THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

The best reason of all to vote the bums out in November. They whined about Bush’s deficit spending on Iraq and Afghanistan, then look what happened to the deficit when they took over the budget process in 2008. Va-va-voom!
Via Instapundit.

“Mr. President, should they or should they not build a mosque steps away from where radical Islamists killed 3,000 people? Please tell us your position. We all know that they have the right to do it, but should they? And, no, this is not above your pay grade.”
Heh.
Via Althouse.

The mosque (also called a family center rather than a worship place, though might include a chapel) at ground zero has always seemed inappropriate (at best) to me. So the news that some of its antagonists are proposin g to put a gay bar next door is a hoot. The wellknown lack of tolerance of [...]

Playing with fire is trendy again. So listen up. You’ll know it when you hear or read it, and you will, you will:
“The Israel Lobby,” “Neocons,” “Good Jews vs. Bad Jews,” “Conflict of Interest,” “No One Can Criticize Israel Without Being Labeled An Anti-Semite,” “Hasbara,” “I Like Jews, I Just Don’t Like Zionists,” “The Uniquely [...]

I’m frankly sick of the he said, she said arguments about who ran up the deficit, Barry or Bush. I thought it was Barry. Now I know it:
“Once this latest round of stimulus (in the form of expanded unemployment benefits) has gone out the door, we will have spent more trying to stimulate the economy [...]

Invited, at least. Hope Michael does embed in Afghanistan again. Maybe we can find out what’s really going on out there.

The famed military historian and one of my favorite authors on our pathetically inept prez:
“His speech today was fine—if one ignores the usual serial invocation of ‘I’, ‘me,’ and ‘my’ that we’ve become accustomed to, as the president tries to radiate authority with first person pronouns rather than common sense reality.”
Heh.

Looks like he has been. This is what I meant by bickering generals.
With this funny observation about the legacy media from Instapundit: “Under a Republican President, it’s listen to the generals. Under a Democratic President, it’s all about civilian control of the military.”
UPDATE: The most amazing thing about the McChrystal affair is [...]

Events keep dragging me back to my earlier conclusion: we need to get out of Afghanistan. Where the indigenous president is a crook, our generals bicker, and our good troops, like Sgt. R., die young, leaving behind small children. All for gains that are increasingly hard to see. Even Gen. Petraeus is stressed.
UPDATE:  Sgt. R.’s [...]