What you see here is the 2009 model year Corvette ZR1, a monster of a supercar that will be the first $100,000 Chevy. However, from the specs and performance envelope, it will be well worth the bucks and undoubtedly will be the most performance for the dollar from anyone. It all came about due to the General’s CEO Rick Wagoner, upon seeing the current Z06 Vette, asking something like, “Gee, if you guys can do this for 60 grand, wonder what you could do for 100K? Asked and answered! Motor Trend reported that it would have 620 plus horsepower and at least 600 lb/ft of asphalt buckling torque.

Now, if you are a motor-head like yours truly, you’ve known about this amazing sports car for awhile. So, why the post ‘Okie’? Because I read something that Mark Tapscott wrote last Wednesday about a statement made by Marge Oge, director of the EPA’s office of transportation and air quality. She said the following: “We must bring about an end to the horsepower arms race among auto makers and replace it with another different kind of a race, a race to produce the most affordable and desirable, low carbon-vehicle each year.”

Mark makes a great case for ol’ Marge here being a royal example of an inside the beltway blithering idiot, and out of tough car-hating liberal, someone that has no idea whatsoever about how supply-and-demand controls markets and merchandise availability. Read the whole thing. I sure like his finishing statement, especially the last sentence in light of Super Tuesday being less than 48 hours away.

Maybe Oge is just jealous that other people are having so much fun driving their powerful cars (or watching them being raced at places like Daytona and Indy). It’s that same old familiar Puritan/liberal fear that somewhere, somehow, somebody might be enjoying themselves too much, so the government must step in and “fix the problem.”

Interesting, isn’t it, that we trust the wisdom of crowds when it is expressed politically via free elections, but not when it is expressed economically via free markets.

The Left hates free markets, come to think of it, they don’t much like real free speech either. But hey, back to the fun stuff! Fast Lane Daily caught this monster’s development mule out in the wild!

That’ll give those ol’ Puritan/liberals areason to be afeared! Sweet!

Enjoy.

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Yesterday the House of Representatives voted on Congressman Steve King‘s resolution to honor the Christmas holiday and the Christian faith. There were nine NO votes! From Michelle Malkin’s blog:

Congressman Steve King reacted this morning to the nine “NO” votes on his resolution to honor Christmas and the Christian faith. The vote shocked Capitol Hill observers because votes on similar resolutions honoring the holidays of Islam and Hinduism passed without any NO votes.

Appearing this morning on the Fox News Channel’s Fox and Friends, King said, “The [nine] naysayers didn’t make it to the floor to debate. I would like to know how they could vote Yes on Islam, Yes on the Indian Religions and No on Christianity when the foundation of this nation and our American culture is Christianity…I think there’s an assault on Christianity in America.”

{…} None of the nine voted against resolutions honoring the Islamic holiday of Ramadan and the Hindu holiday of Diwali. [emph. mine]

Visit Michelle’s site for the names of the nine, plus links to the full vote tally. Three of the nine are from California — Hey dude, gotta stop the repressive-theocratic machine don’t ya know . . .

Why am I not surprised?

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Dean Barnett comments upon the myopic Senate Democrats‘ actions on the 6th anniversary of 9/11.

Here’s what gets me – no one knows more about Iraq than David Petraeus and Ryan Crocker. No one. And yet what have the congressmen and senators done the last two days when they’ve had them as witnesses? Give speeches. Lecture. Play to the gallery. In other words, seek office. Why do Petraeus and Crocker even have to be there? It’s very clear that most of the senators don’t care what they have to say. If the Senators and congressmen wanted to learn about Iraq and play a constructive role going forward, they would have done a lot more listening over the past two days than talking.

That’s the second time in two days I’ve taken a detour into Fantasyland. Sorry about that. But the rain here and the poignancy of today’s sad anniversary have gotten the best of me. One of the reasons I do what I do is because 9/11 changed me; I wanted to play a role in our nation’s dialogue. It took me a couple of years, but that’s why I eventually started writing.

We have 160,000 men and women in harm’s way. Our enemies are playing for keeps. That’s one lesson that we should have learned on 9/11 that we should never need a refresher on.

And while our enemies play for keeps, our members of congress play for reelection.

Ain’t that the truth!

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What happens when a bunch of we-know-better-than-you, sanctimonious — but “really, really loaded” — members of the American aristocracy need to step up and do their part for the environment?

Check out this one from the Daily Show — I’m laughin’ my you-know-what off!

“A lot of people think renewable energy is benign, but it will potentially impose detrimental impacts to human safety” — Audra Parker, Assistant Director of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound

Not to mention to the views off Nantucket — if you’re looking through you binocs that is.

Self-righteous, self-absorbed, I’m super rich so “screw you” Lefties . . .

Bwwwhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

As Drudge headlines it: White House: Democrats Have Launched Over 300 Investigations In 100 Days…

In a constitutional showdown with Congress, the administration claimed executive privilege and rejected demands for White House documents about the firings of eight U.S. attorneys.

The House and Senate Judiciary committees have set a deadline of 10 a.m. next Monday for the White House to explain its basis for the claim.

The administration has not said when or if it will respond. Spokesman Scott Stanzel said Thursday the White House has received a many requests for information since Democrats took control of Congress in January and has turned over 200,000 pages of documents.

“They’ve launched over 300 investigations, had over 350 requests for documents and interviews and they have had over 600 oversight hearings in just about 100 days,” Stanzel said.

Sound OK to me — with Congress spending all its time on silly investigations and passing non-binding resolutions, it can’t create legislation that messes with the rest of us. As long as it doesn’t do anything to impede the war against the radical Islamists we’ll get through this just fine. The more B.D.S. that the general public witnesses, the better off we’ll all be in ’08 as only the nutters can really be getting into all this incessant Bush bashing.

Woo boy! Annie C. has her verbal gun loaded for bear once again and deftly side steps an attempted smackdown by Elizabeth Edwards on yesterday’s Hardball.

Did Chris Matthews or his crew set up this ringer of a call-in? (Do bears do you-know-what in the woods?)

Is it reassuring to the nutroots that ol’ Johnnie Boy can let Mrs. Johnnie battle the oooooooooo-so-scary Anne?

Once again, John has to ask himself, “Was that really a good idea?”

Note to Edwards — if you’re running to be the Commander-in-Chief, you need to be the one making the call. Brother!