This is off topic, but since I first read that polling suggested Sean Bielet was closing in on Barney Frank race on this blog, this may be of interest. Commenter “Bobbie” at the GayPatriot blog provides links to an interesting letter exchange between Barney Frank and Sean Bielet.
Frank thought he would get cute by sending Bielet a letter asking Bielet about his ideas to reform social security. It’s the standard Democrat ploy to scare the elderly into believing Republicans want to eliminate or cut social security. Here’s the Frank letter:
The thing is, I never woke in the dead of the night wondering if he was keeping the US’s best interest in mind. And I may not have always agreed but I believed that he was saying what he meant…not what he thought I might want to hear. Seems others are beginning to regret that time of feeling that there was someone who was watching out for us.
Neo, I have a prediction. I think Mr. Obama’s approval ratings will continue to spiral downward. Especially if he digs in and starts his ‘hand to hand fighting.’ I also think if the Republicans gain control of the HOR & maybe even the senate, the MSM will use gallons of ink and cut down a forest or two defending Obama & painting the mean Ole Republicans as not wanting to work with him. (Why would the MSM change?)
Thanks Scott, those letters were a fun read. I would love for Barney Frank to be sent home for good.
What I find irksome, and, in many ways, delegitimizing about these polls is the inclusion of counterfactual questions, and that the people being polled don’t seem to understand that they’re counterfactual. “Do you think that President Obama is doing a better job than John McCain would have done?” The only proper answer to that is that there is no data for comparison. If Tim Burton and I, attending crosstown high schools, had had our geographical locations reversed, would I now be married to Helena Bonham Carter? I mean, come on…
I’d say the public needs a good talking-to. Maybe even a spanking. Maybe… even The Obama Finger!!!
And it’s a CNN poll, too.
History will be very kind to Dubya. Had he not traded budget insanity for support of the war on terror I think he would be remembered as a near great president.
Give or take a few percent, the country is divided in half. So a poll showing Democrats losing is uncomfortable to half, and a poll showing the Republicans losing is uncomfortable to half. But each poll is good news to the other half.
Now I could be wrong, and would welcome better understanding, but the post is written from the Democrat perspective. Why not, “This is encouraging?”
The MSM beat the hell out of Bush every day. The MSM performs fellatio on Obama every day. And it’s only 47 to 45? The answer is a no brainer.
Can somebody provide me with a non-Fox link with a vote by party count on that first bailout under Bush. I am in an argument with a liberal who first continues to accuse Republicans of being conservatives then maintains that conservatives voted for the first bailout- not democrats-since of course conservatives are in the hip pocket of big buisiness. brainwashed. While i have tried to point out there is an internal war in the republican party over fiscal policy and many republicans are not conservatives, I wish to show him that the democrats in congress supported the bailout in higher percentages. This is one of those things where some republicans voted for it so we all did-lol
jon baker – try this link for the senate vote on TARP. As an excercise for the reader, you can find similar information for the House on the House.gov website. Happy numbers crunching…
Re: the Bielet letter…
Of course, it’s just one of those personal aggravation issues…but one does _not_ “reign” in spending. One “reins” in spending. Royalty reigns, one uses reins to control a horse – or other things.
Sigh. It’s one of those _things_…
Thank you Brian Swisher
kaba Says:
History will be very kind to Dubya. Had he not traded budget insanity for support of the war on terror I think he would be remembered as a near great president.
I maintain that it was the intensity and severity of the Democrat anklebiting into Bush’s second term that wore him down and weakened his fiscal resolve in favor of winning ‘support’ to prosecute the ‘war on terror’. Right or wrong, he put the interest and well-being of the troops ahead of some domestic policy principles.
jon baker,
Make sure you tell that liberal with whom you are arguing that Obama voted FOR TARP. That would make Obama “in the hip pocket of big business.”
Watch for that ‘Norman 1’ reaction (from Star Trek).
Another awesome George W. Bush story you probably have never heard that makes me hate myself for ever saying anything bad about this man :
… Bush, the villain…Bush, the terrible…Bush, the demented cowboy riding nightmare through the imaginations of the Left even to this day…summoned conservative radio hosts with great sway and influence to the White House so that he could sit them down and make them promise to go easy on Obama after his inauguration.
… Bush was the captain of a ship preparing to turn the wheel of state over to his successor, and he actually took steps to make sure Republicans did not initiate a groundless partisan war from Day One, just because this president was from the other side of the aisle.
Bush demanded Obama be given his chance to succeed before criticism was automatically flung at him.
