Month: October 2013

The Surrender Caucus Strikes Again

After a sixteen-day government “shutdown,” the Senate has struck a deal that passed both houses of Congress to “re-open” the government, increase the debt ceiling, fund Obamacare, and display what a bunch of pathetic cheese-eating, surrender monkeys our so-called Republican leadership are. It’s bad enough the Republicans came out of this without any changes to Obamacare. To make matters worse, this deal also manages to surrender the power of the debt ceiling. Kerry Picket at Breitbart reported on Capitol Hill buzz on this and Politico has confirmed it:  The legislation also includes a McConnell-written proposal that would allow Congress...

Read More

Voices that Must be Silenced

It is incredibly enervating to get up every day and know that you will be called a racist, a sexist, homophobic, xenophobic “birther” just because you believe what the Founding Fathers said.

Read More

CLA Radio 10/18/13: Trucks

The next ConservativeLA Radio show (on Duane FM in the Hughniverse, Friday, 10/18, 7:00 Pacific/10:00 Eastern) will take a look at the world of Trucking. Hope you can stop by and listen, and join us in chat! Spoiler set list: CLAR Mash-up: Debbie Don’t Lose That Number Merle Haggard: White Line Fever Audio Clip: Texaco Toy Truck TV Ad Watermelon Slim: Blue Freightliner Duane Eddy: Forty Miles Of Bad Road Audio Clip: Mater, From Cars Little Feat: Willin’ The Onion: Trucking Industry Honors Methamphetamines Audio Clip: Black Dog (1998) Junior Brown: Semi-Crazy (With Red Simpson) Shel Silverstein/Rob Goldstein: World’s...

Read More

CLA Radio 10/11/13: Baseball

The next ConservativeLA Radio show (on Duane FM in the Hughniverse, Friday, 10/11, 7:00 Pacific/10:00 Eastern) will honor our National Pastime, which is of course…demonizing conservatives. No that’s not true–the show will be all about Baseball. And there will be no Dodger bias. None. Honest. Well maybe a little… Hope you can stop by and listen, and join us in chat! Spoiler set list: Mystery intro by Generalissimo… Mabel Scott: Baseball Boogie Sound Clip: Vin Scully paraphrases Matt Kemp Sound Clip: John Caponera does Vin and Harry Caray Steve Goodman: A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request Sound Clip: 1981...

Read More

The Fall Classic

For baseball fans, it’s playoff time.  Teams that have spent the last six months positioning themselves for a playoff run now have one or two weeks to see if their strategy works.  In playoff games, teams behave differently.  They take chances they normally would not during regular season games.  That is because there is much more at stake.  Two or three losses and your team is out.  There is tension and excitement that makes playoff baseball much more exciting to watch. A similar situation has developed in Washington in the form of the shutdown non-crisis.  But unlike baseball, a playoff atmosphere can be manufactured at any time.  Republicans saw the problems coming with the implementation of Obamacare and chose (shockingly) to make a stand.  First, Ted Cruz’ 21-hour non-filibuster sought to bring Obamacare’s problems to the attention of the public.  Secondly, the House’s current refusal to fund the Obamacare law and the ensuing government slowdown (it’s not really a shutdown) has created a crisis atmosphere in Washington. In playoff baseball, players try to stretch singles into doubles.  They attempt more steals.  They bunt and attempt to manufacture runs.  Most of this strategy is designed to force the other team to respond perfectly to each situation presented to them.  If they do, the strategy will not succeed.  But if they falter, make a bad throw, fail to hit the cut-off...

Read More