The Lessons of the NY-26 Special Election

Or …
Liberty vs. Tyranny 2012, Lessons (5:6)
*Because the stakes are that biblical*

These lessons are not what most of the dolts who comprise the criminally biased MSM have told you they are over the past week. This collection of mindless lemmings has rushed to another superficial and ultimately meaningless groupthink conclusion. This over credentialed gaggle of pseudo intellectuals has concluded this one very special election represents a pattern for the upcoming general election – even after actually living through (in recent memory!), the 2009 NY-23 special election and 2010 general election. Pavlov’s dog was smarter, for chrissake.

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First of all, the so-called “conventional wisdom” (aka “me-too-itis”) – as exemplified by this completely useless David Gergen piece – is tantamount to accepting the end of the republic. Gergen and the rest of his useless gaggle is recommending to both political parties that they should not go near Medicare, one of the two biggest unfunded entitlements (Social Security being the other) driving our national debt spiral.

The 2009 NY-23 special election had a completely inverse relationship to the results of the 2010 midterm elections. I, LibertyAtStake, shall now explain why the same will be true of NY-26 and 2012 – provided We The People continue the learning curve we began around TEA Party season 2009, and the GOP establishment manages somehow to catch up to us.

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They (Demo-hacks and criminally biased MSM) also think NY-26 is somehow a template for massive Democrat gains in 2012. This “analysis” (charitably stated) is utterly destroyed by two utterly obvious observations:

1. No way in hell can the Demo-hack party run a fake TEA Party candidate in every 2012 race. This corrupt strategy simply does not scale.

2. While it may be the case the Demo-hacks can win with an intellectually dishonest “MediScare” platform today, it may not be the case in 18 months – depending upon how well the real lessons (following) are applied, if you please.

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Lesson 1: The modern Democrat Party is corrupt, period.

The modern Democrat Party is willing to run a false flag candidate, as long as it means they are “winning!” (per Charlie Sheen).

The modern Democrat Party is willing to tell flat out lies about their opponents’ plans , as long as it means they are “winning!” (per Charlie Sheen).

Just for the record, the false flag candidate is one Jack Davis. And the lie (in this case) they will repeat again and again is this: the Paul Ryan plan affects current retirees and ObamaCare does not. The exact opposite is true. The Paul Ryan plan touches no one above the age of 55, and ObamaCare removes $500 Billion (half a trillion dollars) from Medicare right now.

The Demo-hack party is quite simply third world corrupt. (Kudos to radio man Chris Plante for his clever formulation: “the Third Worlding of America”). The Demo-hack party actually places winning elections above the morality of simply being truthful.

They prove it every day with the vicious demagogic ads full of falsehoods they run every cycle, including this obnoxious recent example:




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Lesson 2: The criminally biased MSM is corrupt, period.

The criminally biased MSM, in case it’s not obvious yet, is working directly for the Demo-hack party.

I shall support this assertion with a challenge. Send me any article or post (via comments or email, I just don't care) by the criminally biased MSM that makes either of the two factual points above – i.e. Jack Davis’ false flag impact and the truth about your Granny’s status as of today. I know you David Plouffe trolls are waiting in the wings, show me something for a change – but be prepared for the “exception proving the rule” defense (if you even get that what I mean).

As a matter of fact I believe I’ll open the engagement with a pre-emptive “exception proves the rule” strike - with this simple Google search ….

Search executed 2011-05-28, 7:28 PM.

Find the exception if you can, trolls ...

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Lesson 3: The public at large is still far too gullible – still far too susceptible to Demo-hack lies as amplified by the criminally biased MSM.

Here I point to one element of the “conventional wisdom” that should be heeded – for the sake of the republic. Far too many citizens with voting rights still fall for Demo-hack lies. There remains a deep information deficit amongst those who live among us with voting rights. (Ameliorative topic for another post: the No Representation Without Taxation Amendment)

When 70% of people who say they support the TEA Party oppose reforming a program that is bleeding the republic dry, methinks they have something to learn about just what it is they think they are supporting. Those of us driving the Conservative Ascendancy still have a lot of heavy lifting to do, period. The fate of the republic depends upon it. Educate, inform, proselytize. Defeat the lies.

Maybe start with this crisp data point provided by a blogger from NY-25: The Lonely Conservative.

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Lesson 4: The GOP had better take off the gloves … or all hell may break loose throughout the republic.

The hapless establishment GOP is still waging politics by the Queensbury Rules. The Demo-hack party, or more accurately the Left, has been bringing brass knuckles, knives, and loaded guns to this fight - from at least the moment they invented the verb ‘to bork.’ The hapless establishment GOP had been getting its collective ass handed to it as a result – until 2010. The unique aspect of the 2010 election season was an infusion of fighting spirit from a nationwide uprising of TEA Party patriots, who wisely determined using the previously empty husk of the GOP as their political party was a winning strategy in 2010.

It is still the best strategy going into 2012, in my opinion. Unfortunately, I had hoped this opinion would be unarguable by this point in the Conservative Ascendancy. It is not – because the establishment GOP is still (disappointingly) the weak sister in this partnership.

Memo to GOP: We cannot afford to have you put up any more RINOs. Jane Corwin is the perfect example of who *not* to run. She was inarticulate, squishy, and unpersuasive on the big issue - Medicare. You know the Demo-hacks are going to demagogue Medicare from now until election day 2012. It’s in their DNA, period. The Conservative Ascendancy needs articulate spokes people, who also possess a fighting spirit. We need people who are willing and able to take the argument directly to the Demo-hacks. And I mean directly. No quarter, no compromise – because none will be given. For chrissake, you’ve been having your ass handed to you for 20 some odd years – are you even smarter than Pavlov’s dog?

