Our glorious and charismatic Leader and Teacher will now come directly in to the classroom in order that the rising generation will be well grounded in theoretical and practical Obamunism! All Hail our Leader!
No, I’m not kidding.
Imagine if President Bush had decided to do something like this?
We do want someone in there who might actually enforce the law, rather than turn Justice Department in to a witch-hunter of Republicans – Newt Gingrich lays it out:
…Earlier this week, on the same day that the administration released a six-year-old report on terrorist interrogations, Holder announced he is appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the CIA officials who conducted the interrogations…
…Americans could be forgiven for believing, on the basis of shamefully twisted mainstream media coverage, that the recently revealed 2004 CIA Inspector-General report at the center of this controversy is merely a cataloging of CIA abuse.
But in fact, the report methodically described a carefully limited and, with a few exceptions, faithfully implemented program of enhanced interrogation techniques – techniques that yielded what the report itself deems valuable results.
The report also details the exceptions, cases in which interrogation techniques were used that were outside the carefully developed regime.
But here is the crucial fact for Holder: All of the allegations of unauthorized methods – all of them – have already been carefully evaluated by career prosecutors. These were legal officials who, unlike Holder, do not owe their jobs to any partisan political figure.
Impartial prosecutors evaluated 20 incidents of unauthorized activity and decided against taking legal action in all cases but one. In that one case, in which a contract employee attacked a terrorist detainee with a metal flashlight, the contractor was found guilty. His case was appealed and his conviction upheld.
In other words, justice was done. (emphasis added)
So, there is nothing to be looked in to – its already been done and the whole issue is finished. But, what if your desire, as a leftist, is to rake up the past, placate your base and take revenge upon those mean, old Republicans you slandered for 8 years? Then, you want a special prosecutor – someone who can fish for info, release biased information the MSM will run with, and time that information to come out at the most politically opportune time for Democrats (such as if some Congressman – Rangel, call your office – is under the gun, or the President’s poll numbers are taking another dive).
It is clear that Obama and his Democrats are determined to keep running against President Bush – so hate-filled have Democrats become that even basic rationality has been put aside. While there is some residual public anger over President Bush (undeserved or not), it doesn’t matter anything what happened 2001-09 in the day to day lives of Americans, right now, facing rising unemployment and a financial system playing economic roulette with what is left of the economy. All Holder will do here is make his side look vindictive – and Americans are generous and forgiving (heck, we’re forgiving Ted Kennedy, aren’t we?). This won’t sit well.
And yet, off they go. Whom the gods would destroy, they do make mad…
Where we are:
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. – Frederic Bastiat
Whatever it is, they’ve been given 30 more days to do it:
The Federal Reserve has until Sept. 30 to appeal a federal judge’s order requiring the central bank to identify financial institutions that benefited from its emergency loans.
The Fed’s Board of Governors asked Manhattan Chief U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska to delay enforcement of her Aug. 24 decision that the identities of borrowers in 11 lending programs be made public by Aug. 31. The central bank wanted Preska to stay her order until the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York can hear the case.
The Fed’s “ability to effectively manage the current, and any future, financial crisis” would be impaired, according to the Fed’s motion for a stay. It said “significant harms” could befall the U.S. economy as well…
…The Fed has refused to name the financial firms it lent to or disclose the amounts or the assets put up as collateral under the emergency programs, saying disclosure might set off a run by depositors and unsettle shareholders.
The Bloomberg lawsuit said the collateral lists “are central to understanding and assessing the government’s response to the most cataclysmic financial crisis in America since the Great Depression.”
There’s the fascism aspect to this – if the Fed is allowed to get away with saying that it can’t disclose because, in its unverifiable judgment, it would cause harm, then no government or quasi-government agency will have to disclose. On this grounds alone, the Fed should be smacked down.
On the economic aspect of it – you can bet your bottom dollar that if the Fed was on the square, they’d just release the data. Its not like we’d be getting someone’s private address, or the name of our covert agent in China…that is the kind of stuff which must be protected from public disclosure, not which banks got government swag.
The longer we keep up with this species of action – bail outs, money-shuffling, etc – the worse it will be when it does come crashing down. While Bernanke is deathly afraid that his economic sainthood might be revoked the by the liberal MSM if the truth comes out, the fact of the matter is that no rational economic decisions can be made by anyone until all the cards are on the table. The only people getting anything out of this secretiveness are well-connected financial speculators who are playing people for suckers in the stock and bond markets.
