Archive for October 21st, 2007

LIVE FROM ORLANDO! BLOG TALK RADIO’S ANDREA SHEA KING AT THE GOP DEBATE


There’s a lot of excitement in the air! And I’m not even at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort and Hotel yet!

This evening the Republican presidential hopefuls assemble to tell Americans yet again what they stand for — and what they WON’T stand for.

This latest heat in the marathon for the Oval Office is hosted by Fox News, which means it will be sensibly moderated by Washington Bureau Chief Brit Hume.

I’m there at the invitation of Cong. Duncan Hunter. A huge thank to him and his staff for the VIP invite.

And as if THAT’s not enough, I’ll be joining the WDBO crew and 12 lucky listeners at a pre-debate dinner with Sean Hannity.

Yep, dining with “The Great American”. Got my camera and my tape recorder. And if it wasn’t so awkward, I’d bring along this little gal here to live blog the fun and festivities. But I’ve got to look calm, cool, and collected, right? So I’ve got an Ace up my sleeve — Blogging Ace THIRDWAVEDAVE (thank you!!!!) will be keeping you informed as I call in with play-by-plays from the Dinner and the Debate.

I won’t be doing my live show from WDBO’s studios tonight — we’re running a “Best Of” instead. But if I have the opportunity, I’ll try to call in to “interrupt regular programming” with a live report or two during the program’s second hour.

So — check in with Dave for updates. Gonna fly now…. flying high now!

ZOOO-O-O-O-mmmm…….

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Catch-Up Hard Starboard Recap

Tuesday, October 9

Rev’rund Hillary, the noted liberal theologian, keeps just the kind of company you would expect.

Why is it that so many Americans can grasp the crisis we face with a nuclearizing Iranian mullahgarchy, but none of them ever include those actually empowered to do something about it?

Have you ever heard of “Obelisk”?  Thanks to ABC and the usual seditious leakers in the Donkified intelligence bureaucracy, al Qaeda now knows that we know.  I guess the network with the mouse ears hadn’t gotten their turn at aiding & abetting the enemy.

Wednesday, October 10

Hard Starboard officially announces its endorsement of Fred Thompson for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.  Three days later mysterious technical difficulties afflict the first fifteen minutes of Hard Starboard Radio.  Coincidence?  The pebble that triggers an avalanche?  We report, you decide.

Thursday, October 11

Eventually, all exothermic reactions between a substance (the fuel) and a gas (the oxidizer) will be banned in the state of Gollyfornia.  And Governor GirlyMan will be there to sign off on it.

Friday, October 12

I take my crack at scoring Dean Barnett’s now-former gig at RomneyIsGod.com.  No word yet.  D’ya think Hugh noticed my Fred Thompson endorsement?

The President vetoes SCHIP v. 2.0, and the Democrats roll out their Dickensian PR props, right on schedule.  In other news, the sun came up in the morning, large cracks didn’t open in the planet’s surface, and huge rocks didn’t fall from the sky.

The victim racket has been very good to Fat Albert.  Kinda globally warms your heart to see him gamely collecting futile consolation prizes that will never compensate for losing his very reason for existing by a lousy 587 un-pilferable votes, doesn’t it?  Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy.

Saturday, October 13

What, I don’t get to rest on the seventh day….?

Sunday, October 14th

The Hsus continue to fall like trees in the forest, making no sound the Rodhamoid media will listen to.

Monday, October 15th

The Democrats may finally have discovered a way to guarantee defeat in Iraq without leaving their own fingerprints on the corpse: blame a key ally in the war for the century-old atrocities of its predecessor.  And Crazy Nancy was the architect!  Well, you know what they say about stopped clocks.

Every other 2006 Dem promise has slid by the boards - why should their much-avowed work ethic be any different?  And perhaps for very practical reasons.

Tuesday, October 16th

[Out of town at a “Healthy Workplace Summit” conference.  Suffice it to say, I was akin to a fish flopping about a desert mesa, and for more reasons than my girth.  Also my father’s 74th birthday - Hope it was a good one, Dad!]

Wednesday, October 17th

Has anybody else noticed that Hillary Clinton is sounding less and less like her triangulating “new Democrat” hubby, and more and more heedless of anybody noticing it?  It’s almost like she’s convinced she’s got the election in the bag already.  How else to explain her brazen embrace of George W. Bush’s Social Security personal accounts plan, only as a separate middle class entitlement underfunded by a huge hike in the estate tax?….

Thursday, October 18th

….or her scheme to bloat the Family Medical Leave Act toward the paid calendar quarter off for every American worker of which FMLA’s critics always said it was the but the pretext?

D’ye think House Democrats noticed the USA Today/Gallup poll showing a majority of American adults support the President’s veto of their SCHIP explosion?  It sure seemed to come across in their end of the debate on the veto-override they failed to pull off.  Pete Stark’s reprehensible lunacy was a particular highlight.

A reporter’s claim to fame: she made an old man cry.  That still beats his getting murdered at the hands of the thugs he was forced to shoot in self-defense, though probably not in her opinion.

Friday, October 19th

Took another trip through the libosphere, if only to avoid blogging about Hillary again.  Which is rather like vomiting to avoid sticking my finger down my throat, come to think of it.

The coast must be clear for House Democrats to abandon their “Turks are a bunch of murderous Armenophobes” resolution, since it appears to already have served its true purpose.

And last, but not least, a recap of the Battle of FISA.  Short version: Democrats have decided to wait for President Rodham to kill the War on Terror.

And she’ll do it, too.