And besides, if you lose the respect and trust of the TEA Party patriots … you will hand the Left exactly what it seeks to exploit … anarchy.

Footnotes

A round up of professional Analyzers and Opinionators who see eye to eye with LibertyAtstake …

O’Connell and Pearson on Lessons 1 and 4.

Mona Charen on Lessons 1 and 4.

Linda Chavez on Lessons 1 and 3.

Jonah Goldberg on Lesson 4 (with a nice battle analogy – you know LAS liked that).

Carlson and Patel on Lessons 1 and 4.

Lesson 2 shall stand on my challenge to readers and trolls.  Bring it on, [removed by adminsistrator].

Update 5/31/2011

The long Memorial day weekend has dropped an object lesson in Lesson 2 into our national lap (so to speak). Watch the ironically named Democrat congressman with a taste for young party girls, and a lack of control over his social media technology, get a pass from the criminally biased MSM. Join the search for justice initiated by a senior member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.  My sense is the final spin depends on Mrs. Weiner - which surely cannot portend well for Representative Weiner.

Jack Wiley Dithers Exclusive: Bibi Schools Barry

My Mossad contact has provided me with a transcript of the private meeting between Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, May 20, 2011.  I have no knowledge of how he acquired it.  And if questioned under oath, I will plead Fifth Amendment privilege.  Our staff of highly trained Analyzers have authenticated the source material.

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Netanyahu:  “What the hell were you thinking?  1967?  Really?”

Obama: “Valerie told me that’s what you agreed to.”

Netanyahu:  “Who’s Valerie?”

Obama: “My advisor.”

Netanyahu: “If she’s advising you on Israel, why haven’t I heard of her?”

Obama: “I dunno. Let’s get her in here right now.  She’ll show you.”

{intercom comes on}

Obama: “David.  David?”

Unidentified voice: “This is Monica, David’s intern.”

Obama: “Where’s David?”

Unidentified voice: “Ummmm….temporarily indisposed, sir.  May I assist?”

Obama: “Please summon Valerie Jarrett to the Oval Office, please.”

Unidentified voice: “Sir, remember?  She’s delivering the keynote to the Socialist Workers Collective Union Party Conference today.”

Obama: “Ah yes.”

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Netanyahu: “Good God, it’s worse than I thought.  OK, Barry, listen up and listen good …”

Obama:  “How dare you address …”

Netanyahu: “Cut the crap N.W.O.  boy!  I need to make lunch with Eric Cantor.  If you make me late to that, then I’ll really be pissed.  Now, here’s the deal – if you didn’t know it before, know it now and know it good … we define our borders, right of return is a dead letter, and no way in hell is Jerusalem ever going to be divided again.

Obama: “Hey, I think we can negotiate here, Bibi”

Netanyahu:  “That’s ‘Prime Minister’ to you N.W.O. boy.  Listen, I don’t care what you say to save face.  Just as long as you make two points to AIPAC on Sunday, and I’ll take it from there.  Number one – the negotiation is strictly bi-lateral, got it?”

Obama: “What’s Kevin Jennings got to do with this?”

Netanyahu:  {sigh}  “That means no U.N. role – strictly between Israel and Palestine.  Number two – There is no negotiation until the Palestinians formally recognize Israel’s right to exist.  Got it?”

Obama:  “I’ll get Valerie on it right away.”

Netanyahu: {sigh} “I’ll be watching on Fox.  Don’t screw this up.”

Obama:  “And if I don’t?”

Netanyahu: “Mossad?  Pictures?  You, Soros, Ayers, Riviera, Speedos?”

Obama: “Oh.”

Footnotes

Inspired by (pictures clickable) ….

… and …

Update 5/25/11

While Barry does a credible imitation of Chevy Chase on his slapstick 'European Vacation,' Bibi takes care of big boy business with the US Congress.



Does The Road From Cairo To Foggy Bottom Go Through Tehran?

Have you heard? The Empty Suit Known as Barack Hussein Obama gave a major policy speech on Thursday morning, to an audience consisting of the republic’s Department of State diplomats and bureau-weenies. I was unable to catch it in real time – pinned down as I was a mere two Metro stops away, looking after my tiny and insignificant slice of Barry’s dysconomy.

Eventually that afternoon, I had the opportunity to read the text, courtesy of Wall Street Journal Online. I was only able to take out enough time to read it about ¾ of the way through. This initial contact gave me the sense that the speech was a great big nothing-burger, a real “yawner,” which is the speech Heritage’s James Jay Carafano apparently saw in real time.

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Then during the day, something started happening on my personalized Google home page and my blog roll. This particular something sent me from “yawn” to “wtf?!?” – in the manner an amplifier can be sent from one to eleven simply by turning a knob. Posts from others began appearing that made clear the Empty Suit Known as Barack Hussein Obama had saved the best for last – presuming to instruct Israel it must withdraw to its’ 1967 borders. A more naked abandonment of an ally one could hardly imagine.

This information moved my thinking forward to the sentiment expressed by the following comment I wrote on the Daily Caller site:

Initial Reaction from LAS: (1) Barry voted “present” on “Arab Spring” – if classically liberal democracy miracously emerges, the soaring but empty rhetoric allows him to swoop in and claim Great Man credit, but if (much more likely) Islamist rule emerges the foreign aid proposals just continue the line of pandering started in Cairo; and (2) Barry never misses a chance to throw Israel under the bus. There is toasting happening in official Tehran right now.

