RED IN TOOTH AND CLAW: "Your Pets Are Conspiring Against You: Dogs and cats cause 86,000 household falls each year." Photo: Bone Appetite Sarasota.
Instapundit does it, Maggie's Farm does it … Not sure about educated fleas or sentimental centipedes, but here we go. A selection of tasty tidbits from the blogosphere, the twittersphere and "the" news to whet your appetite:
REAGAN GOES VIRAL? "The Tea Party is really a decentralized Ronald Reagan, underestimated and dismissed by the left." A twitter toss-off from Scott Brown's web and political strategist, Robert Willington.
DISINTERMEDIATING THE POWERS THAT WERE:
A case study of the Brown campaign’s social media presence by Word Stream, a search engine marketing company, actually identified Brown’s momentum before polling or the political class did. Their final count found he had a ten-to-one advantage in web traffic, ten-to-one in YouTube views, three-to-one in Twitter followers, and four to one in Facebook followers.
"I want somebody younger in there, who'll do a better job." Tim Burns fans in Pennsylvania's District 12 special election May 19 for the Murtha People's Seat are sounding a lot like folks we talked to here in Massachusetts during the run-up to our own special election January 19. If you're so inclined, donate early and often to Tim's moneybomb.
FOOL ME TWICE: "The pathological liar doesn't realize that others are comparing notes about its lies." As the former Prevaricator-in-Chief tries to smear us Tea Partiers by association with Timothy McVeigh, Byron York recalls "How Clinton exploited Oklahoma City for political gain" back in 1995 by tying "Gingrich, congressional Republicans and conservative voices like Rush Limbaugh to the attack."
DON'T NUDGE ON ME: "Is the Obama Administration Behind An Astroturf Anti-Tea Party Website?"
THE WOMAN MADE ME DO IT, LORD: "Rash of Earthquakes Explained: Caused by Extramarital Sex."
TEA (PARTIES) AND SYMPATHY? "Seeing our political divisions as a battle between the culture of dependence and the culture of independence helps to make sense of the divisions seen in the 2008 election."
"Brown gets a hero's welcome" at GOP state convention in Worcester yesterday:
Scott Brown has been a US senator for 73 days, but he was greeted by the Republican faithful gathered here yesterday as if he were the prophet who would lead them to the promised land — or at least a return to political relevance on Democratic-dominated Beacon Hill.
As a high-voltage figure on the national stage, Brown made it clear in his keynote speech to the party’s state convention that he is willing to expend his political capital to revitalize the fortunes of Republicans in the Bay State and boost the gubernatorial candidacy of Charles D. Baker.
And speaking of the national stage, our man in Washington did a "nice job answering massively loaded questions" on Face the Nation this morning. Watch and listen here.
Crossposted at Liberty Pundits.
It is such satisfying experience to be hearing the Voice of the People thru the presence of the web.
Posted by: goomp | April 18, 2010 at 04:20 PM
They STILL aren't recognizing the writing on the wall. The longer they linger in oblivious denial, the better off we will remain!
Unemploy the jerks in Congress! And while we're at it - let's pass a Constitutional Amendment stating that any law passed by the House and Senate and signed into law by the President will apply equally to ALL citizens - not just the peasants down here on the ground. You pass a law in Congress it damned well better apply to YOU Mr. Congressman or Senator. WE THE PEOPLE are tired of being 2nd class citizens to you arrogant twits!
Posted by: Gayle Miller | April 19, 2010 at 09:54 AM
re: Culture of Dependence:
This is a natural result of promoting a notion that all cultures are equally valid, regardless of how well they promote the well being of their adherents.
Posted by: Nolanimrod | April 19, 2010 at 10:11 AM