Some kids from the American Conservative Student Union have started a website tracking congressional attendance. It’s a fun little resource, and the “perfect attendance” list is pretty bipartisan. Their list of the worst offenders is above. Naturally, a tax-leeching Dumb-o-crat is right on top. It’s a Democrat who’s still recovering in a hospital from a debilitating brain injury, but isn’t that just like the Dems? MORE »

Is it still a Hate Crime? MORE »

Photo illustration via Fark, which had so many great ones to choose from

Yesterday, we met Justin Zatkoff, the Michigan area College Republican who was savagely beaten by gay black communists after leaving a party. The CR have an official statement:

I think the assailant broke Justin’s nose, cheekbone, eye cavity, and nasal cavity. The attack was completely unprovoked. I urge all of you to be careful and travel in groups when possible, especially until the elections are over.

A vigilant reader asked for more information on the situation from Truth Caucus, and a portion of their IM conversation is reprinted below:

truth caucus: well…
truth caucus: there isnt physical proof that it was from a liberal attacker…
truth caucus: he doesn’t remember anything about what happened
truth caucus: And, I’m think that he might be jewish
truth caucus: and Ann Arbor has a large muslim population
operative: wow!

We knew it! ISLAMOFASICSTS! Get Hitch and Sully on this, stat!

More of their exchange is reprinted after the jump.

College Republican beaten after leaving party [Fark]
Carlson Issues Statement [Truth Caucus]
Earlier: Young Republican Attacked by Either Gays or Blacks

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This young man was assaulted yesterday as he left a meeting of the Michigan College Republicans. Justin Zatkoff is the apparent victim of a hate crime, perpetrated almost without doubt by– well, we’ll let “a source close to Justin” explain: MORE »

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How you like that? We show a bunch of smarmy New Yorkers nothing but hospitality, and how do they repay us? By running three smarmy pieces about how lame our big party was on Saturday in their smarmiest and most financially unstable paper. Sure, we love the attention, but the Observer seems to be acting all superior to us just because they’re skinnier and dress better.

First off, Chris Lehmann’s review of the Prom reception, dinner, and afterparty. We remember him skulking around Bloomberg — seemed like a shifty and untrustworthy sort. But this anecdote rings true to us:

The day’s festivities stretched all the way back to noon, with the kickoff brunch hosted by MSNBC producer Tammy Haddad. The defining moment of that event was the arrival of former Niger Ambassador Joe Wilson, husband of C.I.A. officer Valerie Plame. He walked up Ms. Haddad’s slate sidewalk in D.C.’s swank Palisades neighborhood; he sported a Palm Beach-style untucked Hawaiian shirt and brandished a cigar. He approached the tent where D.C.’s various media personages, pols and celebrity-esque hangers-on congregated.

Mr. Wilson took a quick, disenchanted look at his lit stogie and tossed it into Ms. Haddad’s flowerbed.

It wasn’t a gesture of confrontation so much as simple ambient sourness. But it served as another signature moment, six years into a flailing Bush Presidency, where the Washington zeitgeist might best be summed up in two words: “Fuck it.”

Hell, we’ll agree with that. We’re pretty sure the only person in Washington who still likes their job is Patrick Fitzgerald.

After the jump, the assault continues with a knock on our style and a trip to an Adams-Morgan Young Republican party.

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Would you like to go an online dating seminar/rountable hosted by a young Conservatarian foundation? Sure, we all would! Because who could possibly know more about negotiating the dangerous terrain of young love than the think tank-bound late-20’s supply-siders (or “supplied-siders” in the argot of today’s Note — IS THAT A JOKE, GUYS?) at the AFF. Not that one. No, not that one either. And surprisingly, not even that one. This one, it turns out. MORE »