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I was unable to record this comment until 10:08 pm on Thursday because I had some “required fun” to attend earlier that evening – namely a high school band concert, in which my eldest son participated as first chair bassoonist. (The boy can shred a bassoon – let me tell you).

While silently taking in the talented utes’ musical exertions – Gershwin, Mancini, Sousa, and such – I allowed my mind to wander across the landscape of this topic. One of the many connections I made during this period of silent reflection was a new label (as far as I know) for BHO – the Tehranian President – you know, in the spirit of the Manchurian Candidate.

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The outline for this post really took shape the next morning, when I was driving back into the office, and I heard Chris Plante start his radio show with a bit of grade-A snark implying BHO is in fact the 12th Iman. 

During the day on Friday, I literally jotted down the outline itself.

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I mean, really, ask yourself – what has BHO done that is any different than a hypothetical US President secretly working in Tehran’s interests would do?

Kick off term of Office with major speech pandering to the region

Take Palestinian negotiating position on Israeli settlements

Offer no support to democracy protestors demanding regime change in Iran

Turn a blind eye while Iranian Islamist regime builds a nuclear weapons program

Throw Egyptian secular regime under the bus, creating a vacuum Islamists may yet fill

Pursue policies to repeat previous in Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, and Syria

Assassinate UBL - when finally utterly unavoidable

Bend over backwards to give UBL a proper Islamist burial

Take Palestinian negotiating position on Israeli borders


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And so, I come back to the framework of my ‘Stupid or Treasonous?’ series. The only way to square BHO’s actions with the notion he’s the “smartest guy in the room” is to conclude he is double-dealing.

And if this comment thread on Frank Gaffney’s recent Big Peace article is any indication, the citizenry at large is catching on.

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But, at least for now, this is not BHO’s top problem. His immediate problem is that Benjamin Netanyahu is in town. Bibi – as his friends call him – is no BHO. Bibi is a stand up guy. Bibi also has the support of a lot of Americans wise enough to stand with the only established democracy in the region. Oh, and an American Presidential candidate, too.  And Bibi has been schooling Barry while in town, with more to come.

Things are really, really, interesting right now ….

Meanwhile in Venezuela …


Update 5/22/11


I just managed to catch BHO’s speech to AIPAC in real time – via Fox News. Overall - much better. The pander on commitment to Israeli security appeared genuine, though with this guy who can really tell? The clarification on his Thursday remarks wasn’t bad, though one yearns for a POTUS who doesn’t need to clarify the firestorms he creates so often.

Most importantly, he hit the right note on the only two points that really matter (to the negotiation process, that is): (1) The UN has absolutely no role to play here – it must be a two party agreement between Israelis and Palestinians, and (2) Negotiations are meaningless until the Palestinians formally recognize Israel’s right to exist.

Maybe Bibi slipped Barry a teleprompter draft when they met privately Friday …. ;)

Stuck on Keynesian Stupid

In my most recent post, “Barry’s Pyrrhic Victory Lap,” I explained why the Empty Suit Known as Barack Hussein Obama running for re-election on newly manufactured national security credentials is an absurdity.

Now I shall explain why BHO may have no choice but to run on this absurdity - all the way to “Shellacking II,” scheduled for November 6, 2012.

The explanation is summarized by the following Lisa Benson cartoon, and this simple truth we are all living in real time – BHO’s economy sucks. And it will continue to suck as long as he remains in office, because BHO and the Progressives are stuck on Keynesian stupid.

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Before I explain in further detail, I offer to the reader a very clever YouTube video that is very educational on three points in a very entertaining format: (1) the assumptions underlying the macroeconomic theory of John Maynard Keynes, (2) the competing assumptions underlying the macroeconomic theory of Friedrich Hayek, and (3) the plain fact that policy makers have generally preferred Keynes’ ideas over Hayek’s ideas, despite a better record of performance from latter.



Keynesian economics is a top down, centrally managed, command driven, theory that assumes "experts" can direct capital where it is most needed in a complex market system. Hayek’s competing framework is a bottom up model based on the idea that trusting individuals to make independent decisions in their own self-interest produces the most good for the greatest number of people.

According the macro-economic theories of John Maynard Keynes, the $862 Billion stimulus package that was BHO’s first significant act should have had the US economy humming along beautifully by now. According to the theory, public “experts” pumping huge amounts of public cash into the private economy revitalizes the private economy - and BHO's stimulus was the biggest money pump in human history.

It didn’t work in the Great Depression of the 1930’s, it didn’t work for Japan in the 1990’s, and it’s not working now. The reason it never works is the false premise that government money pumped into the private economy is somehow “new” to the economy. A moment’s reflection exposes the fallaciousness of this premise. Governments only have two ways to raise revenue: (1) print new paper money, which is not actually new wealth, and is therefore inflationary (unless interest rates are artificially held down - which is the building stress fracture in US monetary policy right now), or (2) tax existing wealth out the private economy – which merely redistributes wealth from one set of private hands to another, with overhead built into the transfer to fund the government intervention itself. Governments simply produce no new wealth, ever.

Hayek, on the other hand, based his macroeconomic theories on the far more subtle notion of spontaneous order. That is, for my purposes here, the complex system of exchange between self-interested consumers and producers does something truly magical – it actually creates new wealth in the economic system merely via the exercise of economic activity. Every time a producer supplies a valuable product or service to a consumer, the fair market value the consumer provides back in exchange is economic activity. When government policy encourages and rewards economic activity, over time it results in measurable economic growth, which is good to one degree or another for everyone.

