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November 13, 2009
Exclusive: Oval Office Watch – Friday, November 13
A Small Step for Nancy - A Giant Step for Despotism - GO HERE.
Warden Pelosi - Health Care Reform: Failure to buy health insurance in the just-passed health care bill could get you five years in jail with a $250,000 fine. How can violating a law that's unconstitutional be a felony? HERE.
Obama Denigrates Millions Of Americans Who Disagree With Him - CLICK HERE.
Another Czar Bites The Dust - SEE HERE.
A Clueless Commander-in-Chief
Arnold Ahlert, Political Mavens.com
If published reports are accurate, Barack Obama’s presidency is effectively over. Strong words? Ask yourself this: what other president of the United States would have spent almost three minutes speaking at the Dept. of Interior before getting around to mentioning the fact that twelve soldiers had been killed, and thirty one wounded in a massacre at Fort Hood in Texas?
This kind of insensitivity is both infuriating and disturbing. Infuriating because reinforces the notion that we have a president whose narcissistic self-involvement borders on pathological. What in the world could have been more important than mentioning an American tragedy prior to the business at hand? Disturbing because it demonstrates a cluelessness one would think was impossible for the Commander-in-Chief of the United States military.
Doubtless his supporters and a comatose media will attempt to give him a free pass–or try to find an equally feckless mistake committed by George W. Bush to “balance the scales.”
It won’t fly. Read article.
President Titanic
Arnold Ahlert, Political Mavens.com
Is there anything worse than a president who spent three minutes speechifying at a Dept. of Interior tribal leaders conference before mentioning the massacre of American soldiers at Ft. Hood? Maybe not. But coming in close second is the CBS television network, which decided to edit those first three minutes out of its news presentation in order to spare the president the national embarrassment he so richly deserves.
But it gets “better.” On their Thursday night national newscasts, both NBC and CBS decided not to mention that the alleged mass murderer, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was a Muslim. And then there was the latest gaffe arising from the media’s unspoken First Commandment, aka “get it first, even if it’s wrong:” despite widespread reports that the shooter was killed, he is still alive.
Is there a bottom for this bunch?
Americans know a watershed moment when they see one, and what they saw can be reduced to six words: he is not one of us.
Barack Obama is a “citizen of the world” for whom America is just another country that must be re-shaped in accordance with the new reality of global governance. He is the latest member of an historical lineup of leftist megalomaniacs who brook no dissent with their “vision.” American soldiers? Cogs in a military machine he has little use for. Troops left twisting in the wind, even as the promise of making a troop level decision once the election in Afghanistan was concluded remains unfulfilled.
Barack Obama is now President Titanic. The iceberg has been hit. The sinking, however long and drawn out, is inevitable. The MSM? Going down with the ship. Read article.
Dear Mr. President: Stop Being Such a Celebrity
S.T. VanAirsdale, Esquire.com
Obama's election one year ago may have been as much a popularity contest as a political one. But has he governed too much by image — the Megan Fox of the White House, as it were — to claim any real change on another November 4? Part three of a week-long series on America since Grant Park.
The American electorate did not cohere in support a civic firebrand. Rather, it purposely, deliberately coronated its first-ever Superstar-in-Chief. Forget Ronald Reagan, who was more than a generation removed from Bedtime For Bonzo when he snake-charmed his Silent Majority three decades ago. In 2008, pop culture finally sought — and won — the presidency.
Three hundred and sixty-five days later, we appear to have gotten pretty much all we could have hoped for out of such a victory — and, I think, enough motivation not to let it happen again. Plenty has happened, both practically and philosophically, but this much we know, culturally: A complacent left swats away an unsettled right, and the icons who'd once found a convenient star vehicle in the Obama campaign are today regarded as little more than a liability to the embattled president, if they can be found at all.
Oprah Winfrey has a new movie to promote and ratings to shore up. Sean Penn is off in search of Fidel Castro. Anne Hathaway, Justin Timberlake, Kirsten Dunst, and the dozens of other young A-listers who once lent their PSA-friendly idealism to the cause have avoided the rank-and-file mobilizing for Obama's health-care plan. Even Shepard Fairey, whose "HOPE" poster came to define Obama Nation in '08, has since confessed to lying about and destroying evidence of the image's provenance in the Associated Press photo archives.
