Sad but true. But the fact is we have a consumer economy and if we don’t consume it fails. Especially since Obongo, Pelosi and Reid aren’t doing a damn thing to help. Al Q keeps hitting out at Wall Street, too dumb to realize that finance is a movable feast. As long as they leave the malls alone. But the economy is so bad that retailers are starting their Christmas sales now. Save a local retailer: Shop ’til you drop.
Via Op-For
If the Lizard Queen is to have the anticipated chance to take the handoff from Obongo in 2016, all this wind and solar to save the planet nonsense better not go the way of Germany.
“Electricity is becoming a luxury good in Germany…The political world is wedged between the green-energy lobby, masquerading as saviors of the world, and the established electric utilities, with their dire warnings of chaotic supply problems and job losses.”
It could certainly happen here, with the EPA’s war on coal over the next three years. If it does, even the food stampers and welfare voters the Democrats count on might see the (cost of the) light. Not to mention the heat. And the cool.
Our sorry high-unemployment economy, where even sycophant Paul Krugman sees a Democrat failure, alone should be enough but turning electricity into a luxury will do it for sure.
Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, The Economy, Weather/Climate
Crawford42, a commenter at Instapundit, has a good one I will repeat:
“Lefties have this bizarre idea you can ‘tune’ the level of violence to get the result you want. The result is rhetoric about ‘shots across the bow’ and ‘just muscular enough.’ They also have a child’s faith in how Hollywood depicts violence, with unarmed men (and small women) taking out hordes of heavily armed soldiers, guns shot out of peoples’ hands, etc.
“The result is the ‘redefinition’ [Obongo & pals are seeking re Assad]. They’re trying to find just the RIGHT LEVEL of violence to get the result they want, without actually engaging in anything resembling war fighting.”
And, of course, it won’t work. Too little and they’ll only get a sneer. Too much and they may get more than they bargained for in response. Either way, it’s a fool’s game probably based on the wellknown Lefty aversion to military service, hence military reality.
Although I remember President Nixon (who did serve in WW2) doing the same thing in incrementally bombing North Viet Nam, following LBJ’s lede. That worked so well.
Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, The War
Tagged Crawford42, Instapundit, proportionate response
Obozo is a lot like a 13-year-old whose first weapon in his arsenal is the lie. The “red line” has come back to haunt him. So guess what? He never said it.
“First of all, I didn’t set a red line,” Barack Obama said [Wednesday] at a press conference in Stockholm. “The world set a red line. The world set a red line when governments representing 98% of the world’s population said the use of chemical weapons are [sic] abhorrent and passed a treaty forbidding their use, even when countries are engaged in war.”
Except that he did set a red line, specifically, way back on August 20, 2012.
“We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus. That would change my equation.”
He didn’t just say it once and let it go. His own spokesfolk were later authorized to underline it:
“‘We go on to reaffirm that the President has set a clear red line as it relates to the United States that the use of chemical weapons . . . is a red line that is not acceptable to us, nor should it be to the international community,’ an unnamed ‘White House official’ said during introductory remarks in an April 25, 2013 conference call with reporters.
“‘Lest there be any question, the official went on to say in response to a question: ‘The people in Syria and the Assad regime should know that the President means what he says when he set that red line. And keep in mind, he is the one who laid down that marker.'”
Until President-Pass-the-Buck decided that his red line not only made him look stupid but committed him to something he really doesn’t want to do. Then—presto chango!—he never said it.
Except when he did. Has he now made his mendacity perfectly clear?
Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, Obsessions, The War
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