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After catching up on yesterday’s goings on up in Lansing, I just needed to share this (laugh) with everyone.
It’s yesterday’s “Michigan Democratic Party response to the 2018 SOTS”.
Don’t worry, I’m not here to torture everyone, the clip is already cued up to the best part of the entire speech.
Notice anything missing?
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(4)Nuh Uh.
(0)Coming soon - Some great lemonade?
Call me the eternal optimist.
Folks need to look at recent events with a little different perspective. At least the folks who hold ALL the power right now. There are good outcomes that are possible if the GOP collectively gets its head straight.
Our federal spending is bloated, and perpetually deficit ridden. Federal government shutdowns provide an insight into what is truly important to the general population, and leadership. It can also be used as a character test of those who claim certain positions (ie: being against Obamacare, cutting welfare, illegal immigration cost) during voting events.
There is nothing that holds the GOP held Senate to the 60 vote limitation used to provide cover for the shut down. Democrats, if ever they hold power again, would sidestep the rule so fast it would make the obamacare passage mechanics look amateurish to accomplish their stated goals of totalitarian socialism.
Military, ports, courts, borders, and federal highway systems are primary needs. State welfare subsidies,housing, education, federal property ownership, environmental interference, business manipulation (cronyism), and personal medical insurance practices are not.
Start with the federal defunding of California, and make Michigan a close next.
If GOP ideas are good, put them in place and let the results speak for themselves. If some legislators express an inordinate amount of fear about blowback, then we know where our weak sisters are, and they can be replaced ..now.
The #SchumerShutdown is the time to move forward and demonstrate the inadequacy of the Democrat philosophy to provide a constitutionally based operating plan that offers maximum state and individual benefit in the longer term.
It is an opportunity that ought not be missed.
(11)Nuh Uh.(0)Well, it took them long enough.
The first so-called “major revision” in the tax code in roughly 30-years.
Jason touched on this a little earlier with the statement released by Chairwoman Romney-McDaniel.
Speaking for myself, I’m going to hold off final judgment until I get a chance to read exactly what was in final bill. On the plus side, at least it doesn’t touch the continuing resolution.
But where I want to go with this is a little differently from where I have gone with in the past. This time I’m going to focus on the other side…Team “d”.
Not so much in what they have said, but in what they are doing. Or, more specifically, not doing.
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(7)Nuh Uh.(1)Alabama US Senate candidate Roy Moore was unfit by the standards of the elite political class.
Brash, unapologetic and likes the ladies a bit younger.
Undeniably, Judge Roy Moore is the guy who married a woman fourteen years his junior. She was 23, he was 37, and he has been married to her for 33 years.
That last part might well go under the radar, as the theme of the year is sexual predation. Under the current hysteria it is far easier to assign a label of ‘creeper,’ ‘pedophile,’ or ‘mall stalker’ than to look at the reality of the man’s life. It is apparently now far easier to accuse a public persona of violating the mob conscience than it is to defend such accusations made in the 11th hour of an important electoral milestone.
And in that last, even the #Nevertrump insanity found plausible means to lash out indirectly at a Trump agenda that has so far proven them not just wrong, but simply foolish.
#NeverTrumpers had their symbol of failure to rally about. They said Roy Moore was a pedophile, a dirtbag, a predator, and a creepy guy because he was committed to Trump’s agenda, even though Trump himself had originally rejected Moore in favor of a mainstream preferred Luther Strange.
(17)Nuh Uh.(1)Yet she cannot tell Michigan Voters about the $2-million she received by telling us that we were somehow wrong?!?
In a bid to somehow become relevant, Team D candidate for Michigan AG Dana Nessel released a campaign video citing her genitalia as the deciding factor on whom to vote for in 2018.
Strangely enough, in her montage of people who are accused (but not convicted), several people are strangely absent.
Anyone want to guess which political party they belong to?
Here’s a hint
And who can forget this one?
Even more strangely is how the people mentioned above aren’t all dead by now…but I digress.
