Must be a requirement that Democrats have no memory cells.  Well, at least not a contigent of them that is large enough to encompass both what they think others do AND the things they do themselves.

A statement made by James Carville has come back to haunt him, courtesy of those who understand that the Democrat’s war on Rush Limbaugh is not only unwarranted, but hypocritical.  This apparently late-blooming paragon of virtue  told a group of reporters on the morning of September 11, 2001, “I certainly hope he doesn’t succeed.”

Stanley Greenberg, another top Democratic strategist at that same breakfast table, added, “”We rush into these focus groups with these doubts that people have about him, and I’m wanting them to turn against him.”  He apparently found it humorous that Americans actually considered it important whether or not the President succeeds at his job, “They don’t want him to fail. I mean, they think it matters if the president of the United States fails.”

Of course, and rather frighteningly when you consider they were making these kinds of statements as the terrorist planes were flying into the Twin Towers, it wasn’t more than a matter of minutes later when word of the attacks began to be broadcast, and in some swamp-creature version of a Hail Mary play, Mr. Carville immediately retracted.  And the ever-obedient main-stream media reporters, with the biggest story of their lives in front of them, promptly and oh-so-conveniently forgot about it.

But just like that swamp creature, Carville’s past rose again in all its slimey glory when he decided to call it out of hiding by recently telling CNN, “The most influential Republican in the United States today, Mr. Rush Limbaugh, said he did not want President Obama to succeed.”

“The television cameras just can’t stay away from him,” he then told Politico. “Our strategy depends on him keeping talking, and I think we’re going to succeed.”

Greenberg added: “He’s driving the Republican reluctance to deal with Obama, which Americans want.”

Now today, Carville had to go suck-up over at CNN and explain how much more virtuous were his and Greenberg’s failure wishes than is Rush Limbaugh’s. 

I think it was just another convenient excuse for another Democrat to bash Rush.

But you have to admit it’s amusing to see the squirming that must accompany it this time.

The door to the bank vault that holds the ghosts of the American taxpayers’ money, that is.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today “suggested” that yet another “rescue package” is going to be needed.  How much more rescue is needed when Congress has yet to spend the $787 BILLION stimulus money and just signed the $410 BILLION 2009 budget into effect?

Must be getting a little more expensive to fly your family and friends around the country in military aircraft, eh, Nancy?  Couldn’t be due to all those times you insisted the aircraft be there at your beck and call and then you didn’t bother to show up, could it?  Couldn’t be because so many of your Congress critter pals, staff, and spouses – I counted 95 people authorized by you for travel – wanted to go to a funeral, could it?

So just why are we paying you $223,500 a year?

Back before the checks were in the mail (you know, those stimulus checks we got last summer), the “deficit” was at $273 billion (+/-).  The cost of all those checks added $200 billion, which then gave us a deficit of $473 billion.

Yes, G.W. did ask for those checks, but the bill that put them in our mailboxes was created and passed in the House of Representatives.  Because the House of Representatives is where spending bills originate.  And when G.W. asked for those checks and the House created and passed the bill that put those checks in our mailboxes, the House was controlled by the Democrats.  You know, those Democrats who keep saying G.W. spent too much money.  Well, guess what?  They could have said no to the stimulus check idea.  They didn’t and it passed both the House and Senate.

All hell breaks loose last September so the Federal Reserve, along with the US Treasury, go have a meeting and scare the hell out of everyone and claim they need at least $700 billion to save us from chaos and utter financial meltdown. What happened next is that $550 billion electronically flew out of the US in about an hour; the Federal Reserve saw the run on the banks and shut down the “Money Market” accounts.  Of course, the question of who was taking this money out of their accounts and where it went hasn’t yet been explained….  

But no, not a plan, not even an idea.  Nope; big focus is on heath care and that useless “stimulus” package that was done up in the House by Pelosi and does absolutely NOTHING to actually fix the problem and stabilize the markets. Yes, folks, the markets need to be stabilized; 50% of the population of the USA have a personal interest in the markets and the ones who don’t instinctively know that when the stock market drops, like it has, things are bad and they QUIT SPENDING MONEY and that further depresses the markets.  When the President says, and I’m paraphrasing this a bit, that he doesn’t pay much attention to the markets because they are like a political poll that bounces around, we are in deep, serious shit.  Sorry for the language, but we are.

