Sipsey Street Irregulars: Another rat leaves the sinking ship.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Another rat leaves the sinking ship.

"Bill Daley resigning as White House chief of staff."

9 comments:

Anonymous said...: I don't know how much of a "shake up" (accord to FoxSpews" but when I said the breaking news banner a half hour or so ago I went to Wikistupedia to see who Lew was. It had already said the following:

"Jacob "Jack" J. Lew (born August 29, 1955) is the Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget (or OMB) a position he previously held from 1998 to 2001.[1] He is scheduled to be the 25th White House Chief of Staff."

Any way of telling when that statement was posted?; January 9, 2012 at 3:26 PM
Ed said...: As Obama names his fourth (and hopefully last) Chief of Staff, which does not require approval of the Senate, consider the quality of his other appointments that do require Senate approval.

After just reading Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's 1997 book "The Secret Life of Bill Clinton - the unreported stories", which does favorably mention Mike Vanderboegh and his "The John Doe Times", I would not be pushing the Clinton Administration experience too strongly. The phenomena of the MSM not reporting, under-reporting or misreporting significant newsworthy events is not new to the current administration. Read the Evans-Pritchard book and have your eyes blasted wide open. The book makes the Nixon Administration appear as a bunch of nice guys in comparison.

Pray hard that the current President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House stay healthy until the end of a single term Presidency. Work hard to guarantee the singularity of the term.; January 9, 2012 at 3:37 PM
Anonymous said...: This is a big time rat.

Long tail of evil rat.

This is a well informed rat.

Any other rats better study this rats trail.

More,,,; January 9, 2012 at 4:51 PM
Anonymous said...: I nominate Bill Ayers as next WH Chief of Staph; January 9, 2012 at 5:05 PM
Toastrider said...: I know some folks here have excoriated Issa and Grassley for their slow pace, but I can't help but think they're playing this game deliberately slow.

Now it's going to definitely bleed into the presidential election cycle, and that won't do Emperor Zero any favors at all.

And I think the rats know it, hence the departures.; January 9, 2012 at 6:30 PM
Anonymous said...: Agree with Toastrider completely. Everything I have seen/heard, though I am not as well informed as some of you, makes me think Issa and Grassley are playing this perfectly with exquisite timing.

But the game is still on so we shall see.; January 9, 2012 at 9:54 PM
Anonymous said...: This brings up my biggest complaint about this blog-- using the sinking ship picture when you can use the rat in the life preserver picture.; January 9, 2012 at 9:58 PM
Anonymous said...: Drudge had a headline that Michelle had a dislike for this "white Irish Catholic"; January 10, 2012 at 10:15 AM
Anonymous said...: "Any way of telling when that statement was posted?"

Here's the edit that added that statement on the 9th.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jacob_Lew&action=historysubmit&diff=470484144&oldid=469129791; January 10, 2012 at 11:16 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Another rat leaves the sinking ship.

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