I hope I will be forgiven for harboring any skepticism of The Won being so gracious to his successor.
–
Somewhat OT, but I saw this yesterday in Amsterdam and thought someone should share this wise advice with Obama–maybe when he erects the columns for his next speech.
Big Money Gives Sean Bielat, Congressional Wanna-Be, Some Unflattering New Steps
Watch SEAN BIELAT, conservative Republican congressional wanna-be (and inept Congressman Barney Frank ridiculer) from Massachusetts, as he does the Big Money, Tea Party Shuffle. SEE IT HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaZokhauTjc
Read article below (with hat-tip to the N Y Times, October 21, 2010: Behind the Scenes as Barney Frank’s Rival Films an Ad – NYTimes.com):
Big Money Gives Sean Bielat, Congressional Wanna-Be, Some Unflattering New Steps
U.S Congressional wanna-be Sean Bielat was dancing around the stage — boogying to Chris Brown’s “Gimme Dat.” Although in this case, the “dat” in question was actually NOT the . . . bass but the brass. And Mr. Bielat, in this case, was not a dance instructor named Kira (dressed in a makeshift fat suit), but a cardboard marionette named Llazo pretending to be the fresh faced and plausible Biz-school grad and ex-Marine Sean Bielat, as he flipped and shook his way across a hastily-erected piano-stool stage, before a makeshift screen of orange polar fleece and black felt, in a kitchen in Brookline MA.
Llazo (who did not want his last name used because he is made from a local pizza box and doesn’t want to be associated with any particular candidate) had gathered with two Boston-area women “of a certain age” who started making political ads this election cycle (today, actually), to counter the Big Money astroturfing they perceive in the making of a “$10,000 – $15,000” ad such as that Mr. Ehlinger has produced for Mr. Bielat . (These women stress that they are not connected with, paid by, nor endorsed by any political candidate, political party, or special interest group — although their studio is now “open for business, should the right candidate come calling.” They are quite sure that their efforts would “catapult [their client] to online stardom, attract more mainstream news media coverage and donations, and bring him closer to a seat in Congress”).
The premise of their spot was simple enough – Mr. Bielat “is dancing around the money all the way to the polls,” so you “take the political cliché of he’s dancing around the Big Bucks and you literally have him dancing around the bags of dough,” one of the women explained – but it took a trip to the garbage can (to make a cardboard puppet befitting a politician), a stop at a nearby Kinko’s (to make copies of the faces of political operatives Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and Glenn Beck, as well as that of Mr. Bielat) and finding a good video editor (“can work for free, in own kitchen, in under two hours,” read the email seeking applicants) before they were ready to go.
After the video was shot, the women planned to use the “Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and Karl Rove” tea bags to brew a pot of tea — but they were “too, uh, revolting,” admitted one of the women.
On a recent Friday (today, actually), one of these women found herself in striped knee socks and an orange Talbot’s twin-set (not the color of her eyes, fortunately) striding around a makeshift screen to prepare for the day’s shoot.
“Actually, turn the de-humidifier up as high as you can because he’ll be dancing in a cardboard suit with Scotch Tape on top of that,” one woman said, referring to Llazo, who was waiting in the trunk of her car. “It will be very uncomfortable, I think, if he gets damp and goes limp.”
“This is the Tea Party Shuffle danced to Chris Brown’s ‘Gimme Dat’,” the twin-set-clad woman noted, as loud bouncy music began blaring from the other room. She was referring to the three-and-a-half minute song they had borrowed especially for the video, where text about the shadowy sources of money funding Mr. Bielat’s “independent” campaign scrolled across the screen as “Sean Bielat” (aka Llazo) gyrated to a funky beat.
The plan was to get “Mr. Bielat” in and out as quickly as possible. He did a few more takes – turned to the side, angled away from the camera, a close-up on his upper body – before it was time for “Karl Rove”, “Sarah Palin”, et al, to take the stage. A sound gal cranked the music up and “Sarah P.” strutted in, all baggy funk and flip-flop moves
“Mr. Bielat’s” line, to appear at the end of the taping, was supposed to go something like: “I don’t need to dance around the issues. I’m a Marine.” But “Mr. Bielat” said he did not feel comfortable linking his military service to a political ad in a way that felt “like a non sequitur,” so he improvised. Just “GIMMMMMMEEEEE DAT!” “Sean” begged his would-be constituents. And folded.
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This is off topic, but since I first read that polling suggested Sean Bielet was closing in on Barney Frank race on this blog, this may be of interest. Commenter “Bobbie” at the GayPatriot blog provides links to an interesting letter exchange between Barney Frank and Sean Bielet.
