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Resuscitating Millard Fillmore, etc.

Posted on November 16, 2009 | Comments Off on Resuscitating Millard Fillmore, etc.

Cobb can be pretty funny sometimes, and nevermore on point than when he is considering Barry:

"All he requires is an inept and compliant media, and so far they have been obliging… But decisions? Ha! He is no decider, he is, as his legislative voting record shows, merely present… I just don’t get upset about it. Obama stands in a long line. Garfield, Taft, Harrison, McKinley, Hayes, Cleveland, Taylor, Polk, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan… So what?"

Reagan was the Great Communicator. Looks like we will remember Barry as the Great Procrastinator.

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The genius of the New York Times

Posted on November 15, 2009 | Comments Off on The genius of the New York Times

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Reading of (not actually reading, I have better things to do) the NYTimes’ latest sneer at Sarah Palin reminded me of the above bit of their journalistic genius. What prognosticators they were and are! They condemn her lack of experience while they puffed Barry, the candidate with even less experience, and she was only running for vice president. Ah, but, you see, he was in the right party and he went to the right school.

The gang-on continues, with AP devoting eleven reporters to what Sarah said in her new book (which I ordered and expect to have this week). As she notes, eleven reporters could do a lot of important work, but… Naw, too hard.

Via Snoop at Simply Jews, who knows a crystal ball when he sees one. Heh.

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Leaving Afghanistan

Posted on November 12, 2009 | Comments Off on Leaving Afghanistan

Fellow OCS grad Tucker Smallwood, who I have known and argued with since college days, opined the other day on our class email list that Barry should withdraw all the regulars while sending in the advisers, accompanied by air, artillery and medevac. Just as he and I did it in Viet Nam. I agreed but, probably, for different reasons.

I also see no reason to keep regulars in that briar patch with the Taliban tar baby but, moreover, I suspect Barry is going to be another LBJ, as this indicates, another micromanager all the way to defeat. The worst problem of course is that we’re really there for us, not for them. And they don’t want to fight in sufficient numbers to make advising worth while. But we could just go back now and then to clean out the Taliban rat’s nest. Annually, if necessary. It would certainly be cheaper in money and American lives.

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How a real president behaves

Posted on November 8, 2009 | Comments Off on How a real president behaves

GWB and Laura quietly visit the wounded at Fort Hood. While Barry and Michele, neither of whom have much love for the country, much less its military, and show it time and again, continue to par-tay.

Via My Voice On The Wings of Change.

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Medical malpractice

Posted on November 6, 2009 | Comments Off on Medical malpractice

Letting Army Maj. (and Fort Hood Jihadi) Hasan harm his PTSD and brain-injury patients is despicable:

"I will argue that political correctness led to the madness of having someone who does not believe in the legitimacy of the war in Iraq practice psychiatry by counseling some of the most severely traumatized in the Iraqi war."

Let’s see some Army medical heads roll for this at Walter Reed, shall we? Lead, Barry, or resign!

Via Instapundit.

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All politics is local

Posted on November 4, 2009 | Comments Off on All politics is local

The old truism, oft attributed to former House Speaker Tip O’Neill, seems to be the reason the Democrat won in NY23–the only nationally-highlighted race yesterday, outside Virginia and New Jersey, to survive a Republican sweep, an apparent early repudiation of Barry.

I thought it was old Texas favorite Sam Rayburn who said it first, but I seem to be wrong about that. Anyhow, in the end, it came down to local perceptions of Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman and his opponent, despite Hoffman’s endorsements from many national Republicans, including Sarah Palin. An Ann Althouse reader in NY23 explains what those local perceptions were. They had nothing at all to do with Barry.

One thing Mr. Sam did say that seems to fit the Democrats’ overall situation: "When you get too big a majority, you’re immediately in trouble."

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE:  It certainly didn’t help that Hoffman didn’t even live in the district. Geez.

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“…eventually all medicine will be rationed by politics”

Posted on November 3, 2009 | Comments Off on “…eventually all medicine will be rationed by politics”

That is, says the Wall Street Journal, the inevitable outcome of "the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced" the 1,990-page "runaway train" the Democrats are just proud as punch of producing. Barry calls it a "critical milestone." With any luck, it will be one that costs them the White House for a generation.

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