If you are thinking at this moment “show me the proof” – congratulations, you are a sentient being. Prepare to begin the chartapalooza.

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It turns out our 40th President – Ronald Reagan - implemented policies inspired by the Hayek school of thought. It also turns out Mr. Reagan “inherited” a deep recession very similar to the one Mr. Obama told us at the beginning of his term he would fix with his Keynesian Stimulus package.

The Wall Street Journal recently compared the growth in GDP during the two officially measured “recoveries,” and found Messrs. Keynes and Obama to be lagging Messrs. Hayek and Reagan considerably. I took the Journal’s numbers, covering the first seven quarters of official “recovery,” and captured them in a very sophisticated charting system known as MS Excel. Here’s the chart for quarters one through seven. (I think I’ll bring this chart back, updated, each quarter moving forward. The trend will not change, trust me on that.)

And apparently, there is an inverse relationship between GDP growth and unemployment. Whoulda thunk it? The trend lines are the important part of the following data series, spanning the 21 months equating to the previously charted 7 quarters.

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I’m not the only blogger who has been charting the economic wreckage the Keynesian impulses of BHO and the Progressives have inflicted upon the republic.

Doug Ross, on April 12, posted eight very troubling measures of this wreckage. Under Progressive stewardship dating back to the 2006 mid terms, the republic is deeply worse off on ALL of these measures: unemployment rate, price of gasoline, national debt, budget deficits, housing values, stock market values, employment rate, and consumer price index.

On May 9, Mr. Ross demonstrated when the government reports the economy stuck at 9% unemployment, Main Street actually feels 20% (or more).

On May 6, the Weekly Standard showed us how real wages are dropping for those still lucky enough to have a job. (Notice the positive curve slope for Reagan vs. the (charitably stated) flat curve slope for Obama so far)

So, who wants to debate the odds that the nation upon which the Empty Suit Known as Barack Hussein Obama has visited all this wreckage will re-elect him?

Barry’s Pyrrhic Victory Lap

The Empty Suit Known as Barack Hussein Obama has been running around the nation this week patting himself on the back for making a decision LibertyAtStake is confident no fewer than 80% of all Americans would have had no trouble making. He will find this victory lap to be pyrrhic.

I love the sensibility offered by the origins of the term ‘pyrrhic victory’ - probably because it connects with my own hyper-developed sense of irony. From the Greek literary tradition, I also like how it tangentially connects to the eastern concept of ‘Karma’ – that is, what one does today sets in motion unseen ripple effects in one’s future.

BHO has created some really bad Karma this week, for the only thing he really cares about all, his re-election in 2012.

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For starters, after making the ‘gutsy’ decision almost no one would criticize, the week of celebrations exposed total incompetence in the most basic executive function – telling a consistent story.

On Wednesday, the Daily Caller gave us a thorough roundup of the inconsistencies to that date and a commentary with the perfect turn of phrase – victory lap in a clown car.

The follies continued, and on Saturday we had this wrap up from Michelle Malkin.

I mean, really, how hard is it to hold the internal meeting that ends with “that’s our story and we’re sticking to it”?

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Also damaging to BHO’s re-election prospects in the immediate aftermath of History’s Most Obvious ‘Gutsy’ Decision is what it revealed about his character, and the character of his Leftist fellow travelers.

Even the liberal operative Lanny Davis noted this character defect. It is the Left’s absolute unwillingness to give President Bush any credit whatsoever for putting into place the very policy framework that made BHO’s victory lap possible.

In the spirit of my humble little blog project - which might be summarized as “returning fire in kind” – I have created the following little graphic to more accurately summarize the reality. Earlier this week I had it in my “Snark U.” space with the caption ‘Giving Credit Where Credit is Due.’

The Powerline Blog performed a deeper examination of the ungracious ingratitude demonstrated by BHO and the Progressives.

The character defect of the Left that prevents them from acknowledging President Bush's contribution is: for them all things are political. This mindset leads them easily into fits of intellectual dishonesty that are sometimes tortuous, and often humorous, to watch. In this particular case, acknowledging the now obviously established fact the intelligence trail that led to UBL started with enhanced interrogation would run counter to one of their central political narratives of the past ten years – therefore it cannot be acknowledged and must be whitewashed. The hemming and hawing they are now forced into will have negative political effects for them that are perfectly captured by this Eric Allie cartoon.

BHO himself displayed this very character defect when unexpectedly confronted with the plain fact his administration is engaged in making life a living hell for the very CIA interrogators who made his Sunday night I-Me-My speech possible. When 9-11 family member Debra Burlingame asked him politely to consider dropping the politically motivated charges on these men, Barry petulantly dismissed her.

Taking on his Leftist base by ensuring this case gets dropped immediately – now that would be real political courage. Which is why you won’t see it from BHO.

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Also exposed in the discussions opened by Barry’s unseemly victory lap is the plain fact his administration has no idea what to do with enemy combatants captured in the War on Terror. This is why every mission is a kill mission – even for American citizens. (I love the line “[t]his week is the week we settle all family business” in the linked Hot Air article.)

The law enforcement centric policy they came into office with has been an abysmal failure, and they can’t fall back on it now for political reasons. They aren’t willing to use the interrogation or detention tools they inherited from the previous administration for political reasons. This means the loss of a vitally important intelligence capability. It also means this administration’s only option for every high value target is assassination. Including American citizens such as Anwar al-Awlaki – and I fault both the Bush and Obama administrations for failing to produce a due process for convicting this pig for treason.

