Midnight Blue Says

Perhaps is was this photo that clued Moveon.org that I may be more dangerous than Beck:

All Hail Tania

Check the video evidence below the cut

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Finally packed for a very early morning trip to DC to attend CPAC 2010.  Check out the Roses and Skull luggage!

I’m looking forward to meeting my fellow panelists from the Bank of Kev’s ‘Blogger Free For All’:  Doug Welch, Andrew Ian Dodge, Joy McCann, Larry O’Connor, and Bruce.  You can catch our panel discussion this Thursday at 4 PM in Room 8212 of the Marriott Hotel.

There will be a Wednesday night pre-conference kickoff with a bar side  live radio show hosted by Stage Right – Larry O’Connor.  You can follow the live broadcast from Marriott bar by clicking HERE.  I’ll be stopping by to chat with Larry and the other panelists. This is going to be a discussion you don’t want to miss!

For those who can’t attend the conference – I am happy to announce there is an iPhone App for that!

Back Channels: A Summit For The Rest Of Us

This week, Back Channels describes an ideal health care summit for the rest of us:

Forget the one-day health-care summit on Feb. 25, where the two sides will pretend they can compromise enough to pass the Senate’s health-care monstrosity. Instead, let’s hold a two-day event, one that caters to the inside-the-Beltway crowd’s need for style, and the other providing the substance that citizens want.

It is the substance of the proposed health care bill that is problematic for democrats. Having Harry Reid describe the details of the bill to the American public on CSPAN would be the nail in the coffin for the dems health care reform. On February 25th expect massive quantities of fluff emanating from this summit and zero substance.

U.S. Congressman Paul Ryan has proposed a Roadmap Plan 2.0 which details a practical solutions to our debt burden and health care needs. American’s know there is a smarter, more practical way to fix this nation’s ills and Rep. Paul Ryan’s proposal reflects the sensibility of responsible, hard working Americans. Take a few minutes to read over his proposal and let share it with your Congressman and Senator, letting them know about this practical plan.

At the stroke of midnight, I am happy to have the opportunity to chat with Big Hollywood’s legendary Larry O’Connor.

Had a ton of fun chatting with Larry O’Connor – listen to our zany interview at the link above.

Via Atlas Shrugs and Politico

Softball interview of the month:

Katie Couric, who’s been in the news already today, will interview President Obama live during Sunday’s Super Bowl pre-game show, according to the network.

I wonder if she’ll ask him to list the magazines he reads?

A rather mysterious person submitted the exact same letter to the editor (LTE) for publication in dozens of newspapers across the nation.  Locally, the Northeast Times and Philly Daily News printed this LTE. I know from experience that one must a identify a neighborhood when submitting an LTE to the Northeast Times. Was it an innocent oversight or an intentional act on the part of the editors?  It’s not quite spring, yet one can smell the astroturf!

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If a progressive radio station ceases operations and declares bankruptcy, will anyone hear it?

AirAmerica.com

It is with the greatest regret, on behalf of our Board, that we must announce that Air America Media is ceasing its live programming operations as of this afternoon, and that the Company will file soon under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code to carry out an orderly winding-down of the business.

The very difficult economic environment has had a significant impact on Air America’s business. This past year has seen a “perfect storm” in the media industry generally. National and local advertising revenues have fallen drastically, causing many media companies nationwide to fold or seek bankruptcy protection. From large to small, recent bankruptcies like Citadel Broadcasting and closures like that of the industry’s long-time trade publication Radio and Records have signaled that these are very difficult and rapidly changing time

This would be a first for Obama and Democrats.

Back Channels: Obama should heed his own lofty words

“What is called for is … that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us. … Let our politics reflect that spirit as well.”

- Candidate Obama,

March 18, 2008

Donohue thinks Americans are ready for positive messages about improving the economy, such as his Campaign for Free Enterprise.

“We have to remind people what worked and think about it as we look to new approaches coming out of the recession,” he says. “And we want to put pressure on the business community to do what we desperately need to do: create 20 million new jobs in the next 10 years.”

What worked includes open capital markets, free trade, reasonable taxation and regulation, and “the right to fail,” Donohue says. “Many business people failed the first time and then came back and succeeded.”

Donohue may get his chance to accentuate the positive, since the administration may be ready for a cease-fire. On Wednesday, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel spoke to the chamber’s board of directors. The off-the-record session was later described by a chamber official in terms normally used for diplomatic summits between wary adversaries: “We had a productive and robust exchange on a wide range of issues.”

Chances are, after Tuesday’s election results, there are some robust exchanges within the White House itself. Perhaps that will lead to a politics of listening, reaching out, and solving problems together.

Or maybe not.

“I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to just get out of the way. …”

- President Obama,

Aug. 6, 2009

Back Channels: The Case for Christie

One sentence from this column sums up all you need to know about Christie.

And Christie is not part of the corrupt Democratic Party machine.

Any questions?

MSNBC’s resident slut, Contessa Brewer, gets pwn’d by her teleprompter in this segment with Jesse Jackson:

Journalism at its finest.