Each week, in a contest for the week’s best post, the members of the Watchers Council nominate one of their own posts and a second from outside the Council for consideration by other council members. This week’s nominations got posted in the aftermath of the Illinois primary, where “anemic turnout” produced a Mark Kirk nomination on the GOP side. It’s somewhat heartening that Kirk, for all that he’s a RINO’s RICO, is now talking and acting like Scott Brown. Only a year ago the Obama model of utopian populism – plus the scapegoating it relies on when promises fall short – was the model to be emulated.
It’d be even more heartening if Kirk actually thought like Scott Brown, but there’s only so much you can ask of Illinois politicians. Lets start with not holding knives to girlfriends’ throats and go from there. Baby steps. In the meantime, here are the nominations. Feel free to sound off under this post on the Facebook page about which ones you’d vote for.
Council Submissions
* Mere Rhetoric – Yahoo Wipes “Ariel, Israel” Off The Map, Replaces It With “Jenin, Palestinian Occupied Territories”
* Rhymes With Right – But If She Wanted An Abortion, It Would Have Been No Big Deal
* Soccer Dad – The goldstone rumor mill
* Bookworm Room-Leftist tactics to scare the uninformed about America’s religious freedoms *UPDATED*
* Wolf Howling – The Three Stooges Meet Al Qaeda In Undiegate
* The Colossus of Rhodey – The Colonel’s Tiger
* Right Truth – GOP: You blew it!
* The Glittering Eye – The Really Hard Choices We’re Avoiding
* Joshuapundit – The Valley Of Decision : Iran Crosses The Nuclear Threshold
* American Digest – Last Light
* The Provaocateur – Dr. Chacko to Afghanistan?
Non-Council Submissions
* Submitted By: The Watcher – Pamela Geller @ Big Government – Obama Recruiting Radicals in High Schools
* Submitted By: Mere Rhetoric – Smart Politics – ‘Professor’ Obama? President’s State of the Union Address Notches 4th Lowest Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score Since FDR
* Submitted By: Rhymes With Right – SCOTUSblog – Ending Racial Preferences
* Submitted By: Soccer Dad – Daled Amos – The Middle East: The New York Times hasn’t learned its lesson and now it’s teaching it
* Submitted By: Wolf Howling – Plumb Bob Blog – A New Political Term: Debt Reduction
* Submitted By: Bookworm Room – Commentary Contentions – When the Telling Starts
* Submitted By: The Colossus of Rhodey – City Journal – The Grasping Hand
* Submitted By: Right Truth – Atlas Shrugs – From Himmler with Love: “His Eminence, the Grand Mufti, In Remembrance”
* Submitted By: The Glittering Eye – KeithHennessey.com – The President’s Bigger Budget
* Submitted By: Joshuapundit – American Thinker / Randall Hoven – The Lost Decade
* Submitted By: American Digest – Cobb – King Solomon’s Mines
* Submitted By: The Provocateur – Dick Morris at Newsmax – Behind Obama’s Phony Deficit Numbers
References:
* The Black and White of Being “Scott Brown” [Watcher Of Weasels]
* Dem candidate in IL has record of domestic violence [Hot Air]
* Mere Rhetoric Facebook Page [Official Site]
Related Mere Rhetoric Categories:
* American Politics
* Democratic Politics
* Republican Politics
