HALF-FULL REPORT 07/30/10

OK, let’s start this week’s HFR right.

Growing up as a teenage California surfer in the late 50s/early 60s, my favorite music was Surf Rock.  The record we all loved the most then is the one that keeps reverberating in my head now with little more than 90 days to go until November 2^nd.

In 1962, five kids from Glendora High School (Jim Fuller, Bob Berryhill, Ron Wilson, Jim Pash, and Pat Connolly) called themselves The Surfaris, and talked the owner of a small recording studio in Cucamonga, Dale Smallin, into recording a song of theirs called Surfer Joe.

Needing something for the throw-away "B-side" of the 45 record, Ron Wilson started blasting away on the drums while Jim Fuller went wild with surf guitar riffs.  Dale Smallin decided for a gag to start it off with his crazy Witch Laugh cackle.  They named it after what happens to a surfer when a giant wave crashes on his head.

Here it is now, the greatest surf music ever played – and it should be the theme song for what’s going to happen to Democrats this fall:

And may I suggest that everyone rooting for the Dems to Wipeout in November put a Wipeout Ringtone on their cell phone?  If you get a call from a liberal, feel free to cackle.

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Here’s what a wipeout looks like.  As any surfer knows, once you reach a certain loss of balance, there’s no recovery.  This ride is over, quickly and badly.  As Congress recesses for the summer and Americans focus on summer themselves, the picture in voters’ minds becomes fixed – of Dem corruption, ineptness, joblessness, and pompous anti-American arrogance.

There’s no time for them to recover now.  The old bromide about a week or month being an eternity in political time is countered by public perception being like an aircraft carrier – it takes a long time to turn the thing around.

Even the dreaded October Surprise (or Surprises – there could be several) has to be a catalyst for elements already in motion.  All those elements, all the inertia now, is focused on animus towards the Dems and Zero.  They are getting blamed for everything bad that’s happening – and thus whatever Surprise they try to spring, they’ll get blamed for that too.

That inertia is not only terribly hard to reverse.  Its momentum develops to a point where it’s a magnet, attracting all that can increase it.  Zero, on national television ("The View"), disses Black Americans as "mongrels" who have "reptilian brains."  This, in the wake of MoDo’s blasting him in the New York Times for gaining the enmity of black leaders.

It’s gotten to the point where you root for the Democrats’ efforts to save themselves.  These guys just keep digging it deeper.

Take a quick glimpse (that’s all you’ll be able to tolerate) at the official blog of the Democrat Party.  The actual official name of this blog is "Kicking Ass."  Those Dems are a Class Act, aren’t they?

This week (7/28), these classy geniuses came up with what they are convinced is a sure-fire winner of a campaign theme:  Those Scary Boogeyman Republicans! 

Their strategy is to tie all Republican Party politicians to the Tea Party Movement – their term is "The Republican Tea Party" now – and list ten terribly terrifying totally wacko extremist goals that the GOP will enact should they govern which any decent person will find disgusting.

The resultant Republican Tea Party Contract on America is simply too good to be true – literally.  It’s our wish list, the presents we would most like to see under America’s Christmas Tree.  It is truly awe-inspiring that the Dems think that the 10-item "Republican agenda" will cause voters to run away in panicked fear from the Pubs and into their arms – and that they think the Pubs will actually try to achieve the items listed.

The Dems are now officially accusing the Pubs of wanting to:  Repeal ObamaCare, privatize Social Security and Medicare, extend the Bush tax cuts, repeal Dodd-Frank FinReg, protect BP re the oil spill, abolish the Department of Education, abolish the Department of Energy, abolish the Environmental Protection Agency, and repeal the 17^th Amendment.

Well, Hallelujah! 

Rasmussen reports this week (7/26) that 58% of voters want ObamaCare repealed. 

Every election for decades, the Dems drag their perennial "They’ll take away your Social Security!" chestnut to scare Granny.  Same with Medicare – and note the weasel words, "as it presently exists."  Every sentient voter knows it can’t continue as is, and yet that’s what the Dems want – no change and resultant bankruptcy.