Forthright discussion of these national security issues during the campaign will redound to the benefit of any candidate running against BHO that chooses to raise them.

Let’s hope the early reports that BHO and the Progressives plan to do just that are accurate.

Update 5/10/11

Speaking of bad Karma - the Agitator-In-Chief steps on his crank again while trawling for undocumented Democrat votes.

Update #2 5/10/2011

Just noticed the Karma thing connects to the family business thing because both connect to Michael Corleone.  Man I'm Good, Just Ask Me (MIGJAM).

The Obligatory 'We Got UBL' Post

And I do mean we.

The initial raw intelligence that lead to getting UBL was the code name of a UBL associate, gleaned under George W. Bush's enhanced interrogation policy.

That raw intelligence was connected to a specific person by CIA analysts during George W. Bush's administration.

That person was tracked down to a location by CIA analysts during Barack H. Obama's administration.

That person's location turned out to be UBL's location.

US Navy SEALs did a magnificent job of taking UBL into custody (or his body, anyway).

Other members of our magnificent professional military no doubt performed the forensics necessary to establish beyond a shadow of doubt, for any but the most ardent conspiracy theorist, the body the SEALs took into custody was indeed UBL.

UBL's body was given an appropriately unceremonious and disgraceful internment as fish food.

The United States of America remains exceptional. At least when our elected leaders acknowledge we are, and allow us to be.

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Oh yeah, and the question hangs - what did the Pakistani government know and when did they know it? They got some 'splainin to do regarding their true sympathies in the ongoing War on Terror.  Now comes the hard part for BHO.

Update 5/3/11

Even when BHO and the Progressives are doing the right thing, they can't help but do the wrong thing.  New reporting is informing us of this politically correct outrage - BHO actually went to great pains to make sure the mass murderer UBL was interned at sea according to Muslim tradition.  Memo to Barry:  Drop the stupid PC Muslim outreach thing - it's not working with them and it's not working with us.

Update #2 5/3/11

Just thinking about some other SEALs who have been in the news during this administration's reign of comedy.  Will Barry have a beer summit to thank Petty Officers Julio Huertas, Jonathan Keefe, and Matthew McCabe for their service?

Presidential Birther Speech Transcript, as Viewed In Illustrator Layers

(AP) - Jack Wiley Dithers Reporting.

Our cracker-jack investigative journalism team has obtained the transcript of yesterday's Presidential Birther speech - from our source at the Wall Street Journal.  Our highly capable IT staff soon discovered that the transcript opened in Adobe Illustrator shows multiple layers, revealing some very interesting deletions from an earlier draft.  The draft layer as viewed in Illustrator is presented here.

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The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

April 27, 2011



Remarks by the President

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room

9:48 A.M. EDT



THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. Now, let me just comment, first of all, on the fact that I can’t get the networks to break in on all kinds of other discussions — (laughter.) I was just back there listening to Chuck — he was saying, it’s amazing that he’s not going to be talking about national security. I would not have the networks breaking in if I was talking about that, Chuck, and you know it, because my national security policies are a train wreck.

Q Wrong channel. (Laughter.)

THE PRESIDENT: As many of you have been briefed, we provided additional information today about the site of my birth. Now, this issue has been going on for two, two and a half years now when I could have ended it with a phone call at any time. I think it started during the campaign with a campaign operative for my Secretary of State. And I have to say that over the last two and a half years I have watched with bemusement because I thought it was a political asset to paint my detractors as moonbats, I’ve been puzzled at the degree to which this thing just kept on going and had hoped you media people would do a better job of painting my detractors as moonbats. We’ve had every official in Hawaii on our payroll, Democrat and Republican, every news outlet in our pocket that has investigated this, confirm that, yes, in fact, I was born in Hawaii, August 4, 1961, in Kapiolani Hospital.

We’ve posted a blurry image of the certification that is given by the state of Hawaii on the Internet for everybody to see. People on our payroll have provided affidavits that they, in fact, have seen this birth certificate. And yet this thing my Secretary of State started just keeps on going.

Now, normally I would not comment on something like this, because obviously there’s a lot of stuff swirling in the press on at any given day and I’ve got other things to do like play Golf with Richard Trumka. But two weeks ago, when the Republican House had put forward a budget that will have huge consequences potentially to the country, and when I gave a speech about my budget speech and how I felt that we needed to invest in education and infrastructure and making sure that we had a strong safety net for our seniors even as we were closing the deficit after I'm out of office, during that entire week the dominant news story wasn’t about these huge, monumental choices that we’re going to have to make as a nation. It was about my birth certificate. And that was true on most of the news outlets that were represented here, even the ones in our pocket.

And so I just want to make a larger point here. We’ve got some enormous challenges out there, like my 2012 campaign. There are a lot of folks out there who are still looking for work due to my train wreck of an economic policy. Everybody is still suffering under high gas prices due to my train wreck of an energy policy. We’re going to have to make a series of very difficult decisions about how we invest in our future but also get a hold of our deficit and our debt after I'm out of office — how do we do that in a balanced way guaranteeing I get all the spend and none of the cut.

And this is going to generate huge and serious debates I will not participate in to preserve my messianic image, important debates. And there are going to be some fierce disagreements I will not weigh in on to preserve my messianic image — and that’s good. That’s how democracy is supposed to work now that I've lost my congressional super majority. And I am confident that the American people and America’s political leaders can come together in a bipartisan way and solve these problems without me needing to take a stand with a veto or anything like that. We always have taken care of Barack that way before.


