Couldn’t Help But Notice ….. (101608, Morning)

Sensible conservatism is so discredited (/sarc) that Steven Harper & Company picked up 19 seats in Parliament in yesterday’s Canadian elections (from 124 to 143, 12 short of a majority), while the once uber-powerful Liberals dropped from 103 to 76. As recently as 2000, the Liberals had 172 seats; in 2004, they had 135.

This 56% Liberal decline in eight years (44% in just the last four) has occurred despite the fact that the Canadian press is at least as insufferably biased towards Liberals as ours is towards Democrats.

Harper has a lot of work to do. One thing he needs to get on with is the task of de-fanging the speech police at the provincial human rights commissions who have been going after the likes of Mark Steyn.

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News they won’t use (HT Matt Sheffield at NewsBusters) — “The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded.”

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More news they won’t use (HT Scott Whitlock at NewsBusters) — “Democratic vice-presidential candidate Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. has paid more than $2 million in campaign cash to his family members, their businesses and employers over the years, a practice that watchdogs criticize as rife with potential conflicts of interest.”

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Even more news they won’t use (HT Terry Trippany at NewsBusters) — “(Bill) Ayers’ office door is decorated with pictures of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Che Guevara and Malcolm X.”

Two of the three are or were cold-blooded killers dressed in radical chic.

“Obviously” (/sarc), “The One” I refer to as “Mr. BOOHOO-OUCH, PUNK” (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein Obambi” Obama – Objectively Unfit Coddler of Haters, Previously Unaccomplished Nonsupporter of Kin) never visited Ayers at his University of Illinois at Chicago office during all of those Annenberg Challenge, Woods Foundation, etc. years.

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IBD has the best editorial in the past 24 hours (“One Day, One Vote”) — “Remember ‘Election Day,’ when you actually had to show up on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November and prove who you were? Making it easier to vote made it easier to cheat.” Read the whole thing.

Three points jump out:

• First, “early voting” by the able-bodied, even if miraculously fraud-free, is irresponsible voting.
• Second, Oregon, which does all voting by mail, has no way of knowing whether it has representative government.
• Third, an Ohio General Assembly doing its job would impeach Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner for consciously refusing to do her most important job — assuring the integrity of Buckeye State elections — for nearly two years. Instead, she’s done all she can to undermine it. As IBD says, “It’s a sad day when a court has to order a state’s top election official to take steps to fight massive and orchestrated vote fraud.”