It's not necessarily all Obama's fault that the bloom is off and the battle is engaged. That's Washington, and he'd have met resistance in any case — especially in this economy. But so much of the current resentment toward the president — indeed, a pure hatred of the man on some behalves — stems from how romantically he sold himself in 2008, and how he struggles to continue ruling by persona heading into 2010. This week's Edward Norton-produced documentary By the People: The Election of Barack Obama (which premiered last night on HBO) crystallizes that phenomenon, showing the grassroots community organizer who stormed Iowa, only to stumble in New Hampshire after mismanaging his hubris. That's about as honest as the film gets, though, choosing to trace Obama's rebound arc of megastardom while wholly avoiding the trajectory of conservative outrage taking flight at the same time — as if the latter were too off-topic, or not quite glamorous enough for the hagiography that Norton and the directors had in mind. Read article.
Self-Governance Works
John Stossel, Townhall.com
Much of what government does is based on the premise that people can't do things for themselves. So government must do it for them. More often than not, the result is a ham-handed, bumbling, one-size-fits-all approach that leaves the intended beneficiaries worse off. Of course, this resulting failure is never blamed on the political approach -- on the contrary, failure is taken to mean the government solution was not extravagant enough.
We who have confidence in what free people can achieve have long believed that government should not venture beyond its narrow sphere of providing physical security. It should not attempt to cure every social ill. So it's good to learn that serious scholars have demonstrated that our intuitions are right. Free people, given the chance, solve what many "experts" think are problems that require state intervention. Read article.
Writer disputes Obama leads by increments
Mimi Hall, USA Today.com
President Obama's 2008 campaign manager says the conventional wisdom on Obama that he's governing as an incrementalist rather than a visionary leader is "ridiculous" and won't hold up if Congress passes health care and energy-saving legislation.
"There's nothing incremental about that," says David Plouffe, one of the masterminds behind Obama's improbable election. "This story line will go away."
Plouffe's new book, The Audacity to Win, was released Tuesday, nearly a year after Obama was elected on a promise to bring sweeping change to government on issues from the war in Iraq to the environment.
His efforts have met with mixed results: Health care legislation is slowly making its way through Congress. Legislation to address energy costs and climate change faces stiff opposition.
Playing off the name of Obama's own book, The Audacity of Hope, Plouffe's 387-page tome chronicles a campaign that began with no money and a candidate with little national experience and blossomed into a high-tech, grass-roots operation that raised $750 million and recruited millions of volunteers. Read article.
Classy: White House Thugs Now Threatening Democrat Strategists Who Appear on FOX
JammieWearingFool.Blogspot.com
The Obama Thug Machine is officially out of control.
At least one Democratic political strategist has gotten a blunt warning from the White House to never appear on Fox News Channel, an outlet that presidential aides have depicted as not so much a news-gathering operation as a political opponent bent on damaging the Obama administration.
Political consultants are a staple of cable television talk shows, analyzing current events based on their own experiences working on campaigns or in government.
One Democratic strategist said that shortly after an appearance on Fox he got a phone call from a White House official telling him not to be a guest on the show again. The call had an intimidating tone, he said.
The message was, "We better not see you on again,'' said the strategist, who spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to run afoul of the White House. An implicit suggestion, he said, was that "clients might stop using you if you continue.''
Gallup: GOP would win the House of Representatives
William Tate
Psst. Don't tell anybody, but Republicans would win control of Congress if the election were now, instead of next year.
It's sure to remain the biggest political secret not in the news. Naturally, the media will ignore it; the polling company that produced the survey, Gallup, even buried it under a misleading headline.
Maybe, to get some coverage, the Republicans could claim to have hidden somebody in a weather balloon, or something.
The congressional election prediction is part of a one-two punch Gallup delivered Barack Obama's Chicago mob on Tuesday, albeit reluctantly.
Gallup's daily tracking shows that the spike in the polls from Obama's photo-op saluting fallen soldiers returned from Afghanistan was apparently short-lived. The cynically orchestrated visuals of Obama saluting fallen troops at Dover Air Force Base helped Obama climb briefly to 55%, but Gallup says Obama's job approval rating has quickly slid back to its lowest level, 50% -- one point lower than it was last week.
Perhaps more importantly, one year before the public heads to the polls to elect all 435 members of the House of Representatives, Gallup says their generic congressional numbers are at levels, which would give Republicans a majority in the House if the election were held today. Read article.
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