But we’re not going to be able to do it if we are distracted by questions you people in the media haven't done a good enough job of burying. We’re not going to be able to do it if we spend time vilifying each other like I always do on the campaign trail. We’re not going to be able to do it if we just make stuff up like I always do in speeches and pretend that facts I make up are not facts. We’re not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by sideshows I haven't approved and carnival barkers not on my payroll.

We live in a serious time right now and we have the potential to deal with the issues that we confront in a way that will make our kids and our grandkids and our great grandkids proud. And I have every confidence that America in the 21st century is going to be able to come out on top just like we always have. But we’re going to have to get serious to do it.  So, you people deal with it and leave me alone to campaign for re-election.

I know that there’s going to be a segment of people for which, no matter what we put out, this issue will not be put to rest. But I’m speaking to the vast majority of the American people who are suffering under my policies, as well as to the press that failed to bury this story earlier. We do not have time for this kind of silliness because polls show it just became a political liability for me. We’ve got better stuff to do like gear up for my 2012 re-election campaign. I’ve got better stuff to do like go on Oprah for softball interviews. We’ve got big problems to solve, like my tanking poll numbers. And I’m confident we can solve them, but we’re going to have to focus on them — not on this.

Thanks very much, everybody.

END 9:54 A.M. EDT

Predictions For 2012: Mayans Holding the Clubhouse Lead

Professional golf fans will recognize the term “clubhouse leader.” This is the golfer who has the lowest stroke play score for the tournament with no more golf to play. Golf being the ultimate contest for pessimists, the clubhouse lead is generally considered the preferred position even if there is a competitor still out on the course with a slightly better stroke play score.

Just ask one of the greatest champions ever, Phil Mickelson.



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In the tournament for predicting the state of the world for 2012, the ancient Mayan civilization is sitting in the clubhouse with a prediction that’s looking pretty good lately – the literal end of the world. You can even get a countdown widget for your site – calibrated to the second the end comes. Just so you can be sure to be completely punctual in your preparations for the end time.

If you detect sarcasm in my review, your antennae are finely tuned. But, who am I? What do I know? I’m still out on the course. And so is this numb nuts.



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I’ll take a pass on dissecting the demagogic lies (the inflated deficit reduction claim for his 2012 budget Mulligan, the counter-factual claim of an increase in domestic oil production under his policies), the rhetorical sleight of hand (glossing over the fact so-called “clean renewables” have no chance for fifty years or more at providing an affordable supply for the present demand), and profound economic illiteracy (the claim taking $4B out of an industries pockets, whatever you think of that industry, will put downward pressure on the price of its product).

And as this recent addition to the Assigned Read List, from Right Wing News, pointed out so eloquently: “ it takes three pages of truth to combat one paragraph of lies.”

How true. Unpacking the lies and deceptions in just this short four minute example of pure demagoguery, is well beyond the scope of my pro bono post.

No, my point here is to brief the reader on the deleterious effect this demagoguery has on the state of the nation, and educate the reader on how to respond effectively – so as to make sure 2012 turns out better than the Mayan clubhouse leader is even now thinking it will, celebratory chili dog already in hand (he’s more John Daly than Tiger Woods).

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The Empty Suit Known as Barack Hussein Obama has barely made the turn on his final round, and he has already compiled an impressive record of inflicting damage on the republic and creating chaos and misery for its citizens – so impressive that apocalyptic scenarios come easily into the mind. Too easily for comfort.

Especially when you consider his style of “governance.” The Empty Suit “governs” by means of 24 x 7 constant campaigning. Next consider his style for campaigning – the highly divisive 24 x 7 class warfare agitation of the Community Organizer.

This so-called “leadership” produces the kind of unhinged mob rule I’ve only just begun to document on my right side bar as the Just Another Unhinged Leftie (JAUL) Gallery.

Such as trashing historical buildings in failed attempts to shut down duly elected governments.



Such as using intimidation tactics to suppress legal democratic action, while ironically chanting “this is what democracy looks like.” (No, it's what mobocracy looks like)



Such as mindlessly attacking one of your own in the pitch chaos.

There are many documented death threats to be found in the Gallery as well, go ahead and give it a casual stroll.

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The divisive “leadership” style in the Executive Branch - including the Department of ‘Just Us’ - contributes to a breakdown in race relations as well - the case for which was recently set out at National Review Online.

So, where is the Empty Suit on these charges? Nowhere – because he is the coward on race relations Eric Holder must have been talking about in 2009.

And where will the Empty Suit be on this racially motivated beat down?

** WARNING: THE NEXT VIDEO LINK CONTAINS DISTURBINGLY VIOLENT IMAGES **

Again, the answer is nowhere – due entirely to political cowardice. The rest of us will have to do with a perfectly understandable initial reaction and eloquent essay on the matter from the Angry White Dude.

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So, making the turn toward my concluding point, I shall address how to effectively deal with the unhinged lunatics your Agitator-In-Chief has set loose upon the republic.

The short answer is: no quarter, zero tolerance. They have no limits dictated by morality – therefore the imposition of limits upon them is the only effective control they understand.

A big part of the problem has been long known for many years – the Left tolerates no dissent. As the great William F. Buckley once stated when the terms of engagement were more genteel:

“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”

Conservatives, rightly guided by an ethos that seeks to foster the civil society, have been reluctant to adopt the strategy for dealing with the Left that will be effective in these times – take no crap and push back hard. The difference is we do our homework first and focus on the issue at hand. We have long known the Left dissembles, deceives, and distracts from the subject at hand in favor of ad hominem attacks and straw man arguments. The antidote is to grab them by the collar and drag them back to the argument at hand - ruthlessly. Humor often helps, but can be dispensed with when not practical.

