Shot in the Dark

Tag: Shutdownpocalypse 2013

  • Doomed To Fail

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Bankers were seriously panicked over the last shut-down, fearing government might actually stop paying welfare.  Bankers were willing to fund the welfare system while Democrats kept ratcheting up the hysteria to force the Narrative on the public.  How much of the bankers’ war-gaming was spent lobbying Republicans to turn the…

  • I’m Going To Pull This Car Over

    All of you “The GOP Let Us Down, Why Should We Ever Support Them Again?” types:   To quote LTCDR Montgomery Scott, “you can’t change the laws of physics”.  Or the Constitution, in this case.  The Republicans – RINOs, Tea Partiers, Cruzes and Boehners alike – control one chamber of the Congress.  The Dems have…

  • The “Shutdown” Cage Match

    On the one hand, Jennifer Rubin at the WaPo points out 15 signs shutdown fans have “drunk the koolaid“: There has been, to put it mildly, some mass self-delusion going on in right-wing circles. Here’s how to tell if you are suffering from the ill-effects of the echo chamber. On the other hand?  Steven Hayward…

  • The Seams Are Coming Unravelled

    The peasants are running riot.

  • Signs We’re Overgoverned

    Vacationing senior citizens kept under armed guard in a hotel… …to keep them from seeing all that shut-down federal land: Vaillancourt was one of thousands of people who found themselves in a national park as the federal government shutdown went into effect on Oct. 1. For many hours her tour group, which included senior citizen…

  • Two Americas: Shutdown Edition

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Obama Administration’s effort to punish ordinary Americans until they agree to unlimited debt, continues.  Catholic priests aren’t even allowed to volunteer to serve the troops.  Why not?  What’s it hurt?  Does this affect other religions, too?  Families of soldiers in combat aren’t getting death benefits to attend funerals.  When did the…

  • The Potemkin Limit

    When your liberal friends, or even your less-informed Republican friends start yapping about the imperative to hike the debt limit, have them read this.  It’s John Hinderaker, and it points out that the government doesn’t constitutionally have the option to default: So what will actually happen if Congress doesn’t increase the debt ceiling by approximately…

  • That’ll Learn Ya

    A friend of mine emailed: A friend of mine sent this to me today while vacationing near White Mountain National Forest in Vermont. By the way if you want to visit a federal open air sculpture garden that is still open, you can’t go to the national Korean War memorial. But you can to the…

  • A Brisk Swim Through The Federal Swamp

    Tomorrow on the Northern Alliance Radio Network, I’ll have my former long-time co-host Ed Morrissey back on the show.  We’ll be talking shutdown, debt ceiling, and the whole Federal works.  Tune in from 1-3PM tomorrow on AM1280 The Patriot!

  • Guardians Of The Narrative

    NPR News this morning: The officers who shot the woman at the Capitol are among the hundreds of thousands of government employees not being paid… Tax money well spent. UPDATE:  This was just  flip little thing I’d toss off onto the blog while I was sitting at a stoplight on my way to work.  But…

  • Our Smug, Bitchy Overlords

    They warned me that if I voted for Mitt Romney, we’d get an omnipotent police state with no right to privacy, the police breaking into our houses at night, and authority flexing its idiot muscles at every turn. And they were right. On Government Radio last night, Melissa Block interviewed the grand poobah of the…

  • Why Do Reps. Ellison, McCollum, Walz And Nolan Hate Veterans?

    Four of Minnesota’s five House reps voted against funding veterans benefits during the shutdown (Collin Peterson did the right thing). Now, their explanation will be that the Democrats’ congressional leadership – Reid and Pelosi – want the whole budget passed, not a bunch of piecemeal mini-budgets – because that’s just not the way we do…

  • Reid: “Let The Peasant Child Die”

    Harry Reid provides one of the enduring memes about The Light Worker’s regime; Well, it’ll be an enduring meme if I have anything to say about it.

  • Tear Down This Wall

    It may not be the definitive image of the Obama regime – unionized government employees putting up barricades around the World War 2 memorial in the face of World War 2 veterans whose wheelchairs they are scarcely fit to push. But if I have any say over it,  it will be A new wave of…

  • Hot Gear Friday: Special Tuesday Government Shutdown Edition

    It’s Day One of the Government Shutdown.  So as we watch society collapse all around us due to the lack of government, and await the hordes of crazed bandits, hungry for human flesh, that will doubtless be descending on society, people are asking me “what sort of collection of firearms do you recommend for a…

  • Counting The Toll

    I’ll be using this post to catalogue the observed problems caused by the government shutdown. 12AM:  …

  • Scenarios

    Scenario 1:  Obama wants the shutdown.   The government shutdown will be a bonanza to Obama. Pro:  It’ll draw attention – with the aid of his Praetorian Guard, the media – away from the mounting disaster that is the Obamacare rollout, to say nothing of the IRS, NSA and Fast and Furious scandals.  With the…