Frank thought he would get cute by sending Bielet a letter asking Bielet about his ideas to reform social security. It’s the standard Democrat ploy to scare the elderly into believing Republicans want to eliminate or cut social security. Here’s the Frank letter:
http://barneyfrank.net/press/letter-sean-bielat-re-social-security
And here is Bielet’s brilliant response. If Frank saw this coming, there’s no way he would have “fired the first shot” with his letter:
http://www.seanbielat.org/sites/default/files/2010-10-07%20SS%20Letter%20to%20Barney%20Frank.pdf
Donate to Bielet by clicking the Donate button here:
http://www.seanbielat.org/
The thing is, I never woke in the dead of the night wondering if he was keeping the US’s best interest in mind. And I may not have always agreed but I believed that he was saying what he meant…not what he thought I might want to hear. Seems others are beginning to regret that time of feeling that there was someone who was watching out for us.
Neo, I have a prediction. I think Mr. Obama’s approval ratings will continue to spiral downward. Especially if he digs in and starts his ‘hand to hand fighting.’ I also think if the Republicans gain control of the HOR & maybe even the senate, the MSM will use gallons of ink and cut down a forest or two defending Obama & painting the mean Ole Republicans as not wanting to work with him. (Why would the MSM change?)
Thanks Scott, those letters were a fun read. I would love for Barney Frank to be sent home for good.
What I find irksome, and, in many ways, delegitimizing about these polls is the inclusion of counterfactual questions, and that the people being polled don’t seem to understand that they’re counterfactual. “Do you think that President Obama is doing a better job than John McCain would have done?” The only proper answer to that is that there is no data for comparison. If Tim Burton and I, attending crosstown high schools, had had our geographical locations reversed, would I now be married to Helena Bonham Carter? I mean, come on…
I’d say the public needs a good talking-to. Maybe even a spanking. Maybe… even The Obama Finger!!!
And it’s a CNN poll, too.
History will be very kind to Dubya. Had he not traded budget insanity for support of the war on terror I think he would be remembered as a near great president.
Give or take a few percent, the country is divided in half. So a poll showing Democrats losing is uncomfortable to half, and a poll showing the Republicans losing is uncomfortable to half. But each poll is good news to the other half.
Now I could be wrong, and would welcome better understanding, but the post is written from the Democrat perspective. Why not, “This is encouraging?”
The MSM beat the hell out of Bush every day. The MSM performs fellatio on Obama every day. And it’s only 47 to 45? The answer is a no brainer.
Can somebody provide me with a non-Fox link with a vote by party count on that first bailout under Bush. I am in an argument with a liberal who first continues to accuse Republicans of being conservatives then maintains that conservatives voted for the first bailout- not democrats-since of course conservatives are in the hip pocket of big buisiness. brainwashed. While i have tried to point out there is an internal war in the republican party over fiscal policy and many republicans are not conservatives, I wish to show him that the democrats in congress supported the bailout in higher percentages. This is one of those things where some republicans voted for it so we all did-lol
jon baker – try this link for the senate vote on TARP. As an excercise for the reader, you can find similar information for the House on the House.gov website. Happy numbers crunching…
Re: the Bielet letter…
Of course, it’s just one of those personal aggravation issues…but one does _not_ “reign” in spending. One “reins” in spending. Royalty reigns, one uses reins to control a horse – or other things.
Sigh. It’s one of those _things_…
Thank you Brian Swisher
I maintain that it was the intensity and severity of the Democrat anklebiting into Bush’s second term that wore him down and weakened his fiscal resolve in favor of winning ‘support’ to prosecute the ‘war on terror’. Right or wrong, he put the interest and well-being of the troops ahead of some domestic policy principles.
jon baker,
Make sure you tell that liberal with whom you are arguing that Obama voted FOR TARP. That would make Obama “in the hip pocket of big business.”
Watch for that ‘Norman 1’ reaction (from Star Trek).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcr-V_G6B4o
From Hillbuzz …
Another awesome George W. Bush story you probably have never heard that makes me hate myself for ever saying anything bad about this man :
…
Bush, the villain…Bush, the terrible…Bush, the demented cowboy riding nightmare through the imaginations of the Left even to this day…summoned conservative radio hosts with great sway and influence to the White House so that he could sit them down and make them promise to go easy on Obama after his inauguration.
…
Bush was the captain of a ship preparing to turn the wheel of state over to his successor, and he actually took steps to make sure Republicans did not initiate a groundless partisan war from Day One, just because this president was from the other side of the aisle.
