By John Gizzi
08/26/2009
“When will the Iraqi security forces leave Camp Ashraf? When will the United States keep their promise to protect the Iranian people who are being killed there?”
Those questions were voiced to me outside the White House yesterday by Zahra Amanpour of Jersey City, N.J. Zahra is one of fifty-or-so Iranian-American demonstrators who came from across the country and dared the August heat of Washington to show outrage … Continue reading
Human Events
By Bryan Del Monte: 08/26/2009
It is said that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. If that is true, then Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish Justice Secretary, has paved a super-highway to Hades in his misplaced effort to show compassion towards an unrepentant terrorist. MacAskill’s decision to release convicted terrorist, Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed Al Megrahi, is yet another example of how President Obama’s lack of leadership in international affairs encourages our enemies and confuses our friends. Continue reading
Human Events
1. On the 9/11 National Day of Service issue.
2. Can the Economy be Restored by Destroying Perfectly Good Cars? Obama Thinks So. Cash For Clunkers in Action
3. Barack Obama’s Worst Nightmare
4. Perry for Texas. Hutchison for Washington.
5. Current DSCC national finance chair arrested for bank fraud.
6. Gray-beard Liberal compares Obama to Carter, while Sen. Feingold Predicts No Health Care Bill by Christmas
7. Democrats Begin Eating Their Own
8. Chris Carney (D-PA) Hints at Wanting Socialized Medicine In a Moment of Loosened Lips
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Background HERE – the short version is that the administration is in the process of rebranding 9/11 as a National Day of Service. I note that 9/12 makes a good deal more thematic sense, but then everything that you really need to know about the actual intent can be seen, as usual, by some of the players involved . . . Please click here for the rest of the post.
Thanks to the glories of YouTube, we can watch as the government mandates the destruction of perfectly good automobiles to “help the economy.” Here is a very nice 1990s Dodge Dakota 4X4 being destroyed. It is a much better vehicle than my pick up truck. Really, you ought to look at at least a couple of these videos, and the hundreds more like them on YouTube. Are these “clunkers?” Can it really help the economy to destroy perfectly good assets? Are the people running the government the most economically illiterate bunch since FDR ruled the roost? Or are they dumber? Please click here for the rest of the post.
It was not until after 1994 that Bill Clinton really stretched his legs. As much as Clinton had “gays in the military” and “Hillarycare” in the months before the Republican take over of Congress, he’s really known for what? Well, if we’re serious about his legacy — Kosovo, Welfare Reform, Standing Up to Newt, and Impeachment. Clinton shines as a model of what a Democratic Presidency can be when fighting against Republicans at home and in multinational coalitions abroad. Impeachment has a mixed meaning for him, but among Democrats and Independents, they typically see it as out of control Republicans and a philandering President with the President coming out looking better than the GOP. Republicans controlling Congress gave Bill Clinton a political opposition from which he could set himself a part. Clinton could be contrasted with the GOP. He could not, pre-1994, viably do that because his party controlled the White House and Congress. What is Barack Obama’s worst nightmare? Democrats keeping Congress in 2010. Please click here for the rest of the post.
In 2010, Texans either will lead the nation forward according to conservative principle and under conservative leadership, or they will put their trust and faith in the ways of Washington. In the last several weeks, current Texas Governor Rick Perry and U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison – each vying for the Texas Governorship in 2010 – have each made significant public statements that make their positions crystal clear. Perry is for Texas. Hutchison is for Washington. Please click here for the rest of the post.
Hassan Nemazee was more recently a heavy donor and bundler for both the Clinton and Obama Presidential campaigns, bringing in over half a million for the new President; he was also a major bundler for the Presidential Inaugural. “U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan and the Federal Bureau of Investigations say Hassan Nemazee, with residences in Manhattan and Katonah, N.Y., fraudulently applied for the loans for Nemazee Capital Corp., of which he is chairman and chief executive.” Please click here for the rest of the post.
The degree of the political problem that President Obama’s “damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead,” approach to health care reform has caused the ruling party in Washington, D.C. is beginning to become clear from some comments made by cognoscenti of the Democratic Party. A gray-beard of the liberal establishment, Richard Cohen, wrote today in the Washington Post that the most apt comparison to President Obama is President Jimmy Carter. Ouch! Please click here for the rest of the post.
It was only a matter of time before it started. The Democrats are beginning to turn on each other as their poll numbers sink and Republicans’ numbers start to rise. John Adler (D, NJ) says the healthcare legislation is bad for America. And he doesn’t care whether there’s a public option in it or not. But it’s not just Adler. Seriously endangered Democrat Parker Griffith of Alabama believes Nancy Pelosi is too divisive to be Speaker. . . . Please click here for the rest of the post.
Brian Faughnan noted the other day that up until this year Democrats have been pretty open that the “public option” was intended to be a back door into universal socialized healthcare. Barney Frank, too, has pretty strongly hinted at that. Up in Pennsylvania, Chris Carney, a liberal Democrat who tries his best to seem moderate, kind of sort of let slip in a town hall that, in fact, he favors the full socialization of the American healthcare system and views the public option as a back door to universal healthcare. Please click here for the rest of the post.
By Connie Hair
08/26/2009
Just how badly has Obama’s political capital shrunk? Bad enough for one of the most liberal pols on the planet — Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) to bail on the prez.
As reported yesterday in the Lakeland Times, in a town hall meeting this week the hyper liberal Feingold not only touted his opposition to the “cap and trade” national energy tax but made … Continue reading
Facta, non verba.
For those of you who have forgotten your Latin, it means “deeds, not words.”
There’s been a lot of overheated rhetoric about health care reform, but this saying is one that all Americans should return to when considering plans for a government-dominated health system.
In other words, we should judge government, … Continue reading
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