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What do you get when you mix Columbia Business School, a cover of the Police, YouTube, and the recent appointment of Ben Bernake as Fed Chairman. A hysterical celebration of the dismal science.

Thanks, Allison!

As you (should) know – the FEC issued VERY permissive regulations earlier this week. What remained was the question about what to do with HR 1606. Thankfully, the House Leadership has taken the prudent course: pull the bill off the calendar and hold it in reserve. If the so-called ‘reformers’ sue – pass the bill. If the “reformers” try to chip away at the regulatory protections – pass the bill. If the regulations turn out to be unworkable for any reason – pass the bill. We’ve already seen a majority vote and it would be wise for the “reform community” to remember what sort of scenario they’re living under.

I just received this from Majority Leader Boehner:

“Both Rep. Jeb Hensarling and House Administration Committee Chairman Vernon Ehlers deserve great credit for bringing the issue of online freedom of speech to the forefront of public debate and for spurring the FEC to take what appears to be a hands-off approach to the Internet.

“The recent action by the FEC, leaving virtually all political activity on the Internet free of regulation, ensures that those engaging in politics online can continue to do so safe in the knowledge that they will not run afoul of our campaign finance laws. In light of this good faith effort by the FEC, and after discussions with the bill’s sponsor, we have postponed floor action on the bill at this time.

“The House will closely monitor the implementation of the new rule to ensure it protects bloggers and others engaging in politics online. If the new rule does not offer the appropriate protection, of if there are efforts to expand its regulatory scope, the House will resume plans to consider the Hensarling bill in order to guarantee freedom of speech on the Internet.”

Well done, Mr. Leader. And well done, Messrs. Hensarling and Ehlers. And a fantastic end to a year of bi-partisan blogger activism. Back to the beating each other about the head and shoulders, I imagine.

I have to say that this might be the nicest thing that anyone has ever said about me:

Mike Krempasky is a dangerous man because he’s a supremely bright conservative operative who says funny, non-threatening things like: “College Republicans just turn mice into rats. They don’t move them up the evolutionary chain, they just make them meaner” and then liberals laugh and forget that he’s plotting their destruction and the global domination of Walmart.

Global domination, you say? But no…no destruction. Just more ballot box losses.

Cry, moonbats, cry. Would it be sexist to wonder if this qualifies in large part as “the lamentations of their women”? (aside from the well-deserved praise, of course)

Congratulations, Ben – the WaPo made a wise choice with Red America – and we’re just proud to be part of the crowd that can say we knew you before you turned the Post upside down. And for the record – the best part of Red Dawn has nothing to do with cold dead fingers – much better to remember the Commie officer directing his henchmen to the local gun store to secure all the gun registration forms. (more trivia on the movie – including a surprising Grand Theft Auto: Vice City reference)

Shame on you.

I’ve talked to at least a half a dozen of you for more than a year and a half – and I’ve told EVERY one of you that the number one thing that the party could do to really develop and support conservative bloggers in electoral politics was to develop a solid affiliate fundraising tool – one that would allow us to involve our readers for the candidates or causes of our choice – and measure the results of our efforts.

And the Democrats beat you to it.

And to the bureacracy of our national party committees – get your heads out of your collective arse. Put aside the list of favored consultants if you have to, certainly put aside all the other things that folks that rely on commissions recommend that you do. Convene a small group of technically literate people, if it’s more than five, you’ll fail – and do it tomorrow. Get a product by the end of the month.

And when your web folks tell you it can’t be done that quickly – get a new batch of web folks. Ebay was written in days, not quarters. When your finance folks tell you its not in the budget – look a lot closer at the financial metrics of direct mail fundraising and imagine a world of small dollar donors without any prospecting costs.

And if the party won’t do it – it’s up to a forward-thinking campaign out there. Spend the fifty thousand dollars – skip a lousy ad buy in an expensive metro market that favors your opponent. Then release the code to the candidates that are willing to use it.

Get. It. Done.

Drudge runs the headline: “MAG: First Photo of Bush and Abramoff…”

Me: Really? Wonder if this is gonna be bad… (click)

Me: They had to put a red circle around Abramoff? That’s it? Bahahaha. Boy, I hope they’ve got better than that – or our friends at Kos are going to go through some serious HateBushus Interruptus.