REQUEST FOR REMOVAL
Fellow Americans, I have sent this letter, in my capacity as Unites States Senator from Florida, to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. You are welcome to call my Washington office at 202-224-3041 to let me know what you think. ****** Dear Senators Reid and McConnell: I am writing to seek your support for bringing a bi-partisan resolution to the Senate floor authorizing the President's decision to participate in allied military action in Libya. Furthermore, this resolution should also state that removing Muammar Qaddafi from power is in our national interest and therefore should authorize the President to accomplish this goal. To that end, the resolution should urge the President to immediately recognize the Interim Transitional National Council as the legitimate government in Libya.
STALL, BABY, STALL
It's unbelievable (literally) the rhetoric on "America's Energy Security" coming from President Obama this week. This is coming from he who is manipulating the U.S. energy supply. President Obama is once again giving lip service to a "new energy proposal"; but let's remember the last time he trotted out a "new energy proposal" - nearly a year ago to the day. The main difference is today we have $4 a gallon gas in some places in the country. This is no accident. This administration is not a passive observer to the trends that have inflated oil prices to dangerous levels. His war on domestic oil and gas exploration and production has caused us pain at the pump, endangered our already sluggish economic recovery, and threatened our national security. The reality behind the president's rhetoric is that instead of "drill, baby, drill," it's "stall, baby, stall."
DYNAMITE IN THE HANDS OF A CHILD
In his belated address to the nation Monday (3/28), President Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. explained why, after nearly a month of dithering, he chose to intervene militarily in Libya's civil war. "We knew that if we waited even one more day -- Benghazi, a city nearly the size of Charlotte, could have suffered a massacre that could have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world," the president said. Well and good, but the military bottom line is that the U.S. Army teaches 9 Principles of War, and Mr. Obama already has violated them all. The restraints he's imposed on military action makes a bloody stalemate the most likely outcome. "Dynamite in the hands of a child is not more dangerous than a strong policy weakly carried out," said Winston Churchill.
PROSPERITY REIGNS WHERE TAXES ARE LOW AND RIGHT TO WORK PREVAILS
"Fiscal crisis hits the states" has become this year's most boring and repetitive headline. But what is largely overlooked is that some states are doing relatively well - such as my home state of Virginia - and are, in fact, balancing their budgets without draconian budget cuts or tax increases. What are the well-managed states doing right and the others doing wrong? And what lessons could those running the federal government learn from the better managed states? The accompanying table shows the rankings of seven of the major states by various organizations.
DON’T SQUANDER SYRIA
Amidst the many dangers posed by the political conflagration now engulfing the Arab world, we are presented with a unique opportunity in Syria. Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, like his father from whom he inherited the regime, is an unadulterated rogue. He is an illicit nuclear proliferator, has a large stockpile of chemical weapons including Sarin gas and blister agents, and is a major sponsor of terrorism. If the Assad regime is overthrown, it will constitute a major blow to both the Iranian regime and Hezbollah. In turn, Lebanon's March 14 Democracy Movement and the Iranian Green Movement will be empowered by the defeat. This is an opportunity we dare not squander.
EL PRESIDENTE TURISTA
The oddest thing about President Barack Hussein Obama Jr.'s South American trip is that he went on it at all. To leave for a foreign tourist junket immediately after plunging his country into war isn't the sort of thing Americans expect their president to do. "Here was the country entering yet another military operation, and there was the president in Brazil. The contrast was jarring -- as if he was quite literally distancing himself from the consequences of his own policy," wrote Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen. Some will say my description of the trip as a "junket" is harsh. But the facts support it. Mr. Obama traveled with a huge entourage which included his wife, two daughters, and his mother-in-law, Marian Robinson. First stop was Brazil, where BrazzilMag described the visit as "lots of ceremony, little else."
HALF-FULL REPORT 3/25/11
Week after week after week - when will this torrential deluge of news stop or at least slack off? It hasn't let up for a couple of months now. Well, let's jump in and go with the flow. We'll start with a follow-up to Islam in Libya, since everyone's so focused on what Zero is doing there. What's confusing us all is Zero's state of confusion regarding no clearly stated end-game. As Sarah Palin told Greta Van Sustern on Fox Wednesday (3/23), "Be in it to win it, or if there's doubt we get out." Palin sees the purpose of the mission in Libya is for Gaddafi "to end up dead," or the mission is a failure. That would be the best outcome (see Roger Simon make the case), but there better be a Plan B. Here it is. From the history discussed in Islam in Libya, we saw that Libya has from its inception 2,600 years ago been divided in two: Greek Cyrenaica and Punic Tripolitania. The two were unified by King Idris only in 1951 - and even then there were two capitals: the parliamentary one of Tripoli and the royal one of Benghazi. This bifurcation has emerged once again today, with the Libyan Opposition controlling Eastern Libya or the old Cyrenaica, and Gaddafi controlling Western Libya or Tripolitania. So obviously, Plan B is to split the country in two, with "reunification" a la East/West Germany a goal of the future. Who gets the oil? Here's the map:
EUROPE’S SUPPORT FOR PALESTINIAN TERRORISM
What are we to make of the fact that no one has taken credit for Wednesday’s (3/23) Central Bus Station bombing in Jerusalem? Wednesday’s bombing was not a stand-alone event. It was part and parcel of the new Palestinian terror war that is just coming into view. As Israel considers how to contend with the emerging onslaught, it is important to notice how it differs from its predecessors. For both Fatah and Hamas, the most important target audience is Europe. Fatah, for example, is in the midst of a global campaign to build international support for a unilateral Palestinian declaration of independence in September. The fact that Fatah and Hamas have neither waited until after September to attack nor sought to differentiate themselves from one another as the attacks coalesce into a new terror campaign indicates strongly that the Palestinians no longer feel they need to pretend to oppose terror to maintain European support for their war against Israel.
PREPARING FOR ARMAGEDDON
In response to Jack's article last week, A Tsunami of Insanity, in which he described the Financial Armageddon bearing down upon us, I was asked on the TTP Forum: "OK, Skye, do you have a list of things you are doing to prepare for the storm?" Yes, I do. I'll be discussing this in detail at the Las Vegas Rendezvous, but here are a few of the high points: *Don't live in a city. A small town in a small county will be much safer - so long as the town and county aren't populated with a lot of Progressives. Check the voting data for both the town and the county. A small conservative/libertarian town in a low population gold mining county will do relatively well as the dollar depreciates. A town where 40% of the income is dependent on the continuation of corn ethanol subsidies would be a very risky location, no matter how rural.
ISLAM IN LIBYA
Remember this scene in many a John Wayne movie? He's walking down the street of a Wild West town when he sees a gang of bad guy thugs beating up a young kid and molesting his mother. He walks right on by, saying to himself with a shrug, "That's none of my business." In another version of the scene, he rushes off to get approval of the town council before he dares intervene. Don't remember? That's because there never was such a scene. We know exactly what Wayne would have done - gone to the victims' rescue without hesitation. That's what makes him a hero. Any comparison between John Wayne and President Zero is obscene. Nonetheless, imagining this faux movie scene should give conservatives pause regarding Zero and Libya. After all, when the world's scum - like Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Robert Mugabe, Louis Farrakhan, and Michael Moore - denounce Zero as a "warmonger," and moonbat fruitcakes like Dennis Kucinch and Ralph Nader are demanding his impeachment, it has to mean that Zero for once is doing something right.