Successful people don't sit idly by and watch socialist governments seize their assets at gunpoint

Well-to-do French citizens are strongly considering moving to other countries as the Hollande regime's tax hike begins to bite.

And you can be sure they'll go even lower before it's over

The new pro-MEC ad by super-PAC Priorities USA features a guy named Joe Soptic, who was laid off from the steel company GST and whose wife later died of cancer. 

There are several important facts to know about this situation, some of which, such as the time frame in which Romney's leaving Bain Capital, the plant closing, and the discover of the cancer.  It's about seven years from Event A to Event C. A lot of this has been discussed on blogs and talk radio today.

What I haven't seen was any discussion of why Bain Capital might have closed the plant (beyond Bob Beckel's silly rant on The Five about how Bain somehow milked it for a bunch of assets).

I herewith reprint a post from this blog from May that tells the story:

1.) Romney left Bain capital in 1999. The shutdown was in 2001.

2.) Here's who was still at Bain, though, and oversaw the outsourcing of the jobs: a major MEC campaign-fund bundler.

3.) The mill that was shut down was on the skids anyway, in no small part because it was busting its ass to try to comply with EPA standards.

4.) That mill was unionized. GTS's other mill, in Ft. Wayne, IN, is non-union and still making steel today

SUPREMELY IMPORTANT UPDATE: Soptic's wife continued to have a job and health insurance after he got laid off.

What, no Barracuda?

The speaker lineup for the Pub convention was obviously put together by establishment types.  Some good governors - Haley, Scott, Kasich - but some doozy RGS-afflicted types, such as Huckabee, Rice, and the guy who basically handed the White House keys to a freedom-hating revolutionary socialist.  (That would be McCain.)  Where's Allen West?   Sarah Palin?  Rick Santorum?  Jim DeMint?

This is why lefty Facebook smartasses display utter cluelessness when they snark about the Republican party.  They'd have their worst nightmare to post about if we base types and Tea Party types actually ran things.

Maybe if we can elect a truly conservative Congress, we can sideline this invite-the-Freedom-Haters-to-dine-on-our-testicles crowd once and for all.

A different standard than we care to use for desirable places to live and work

The American Council on Energy Efficiency obviously doesn't view the matter of quality of life the way normal people do.  Last September, it released its fifth annual report on the most energy-efficient states in America.  Leading the way were economic basket cases such as California and Massachussetts.  The list of the least energy-efficient included the Dakotas, among others, which are, as we know, enjoying a boom in the midst of the nation's overall economic morass.  In fact, when the two lists are taken as a whole, the least efficient states had 12 percent lower unemployment than the Council's poster children for efficiency.

Glad to see this becoming a front-burner issue

Mitt Romney weighs in on the regime's attempt to sue Ohio over its law granting military personnel extra voting time.  As Chicago thug tactics go, this one's especially disgusting.

The inside scoop on this is going to be interesting

Regulation czar Cass Sunstein resigns to go back to teaching at Harvard.  While it's not at all comforting to think of him indoctinating yet more students, at least he won't be directly pulling the levers of totalitarianism any more.

But why did he make this move?  It's not quite like the case of the economic advisors, who had to publicly face fruits of their policies far different from what the American people were told they would be.  The regime may have promised economic recovery and delivered something entirely different, but it also promise to curb freedom, and on that score it delivered in spades.  To which the regime's base said "Bravo!"

Even so,. I'm inclined to think he was motivated by a look at where he'd have some job security come January.

When pride in being an entrepreneur trumps feelings about one's demographic identity

Fantastic column by small-businessman Richard Carter in the Amsterdam News, NYC's leading black  - and usually very left-leaning - newspaper on the reverberations from the MEC's "you-didn't-build-that" debacle.

We must be having an effect

Glad to see that Mitt Romney has said he would allow the Production Tax Credit - the mechanism that subsidizes wind farms with your tax dollars - to expire.  Drawing a bright line between himself and such RGS-afflicted Senators as Grassley and Hatch.

LITD likes this

The RNC sends the Most Equal Comrade a 51st birthday cake inscribed with icing: "You didn't bake this."

You can still find people who buy this dog vomit

The MEC characterizes the fact that lowering taxes for everybody - including the most successful among us - engenders job creation as "fairy dust."  Says last decade's tax policies were "failed.  Well, when the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 were fully implemented, job creation took off.

Freedom-Haters love an impoverished and desperate populace

Unemployment inched up in July.  195,000 fewer Americans had jobs last month than in June.  Still, the regime's propaganda arm tells us - for the 42nd damn month in a row - that we shouldn't read too much into one month's report.

It moves the MEC's agenda of planned decline forward on two fronts

Those would be

a.) diminishing America's stature in the world and ability to lead

b.) turning the American people into gaunt, underfed cattle willing to be herded anywhere if there's the prospect of a small pale of daily gruel

WSJ's Kimberly Strassel on what the defense-fund sequester is doing to already-dismal jobs numbers.  And what's up with the Department of Labor telling defense contractors "just hold off on sending those pink slips out 60 days out"?

We're here to reclaim Western civilization

Gateway Pundit has a good roundup of photos of the lines at Chick-fil-A outlets around the nation.

You do know the significance of this date, don't you?

August 1, 2012 will live in infamy as the day on which this regime's hatred of America's Judeo-Christian foundation was codified into law.  The HHS mandate requiring insurance companies to cover contraception and abortion-inducing drugs goes into effect.

But wasn't government becoming a major stockholder supposed to save this venerable American icon?

GM is still a suck puppy. Ousted global marketing chief, lousy sales, dependence on the European market for most of its business.

Let's not get fooled again.

America's resurgent love of freedom is no flash in the pan

Ted Cruz beats Dewhurst in the Texas GOP runoff for Kay Bailey Hutchison's Senate seat.

To paraphrase Joe Biden, this is a BFD.  In his victory speech, Cruz thanked a litany of figures that embody everything the left hates about us: Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Rand Paul.  He also thanked Martin Luther King.   He also thanked Dewhurst for years of public service in the Air Force and as lieutenant governor.

Think about how many op-eds and off-the-cuff remarks there have been by establishment Pubs and certainly effete east-coast chin-rubbing "centrist analysts" to the effect that the Tea Party was a spent force.  Two things about that: the actual Tea Party is quite viable and vibrant, thank you.  My sister belongs to a Tea Party organization where she lives and it's quite active.  But the Tea Party is merely the most visible embodiment of the real conservative foundation of America that will not be extinguished.

Walker won his recall, Mourdock beat Lugar, North Carolina codified its assertion that marriage is between one man and one woman, and now Cruz is the standard-bearer in the Texas Senate race.

America is stumbling to its feet, blinking its eyes, shaking its head - and reaching for its can of whup-ass.