Opposing "tax cuts for the rich" is another worn-out Dem bromide.  Problem is, Dem Senators like Evan Bayh (IN), Kent Conrad (ND), and Ben Nelson (NE), plus a host of House Dems realize how much economic damage will occur in 2011 if the Bush cuts are not extended.  Thus the CBS News headline (7/23), Will Democrats Extend All The Bush Tax Cuts?  Maybe the geniuses want to take #4 off the list.

Repeal a 2,300-page fascist monstrosity created by and named after the two people most responsible for the 2008 financial crisis costing trillions and who belong in jail, not Capitol Hill?  This is a threat??

The geniuses may also want to delete #6, which accuses the Pubs of wanting to "protect those responsible for the oil spill," in light of such news stories (occurring the same day, 7/28, as they issued their Republican Tea Party scare list) as Pelosi Blocks Oil Spill Investigation.  Oops again.

But now we get to the fun stuff, and also the most important.  The geniuses who compiled this list thought that including the abolishment of entire giant federal bureaucracies would connect the establishment mainstream Republican Party to extremist Tea Party fantasies.

It did not occur to the geniuses that this will have the exact opposite effect:  it will legitimize such fantasies by bringing them into mainstream discussion.  It headlines and publicizes the issue, making millions of voters aware of the possibility.  In fact, it makes it now an actual, real possibility – to abolish, not cut or reduce or make itsy-bitsy smaller, but abolish as in wipeout entire giant federal bureaucracies.  Cue in Dale Smallin’s witch laugh cackle.

As more and more Pubs see it’s safe to discuss then put their toes in the abolishment water, they’ll jump in.  Tea Party fantasies will cease to be extreme – and will cease to be fantasies.  One is almost tempted to dub the Dem geniuses who came up with the Pub Tea Party Contract as HFR Heroes of the Week.

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But no, just as the Anti-Hero of the week is Judge Susan Bolton with her ludicrously-reasoned decision to block Arizona’s anti-illegals law, the Heroes of the Week are Sheriffs Joe Arpaio and Paul Babeau, plus Governor Jan Brewer, who wasted no time in filing a formal appeal to Bolton’s ridiculous ruling.

There are, however, multiple silver linings to Bolton on 1070.

First, it will solidify the conviction of so many Americans that they are ruled by a krytocracy – a government of unelected judges – rather than themselves as voters in a democratic Republic.

Second, it will focus yet more attention on the 10^th Amendment, state sovereignty, and the total unconstitutionality of the federal government in Washington treating the states as their administrative districts.

Third, it makes it more undeniable than ever that the current Zero/Dem regime in Washington has absolutely no intention whatever of protecting our borders from illegal invasion.

Fourth, all of this will make so many voters so implacably mad they will be Yellow Dog Republicans on November 2^nd.  The wave that will wipeout the Dems just got much bigger.

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And the wave continues to build.  With spectacular timing, right on the heels of the Bolton decision comes a leaked Citizenship and Immigration Service memo plotting how to grant amnesty by USCIS/Homeland Security administrative trickery instead of getting any law passed by Congress.

It just keeps getting better, folks.

This week, election expert Michael Barone predicted that House Dems are heading for a "thumping" in November, that the Pubs are "on the brink of doing better than in any election since 1946, when they won a 246-188 margin in the House — larger than any they’ve held ever since."

He wrote that before the Bolton decision and the leaked USCIS memo.

What Barone did not mention, however, is that yes, the Pubs gained 55 seats in 1946 – but lost 75 seats and their brief majority two years later.  (The numbers:  prior to 1946, 191R-242D; after 1946, 246R-188D; after 1948, 171R-263D.)

So… get that Wipeout Ringtone.  Cackle all you want in gleeful anticipation, then come celebrate the Dem Wipeout at the TTP Victory Rendezvous in Washington DC November 5-7.

Then we’ve got to paddle out and catch the next big wave.  It’ll be a monster, and we’ve got to make sure we keep our feet on the board – wipeouts here could be deadly.  Want to see what that will look like?  Here’s the biggest wave ever successfully ridden (by Mike Parsons at Jaws off Maui‘s north shore).  Time to get stoked, folks.  Surf’s up.