THE MOST CONTEMPTIBLE ATTORNEY GENERAL IN US HISTORY
The chairman of the House Oversight Committee wants to find out who knew what when about the Gunwalker/Fast & Furious scandal, and if it had a purpose other than the one we've been told. But the Justice Department is stonewalling his requests -- and two subpoenas -- for documents. In more than a year, Justice has supplied only a handful of documents in just 10 of the 22 categories requested. So Rep. Darrell Issa, R-CA, is preparing to cite Attorney General Eric Holder for contempt of Congress. Never has a contempt citation been more justified.
GOOD NEWS FROM JERUSALEM — BIBI’S SMART MOVE
Yesterday in Jerusalem (5/09), a new unity Israeli government was created by a deal between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud Party, and Kadima leader Shaul Mofaz. Together they have 94 out of 120 seats in the Knesset. Bibi has made a very smart move. Netanyahu was presented with an offer he'd be an idiot to refuse. In return for essentially nothing, he built himself the strongest and largest coalition Israel has ever seen. Here's how it works.
THE SELF-HATING DISHONESTY OF THE MEDIA
The most destructive, dishonest, and criminally hypocritical people in America today are not Democrat politicians, black race hustlers, Ivy League Marxist professors, or crony/shyster capitalists. They are the publishers, editors, journalists, and commentators of the Liberal Media: Associated Press-New York Times-WaPo-ABC-NBC-CBS-CNN-MSNBC et al. We'll abbreviate Big Liberal Media to simply "BM" - appropriately enough for their product is the same as what those initials usually stand for. One of the more astounding things about BM is that its slavish boot-licking of American Commiecrats is indistinguishable from that of Pravda's or Izvestiya's over Soviet rulers during the Cold War - yet with no gun at their heads nor threat of the Gulag. Winston Smith, in George Orwell's 1984, ended up genuinely loving Big Brother after his will was broken through torture. BM loves Big Brother of their own free will. This is so perverse it's almost anti-human, for it is normally against human nature to willingly be a slave. A stunningly perfect example of BM perfidy appeared in headlines in newspapers all over the country this past weekend.
THE JUSTICE OF RIDICULE
Schadenfreude (taking pleasure from the misfortune of others) is a sinful pleasure, which all but the saints among us indulge in from time to time. These days conservatives have ample reasons for indulgence. Let's begin with Fauxcohantas, Elizabeth "Cheekbones" Warren, appointed to the faculty of Harvard Law School despite less than sterling academic credentials because she claimed Cherokee blood flows through her veins. Then we'll move on to compare John "Purple Heart" Kerry of 2004 to Barack "Gutsy Call" Obama in 2012.
THE FRAUD OF AUSTERITY
Denial is leading to collective economic suicide in Europe and the United States. The French on Sunday (5/06) elected a socialist president who wants to raise taxes on those elusive rich and keep spending as if there is no tomorrow. Many on the left, including European socialists in tandem with the New York Times and its economist Paul Krugman, are falsely claiming that Europe and even the United States are being saddled with "austerity." Their claim is that governments are not spending enough to reduce unemployment. They want higher taxes on the most productive plus bigger government. The chart below shows that rather than the austerity the left is whining about, government spending has risen as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) in all of the major economies. The irony is that the refusal by those on the left, in both Europe and the United States, to deal with the "entitlement" problem is going to cause an involuntary austerity in which real incomes are going to fall for most people.
HALF-FULL REPORT 05/04/12
This has been yet another week in the unfolding saga of The Weirdness of Zero. We'll start with what the Washington Times calls his Midnight Madness: "Americans witnessed a bizarre made-for-TV event Tuesday night (5/01). President Obama travelled 14,000 miles to Afghanistan to engage in a midnight marathon of election-year photo-ops. Never has U.S. national security been so twisted to fit a personal political agenda." This, right on the heels of Zero's I Shot Bin Laden ad which the London Telegraph (5/01) describes as turning "a military triumph into a political disaster." The ad has Zero looking "so politically tone deaf he makes Joe Biden look like Machiavelli." And on top of this, we have Zero's Composite New York Girlfriend flap this week (5/02). The white girlfriend described in Dreams was made up, it turns out - but that's okay by the lib media since the book's preface warned of this. But it's not okay - for the real story is that she was no pretend composite at all. She really existed - but she never knew Zero.
IS OBAMA’S FATE SEALED?
Barack Hussein Obama has campaigned on the taxpayers' dime far more often than any predecessor. Of the 60 domestic trips he's taken since filing for re-election, 26 have included fund-raisers, noted Mark Knoller of CBS. "How much longer do we have to pretend these POTUS events aren't campaign events?" tweeted Mike O'Brien of MSNBC last month after the president made a blatantly political speech at the University of North Carolina. Mr. Obama outdid himself when he flew to Afghanistan Tuesday (5/01) to pat himself on the back for having ordered the hit on Osama bin Laden on that date a year ago. "The tide has turned," thanks to his efforts, he bragged. Yes, the tide may indeed be turning -- against him.
WHY OBAMA’S OSAMA BRAG IS SO DANGEROUSLY STUPID
As Barack continues to bray about how he made the "gutsy call" to kill Bin Laden, it's been pointed out that the call wasn't his at all - it was Admiral William McRaven's - whom President Gutsy Call would have been able to scapegoat if the op had gone sideways. We know this because of a memo from CIA Director Leon Panetta, recently obtained by Time magazine. Yet Zero's campaign film, The Road We've Traveled, maintains the fiction, with Joe Biden saying: "We sat down in the Situation Room, the entire national security apparatus was in that room, and the President turns to every principal in the room, every secretary, ‘What do you recommend I do?' And they say, ‘Well, forty-nine percent chance he's there, fifty-one ... it's a close call, Mr. President.' As he walked out the room, it dawned on me, he's all alone. This is his decision. If he was wrong, his Presidency was done. Over." Now we know it wasn't his decision, it was a CYA move - thus, the hero of the story is McRaven, not Zero. This is a good point - but there is a much bigger one - and it has been missed by all the media, including those on our side. Which means there's a real story here no one in public knows, which demonstrates how dangerously stupid Zero is.
WILL DEMOCRATS SPRING AN OCTOBER SURPRISE ON THEMSELVES?
For senior citizens -- and then for Democrats -- it could be the nastiest "October surprise" ever. Obamacare guts the popular Medicare Advantage program. Democrats didn't want those enrolled in it to find out until the election was safely past, so they postponed until 2013 implementation of this provision. But when the 2,700 page bill was thrown together, there were oversights. Under federal "open enrollment" guidelines, seniors must pick their Medicare coverage program for next year before the end of this year. Open enrollment begins Oct. 15, so seniors will learn what's in store for them three weeks before the election. Oops. The Dems are desperate to extricate themselves from a trap of their own making -- but the more they try to escape, the more they may become enmeshed.
HAVE YOU NO SHAME, MR. GEITHNER?
What would you think of a secretary of the Treasury who failed to do serious cost-benefit analysis about regulations that could cost millions of Americans their jobs and cause innocent people to be subject to political abuse or worse, and yet have almost no benefit to the United States? Over the past several years, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner was warned by many private economists and members of Congress of the adverse consequences of a proposed rule that would force U.S. banks to be uncompensated tax collectors for foreign governments. On April 18, Mr. Geithner issued the rule anyway. It only gets worse. The Treasury/IRS has finalized another rule set to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2013, called the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act.