American Glob

Your Freudian Slip is showing, Deval.

For those of you who don’t live in New England, let me fill you in.  96.9 WTKK is a mostly conservative talk radio station in Boston. Their current morning line-up starts at 7 am with liberal talk team Margery Egan and Jim Braude. They’re followed up by the 10 am to 2 pm show by conservative talker Michael Graham.

This morning as Michael Graham was preparing for his show, Egan and Braude were talking to Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick about the recent Glenn Beck rally in DC. In the video below, Graham and his producer talk about how they weren’t even listening to Egan and Braude’s show but they were forced to pay attention when their email accounts were flooded by listeners who took offense to a certain comment by Obama’s bestest buddy, Deval. Listen below…

Ed Morrissey of Hot Air weighs in here, saying Michael Graham makes a strong point toward the end…

Graham calls it a Kinsleyan gaffe, noting that if anyone asked Patrick if he liked that the US was a free country, he’d almost certainly say “Yes!”  But do Patrick’s policy choices and that of his party actually stand for freedom — or something else?

Oh, liberal Democrats stand for freedom, alright – freedom for those who agree with them.

Update: Linked at Weasel Zippers. Thanks ZIP!

Ed Schultz of MSNBC, that is…

Ed Schultz seems to think he could gather a crowd like Glenn Beck did last weekend. Uh huh. Sure you can Ed.

I bet you can fly too if you just shut your eyes and wish hard enough.

And by the way, I’m not suggesting Ed Schutlz is a nazi. I’m saying he’s a buffoon.

There’s been some talk around the web that if Lisa Murkowski loses the Republican nomination for US Senate in Alaska that she might try to run as a Libertarian. Apparently, the Alaska Libertarian Party has said thanks but no thanks. Eric Dondero of Libertarian Republican broke the story today…

The Executive Committee of the Alaska Libertarian Party held an emergency meeting yesterday to discuss the contested primary results in the Republican Senate primary. All 5 board members met in an undisclosed location in northeast Anchorage to hammer out a decision as to how to move forward.

Friends of Lisa Murkowski approached the ALP early Wednesday morning immediately after the Tuesday primaries, feeling out if there was any possibility that the Senator could appear on the Libertarian line for the fall election, as a third party candidate. Other supporters of the Senator, including at least two longstanding members of the Libertarian Party, also called to lobby ALP Chair Scott Kohlhaas to keep an “open mind,” on the issue.

Kohlhaas was immediately innundated with Alaska and national media over the matter.

On Sunday morning, over coffee and donuts, the ExComm voted unanimously, 5 to 0 to deny the Senator the ballot line. There was no malice intended. ALP Chair Kohlhaas has repeatedly stated that she is a nice lady, and the ALP was flattered by the offer.

Robert Stacy McCain, who knows Dondero, offers some juicier details at his blog and makes a gutsier choice in his post title.

Murkowski’s opponent, Tea Party backed Republican Joe Miller, has a slight lead but absentee ballots have yet to be counted.

Allahpundit at Hot Air describes the inherent catch 22 in all this….

Irony of ironies, if Miller wins the primary then the one person in Alaska who can probably guarantee his victory in the general is … Lisa Murkowski, by endorsing him and asking her supporters to back him in a show of party unity. (She has major centrist appeal, drawing 38 percent of indies, 32 percent of Republicans, and even 27 percent of Democrats in a three-way race.) Think Murky will be willing to put all this behind her and help the GOP by declaring “It’s Miller time” in Alaska?

Read more on this at Memeorandum.

Obama has been breaking his arm patting himself on the back for success in Iraq lately, Biden too. But just so we’re clear, neither Joe Biden nor Barack Obama deserve a single ounce of credit for any success in Iraq. The timetable for withdrawal of troops from Iraq that Obama sees fit to call the fulfillment of one of his campaign promises, was designed by the one man Obama will never ever give credit. George W. Bush…

President Barack Obama told disabled veterans in Atlanta on Monday that he was fulfilling a campaign promise by ending U.S. combat operations in Iraq “on schedule.”