I’m solid middle class, my other half works in a factory, and we both were absolutely appalled at that statement! Either Mr. Wonderful was trying to be upbeat (didn’t work), or he really has not one clue about how the economy works.  I’m really betting it is the latter since so far his only goal has been to spend more money and tax folks more.  The guys with the real money have it tucked away safe and the way things are going the middle rich won’t be so who do you think will foot the bill?  The same people who always have – the solid middle class.

A little P.S.  NYC is in deep trouble, tax-wise, since those evil Wall Street guys and their evil bonuses paid the city’s bills.

What goes around comes around.

First posted at Third Base Politics, today Hotair and Patterico both posted a 2006 Fox News poll in which 51% of Democrats said they wanted to see then-President Bush fail.

Yes, indeed.  Democrats were asked a simple question, “Regardless how you voted in the presidential election, would you say you want President Bush to succeed or not?”

Their answer?

“I want him to fail.”

Oh.  My.  God. 

[ Cue in sounds of great weeping and wailing, show video clip of hands being wrung and teeth gnashing ]

I ask you, is this patriotic?  How could you say you wanted your president to FAIL?  This is, in Demon-crat-speak, OUTRAGEOUS!  It has “no place in the public discourse”!  It “politicizes” the efforts of “millions of hard working Americans”! 

Indeed.

All I can say to them now is that if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen ’cause your goose is being cooked.

Apparently it’s too hard to “revisit” the Omnibus bill and cut earmarks from it so the President just wants to move on, claiming he’ll handle them differently next year.  Easier to blame the previous administration, even though the President was supposed to be working in the Senate at the time so is therefore a part of creating this monumental disaster of a budget.

Must be hell to have to live with such a short attention span.  Though when we’re talking about 1,133 pages of bill and 1,845 pages of bill explanations and we’re in such a “crisis”, I guess it’s more important to be seen as doing something – anything – instead of doing what is right.  Or even doing your job.

Now there’s a fine example of accountability and fiscal responsibility for ya.

You know, I’m having a really hard time with this one.  Senator Ted Kennedy, that “lion of the Senate”, has brain cancer.  I realize that Rush Limbaugh simply meant that it could be a long time before the President gets his way with national “health care reform”, but even in jest, the idea sticks in my craw.  Sad, yes.  Tragic, yes.  But you know, I have no more than generic sympathy for his situation because, frankly, I find it a rather fitting payback. 

What?  He’s done so much for the “little people”!  He’s an icon, a Kennedy, for gosh’s sakes!

Well, because he’s a Kennedy, Senator Teddy quite literally got away with murder.

It’s strange how quickly we forget the real “little people”, particularly when we’re standing there with our hands out, isn’t it?  I’m not so sure that the family of Mary Jo Kopechne has forgotten her needless, tragic end in the waters off Chappaquiddick Island.  Nothing about that fatal night in July 1969 makes sense, even with 40 years of hindsight. 

Facts:  Ted Kennedy was driving, Mary Jo Kopechne was the only passenger.  They left a party at Lawrence Cottage, ostensibly to get Mary Jo back to her hotel in Edgartown.  He headed in the opposite direction of Edgartown and with sudden (“violent”) braking locking the wheels at approximately 34 mph and approximately 17′ from Dike Bridge, the car skidded on the uneven dirt road, bounced off Dike Bridge, and landed upside down in the water of Poucha Pond.

Ted Kennedy returned to the party.   He told no one but a cousin and a friend, both lawyers, and the three of them returned to the scene of the accident.  When they failed to get Mary Jo out of the car, they left.  Because the ferry off the island had shut down for the night, Ted Kennedy swam back to Edgartown and his hotel (across almost 500′ of channel with currents only safely navigated by the strongest of swimmers).  He did not report the accident until the next morning, after he was notified the police had already found Mary Jo’s body in his car.

