Abu Wabu

And by "Opponents" I mean the citizens who voted against Obama And Everything He Stands For on November 2; of course, these fools even now do not understand their present position.

They think it's still just a propaganda game between them and the Republicans in Congress, one to be played out in the MSM. They haven't made the connection that the new crop of Republicans have come to Washington to represent their constituents. Nor do they understand that they are laughably transparent in their grand projections, as detailed by Power Line in Politics As Warfare:

In fact, if one were looking for over-the-top political rhetoric, Democratic politicians and pundits would provide a far more fertile field than Republicans. The soon-to-be-departed Alan Grayson alone has outdone the entire Republican Party. It was a Democratic radio network, not a Republican one, that featured assassination humor; it is a Democratic cable news channel, not a Republican one, that peddles hysteria and brands anyone who disagrees as the "worst person in the world." It is Democrats, not Republicans, who are so lost in a fog of hatred that more than one-third of them say that September 11 was an inside job.

Read it all, and pray for more of this.

Instapundit:

“SMART DIPLOMACY” (CONT’D): Taliban Leader in Secret Talks Was an Impostor. Remember how these people were going to bring back competence? “And we gave him a lot of money.”

UPDATE: Reader C.J. Burch emails: “This administration is a joke. A complete joke.” But not a very funny one.

MORE: Are These The High Level Peace Talks Or Have I Blundered Into A Comedy Club? It’s like Borat For Diplomats.

Gateway Pundit: They took on stupid lil Barbie Spice, hardy har.

A message to the "progressive" left.

Newt Gingrich hit the big ol' Reset button today, declaring that he will have no part in the establishment (that is to say entrenched leftist) media's "gotchya" debate format run by obvious leftist shills like Chrissy and Keef.

Instead, Newt wisely proposes a series of public conversations between declared Republican presidential contenders presented directly to the American citizen, unfettered and unfiltered by the establishment media, who nonetheless are welcome to broadcast the proceedings should they see fit. This is exactly what conservatives need to do: choose the media for their message, and if some big establishment players get left out, well then maybe they ain't such big players any more.

Patrick Gavin's headline reads, "Newt Disses Matthews, Olbermann," but the story goes way beyond that. Newt is not just saying he won't take part in debates run by those two individuals; he is dismissing the entire leftist media template and declaring the establishment of a new one, conceived by the TEA Party and deployed in the midterms to historic effect.

And it has only just begun.

UPDATE
Sarah Palin just declared the same policy on Hannity: if she likes the cut of your journalistic jib, she'll have time for you. If she thinks you're out to hit her, forget it.

Like in real life.

Justice.

NRO's Andrew Stiles reports that Renee Ellmers has defeated the Carolina Strangler, Democrat Bob Etheridge in North Carolina’s 2nd District.



TEA Party.

Either this man is suffering from brain damage, or the new vacuum cleaner has arrived.

For doing what he angrily criticized Fox News' parent News Corp. of doing: contributing to his favorite candidates. All Democrats, all of whom appeared on his show.

Here's Phil Griffin, President of MSLSD:

I became aware of Keith’s political contributions late last night. Mindful of NBC News policy and standards, I have suspended the hypocritical douchebag indefinitely without pay.

That may not be an exact quote, now that I look at it again.

But soft! The latest reaction from a caring, concerned world:



UPDATE

On strictly Constitutional grounds, Olbermann has no defense since he accepted MSLSD's conditions of employment when he signed on. If company policy says you can't contribute to a political party then that's that. But that doesn't stop Andrew McCarthy from his tongue-in-cheek assertion that the First Amendment should prevail in favor of Keef, and that if it doesn't, then something is certainly afoul.

Me? I think this whole thing smells of Dick Cheney.

Harry Reid's campaign put intense pressure on Harrah's management to turn out the vote. Of course, that meant intimidating Harrah's employees, so it's no surprise that this scandal is growing legs.

Harrah’s Bosses Put Squeeze on Employees to Vote in Pro-Reid Effort by Elizabeth Crum

Bottom line:

BOYCOTT HARRAH'S

You'll just have to go see for yourself.

Writing in the American Spectator, former Reagan White House political director Jeffrey Lord has nailed the story behind last night's unmitigated slaughter of the Obama Democrats, a story that began with Rush Limbaugh's now famous four words: "I hope he fails."

With those words, Limbaugh drew the Obama White House into a two-year public battle in which they employed Saul Alinskey's infamous Rule Number 12 or 13 or whatever:

As Obama and his aides began relentlessly pushing exactly the far-left agenda that Limbaugh so publicly predicted would fail, they decided to bring the hardball of Chicago politics into play: they would intimidate their opponents by making an example of America's number one conservative talk radio star. .

Which is exactly the point where the path to the conservative victory of 2010 began.

