The Hayride

…Steven Rattner.

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece outlining five steps a House GOP majority should undertake to change the game in Washington and govern in spite of President Obama. In that piece, the first step I outlined was The Inquisition, a flurry of investigations into the misdeeds of the Pelosi Congress and the Obama administration. While that’s an impolitic and sure-to-be-villified activity the left-wing media will have a field day with, if it’s done correctly it will have the effect of burning down the public’s tolerance for Democrats in any elected branch of government.

Rattner, a hedge-fund scumbag and Democrat fundraiser who was rewarded for his service with a gig as Obama’s car czar, is out with a new book which contains some pretty strong stuff casting the administration in a toxic light. The Huffington Post got hold of a copy and throws out the following tidbits…

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Now more than ever, EAT LOUISIANA SEAFOOD!! It is delicious, healthy, and the best in the world. Test after test has shown conclusively that our seafood on the market is not tainted in any way by the oil spill or the dispersants used to break down the oil. The vast majority of Louisiana’s coastal waters have been reopened to recreational and commercial fishing. Take advantage of the replenished stocks of game fish by taking out a fishing charter out and catching your limit. When you go out to eat, make sure you let the restaurant know that you DEMAND Louisiana seafood! Our seafood industry is critical to our economy, and supporting it begins at home….

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Hi. Is it payday today? Get your taxes withheld from your check, didya?

Congratulations. Wanna see what you’re subsidizing?

The Life, that’s what. Here’s a look…

The folks in the video would like to wish you a Happy Labor Day. They aren’t big into labor, but they know you are. And they (kinda) appreciate that, particularly on the 1st and 15th.

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“If we are unable to keep those fields going, that is going to have a substantial impact on our cash flow,” said David Nagle, BP’s executive vice president for BP America, in an interview. That, he added, “makes it harder for us to fund things, fund these programs.”

http://cajunconservatism.com/2010/09/03/bp-threatens-to-cut-off-spill-fund-if-congress-blocks-offshore-permits/

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As the Times-Picayune’s David Hammer writes this morning, yesterday’s accident aboard Mariner Energy’s Vermilion 380 platform in the Gulf, which resulted in a fire it took several hours to put out, is being put forth as further evidence the offshore oil industry is out of control and needs to be curtailed if not ended.

And as Hammer notes, it takes some rather severe contortions to create equivalency between the Vermilion 380 accident and BP’s Deepwater Horizon nightmare. Contortions, it must be said, which only someone with a left-wing agenda would wish to practice.

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State Republican Party Chairman Roger Villere issued a statement urging voters in the 3rd District to support Landry, a New Iberia lawyer, in the Oct. 2 primary runoff. The statement doesn’t directly ask Downer to drop out, but says, “It is now time to unite behind Jeff Landry.”

http://cajunconservatism.com/2010/09/03/thetowntalk-state-gop-endorses-landry-in-3rd-district-race/

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Currently, the deepwater drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) still remains in place. Many may not be aware that there also remains a de-facto moratorium on shallow water drilling in the GOM. While the Administration made it clear that only deepwater drilling would be affected, in the past four months, the federal government has granted only four permits for shallow water drilling.

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“Well, we’re going to stay focused on Election Day. But I think before that, we’re going to continue to demand that this administration and this Congress make it clear that no American will see a tax increase in January of next year.

“So the first thing that we will do is try to preserve the tax relief of 2001 and 2003 for all Americans — for all small businesses and family farmers. But we also want to look at the kind of across-the-board tax relief, the kind of tax relief that will encourage capital formation, to get this economy moving again.”

- U.S. Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), on the Republicans’ plans for the next election and beyond.

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One of the more shocking things about this election cycle is the number of establishment GOP figures who have been upset by outsider, Tea Party candidates in party primaries, especially in U.S. Senate races.  Joe Miller’s win over Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski was preceded by Ken Buck’s win over Colorado Lt. Gov. Jane Norton, Sharron Angle’s win over state GOP Chairman Sue Lowden in Nevada, Rand Paul’s win over Kentucky Sec. of State Trey Grayson, Mike Lee’s win over Utah Sen. Bob Bennett, and Marco Rubio’s pushing Florida Governor Charlie Crist out of the GOP primary (because Crist knew that he would lose).

If you had wanted to bet me a year ago that the Tea Party outsider candidates would have won more than one of those races, I’d have glady taken that bet and wondered if you were drunk.

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It seems this James Jay Lee cat wasn’t exactly your typical “he was a quiet guy, never bothered anybody” wannabe murderer type. It seems he was more your run-of-the-mill left-wing nutbag.

And he fit right in at the anti-war rallies.

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