Many questions surrounded the investigation, including why Kennedy was driving so fast on an uneven, unlit road.  No explanation was ever given for how only Kennedy, at 6’2″, could get out through one of the open or smashed-in windows (all the car doors were locked), but little 5’2″ Mary Jo could not.  Nor was it ever explained why she could not have been pulled out by the three men when they returned that same night.  And last, but not least, there was no explanation for why Kennedy did not immediately seek help from any of four nearby houses, all of which were occupied the night of the accident, and at least three of which had left lights on; one plainly visible from Dike Bridge.  Even the island’s fire station, only 150 yards from the cottage where Senator Kennedy was partying, could have been reached from Dike Bridge on foot in 1/2 hour.

According to John Farrer, the diver who pulled Mary Jo’s lifeless, stiff body from Ted Kennedy’s Oldsmobile the following day, “There was a great possibility that we could have saved Mary Jo’s life. There would have been an airlock in the car – there always is in such submersions – that would have kept her alive. If we had been called, I would have reached the scene in 45 minutes. I say 45 minutes because it was dark. ( The daylight recovery had taken 30 minutes ). The lack of light might have caused a delay of 15 minutes.”  This is also based on the position in which she was found inside the car, “If she had been dead or unconscious, she would have been prone, sinking to the bottom or floating on top. She definitely was holding herself in a position to avail herself of the last remaining air that had to be trapped in the car.” 

That is the “legacy” Senator Ted Kennedy created the night he went, driving on an expired license, to party (six married men sans wives and six single women) on Chappaquiddick Island.  A murdered young woman and enough spin and “clout” to have walked away from manslaughter charges.

To name even a bridge after him would be a travesty.

Campaigning in Ohio today, President Obama told a graduating class of police recruits that he won’t accept a future of job losses.

So now with these 25 folks gainfully employed, that leaves only 3,499,975 jobs to create – or was that save? – and then maybe we can get around to the additional 1.4 million more who are out of work now, too.

Chalk one up for the Blue Team!

Haste makes waste.  Both Congress and President Obama continue to find this out on a daily basis.

Harry Reid failed to ramrod the Omnibus earmark bill through the Senate last night, forcing him into late-night conniving with Nancy Pelosi to figure out how to put a happy face on this latest budget disaster.

That means there’s now time to call your elected servants and push them to make good on all those “no earmarks” promises.  Ask them to pull theirs and vote no on anyone else’s.  They really need to understand that while the country is, indeed, in dire straits, the American people don’t want Pretty Kitty band-aids that will only lead to amputations later.

Besides, why such a rush when Geithner, like his boss, still can’t fill senior positions on his staff?  Positions that will be key to ladeling out all the pork?

I don’t know how this slipped by without more of President Obama’s much-revered “dialogue” from the media types, but our “rank-and-file senators and representatives” received an automatic cost-of-living increase for 2009.  Their annual salary – for the privilege of serving the electorate – rose to $174,000, up from $169,300 in 2008, and staff salaries were also increased per Executive Order 13483 of December 18, 2008.

Of course, they could have voted to suspend it. 

But, of course, they didn’t.

And this, of course, makes President Obama’s haste to institute a “pay freeze” for some administration staff in his first days in office, well, a rather shallow gesture.

It’s also just a drop in the trillion-dollar bucket of the new deficit when you realize this “freeze” is going to save only $443,000 next year.

With this kind of “fiscal responsibility”, I’m now starting to understand why the Dow continues to tank.  I have no faith in this administration, either.

I never signed up for this.  But apparently once the tech-no-bamas got into the campaign fray, no one’s email address was safe any more.

Sounding as desperate to find a believer for their con game as any garden-variety spammer, today I’m receiving multiple copies of a hilarious plea from the Democratic National Committee to come up with a slogan, in ten words or less, that they can put on a billboard near Rush Limbaugh’s home.  The winner will even get a t-shirt with their slogan on it.

Yes, I know.

It’s very, very … childish.

You realize, of course, that someone is actually PAYING these people to come up with this crap.  And they are actually PAYING them to spam Americans who want no part of it.  I wonder if this is part of Obama’s plan to “create”‘ jobs or to “save” jobs?

I’ll give them a slogan, all right.

I HOPE HE FAILS.

And because I’m feeling generous today, I’ll give them another one:

Embrace the failure.  It’s patriotic.