Wimp President, part deux

The time for Obama to drop the hammer on BP, and our nation's oil addiction, is now.

In the movie “Cop Land,” hard-boiled Internal Affairs investigator Moe Tilden (played with panache by Robert Deniro) is disgusted with Sylvester Stallone’s character, Freddy Heflin. Sheriff of a small town essentially built for and run by corrupt NYPD cops, Heflin’s acquiescent manner in the face of obvious red flags in his town gets him one of the best on-screen dressing-downs in recent memory.

“I gave you a chance to be a cop,” snarls Tilden/Deniro after Heflin decides he wants to crack down on the crooked badges in his town. “AND YOU BLEW IT!”

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A young Pat B., circa 1968. He would probably go postal if he saw the world as it is today - and in your heart you know he's right because he has the numbers to back it up.

Pat Buchanan was devastatingly prescient on immigration changing the fabric of our culture and country, and the savage impacts of NAFTA (Pat’s segment starts around the one-minute mark). On the informal CZ scale of “People everyone seems to dislike while they haven’t read a Dayam Thing He’s Actually Written,” Buchanan is probably #1, with the possible of Ann Coulter — but only because Ann has a bigger penis.

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Dems Greene with envy after S.C. Senate shocker

Talk about sore losers. The Democrats are now leading the charge to “investigate” the stunning primary victory of Alvin Greene, who’s now the Democratic nominee for the South Carolina Senate race.

Almost as sexy as the other Al Green(e).

Greene, whose verbosity rivals that of a Dixie Cup, is ten kinds of awesome. First, he has no discernible political experience; he’s an unemployed veteran, is facing charges of felony obscenity, and, apparently came from nowhere. And won 58 percent of the vote!

This Keith Olbermann interview is hilarious, mostly because Olbermann can’t bait him or lure him into any traps. Who knows whether or not Greene is a GOP plant (he faces GOP incumbent Jim DeMint in the November general election) but perhaps the larger lesson is this: almost anyone running as an outsider and/or against a Democrat is going to get widespread public support.

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California Dreamin’ on the CZ vision

It’s the ideal CZ-style move – and the people of California have apparently passed Proposition 14, which would radically change elections in the nation’s biggest state, and its trend-setting bellweather, to boot.

Though Prop. 14 will likely be challenged by a cadre of attorneys, much like Props 215 and 187 were tied up in court. But the inspiration is undeniable. Essentially, this new law, if it sticks, will allow an open primary between members of all parties, with the top two vote getters getting to face off in the general election.

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It used to be that men handled their business and kept their mouths shut because, well, that was what men did. Whether it was Dean Martin slipping a showgirl a c-note with a kiss after an evening of bliss, or reporters learning to keep their mouths shut after a Camelot pool party, there used to be a code.

Used to be.

And it done got violated in Dixie, of all places! (more…)

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A very nice read from the NYT’s Tom Friedman here on the opportunities Obama has in the wake of the disastrous Gulf Oil Spill.

Freidman touches on the Obama administration’s thinned-out political capital to get behind real reform (thanks to the health care battle, from which November will likely extract a cost). But even though direct legislation may be a dicey affair for the Dems to get behind, people are mad. Whether it’s the citizens and business brutally affected by the spill or a nation tired of asking ourselves why we continue our addition to Big Oil, the time to swing the hammer on alternative energy is now. (more…)

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