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Barry’s sort of, half-hearted surge

I’ve said it before, if we’re going to dither, we should leave Afghanistan immediately. The government is more corrupt than the one in Iraq (and that’s saying something) and the Afghans don’t seem to want to fight. (Reminds me of South Vietnam.) We can always go back if we have to, or leave a few spec-ops behind to direct any necessary smart-bombings.

But Barry’s new half-in, half-out strategy is pathetic. Especially his setting of a timetable for departure, which will only serve to put the Taliban and Al Q on notice that they can do all the free-killing of American troops they desire in the meantime. President Pantywaist has done the next worst thing to failing to decide at all. "America – we are passing through a time of great trial." No kidding. Will the last soldier out of the GWOT please close the door? Meanwhile, keep your heads down out there.

UPDATE:  Military analyst Ralph Peters agrees: "Our president is setting up our military to fail." Yep and, meanwhile, sending the enemy more American targets to shoot at.

How are Barry and GWB alike?

Let me count the ways. But just take one for instance, the one you might not have expected from the former community organizer, Mr. Social Justice his own self: Despite 1,200 pleas for slate-cleaning pardons from ex-offenders who have served their time, and even more seeking sentence reductions, Barry has approved exactly none. Too much work, apparently, when he’d rather par-tay.

Via Radley Balko.

There is no law of averages

As Barry prepares to jet off to Copenhagen to promise to continue our descent to the poorhouse by cutting our carbon emissions to make the dictator’s club (i.e. the UN) happy, the climate naysaying is mounting.

Statistician, AMS member and blogger William M. Briggs shows the illogic in Barry’s logic:

"Diminishing glaciers did not prove AGW; they were instead a verification that ice melts when it gets hot. Fewer polar bears did not count in favor of AGW; it instead perhaps meant that maybe adult bears prefer a chill to get in the mood. People sidling up to microphones and trumpeting ‘It’s bad out there, worse than we thought!’ was not evidence of AGW; it was evidence of how easily certain people could work themselves into a lather."

Briggs is the self-published author of an amusing book on the law of averages that isn’t.

Meanwhile, Canadian businessman Stephen McIntyre, the famous blogger debunker of the infamous hockey stick "proof" for AGW gets a timely writeup in the WSJ.

Even (gasp) cBS is weighing in objectively (what will they think of next) on the hacked emails.

And blogger Megan McArdle, who (cough, spit) actually believes in AGW, notes the real problem with those emails: the major climate model predicting doom ahead could be rubbish. A little item financed in part by (you guessed it) the American taxpayer.

Oops, now there’s more climate science faking in New Zealand.

So will Barry notice any of this stuff and unbutton if not completely remove his climate hairshirt and spend more time trying to get our economy back on track? Naw. That’s above his pay grade. Apparently.

An early Xmas wish

"I think not merely the thrill is gone, but a righteous anger about an Obama trifecta— of serial apologies and bows abroad, massive borrowing and deficit spending, and government-take overs of private spheres of life—is swelling up in the electorate. I haven’t seen in my lifetime anything quite like it. And this furor of being had has the potential not just to take Obama down, but also his ideology and supporters along with him for a generation."

Oh, yes, Santa, pretty please. There is an alternative.

Sarah: Kill the bill

Sarah Palin, using her Facebook account as a periodic press release, is fighting tonight’s Dem vote on health care "reform":

"While this Saturday night vote might seem like a procedural matter, at the end of the day a vote against Senator Reid’s motion is a vote against massive new government spending and a take-over of 1/6th of the U.S. economy; it’s a vote against billions in tax increases and penalties; it’s a vote against federal funding of abortion; and it’s a vote against ignoring responsible tort reform."

Sarah, whose education and experience are so assiduously disputed by her Dem and old media detractors, can count the dean of Harvard Medical School in her corner on this one:

"…it’s entirely unclear how such unspecified changes would impact physician practices and compensation, hospital organizations and their capacity to invest, and the ability of patients to receive the kind and quality of care they desire. Similar challenges would eventually confront the entire country on a more explosive scale if the current legislation becomes law."

Course even if tonight’s vote to move the bill to the floor succeeds, it and the House version are different and must be reworked into one by a conference committee. Only then can two final votes occur, one in the House, the other in the Senate. So tonight is only the beginning of the game. And even if the bill were eventually to be voted down, we can assume the Dem leadership would come up with another one and try again. With Barry’s approval rating already in free-fall, they have to be worried about losing their majority in 2010.

UPDATE:  Reidcare moves on. With a little $300 million help for his friend. But there’s still plenty of time to kill this turkey.

If Sarah wasn’t so darn pretty…

Bloggers Ann Althouse and Michelle Goldberg argue cogently (well, Ann does) for almost an hour on Bloggingheads and come to three conclusions:

1) We’re all talking about Sarah Palin and her book only because she’s so darn pretty (if she was plain or even ugly, McCain never would have elevated her to national consciousness), 2) cBS talking head Katie Couric should post the unedited transcripts of her interviews with Sarah, and 3) Sarah is a screen onto which some conservatives can project hope just as Barry was a screen onto which some liberals could project hope.

I have to admit they pretty well work for me, as well. And I’d leave a comment to that effect at Althouse’s blog if the stupid Google comment system didn’t demand that I verify a word that doesn’t even exist! Morons.

Although it should be considered that the "pretty" conclusion doesn’t explain why so many of Sarah’s fans are women. Including moms with strollers. Does it?