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The chart below was released yesterday by Gallup polling.

In case you haven’t heard, it’s great news for Democrats everyone but Democrats.

Weasel Zippers links. Thanks!

Here’s how we can get it – Send the GOP to the House this November.

Robert Costa of National Review explains how a Republican win for control of the House would put one man in a unique position to demand answers from the White House. Better late than never…

If Republicans win the House this fall, Rep. Darrell Issa will wield the majority’s sharpest investigative tool: the subpoena pen.

“Cabinet officers, assistant secretaries, directors — I will be able to take on everybody that the president hires and relies upon; the people who tell him that everything is fine,” pledges Issa, the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, in an interview with National Review Online.

For months, Issa, a California Republican, has been delving into allegations of bureaucratic abuse and political foul play, prepping for the committee chairmanship should the chance come. A relentless critic of the Obama administration, he frequently takes to cable news to highlight his growing pile of files. Everything from the alleged job offers made to Democratic candidates by White House emissaries, to the private-sector ties of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, has caught his eye. [snip]

If he wins the chairmanship, Issa will be able to hire a slew of investigators. He says he hopes to build a team with a “healthy lack of respect, if you will, for bureaucrats. . . . I want them to assume that bureaucrats will always paint a rosy picture and to dig deep. . . . I’d look for the kind of people — talented attorneys and other investigators — who have the skills to do the research and find the failures in government.” [snip]

“Ultimately,” Issa says, “I view what we do as holding the president to the standard that he sets.” The West Wing is on notice.

For a guy who spent two years on the campaign trail talking about transparency in government, his record on the subject sucks which means one of two things – he was lying or he’s too incompetent to get the job done. Either way, Darrell Issa sounds like just the guy to make sure the important questions get asked and answered.

Read more opinion at Memeorandum.

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.

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.

Last week I wrote about the news that 60′s icon Arlo Guthrie has become a registered Republican.

More recently, writer John Harding weighed in on the subject and explored the topic more deeply and from the perspective of someone who’s a member of Guthrie’s generation. Highlights below…

Arlo and I are about the same age, and while no one asked me to sing at Woodstock, I probably would have. I made a lot of odd lifestyle choices in those days. To me and my friends, “grass roots” meant something other than a populist uprising.

Still, we were aghast at the idea of Big Brother, and were against most state intrusions into private lives. When I saw how the government was harassing and intimidating students against the Vietnam war, I threw myself into George McGovern’s presidential campaign because his platform included stopping the draft and reining in an out-of-control central government.

Arlo Guthrie’s famous anthem about “The Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” was nothing if not a parable about private citizens standing up against the hydra-headed authority of an overzealous power structure. It’s not hard to understand Arlo gravitating toward the only party now paying lip service to a limited Federal government. That’s the GOP. [SNIP]

These days, we’re at the mercy of legislators who sign bills without reading them, rack up trillion dollar debts without explanation, and bet our children’s future on impractical energy fixes and economic theories still not proven to work in the real world.

It’s no wonder that everyday people rose up and began mailing empty tea bags to their elected officials— a reminder of the tea tax rebellion that motivated our nation’s founders. We’ve learned that King George can be a nanny as well as a bully, and where is the  counterculture ready to oppose that more benign tyranny?

I’m wondering if Arlo hasn’t also been thinking, like me, that these tea party folks could be the hippies of today. They have no leaders, no lobbyists in Washington, no financial backers telling them what to do next.

Read it all.

Mr. Harding’s analysis puts words to something that I’ve been thinking for some time. The anti-establishment folks have become the establishment and they have no idea how to function in that role. They don’t even seem to realize they’re in charge.

What else can one think when people in the innermost circle of the President of the United States, including Obama himself, will denigrate the Tea Party, the Republican Party, or anyone else who dares to speak up? They have all the power but they automatically fall into the role of the anti-establishment protester because that’s all they’ve ever known.

Tea Party folks on the other hand, who haven’t had much practice being anti-establishment sign wavers, have taken to their new role with surprising ease and success.

Quoth Dr. K….

“After two years, Bush is a memory and he’s an excuse…”

Video via Allahpundit of Hot Air.

This recording is from The Tammy Bruce Show on Monday of this week. In the segment, she warns the left and the right against attacks on Sarah Palin and Nikki Haley. Awesome.

Obama has continued a number of policies from his predecessor, but now he even has a “Mission Accomplished” moment of his very own.

As reported by the Politico:

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — President Barack Obama has a new campaign slogan.

“Yes, we did.”

And it doesn’t stop there. Republicans, an animated Obama argued Thursday, wouldn’t have.

They wouldn’t have set the economy back on track, he said during a fundraiser for Senate candidate Robin Carnahan, or passed a health care overhaul or financial regulatory reform. Giving the GOP control of Congress again — a possibility that Obama acknowledged — would usher in another era of a “you’re on your own philosophy,” he said.

In which alternate reality is the president currently residing? The economy is back on track? You could have fooled me.

Republicans wouldn’t have passed Obamacare? That’s a feature not a bug, Mr. President.

Your on your own philosophy? You mean like the people of Arizona who wish the federal government would do its job and secure their border?

If this is your idea of “yes we did” maybe you could do us a favor next time.

Don’t.

Well that didn’t take long.

I noticed the first rumblings of this idea recently on The Corner at National Review.

Now there’s a website. Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit had the following to say:

The failure of Chairman Steele to successfully sell Liberty over Socialism, and to cultivate and facilitate those future candidates who can, is emblematic of the dysfunction of the Republican party, a dysfunction which has over the past four years led the party to near-ruin. We need a true and tested leader.

We need Sarah Palin.

In a case of ironic timing, embattled RNC Chair Michael Steele announced today that he “ain’t going anywhere.”

“I ain’t going anywhere,” Steele said to cheers at the opening Colorado Republican Party’s “Victory” program in Colorado. “I’m here. I’m here. Look, we have too much work to do; we have too much work to do.”

He added, “Look, every time something happens, people go, ‘Oh, you should step down, step down. Well, the reality of it is that’s not happening, so stop the noise on that.”

When someone is proud of their record, they run on it. When someone has nothing positive to say about their own accomplishments, their only alternative is to demonize the opposition.

According to yesterday’s WAPO, that’s precisely what the Democrats are doing…

The Democratic Party is moving faster and more aggressively than in previous election years to dig up unflattering details about Republican challengers. In House races from New Jersey to Ohio to California, Democratic operatives are seizing on evidence of GOP candidates’ unpaid income taxes, property tax breaks and ties to financial firms that received taxpayer bailout money.

Just ignore the fact that the Democrats have been in charge of congress since 2006 and the White House since January of 2009. They want you to believe that all of America’s problems can be blamed on the minority party. You know, the one that didn’t even have enough power to stop the health care bill from passing.