Patriot Politics

Archive for November, 2009

. . . so, invite a bunch of guys over and  sit around and talk about jobs.  Honestly, what is the big deal?  Talking about stuff is what this President does.  After lunch, there will be advanced-level coursework in Smoke and Mirrors.

On the bow to the Japanese Emperor:  “When the president heard that some people had complained, I’d characterize his reaction as: The notion that the United States is somehow humbling or humiliating itself by showing respect for a local custom, when it is transparently the most powerful country in the world, leaves me speechless.”

that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would plan to use the New York City show trial to express his political views, and that he and his fellow defendants plan to introduce their criticisms and evaluations of U.S. foreign policy.  Since they’re so qualified and experienced as diplomats and stuff like that.  Just sayin’.

Quick! Someone tell Constitutional scholars Holder and Obama!  In the case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, failure is absolutely required as an option, despite their assertions to the contrary.

Krauthammer explains:

Doesn’t the presumption of innocence, er, presume that prosecutorial failure — acquittal, hung jury — is an option? By undermining that presumption, Holder is undermining the fairness of the trial, the demonstration of which is the alleged rationale for putting on this show in the first place.

Thank you, Charles, for pointing out the parallel universe the Justice Department, presumably at the direction of the President, is inhabiting.  That’s what the people, in their collective wisdom, have been saying by a majority of two-thirds.

From our email:

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan’s holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent “Austrian language,” would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco de Cuatro” in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?

If George W. Bush had miss-spelled the word “advice” would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as proof of what a dunce he is?

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he’s a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush’s administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?

If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?

If George W. Bush had created the position of 32 Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had proposed the biggest power grab by the executive branch EVER and upsetting the balance of powers in the guise of “Health Care Reform,” would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can’t think of anything? Don’t worry. He’s done all this in just under a year — so you’ll have three more to come up with an answer.

Boo-frickin’-hoo.

Is it a coinky-dink that Hillary is in Afghanistan on what Politico describes as an unscheduled trip? We think not.  We can remember heading for the hills just before Dad got home, too, when trouble was a-brewin’.

This is appropriate dress for a Medal of Honor given posthumously to a fallen soldier’s family?

This is what you wear to a Veteran’s Day ceremony?

This is an American President behaving so that even the Japanese are embarrassed on his behalf?

And what about this reassuring video evidence that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would be getting a military trial? Did Barry forget to memo Eric Holder in on that??

The New York Times, fashionably late to the party as always when it comes to criticizing its anointed darlings, acknowledges on its front page today that Al Gore has raked in astronomical profits from promoting climate change hysteria and derangement:   Critics, mostly on the political right and among global warming skeptics, say Mr. Gore is poised to become the world’s first “carbon billionaire,” profiteering from government policies he supports that would direct billions of dollars to the business ventures he has invested in.

They can’t quite bring themselves to say it themselves, though.  Instead, they’re hiding behind the nebulous and skeptical right wing to finally point the finger:  But Marc Morano, a climate change skeptic who until recently was a top aide to Senator James M. Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, said that what he saw as Mr. Gore’s alarmism and occasional exaggerations distorted the debate and also served his personal financial interests.

Noooooo!  He, Pelosi and Kennedy couldn’t possibly be in it for the money, could they?  What about the lofty ideals of science?

Other public figures, like Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who have vocally supported government financing of energy-saving technologies, have investments in alternative energy ventures. Some scientists and policy advocates also promote energy policies that personally enrich them.

Imagine that!  Read the whole thing and then knock us over with a flying pig, would you?