Erick Erickson's Blog, page 229

The Jobs Numbers

The jobs numbers don't paint a good picture over all. Unemployment went back up slightly.

The number Mr. Obama will want us to pay attention to is private sector job growth. According to the government, private sector jobs went up and the growth of unemployment is attributed to those census workers leaving their jobs.

In fact, I'm already getting emails from Democrats saying I'm being disingenuous to focus on the overall picture.

But there's a problem for them. When unemployment was going...

Pulling the Plug in Delaware: The Liberty.com and Christine O'Donnell Matter

I would rather die a thousand times over via crushing by an anaconda while being torn limb from limb by a jaguar than see Mike Castle in the Senate.

I would rather be slowly run over by a road roller while listening to Janeane Garofalo dialogue from The Truth About Cats and Dogs than see Mike Castle in the Senate.

I'd rather see the Democrat get elected than see Mike Castle get elected. Seriously, I know many of you disagree with me, but if the majority depends on Mike Castle, to hell with...

Morning Briefing for September 3, 2010

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1. Pulling the Plug in Delaware: The Liberty.com and Christine O'Donnell Matter

2. Jane Norton for Governor

3. Rick Scott (R CAND, FL-GOV) picks Jennifer Carroll for Lt. Gov spot.

4. Blood Money

5. Christina Romer Hits The Silk

6. Rep. Phil Hare is Starting to Panic

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1. Pulling the Plug in Delaware: The Liberty.com and...

Jane Norton for Governor

I put Nightwister's post on the frontpage for a reason — Dan Maes needs to disappear.

If he is considering it, I want to publicly encourage him.

I met Dan Maes. When I was in Colorado earlier this year, Maes wanted to meet and asked for mine and RedState's support. Very few of my friends in Colorado — the same people supporting Buck by and large — thought that would be wise.

We see why. Maes was not ready for prime time. He's a genuinely nice guy. I liked him immediately. But the Maes...

Morning Briefing for September 2, 2010

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1. The Rhetoric of Violence
2. Conservatives Have Won Nothing. You Read It Right. NOTHING.
3. The poll that scares the Democrats most.
4. Boo-Hoo. Icky Conservatives Might Upset The Senate.

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1. The Rhetoric of Violence

Yesterday, James Jay Lee died, shot by police. Lee walked into the headquarters of the Discovery Channel in Silver...

Boo-Hoo. Icky Conservatives Might Upset The Senate.

Funny, several friends and I were joking earlier today that pretty soon the elites and their media friends would take a new angle on Ken Buck, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Sharron Angle, etc.

Instead of calling them fringe, which is getting harder and harder to do given their successes, the media would instead contrast them to Tom Coburn and Jim DeMint, alleging that these people are far to the right of Coburn and DeMint. In effect, DeMint and Coburn would be centrists relatively speaking.

It didn't...

Conservatives Have Won Nothing. You Read It Right. NOTHING.

It has come to this, I'm afraid.

We need to keep our perspective.

Conservatives have won nothing. Nothing.

Ken Buck you say? Sharron Angle? Mike Lee? Pat Toomey? Marco Rubio? Joe Miller? Rand Paul? Nikki Haley?

Here, pay attention: they are all candidates.

Yes, yes — we won primaries. Contrary to popular opinion that conservatives wanted a purge of party, we instead played smartly — playing where we could win. We gave Roy Blunt a pass in Missouri. We were largely disunified and...

More Notes From Alaska

Big Government has more on Alaska and notes:

Murkowski did not endorse Joe Miller. This is getting to be a trend among beaten Republicans that they don't endorse their more conservative challengers. See e.g. Bill McCollum.

Sources in Alaska confirm Murkowski is in talks with the Libertarians, though the LIbertarians are saying she won't get on the ballot for them.

By the way, it is worth noting that Big Government beat everybody on the news that Murkowski would be conceding.

Morning Briefing for September 1, 2010

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1. Barack Obama Monotones

2. Knee Capping Mitch McConnell: Lisa Murkowski Concedes to Joe Miller

3. Sebelius counsels… 'Reeducation' for Obamacare.

4. We Have An Answer

5. Now This Is Just Dumb

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1. Barack Obama Monotones

Barack Obama again waited for Rush Limbaugh to go on vacation before addressing the public from the Oval...

Knee Capping Mitch McConnell: Lisa Murkowski Concedes to Joe Miller

Lisa Murkowski is conceding the senate primary in Alaska to RedState and Sarah Palin endorsed Joe Miller.

This news is bigger than Lisa Murkowski. While Establishment Republicans will bristle at it, this is a near total kneecapping of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, not to mention another rejection of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

Consider this inside baseball fact: McConnell has chosen as his loyal lieutenants at the leadership table Robert Bennett (R-UT), Judd...