For a beginner’s primer, take in this instructional manual from the great Andrew Breitbart on addressing the Leftist mob.




Got that? Take no crap - within the bounds of the law, of course.

Now, here is Mr. Breitbart’s instruction manual for dealing with biased interviewers.



Got that? Push back hard - within the bounds of FCC rules, of course.

Whether it’s the Pastor Terry Jones (whatever you think of his presentation) defending the First Amendment against the deadly IED known as Shariah Law, or Donald Trump (whatever you think of his positions) showing GOP politicians the way to successfully campaign against Barry is to come right at him – the examples of ruthless, and entirely legal, action aimed at ridding the republic of the Leftist scourge are springing up across the land. And that is an optimistic development.

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The one factor that continues to vex me is the slow learning curve of the traditionally impotent establishment GOP. The TEA Party patriots I met in those crowds as early as spring 2009 - whom a majority of establishment GOP operatives no doubt labeled “unsophisticated” - understood my point instantly. Even after those TEA Party patriots delivered the establishment GOP an electoral victory of historic magnitude in 2010, I see scant signs the GOP has any idea what’s really happening here. And if that’s true – that makes them useless to We The People as our designated political party.

Memo to GOP: the debt ceiling fight is your last chance to show us you are worth keeping on retainer. After that no one anticipates resolution on any debates getting to the core issue of federal spending. So, this will wrap up the GOP / TEA Party Comity interview before we decide how to handle the 2012 election.

There needs to be real, and deep, spending cuts implemented in return for increasing the nation’s debt limit to newly absurd and perilous levels. I like some of what I’ve heard about statutory caps on spending tied to GDP in the Ryan budget. That’s a start. The problem I have is it won’t kick in until 2012, given the crappy 2011 budget deal you gave us. We need something that’s real right now (in addition to, not instead of, just to be perfectly clear). I recommend an extension of the Bush tax rates for everyone. Let Barry deal with explaining the rare and magnificent flip-flop-flip to his lunatic base.

Footnote

And now a short musical break, to celebrate the metaphysical certainty the criminally biased MSM will be no use to anyone.




Update 4/26/11

Via Liberty Pundits I have read there is a consensus building to stand behind something known as Senate Joint Resolution 10 - as the tribute to be paid for raising the debt ceiling.  I like this as a start - for a couple of reasons.  Tactically, because it only requires a bloc of 41 Senators to stand tall on the condition.  Materially, because it creates an annual spending limit tied to GDP, and requires super majority votes on the inevitable exclusions / loop holes.

But only as a start.  As stated above we need something that is felt in the current year to believe the GOP really has our backs, noting the lousy 2011 budget reconciliation has already been inked.  I still like leaving the tax code alone (for now) as a way of showing the government has enough revenue already.

Jack Wiley Dithers Exclusive: Secret Oval Office Meeting Tapes

Our cracker-jack investigative journalism team has received audiotape from a highly placed Executive Branch source, documenting a meeting held in the Oval Office on April 9, 2011. Transcript follows.

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Obama: So, Joe, what do you think?

{sound of snoring}

Gates: Are you kidding me? Again? He really needs to see a doctor about this sleep apnea thing.

{Door opens}

Plouffe: Time for the special strategy meeting, Mr. President.

Obama: Joe, Bob, you need to leave now. This meeting is for me and David only.

{chairs sliding, papers shuffling, etc.}

Gates: See ya later, gators.

{door closing}

Plouffe: That was awful snarky of Gates.

Obama: Oh, he’s just a little ticked about being hung out to dry on the Libya thing. He’ll get over it. Let’s get the teleconference going.

{sounds of electronic stuff happening, Obama appears to be humming ‘Hail to the Chief’}

Plouffe: Whoa, that’s a lot of New World Order!

Soros: Plouffe, are you and Barry the only ones in the room?

Plouffe: Of course.

Soros: I had to ask – you guys have been screwing up a lot lately.

Ghadafi: Hey, Barry – now you see me, now you don’t! Now you see me! Now you don’t!

Soros: Shut up, tent boy. I told you you’d get your half of Libya. Not that Barry didn’t almost screw that one up, too.

Obama: But I was just doing ‘Responsibility to Protect’ …

Soros: It’s ‘Responsibility to Protect NWO’ dummy. Next time check with me first.

Achmedimejad: Yeah, check with him first.

Soros: Shut up, shorty. I told you you’d get your half of Libya.

Achemedimejad: I just don’t want the Community Organizer screwing it up again in Yemen, that’s all.

Jintao: Are we going to have this intervention, or not?

Soros: Comrade Hu is a little worried he won’t be paid back in full. And, frankly, I’m getting a little concerned myself. That 2012 budget you put out in February leaves Comrade Hu in a tough position – and frankly he’s a much better investment for me right now.

Obama: Budget, schmudget. That was just a “placeholder” to keep the American serfs fat, happy, and clueless. I need to get re-elected, you know.

Chavez: Did you even read that book I gave you? You should have declared martial law by now, estupido.

Soros: Woulda, coulda, shoulda – I don’t care. You got a problem, Barry – some guy named Paul Ryan has put out a budget that looks a lot better to me and Comrade Hu. The problem I’ve got is Ryan’s budget is probably going to wake up a lot of American serfs and I might end up with an American President who’s not NWO. Do you see the problem I’ve got?

Obama: Uhhhhhhh …… Donald Trump?

Soros: {Sigh}….Here’s what you have to do. You have to get into the 2012 budget game. Plouffe –

Plouffe: Yes, sir!

