obama of the tea party. She’s just ‘The One’ to a certain segment of right-wingers… You know, we used to all love Sarah Palin — conservatives like me — for her enemies. I’m starting to dislike her because of her fans…” So, yeah. The next couple of days ought to be interesting. If you’ve got a bomb shelter or a panic room, might be a good idea to just lay low for a while.
2.) Trumka goes to the mattresses for Hoffa — On Monday, a mere 8 months after the left’s massive post-Tucson scolding campaign against anybody who so much as uttered the word “fight,” America’s second most cartoonishly thuggish union leader vowed to “go to war” and “take these sons of bitches out” who dare to disagree with him. Does Cartoon Union Goon #1 back him up? What do you think? TheDC’s Matthew Boyle reports: “AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka refused to denounce the vitriolic rhetoric that his fellow union leader, Teamsters President James Hoffa, espoused in a speech on Monday. While warming up a Labor Day crowd in Detroit before a speech by President Obama, Hoffa said unions should fight a ‘war’ with tea partiers and congressional Republicans. ‘President Obama, this is your army,’ Hoffa declared. ‘We are ready to march. Let’s take these sons of bitches out and take America back to where we belong.’ On CNN’s ‘Piers Morgan Tonight,’ Trumka said he ‘probably wouldn’t have chose [sic] the adjectives [Hoffa] used’ but that he supports the premise. ‘I think Jim Hoffa’s speaking for the anger that millions of Americans have,’ Trumka said. ‘These people [tea partiers and congressional Republicans] are playing political brinksmanship and not allowing us to create jobs and they’re not willing to help us get the country moving. Some of them even announced that they want the president to fail.'” The bad people are mean! It’s different when the bad people are mean. Then you can do and say whatever you want, and it’s not the same as when they do bad stuff (like putting crosshairs on a map), because they made you do it. Call it the New New Civility. It’ll last until the end of time, or until the Democrats think they can exploit another act of violence to try to shut up their opponents, whichever comes first.
3.) The IRS might get even more popular — Ronald Reagan once said that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Now we can add three more to that sentence: “…with your taxes.” TheDC’s Matt Lewis reports: “Imagine this scenario: The IRS may soon just do your taxes for you — and send you the bill. If this sounds farfetched, it’s not. With a new congressional ‘super committee’ tasked with finding $1.5 trillion in cuts by November, creative ways to find additional revenue are in high demand. And allowing the IRS to prepare your taxes could be one solution. Obama’s former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Austan Goolsbee made a strong case for it in a 2006 New York Times op-ed, explaining, ‘… the revenue service could send you a tax form already filled out with the information it has for you — a Simple Return — rather than a blank tax form. You would simply check the numbers against your W-2 and 1099 and then sign it…’ While the notion of allowing government to encroach on yet another aspect of our lives might sound like a hard sell, members of the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) believe this is a very real threat. ‘There is a fundamental conflict of interest if the tax collectors also become the tax preparer,’ said CCIA President and CEO Ed Black. ‘If you don’t trust the fox to guard your hen house, why trust the IRS to do your taxes. It’s the same exact thing. They make it sound so convenient, but it’s really just a convenient way to kiss your deductions and tax credits goodbye.'” Hey, every cent you make is the government’s money, and they’re nice enough to let you hold some of it for them. You should be ashamed of yourselves, America, for wanting to keep what you earn, instead of giving it to your betters at gunpoint to do with as they see fit. Now shut up and get back to work, you. This massively bloated bureaucracy isn’t just going to pay for itself.
4.) These are not the funds, redeployed, you’re looking for — It’s been said that all of Obama’s promises come with an expiration date. That’s just silly, as TheDC’s Matthew Boyle reports: “Although President Barack Obama has promised he won’t be taking any corporate money to support his re-election bid, the organizers of the 2012 Democratic National Convention have already shown that they will. Through a back door financing method — the DNC ‘host committee’ — the party can take in millions of dollars in corporate contributions and other in-kind donations, like telecommunications equipment or vehicles, The Charlotte Observer reports. For the upcoming 2012 DNC Convention in Charlotte, the local newspaper reports that Duke Energy’s CEO, Jim Rogers, is already ‘quietly’ raising up to $15 million for the host committee… DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse told The Daily Caller the host committee’s choice to use corporate funds for expenses outside of the convention would not violate President Obama’s pledge to entirely avert corporately-financed campaigns. ‘For the first time ever, at the President’s insistence, the Democratic convention host committee will not accept any corporate cash or money from PACs or federal lobbyists,’ Woodhouse said in an email. ‘Neither the Obama campaign nor the DNC take PAC or federal lobbyist money. This President has done more to ring the influence of special interests out of the political process than any President or presidential candidate ever.’” He probably meant “wring,” not “ring,” or maybe that’s how they spell it on Bizarro World. You don’t really see what you see, because they say so. What’s next, are you going to pretend Obama’s poll numbers aren’t skyrocketing?
5.) Mythical creature sought — Bigfoot. The Loch Ness Monster. El Chupacabra. We can now add another elusive creature to the annals of folklore: the Jon Huntsman fan. TheDC’s Jamie Weinstein reports: “Outside of MSNBC’s Algonquin Round Table, it isn’t easy to find strong supporters of former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman. Despite his high profile entry into the presidential race after resigning as America’s ambassador to China, Huntsman has been unable to catch fire. His RealClearPolitics polling average stands at 1.3 percent. Forget trailing frontrunners Mitt Romney and Rick Perry, Huntsman is being doubled by Rick Santorum in the polls. So, who exactly are the few supporting Huntsman’s candidacy? The Daily Caller randomly tracked down several Huntsman supporters on Facebook. While unscientific, their answers help provide a composite of what a Huntsman backer looks like.” Weinstein takes a closer look at those answers. And let’s not forget Huntsman’s fans at Vanity Fair, the aforementioned MSNBC, and most importantly the Obama administration. They’d love it if Huntsman went all the way to about halfway through Nov. 6, 2012.
6.) Today’s turn of the table from Adam Baldwin’s Twitter feed — “Alinsky Rule 4: ‘Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.’ ~ Obama refusing to release ‘Jobs Plan’ = he’s not a ‘straight shooter’.”
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