A MERE THREE DAYS after Obama took office, Republican congressional leaders were ushered into the White House for their first formal meeting with the new president. Wary of Obama proposals for a massive stimulus bill, with a huge health care bill looming beyond that, they sat quietly as Obama's Limbaugh strategy began to unfold. Borrowing a tactic from Rules for Radicals, the handbook written by Obama's hero the late Chicago radical community activist Saul Alinsky, Obama the one-time community activist become president lectured the astonished GOP leadership, saying pointedly "You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done." The Republicans were barely out the door before the story leaked, causing a media feeding frenzy as the White House knew it would.

With that, the stage for the entire next two-years was set. The looming battle over the direction of America would be deliberately, willfully cast -- by the White House itself -- as a battle royal between the President of the United States and Rush Limbaugh. The specific tactic to be employed was Rule Number 12 of Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. Which reads this way:

RULE 12: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

The Rule 12 signal was flashed by the White House to every Democrat on Capitol Hill along with every Obama ally in the media: the President personally is going to lead the charge against Rush Limbaugh and he was inviting them to join the fray.

Whatever issue was being debated -- the stimulus, health care, immigration, the topic didn't matter -- Rush Limbaugh was to be the highly personalized target of the Obama White House and all of the American Left. They would freeze his image in the public mind in as unfavorable and polarizing a fashion as they could manage. Then Limbaugh would be assaulted repeatedly in the style of Rule 12 as the next two years unfolded.

With the liberal media, the Soros propaganda juggernaut and "sunshine conservatives" on their side, the Obama White House thought it had a winning strategy, but it was Limbaugh who held the upper hand, because he knew something that his attackers had failed to take into account: when you attack Rush Limbaugh, you also attack middle America.

In the drive to target Rush Limbaugh, millions of Americans -- from fellow talk radio stars to Fox News to the vast audience of average Americans -- listened and watched these White House-directed anti-Limbaugh screeds first with amazement, then a growing incredulity which finally gave way to outrage.

Why?

Because all knew at the end of the day that as sure as God made little green apples what began with Rush would end with everyday Americans. You. Your friends. Your neighbors. The barber, the housewife, the independent, the Catholic, Protestant, or Jew and, yes, the law-abiding everyday Muslim. The college student, the entrepreneur, the doctor, the plumber. Americans all -- every one dreaming dreams that somebody in Washington from the President on down was scheming to control, to limit, to regulate, to tax -- and ultimately control to the point of ruin. And sure enough, like clockwork, as the Tea Party burst into existence these average Americans were targeted just as was Rush. Now it wasn't just Rush who was being smeared, the Obama/Pelosi/Reid/liberal media attack machine had turned against these everyday Americans, savaging them as nothing more than a collection of racists, Nazis, and "teabaggers," for resisting their obsession with controlling Americans' every last movement in life while spending the country into trillions of debt as far as the next several generations could see. Americans who had heard Rush predict that the Obama-era would bring an all-out assault on American values realized just short of the nick-of-time not only that he was right, but that it was up to them to stop this assault in its tracks.

And so they did.

Obama, as Rush Limbaugh predicted, has in fact now failed. Nancy Pelosi is out of a job. And thanks to Rush Limbaugh, a new generation of Americans is learning that conservatism is not simply cool -- more importantly they are learning collectivism isn't smart.

Thankfully, last night's results are proof that the American people are taking those hard-won lessons to heart. The voters have in effect instructed their representatives in Washington and at the state level to put the brakes on Obama's destructive agenda with all haste and with every tool at their disposal. Obama and his remaining minions will fight them at their peril.

And Rush Limbaugh's four words insured that outcome before Obama was even immaculated.

There has not in seventy years been a stronger electoral ass-whipping laid on a sitting president, especially one with a servile legislative branch at his beck and call from the very start. The American people have stunned the ruling class by voting to throw off the yoke of Obama's socialist nightmare. They will do that through the design set out in the Constitution that Obama, much to his disadvantage, is sworn to uphold and that the People will wield with unprecedented force through their new citizen legislators.

It's a brand new day.

All answering the burning question of the day at last weekend's Rally For Whatever, Dude: Is Obama a Keynesian?



Ace:

Smart liberals. Educated liberals. Liberals who know more about stuff than everyone else. Liberals who are saner than everyone else.

Gettin' punked.

Not for the first time. The last time was November 2008, and many of them still don't know it. Oh and double plus also, since when do we listen to the opinions of dogs dressed up as uptight white businesswhiteys?

Mary Katherine Ham also has this great vid filled with sweet, sweet irony:



Whoooo boy.

Via Instapundit

Now it’s your turn to speak out. “They’ve spent the past 18 months calling you names and questioning your sanity and patriotism. But today you get to vote, and that’s all that matters.”

For you voters in Delaware the local TV stations have tried to disenfranchise, here is the full campaign video they took O'Donnell's money to air and then lied that they somehow "forgot."

We the People of the First State
by Friends of Christine O'Donnell

We the People of the First State from Friends of Christine O'Donnell on Vimeo.

Red meat for the morning before, therightscoop.com gives you Glenn Beck Halloween Special – October 31, 2010