Bush demanded Obama be given his chance to succeed before criticism was automatically flung at him.
I hope I will be forgiven for harboring any skepticism of The Won being so gracious to his successor.
–
Somewhat OT, but I saw this yesterday in Amsterdam and thought someone should share this wise advice with Obama–maybe when he erects the columns for his next speech.
http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1001488925000252680zDeAcHOaoF
The Socialist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj-MpP5n3uE&feature=player_embedded
Big Money Gives Sean Bielat, Congressional Wanna-Be, Some Unflattering New Steps
Watch SEAN BIELAT, conservative Republican congressional wanna-be (and inept Congressman Barney Frank ridiculer) from Massachusetts, as he does the Big Money, Tea Party Shuffle. SEE IT HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaZokhauTjc
Read article below (with hat-tip to the N Y Times, October 21, 2010: Behind the Scenes as Barney Frank’s Rival Films an Ad – NYTimes.com):
Big Money Gives Sean Bielat, Congressional Wanna-Be, Some Unflattering New Steps
U.S Congressional wanna-be Sean Bielat was dancing around the stage — boogying to Chris Brown’s “Gimme Dat.” Although in this case, the “dat” in question was actually NOT the . . . bass but the brass. And Mr. Bielat, in this case, was not a dance instructor named Kira (dressed in a makeshift fat suit), but a cardboard marionette named Llazo pretending to be the fresh faced and plausible Biz-school grad and ex-Marine Sean Bielat, as he flipped and shook his way across a hastily-erected piano-stool stage, before a makeshift screen of orange polar fleece and black felt, in a kitchen in Brookline MA.
Llazo (who did not want his last name used because he is made from a local pizza box and doesn’t want to be associated with any particular candidate) had gathered with two Boston-area women “of a certain age” who started making political ads this election cycle (today, actually), to counter the Big Money astroturfing they perceive in the making of a “$10,000 – $15,000” ad such as that Mr. Ehlinger has produced for Mr. Bielat . (These women stress that they are not connected with, paid by, nor endorsed by any political candidate, political party, or special interest group — although their studio is now “open for business, should the right candidate come calling.” They are quite sure that their efforts would “catapult [their client] to online stardom, attract more mainstream news media coverage and donations, and bring him closer to a seat in Congress”).
The premise of their spot was simple enough – Mr. Bielat “is dancing around the money all the way to the polls,” so you “take the political cliché of he’s dancing around the Big Bucks and you literally have him dancing around the bags of dough,” one of the women explained – but it took a trip to the garbage can (to make a cardboard puppet befitting a politician), a stop at a nearby Kinko’s (to make copies of the faces of political operatives Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and Glenn Beck, as well as that of Mr. Bielat) and finding a good video editor (“can work for free, in own kitchen, in under two hours,” read the email seeking applicants) before they were ready to go.
After the video was shot, the women planned to use the “Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and Karl Rove” tea bags to brew a pot of tea — but they were “too, uh, revolting,” admitted one of the women.
On a recent Friday (today, actually), one of these women found herself in striped knee socks and an orange Talbot’s twin-set (not the color of her eyes, fortunately) striding around a makeshift screen to prepare for the day’s shoot.
“Actually, turn the de-humidifier up as high as you can because he’ll be dancing in a cardboard suit with Scotch Tape on top of that,” one woman said, referring to Llazo, who was waiting in the trunk of her car. “It will be very uncomfortable, I think, if he gets damp and goes limp.”
“This is the Tea Party Shuffle danced to Chris Brown’s ‘Gimme Dat’,” the twin-set-clad woman noted, as loud bouncy music began blaring from the other room. She was referring to the three-and-a-half minute song they had borrowed especially for the video, where text about the shadowy sources of money funding Mr. Bielat’s “independent” campaign scrolled across the screen as “Sean Bielat” (aka Llazo) gyrated to a funky beat.
The plan was to get “Mr. Bielat” in and out as quickly as possible. He did a few more takes – turned to the side, angled away from the camera, a close-up on his upper body – before it was time for “Karl Rove”, “Sarah Palin”, et al, to take the stage. A sound gal cranked the music up and “Sarah P.” strutted in, all baggy funk and flip-flop moves
“Mr. Bielat’s” line, to appear at the end of the taping, was supposed to go something like: “I don’t need to dance around the issues. I’m a Marine.” But “Mr. Bielat” said he did not feel comfortable linking his military service to a political ad in a way that felt “like a non sequitur,” so he improvised. Just “GIMMMMMMEEEEE DAT!” “Sean” begged his would-be constituents. And folded.