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!

Photographic evidence provided by BigFurHat of iOwnTheWorld.com.

Further evidence provided by Larry Kudlow writing at Investor’s Business Daily. Does this sound like the real Barney Frank to you?

For years, Frank was a staunch supporter of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the giant government housing agencies that played such an enormous role in the financial meltdown that thrust the economy into the Great Recession. But in a recent CNBC interview, Frank told me that he was ready to say goodbye to Fannie and Freddie.

“I hope by next year we’ll have abolished Fannie and Freddie,” he said. Remarkable. And he went on to say that “it was a great mistake to push lower-income people into housing they couldn’t afford and couldn’t really handle once they had it.” He then added, “I had been too sanguine about Fannie and Freddie.”

When I asked Frank about a long-term phase-out plan that would shrink Fannie and Freddie portfolios and mortgage-purchase limits, and merge the agencies into the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) for a separate low-income program that would get government out of middle-income housing subsidies, he replied: “Larry, that, I think, is exactly what we should be doing.”

In space, no one can hear you say “Fannie.”

Because after all, that strategy worked out really well for Martha Coakley, didn’t it?

The Boston Herald reports…

A worried White House is poised to pull out all the stops in Gov. Deval Patrick’s heated gubernatorial bid – viewed as an early litmus test of whether disenchanted voters are ready to give President Obama’s message of hope and change four more years – or the heave-ho.

A Vineyard-bound Obama and his team already are discussing fall fund-raising appearances with Patrick’s camp and churning out campaign ads while David Axlerod – campaign guru for both Patrick and Obama – chats with Patrick “fairly regularly,” said one source close to the Obama administration.

“If the governor loses, it’s really bad for the president,” a Democratic insider close to the White House said yesterday, pointing out Obama already lost a seemingly sure U.S. Senate seat to Republican upstart Scott Brown.

A quick review of the similarities between Misters Obama and Patrick…

1. Both used David Axelrod as a campaign manager.

2. Meaningless campaign slogan for Deval Patrick: Together We Can.

3. Meaningless campaign slogan for Barack Obama: Yes We Can.

Oh and in case you forgot, their stump speeches were eerily familiar.

UPDATE: Weasel Zippers links. Thanks!

Yesterday, the overwhelmingly Democrat Massachusetts Legislature passed a bill to favor the popular vote to determine the next President of the United States in 2012, effectively bypassing the Electoral College.

The Massachusetts Legislature has approved a new law intended to bypass the Electoral College system and ensure that the winner of the presidential election is determined by the national popular vote.

I wrote about this last week.

Let’s get real. This bill was pushed through for one reason… Democrats are terrified of a repeat of the 2000 presidential election in which Obama could win the popular vote but lose the electoral vote to George W. Bush any Republican challenger.

Remember: Obama supporters were worried about this before the 2008 election.

Democrats across the country are watching Obama’s sinking poll numbers and some of his biggest fans in the media are already calling him the new Jimmy Carter. Oops!

The irony of the situation is that if Massachusetts voters elect Obama in 2012 but the rest of the country doesn’t, the bill passed by the Democrat legislators of Massachusetts will cause all of the Massachusetts electoral college votes to be cast for Obama’s opponent.

But who knows?

Maybe Gingrich/Palin or Romney/Brewer will go over well with Bay State liberals.

I was bothered by all of this until I read Allahpundit’s analysis at Hot Air…

Why would Florida or Ohio, say, forfeit their electoral votes by signing on when their swing-state status ensures plenty of extra attention from the candidates every four years? The more blue states sign up for this, the cooler red states and purple states will be to it, to the point where I wonder how big realistically this bloc can get. 200 EVs, maybe, until other states start walking away? Three cheers for self-interest!

DaTechGuy adds…

After all who cares what the voters of Massachusetts think, If enough other states think differently our votes and our decisions are don’t matter. We no longer have control of our own franchise. To say this is an abomination is too weak a word. Why even have a state?

Amen, brother.