But the timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops in Iraq was decided during the Bush administration with the signing of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) by U.S. and Iraq officials on Nov. 16, 2008. The Iraqi parliament signed SOFA on Nov. 27, 2008.

The agreement, which had been in negotiations since 2007, set a timetable calling for most U.S. troops to leave Iraqi towns and cities by June 30, 2009, with about 50,000 troops left in place until the final withdrawal of all U.S. military forces by Dec. 31, 2011.

Listen to Obama, who opposed the surge, touting his success…

See more videos of Senator Obama on Iraq at Freedom’s Lighthouse.

I’m an Enya fan and a General Petraeus fan. BIG thanks to Allahpundit of Hot Air for writing about this…

GRIFFIN: Is there any music that you particularly like? Are you a classical music guy? Are you a pop, are you a Taylor Swift guy?
PETRAEUS: No, no. I’m an Enya guy. I don’t know if Enya’s still –
GRIFFIN: Enya?

Below is a video for one of my favorite Enya songs. It’s called “Anywhere Is.”

Ken Mehlman, the campaign manager for George W. Bush in 2004 and former chair of the RNC has come out as gay. You know what? Good for him…

Ken Mehlman, President Bush’s campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has told family and associates that he is gay.

Mehlman arrived at this conclusion about his identity fairly recently, he said in an interview. He agreed to answer a reporter’s questions, he said, because, now in private life, he wants to become an advocate for gay marriage and anticipated that questions would arise about his participation in a late-September fundraiser for the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the group that supported the legal challenge to California’s ballot initiative against gay marriage, Proposition 8.

“It’s taken me 43 years to get comfortable with this part of my life,” said Mehlman, now an executive vice-president with the New York City-based private equity firm, KKR. “Everybody has their own path to travel, their own journey, and for me, over the past few months, I’ve told my family, friends, former colleagues, and current colleagues, and they’ve been wonderful and supportive. The process has been something that’s made me a happier and better person. It’s something I wish I had done years ago.”

Maybe he was listening to what Paul Ryan said about the future of the Republican party in April of 2009…

Ryan is promoting, not bending, conservative principles to expand the party.

“If you believe in freedom, liberty, self-determination, free enterprise, I don’t care if you’re a Muslim, Jewish, Agnostic, Christian, gay, straight, Latino, black, white, Irish, whatever. Join us.”

I’ve been saying since July of 2009 that the Republican Party was going more Libertarian and that it was a good thing. I stand by my prediction.

UPDATE: According to Allahpundit of Hot Air, this is old news. Who knew? Not me, apparently.

Read a lot more on this at Memeorandum.

Which is unfortunate because he was scheduled to make a recent appearance on MSNBC. The newly unmedicated Grayson said “Bush let 9/11 happen” and referred to the Ground Zero mosque as “a health club.”

I’m thinking someone might want to test the water in Grayson’s district for impurities. I can’t come up with any other explanation for how this man was ever elected to public office.

A new video from the NRSC via Jim Geraghty and Allahpundit of Hot Air who smartly notes…

If the GOP convinces independents that the left holds them in contempt — or rather, I should say, if Democrats convince independents of that — they’ll take a beating of Biblical proportions.

Nancy Pelosi claims she’s a big fan of The Word. I wonder if she’s ever heard the story of Noah…

She certainly might want to begin preparing for a flood. An ever growing number of average Americans are looking forward to watching her hand the gavel to Speaker Boehner.

Be sure to read more at Memeorandum.

Because, you know… that makes perfect sense, right?

Remember – This is the cable news network that supports Obama no matter what he says or does. Video via Mediaite via Allahpundit.

This powerful new video from the Republican Study Committee comes via Ace and Ed Morrissey of Hot Air who writes…

We’ve seen the moments before in earlier clips, but the RSC puts these together with warnings from Ronald Reagan about the danger to liberty from runaway government and liberal policies.  If these seemed trenchant decades ago, they’re equally relevant now:

I was just a kid when Ronald Reagan was President but I remember him well. I’m reminded of that line from the opening theme song of All in The Family: Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover Ronald Reagan again…

Lots of other bloggers are weighing in on this at Memeorandum.