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December 24, 2009
Exclusive – Oval Office Watch – Thursday, December 24
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The WSJ Guide to ObamaCare: A comprehensive collection of our editorials and op-eds. HERE.
Time for a Climate Change Plan B - The U.S. president is in deep denial.
Nigel Lawson, WSJ.com
The world's political leaders, not least President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Gordon Brown, are in a state of severe, almost clinical, denial. While acknowledging that the outcome of the United Nations climate-change conference in Copenhagen fell short of their demand for a legally binding, enforceable and verifiable global agreement on emissions reductions by developed and developing countries alike, they insist that what has been achieved is a breakthrough and a decisive step forward.
Just one more heave, just one more venue for the great climate-change traveling circus—Mexico City next year—and the job will be done.
Or so we are told. It is, of course, the purest nonsense. Read article.
What is Obama's first year legacy?
Laurie Roth, News With Views.com
We are playing with a constitutional meltdown. It is because the Federal Government has no constitutional right to mandate health care on the America people. Though the drama queens continue to fight, negotiate, and argue, most of them in the House and Senate want a Government option of some kind that forces health care on all Americans. Some of these wanna be politicians want heavy fines including prison time if you don’t do what they demand with their rationed health care program. We think we have overcrowded prisons now?
Harry Reid is saying there will be a vote by Christmas Eve. Pelosi boldly announced there would be no vote before Christmas and I’m certain President Obama has called the psychic hot line to try and figure out what he should say in his state of the Union speech. You know, the speech read on a teleprompter that outlines Obamas legacy and accomplishments his first year.
I can write it for him
He should be proud. There is certainly much to talk about. He got the Nobel Peace prize. He is in the bold company of other heroic recipients such as Al Gore and Yasser Arafat. Obama must have been given the prise for giving 900 million to Hamas and saying Amidinajad had the right to go nuclear.
Obama has also shown us amazing humility and great breeding in that he knows how to say sorry. I lost count as to how many times he has apologized for America abroad to numerous, international governing bodies. He seems sorry for our history and sorry for our being a light of freedom. Shame on us. How can I forget…..he is also sorry we are a Christian nation and tells the world we are not.
Here our President is in Copenhagen talking about the world melt down when the whole world now knows beyond doubt that it is a total hoax and criminal fraud. I’m just wondering what he thought he was going to sign based on all this mad magazine science. Perhaps he should rush home and force cap and trade through. Maybe Obama could have Al Gore open up before his state of the Union talk. It would be most inspiring. Lets have a moment of silence. Read article.
Why Obama’s Rotten Poll Numbers Scare Congress
Jennifer Rubin, Commentary Magazine.com
Congressional Democrats with an eye on political history should be nervous. California GOP chairman Ron Nehring highlights an uncomfortable reality for them as they head into 2010 with the least popular president at this stage in his presidency in decades:
The magnitude of the net losses suffered by the President’s party in Congress has been in direct, inverse proportion to the President’s public approval rating on Election Day. The party in control of the White House suffered the most in 1966, 1974 and 1994 when the incumbent’s approval ratings were all under 50%. High approval ratings of President Clinton in 1998 (66%) and President Bush in 2002 (63%) helped the governing party gain seats in those two years — a historical aberration.
How bad could it be? Bad. Read article.
Be Afraid, Very Afraid
Oliver North, Townhall.com
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is Time magazine's "Person of the Year." Twelve months ago, the "honor" went to then-President-elect Barack Obama. Notably, the 1932 recipient was President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who asserted in his March 4, 1933, inaugural address, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Viewing the grainy black-and-white film of FDR's first of four inaugurals, it is easy to get caught up in his measured, articulate delivery. It is much like watching Mr. Obama before a teleprompter. Reading FDR's words today, more than 76 years after they were spoken, is very scary stuff.
Apparently, Mr. Obama and his cronies in Congress have studied the FDR playbook carefully. Last week, the president admonished Republicans to "stop trying to frighten the American people." But a careful review of the record reveals that it isn't the GOP that has been sowing alarm. "Fear" has been the political staple of the O-Team since the 2008 presidential campaign -- and even more so since the election. Read article.
The Party of Repeal
Arnold Ahlert, JWR.com
In 1994, Republicans seized control of Congress, largely due to their Contract With America pledge which resonated with the electorate. The same concept will work for the 2010 election — if Republicans have the guts and the foresight to run with it. Note I used the word "concept," because this time their pledge should center around a completely different set of promises.
To begin with, Republicans must understand that Democrats and their media lapdogs are unwittingly doing them a huge favor by referring to them as obstructionists for refusing to abide Democrats' intention to socialize America. They should take that obstructionist label and double down on it: Republicans must become the "Party of Repeal." To wit:
If Democrats pass government-run health insurance, Republicans must first tell Americans they want no part of it — and them tell them that if they become a majority in 2010, they will repeal it.
Ditto for a host of other leftist agendas. Cap-and-trade passes? We'll "unpass" it. Terrorist trials in civilian courts? We'll overturn the Attorney General's decision by crafting a law stating that all non-citizen terrorists will stand before military tribunals. Democrats pass illegal immigration "reform?" We'll toss it overboard and enforce the laws already on the books. Read article.
The clarity of false choices
Jacob Sullum, Stupid Frogs.org
"There are those who claim we have to choose between paying down our deficits ... and investing in job creation and economic growth," President Obama said last week. "This is a false choice." During the same speech, he asked his audience to "let me just be clear" that his administration, having racked up the biggest budget deficits ever, is embracing fiscal responsibility, as reflected in his vow that "health insurance reform" will not increase the deficit "by one dime."
For connoisseurs of Obama-speak, the address featured a trifecta, combining three of his favorite rhetorical tropes. There was the vague reference to "those who" question his agenda, the "false choice" they use to deceive the public, and the determination to "be clear" and forthright, in contrast with those dishonest naysayers. These devices are useful as signals that the president is about to mislead us.
Here are some other things Mr. Obama has asked us to let him be clear about: "Earmarks have given legislators the opportunity to direct federal money to worthy projects"; the U.S. government "has no interest in running GM"; Medicare cuts will be made "in a way that protects our senior citizens" from changes in benefits or costs; and a "public option" for health care, which would invite businesses to offload their medical costs onto taxpayers and could drive private insurers from the market, "would not impact those of you who already have insurance." From now on, when you hear Mr. Obama speak, try replacing "let me be clear" with "let me lie to you," and see if it makes more sense.
Speaking of making sense, some of the "false choices" Mr. Obama has identified in the past year are more puzzling than misleading. Read article.
We Owe Obama A HUGE Debt Of Gratitude – Yes We Do.
Howard Galganov.com
I wish I was able to be in Copenhagen, since I understand from friends who have been there that it is a gorgeous city.
Also, I love Denmark for various reasons, including how they stood up to the Nazis by not turning over their Jewish population, and I like their cheese.
But, how could I possibly go to Copenhagen for the Climate Summit when I have to remain here in North America hard at work to pay for the Something-For-Nothing Bunch for them to be there negotiating on how much harder I have to work to continue covering their FREE RIDE?
HERE’S A NEWSFLASH – SOMEONE HAS TO PAY FOR THE FREE RIDE!
Now, I don’t want to appear to be ungrateful to those MILLIONS of people who are willing to work as hard as they can to take away as much from me and mine as they can, in their quest to save me and mine from ourselves.
Does that make any sense to you?
It sure makes sense to me, especially when you start to list the regulations those who can’t or won’t, will impose upon those of us who can and will. Read article.
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