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Obamalot’s dwindling approval

Posted on March 16, 2012 | Comments Off on Obamalot’s dwindling approval

Fifty-seven percent of Independents now disapprove of what he’s doing. And their votes are likely to determine the election. They certainly have a lot to be concerned about, as Sarah (yes, that Sarah) outlines:

“…a debt crisis that has us hurtling towards a Greek-style collapse, entitlement programs going bankrupt, a credit downgrade for the first time in our history, a government takeover of the health care industry that makes care more expensive and puts a rationing panel of faceless bureaucrats between you and your doctor (aka a “death panel”), $4 and $5 gas at the pump exacerbated by an anti-drilling agenda that rejects good paying energy sector jobs and makes us more dependent on dangerous foreign regimes,

“a war in Afghanistan that seems unfocused and unending, a global presidential apology tour that’s made us look feeble and ridiculous, a housing market in the tank, the longest streak of high unemployment since World War II, private-sector job creators and industry strangled by burdensome regulations and an out-of-control Obama EPA, an attack on the Constitutional protection of religious liberty,

“an attack on private industry in right-to-work states, crony capitalism run amok in an administration in bed with their favored cronies to the detriment of genuine free market capitalism, green energy pay-to-play kickbacks to Obama campaign donors, and a Justice Department still stonewalling on a bungled operation that armed violent Mexican drug lords and led to the deaths of hundreds of innocent people.”

If only that 57 percent holds until November. Probably won’t, though. I figure most of them voted for him to begin with because of the novelty, i.e., his skin color. They certainly didn’t know much about his radical preferences because big media hid it from them. And none of that has changed.

Plus big media (his court media, after all) will be banging their tin drums for him and against the Republicans just like they did in ’08. Have the Independents figured out yet what shills they are? Gad, I hope so.

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The latest edict from our federal overlords

Posted on March 15, 2012 | Comments Off on The latest edict from our federal overlords

Texas has long required presentation of a driver’s license, or other photo i.d., in order to vote. Prove you’re a citizen with a right to the privilege. What could be more sensible?

Not to Obamalot’s “justice” department. You know, the guys who shipped automatic rifles and hand grenades to Mexican drug lords and are still lying about it? They claim voter i.d. discriminates—presumably against felons and illegal immigrants.

Texas pols will complain and threaten not to comply, but the feds will threaten to take away highway construction money from the second largest state and that will be that. Land of the fee, home of the slave.

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Macbeth in the White House

Posted on March 14, 2012 | Comments Off on Macbeth in the White House

“Macbeth was never so beguiled by his witches as is McBama by the witches who surround him: Iran-raised Valerie Jarrett, human-rights mavens Susan Rice and Samantha Power, the resentful Michelle, and the Pink Pantsuit at the State Department. What’s her name again? She used to be somebody important.”

Naw, our increasingly-obese secretary of state, perpetually cuckolded by her misogynistic husband, never was important. Nor had enough integrity to divorce the bum.

Humor (well, not exactly) by Spengler.

You’d think just one of these witches could warn McBama about the wages of lying: lying politicians always get caught.

UPDATE:  Supposedly his campaign is selling this $10,000 worth of nail polish to his women, uh, fans, but it’s just as likely all for the witches.

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LBJ the bully: prolonging the Vietnam War

Posted on March 13, 2012 | Comments Off on LBJ the bully: prolonging the Vietnam War

In 1965, the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended bombing Hanoi and mining Haiphong Harbor to avoid a protracted ground war in South Viet Nam. President Johnson screamed at them, cursing them and calling them idiots.

“Why had Johnson not only dismissed their recommendations, but also ridiculed them? It must have been that Johnson had lacked something. Maybe it was foresight or boldness. Maybe it was the sophistication and understanding it took to deal with complex international issues. Or, since he was clearly a bully, maybe what he lacked was courage.”

He certainly was a bully. He bullied his own wife, repeatedly, according to his biographers. So the ground war went on and on, literally consuming their country and figuratively consuming ours, not to mention LBJ himself, and it lingers yet as a bad taste all around. No wonder people, even people here in Texas, still hate the sumbitch.

Via The PJ Tatler.

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Jury Duty, yech

Posted on March 10, 2012 | Comments Off on Jury Duty, yech

Jury duty is our duty as citizens, right? I suppose. I certainly have the time, if not the inclination, to play the courthouse game on April 2, the date I’ve been told to report to the Travis County courthouse downtown to receive a court assignment.

Allegedly. Allegedly, because I expect to be cut from the jury pool, after walking multiple blocks from wherever I can find a place to park, for the usual reasons: too much education, relation to a law enforcement officer, thirty-five years in the news media, and blogging since then about, among other things, politics and public policy.

The defense lawyers of my aquaintance tend not to want people like me on their juries. I’m not as easy to impress as someone else with none of the above. So I expect to spend an unpleasant day in the courthouse where the linoleum halls are perfumed with the sour flop-sweat of old fears; to be herded about at the whim of self-important functionaries; and, finally, to have to pay a hefty parking ticket because I won’t be allowed to feed the meter.

Although I would like to be wrong.

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The Joos did it (and will do it again!)

Posted on March 5, 2012 | Comments Off on The Joos did it (and will do it again!)

“I bet you did not realize that Fox, the Washington Post, and the Democratic National Committee were all controlled by Israel and its lobby!”

Nope. Or how about the idea that the Israeli prime minister is conspiring with Romney, Santorum and Gingrich to “get rid of” (note: not just defeat in the upcoming election, but get rid of) our beloved President Hopenchange.

Newsweak columnist Andrew Sullivan, channeling  Father Coughlin, says all this and more. Sullivan, you may recall, is the compassionate guy who used to belittle Gov. Sarah Palin’s children in print, including questioning the paternity of her retarded son. That’s what passes for Leftist media political argument these days.

Now this schmuck  has found another ax to grind. The oldest one of all.

And these New Jersey synagogue firebombings are the sort of thing he’s wittingly encouraging.

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Be Breitbart

Posted on March 4, 2012 | Comments Off on Be Breitbart

Yep, one more post about Andrew Breitbart, 1969-2012.

I didn’t know this guy, who was born the year I fought in Viet Nam, but I loved his takedown of ACORN. I didn’t know until I read a few of his obits that he helped create the Drudge Report, which was first in exposing the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal when Newsweak was trying to hide it. And also the Huffington Post, which I never read and couldn’t care less about. But two out of three ain’t bad.

What I also liked about him and what makes me sorry that he worked himself into a second heart attack at age 43 is what Bill Whittle, who did know him well, says was Breitbart’s fundamental message (and the reason so many Lefty media clones shamed themselves by gloating over his death): the enemy for conservatives is not Obozo, not liberalism, not Alinsky, not Al Queda, not Iran, etc. The enemy is the media.

As someone who worked for the swamp beast for thirty-five years, I know he was right. Because if the media was as fair to all sides as it pretends to be (and which it has never been) the country would be a lot different. In all probability, for instance, Obumbles, who is as inept as any man who’s ever had the job, would not be president.

Someone else (I forget who) also quoted Breitbart as saying that because of the Internet, the media (most appropriately known as the Democrat Media Complex) no longer can have the last word. Which is one reason their political pals in Congress and at the FCC are constantly trying to devise ways to censor it.

A smart, good man, Mr. Breitbart. Alas, the good really do die young.

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