Time to get the facts, and let the chips fall where they may.
Certainly a strong possibility:
Republican Mitch Daniels has repeatedly insisted that his 2008 run for a second term as Indiana’s governor was his last election and that he’s not interested in the “savagery” of a national campaign.
But like it or not, Daniels’ name is being dropped in conservative GOP circles as someone to watch in 2012. Many say Daniels is just what the battered GOP needs, a blend of conservative values, cool demeanor and fiscal discipline.
“Mitch has been steady to the cause, he’s stayed principled,” said Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee. “The nation is going to recognize him.”
Some political observers say Daniels is as good a bet as any for a national party reeling from Democrats’ solid victory last year…
…The 60-year-old millionaire governor is equally at home in Washington and Indiana after serving as President George W. Bush’s budget director and an adviser to President Ronald Reagan. He earned a reputation in Washington as the “blade” for his efforts to promote fiscal responsibility in Congress and carried that to Indiana, where he took over a state with a $800 million deficit and worked with lawmakers to pass a balanced budget in his first year. The state’s fiscal year ended June 30 with a $1.3 billion surplus.
Certainly he’s vastly better at this whole governing thing than our current President. As an aside, I wonder when the MSM will stop describing us GOPers as “reeling”? I don’t feel like I’m reeling. Does anyone else out there? I’m actually licking my chops over our prospects for 2009 and 2010, right now. Harry Reid trails two second-rank politicians out here in Nevada – and my bet is that he’s going to lose to a third-ranked one (wink, wink/nudge, nudge…by the way, anyone have any idea how to raise $25 million when you’re not the Senate Majority Leader? Heck – I guess it’ll just have to be done on less than that…).
The only problem I see with 2012 is that there might be as many as a dozen GOPers to enter the lists – unless a miracle happens, Obama’s going to be the most vulnerable incumbent President since Carter.
First, shout down those you want out of power. Once in power, use the police to suppress dissent – from Now! Hampshire:
In four short years Carol Shea-Porter has evolved from a rabble-rousing, town hall disrupting anti-war activist who once had to be forcibly removed from a President George Bush event in Portsmouth to a Member of Congress who instructed armed security guards to remove a frustrated voter from her own town hall event in Manchester on Saturday.
In the appended video, Shea-Porter can be seen instructing security to remove a man for standing to ask a question without a ticket. Shea-Porter previously held a lottery to determine who could ask questions. She can also be heard taunting the man on his way out by saying, “I do hope the movie theater can be a little quieter for you.”
NowHampshire.com has learned that the gentlemen Shea-Porter removed, Carl Tomanelli from Londonderry, is a retired New York City patrolman.
Do any of you liberals actually understand that freedom means that both parties to a debate get to speak their piece? The liberals salted in to the office applauded the cops removing the man for merely challenging the residency of one of the liberals!
Freedom is supposed to be messy, liberals – and its for everyone, not just your side.
Keep Matt and Beth in your prayers – they were married yesterday and are off at the start of their new life. Other than that, have at it.
Have a care, before you say or do anything, of what it is you are saying our doing – you won’t be protected just because you are ok per the laws of men:
Now when the Pharisees gathered together to him, with some of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands, observing the tradition of the elders; and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they purify themselves; and there are many other traditions which they observe, the washing of cups and pots and vessels of bronze.) And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with hands defiled?”
And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, `This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’ You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.”
And he called the people to him again, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand: there is nothing outside a man which by going into him can defile him; but the things which come out of a man are what defile him.” For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a man.” – Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
From Rasmussen:
Sixty-two percent (62%) of Americans say it’s always better to cut taxes than increase government spending because taxpayers, not bureaucrats, are the best judges of how to spend their own money.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 20% of adults disagree, and 18% are not sure.
The new findings mark a nine-point increase in support for taxpayers as the best judges of spending since January.
The bloom is off the Obama rose – too much, too fast and too different from what Obama campaigned on. Here’s a hint for the future, Democrats: don’t do too much, don’t do it too fast…and, if it doesn’t cause massive internal bleeding, how about telling us the truth about who you are before the votes are cast?