UPDATE: In which Don Surber blows my mind…

Could it be because they’re treated better by America than they would be treated by the government of their own country?

In a word? Yes.

The Obama administration would quickly send home six Algerians held at the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but for one problem: The men don’t want to go. Given the choice between repatriation and incarceration, the men choose Gitmo, according to their lawyers.

The administration secured a significant legal victory Thursday when a federal appeals court overturned a lower court’s ruling that had barred the government from repatriating one of them. The detainee had asserted that if he is returned, the Algerian government will torture him or he will be targeted by terrorist groups who will kill him if he refuses to join.

Hat Tip to John Hinderaker at Powerline who adds:

The detainees fear that they might be tortured or killed if they return to Algeria. Which is to say, actually tortured, something that has never happened at Gitmo, notwithstanding the global hyperventilation of the last seven or eight years.

Wouldn’t it be nice if leftist organizations, like – oh I don’t know – the Democratic Party, would acknowledge this as a fact just once?

I guess it’s too bad that the Algerian detainees aren’t Uighurs because if they were, they’d probably be headed to the sandy pink beaches of Bermuda.

Of course, that plan worked so well that it inspired graffiti in the subways of Boston, Massachusetts.

I was in Boston early in the evening for the 4th, before the music and fireworks. The weather was beautiful and the crowd was friendly. I took a few pics, here they are.

This is a group of boats on the Charles River, waiting for the festivities to begin.

You can see a few more pics after the jump.

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I bet you think I’m kidding.

Charles at LBOTC is on the scene.

BIG time.

On a related note… Don’t get me wrong, I really like Glenn Beck but just as one of his favorite political targets, he never wastes a crisis.

Scott Brown.

According to the Boston Globe…

US Senator Scott Brown, who only months ago was a little-known figure even within the tiny band of Republicans in the state Senate, not only catapulted to national stature with his upset US Senate victory, but is today the most popular officeholder in Massachusetts, according to a Boston Globe poll.

After less than five months in Washington, Brown outpolls such Democratic stalwarts as President Obama and US Senator John F. Kerry in popularity, the poll indicates. He gets high marks not only from Republicans, but even a plurality of Democrats views him favorably.

The support for Brown, whose victory became a symbol of voter anger, is consistent with widespread sentiment that incumbents in Massachusetts and Washington “need to be replaced with a new crop of leaders.’’ That statement was supported by 50 percent of those polled, while 28 percent said they trust the incumbents.

Michael Graham, the conservative talk show host from Boston, sees this as a sure sign of the Apocalypse.

Is this more evidence of the shifting political winds? Is it just me or is Toby Keith an unusual, yet awesome, choice for Boston, Massachusetts?

Hat Tip to Charles at LBOTC.

BOSTON—Country music star Toby Keith will celebrate Independence Day with the Boston Pops.

Liberty Mutual, the event’s sponsor, announced Wednesday that Keith will join conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops for the annual Fourth of July concert and fireworks show on the banks of the Charles River.

The 40-year-old singer-songwriter’s hits include “Should’ve Been a Cowboy,” “You Shouldn’t Kiss Me Like This, and “Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue.”

On an unrelated note…

Charles predicts that a woman will be president in 2016 but he says it won’t be Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin.

Hmmmm…..

I thought it wasn’t illegal to be illegal in Massachusetts.

Are amnesty proponents going to start boycotting the bluest state in the union?

The measure, which passed on a 28-10 vote as an amendment to the budget, would bar the state from doing business with any company found to break federal laws barring illegal immigrant hiring. It would also toughen penalties for creating or using fake identification documents, and explicitly deny in-state college tuition for illegal immigrants.

The amendment would also require the state’s public health insurance program to verify residency through the Department of Homeland Security, and would require the state to give legal residents priority for subsidized housing.

Recent polls have found that, while voters supported blocking illegal immigrants’ access to public benefits, they were split over whether the Bay State should have a law such as Arizona’s.

Massachusetts is clearly a hotbed of racism. Despite, you know, voting for Obama in 2008 by a margin of +26.