So below is the video in question. I’m certain that the donations will be flowing into her campaign coffers after this announcement!
(10)Nuh Uh.(0)The race is finally shaping up like we would expect.
The mix is in.
Lt. Governor Brian Calley has gone for the brass ring. An email from the inbox today:
“Dear Jason,
Today I formally announce that I am a candidate for Governor of Michigan. I am running for Governor to finish Michigan’s Comeback and make Michigan the most prosperous state in the country.Please take a moment to watch my announcement video, and consider joining the team.
etc…”
And not to miss an opportunity to get a little rush from the announcement is political newcomer Jim Hines, who in his own email blast says:
“I welcome Brian Calley to the race for Governor. We now have three term-limited Republican politicians seeking their next job, all pretending to be outsiders.”
etc…”
Each of those term limited guys could probably write their own check quite well. So I am not sure how the term limited fact will sway anything, but Calley’s engagement in the process does shuffle the political support deck, bringing the not-Schuette candidate class into higher probability realm.
Header image merely a temporary courtesy.
More to follow..
(7)Nuh Uh.(1)Unless you have the Pollyanna-ish worldview that a certain sitting Michigan Governor possesses, honestly none of this should come as a surprise to anyone.
Round two in the Detroit Mayoral Race (which in case anyone is interested, has the first and only televised debate tonite).
And the sad part here is that I could’ve found more rundown areas of Detroit than are featured below.
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(2)Nuh Uh.(0)Here comes the first proverbial shot across the bow.
Grab some popcorn, this should be fun.
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(2)Nuh Uh.(0)True Conservative to get back in the game for 2018
One of the most compelling curiosities of Michigan politics is the 11th congressional district.
In the 2012 election cycle, a little known veteran, farmer, and teacher, Kerry Bentivolio challenged the popular Thaddeus McCotter for the 11th congressional seat in the Republican primary. Bentivolio was largely ignored and on his own with barely a notice even as he set up a Kiosk just outside the 2012 State convention in Detroit.
McCotter was not going to lose a primary to this particular unknown and things moved along as they do. Of course “as they do” can become crazy real fast in Michigan politics. The long [to NO] shot challenger soon found himself thrust into the position of defending a GOP seat in congress when things fell apart for McCotter.
Establishment types freaked out.
McCotter at first thought a write-in campaign would work, but then decided to roll with fate and pursue the next stage of his career. At the same time, money players in the 11th sought out someone they thought might be ‘a better choice’ to defend the seat (and perhaps serve their ends) for the general election.
Even though write in campaigns are seldom successful, it was seen as the only way to keep a constitutional conservative, tea party guy from ‘screwing up’ the system. Nancy Cassis was selected to challenge the new found politico Bentivolio for the primary, but as write-ins go, was easily trounced by the under funded and on the ballot new-pol by a margin of two to one.
Bentivolio served with honor and earned a 95% rating from freedomworks, 92% from the ACU, 91% from club for growth, and 83% from Heritage. Bentivolio was second only to Amash in constitutional on the Heritage rating and earned the top spot from a number of smaller conservative and small business organizations.
It wasn’t enough for the swamp however. In 2014, there was already a challenge planned and fully funded, and with the establishment blockade placed on the newly installed congressman’s reelection coffers, he wasn’t able to survive a political fight with the well funded David Trott, who won easily with his own two to one margin.
(14)Nuh Uh.(0)The Draft Roger Penske campaign cannot be for real, can it
Only in Michigan could we nominate a Republican who donated to his opponent’s war chest.
It would be one thing if Roger Penske and his wife donated to Debbie Stabenow 10 years ago, had buyers remorse (who wouldn’t), and then decided to rectify by running for the US senate seat to correct it. It is quite again another to donate $30,000 aggregately, less that a year ago, and expect to be nominated.
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Good grief.
Take off the top-hat and tuxedo and pay attention. Even rich penguins remain to this day, birds that cannot fly.
Who comes up with these crazy ideas?
(13)Nuh Uh.(1)