Soros: You will go onto Chris Wallace’s Sunday show –

Plouffe: {gasp!} That’s Fox!

Soros: It’s also the biggest audience. This is an emergency. You will announce a major Presidential speech coming up on the budget. Try not to insult the biggest audience in America while you’re making the announcement. Think you can handle that?

Plouffe: They’re too dumb to be insulted. Fox, I can’t believe it’s come to this.

Soros: Just do it. Barry –

Obama: Uh, huh?

Soros: my Belgrade team will write the speech and the “new” budget framework. Think you can get it together to deliver the speech by Wednesday? And I want it early afternoon, so nobody left with a job is watching.

Obama: Let me see, Wednesday afternoon….. I had golf at –

Soros: Change it. The next meeting is Monday evening to discuss tactics.

Chavez: Invite that Ryan guy to sit in the front row, and then have him arrested.

Soros: Save it for Monday.

Soros: Oh, Plouffe, have you figured out who that LibertyAtStake guy is yet?

Plouffe: Not really, but my trolls are sending phishing emails every day.

Soros: Yeah, that’s been working real good, hasn’t it? Call my Las Vegas team. They’ve been noticing some chatter among some of the more uptight stuffed shirts in the right wing blogosphere, critical of his commenting practices. Your trolls might be able to stoke some of that up.

Plouffe: Will do.

Soros: This meeting’s over.

Plouffe: Wow, I’ve never seen the boss so ticked off.

Obama: Yeah, I know. See if you can get me on his schedule for a round of golf.

{knock on the door}

Obama: Come in!

Gates: Sorry to interrupt, guys, I got half way back to the Pentagon and I realized I left that briefcase over there behind.

Quickie Analysis: Barry's Big Deficit Speech

I’ll start with the one positive comment I can come up with, because that’s what my mother told me to do once. The “come together” stuff, mostly toward the end, wasn’t half bad. He actually mouthed some words about American greatness and weaved in a call to patriotism for a change – even if it looked liked it pained him to do so, and even if he did so in the service of flawed assumptions and faulty narratives concerning the American enterprise.

The remainder of the speech revealed much about the Speechifier’s character (lack of), and the state of his ideology (bankrupt). The Empty Suit Known as Barack Hussein Obama is a demagogue pushing an ideology that has nothing left but demagoguery to sell it.

The ideology boils down to redistributive statism. It assumes the state owns all wealth, individuals keep the wealth they produce at the discretion of the state, and the state has the authority to redistribute (reallocate) anyone’s wealth to purposes chosen by the state. This ideology puts the state in a god-like position with limitless power to pick winners and losers. This ideology has failed miserably wherever it has been tried; from Cuba, to the old Soviet Union, to the inner cities of America that have been destroyed by Democrat “Great Society” policies.

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During the day’s build up to the big speech, the news media alerted us to the obvious – more “tax and spend” was coming from the statist demagogue currently occupying the White House. My vigorous participation in the pre-game discussion is documented by these two comments to Daily Caller articles here and here.

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As this Daily Caller post-game analysis astutely caught onto – surprise! surprise! (Gomer Pyle) – the speech was designed and delivered as a campaign speech much more so than a policy speech. It also put on full display many character flaws in the demagogue we have come to know as the Empty Suit Known as Barack Hussein Obama.

BHO the narcissist kicked things off with a lame joke designed to pat himself on the back for keeping the government open, for the benefit of all us serfs who would have no idea what to do without it. Then he adopted an insultingly lecturing tone to propagandize and spin recent history – almost as if he was a professor at one of our institutions of higher education.

BHO the spin-meister misrepresented the big government nanny state society we’ve been living with since FDR’s “New Deal” as a core characteristic of our entire history since the founding. While talking up “progressive” tax codes, he told the lie “everybody pays.” No, actually, today 47% (nearly half) of all households pay no federal taxes at all. This is a condition teetering on the brink of tyranny.

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation.


- Adrian Rodgers, the Internet, or something

BHO the rabble rouser played the old Community Organizer’s class envy card when he set the stage for raising taxes by stating the “rich” (whoever they are) have done “well” (whatever that means) each and every year of the past decade.

BHO the dissembler told another lie when he claimed he inherited a trillion dollar annual deficit. The last Bush 43 budget (2008) had an approximately $400 billion dollar deficit – hardly acceptable, but less than half the claim.

BHO the fear monger spent a significant amount of time demonizing the only serious plan in town so far – Rep. Paul Ryan’s plan. He went so far as to paint a vivid picture of his audience members’ grandparents being thrown to the curb to starve. He engaged in this fear mongering to justify raising "revenue" (taxes) to fund more “investments” (spending) in “Winning the Future” (WTF). The WTF “investments” he ticked off were the same tired old statist ideas for redistributing wealth. Like throwing more money down the rat hole of a public education system that has shown an inverse correlation between money spent and student performance. Like burning more cash on “infrastructure” projects (whatever they have decided that means this week).

BHO the arrogant elitist gave us a snarky “heh” when he noted nobody wants their own taxes raised, lied again by stipulating small government is not the majority of our history, lied yet another time by stipulating there was deficit reduction in his first 2012 budget (the one events have compelled him to reconsider), revealed his hatred for the private sector by dismissing out of hand Medicare voucher solutions (his rhetoric on turning Granny over to the “mercy” of the Insurance industry and so forth) and private investment options for Social Security contributions (the rhetoric on not subjecting contributions to the whims of the stock market).

BHO the hypocrite offered nothing but fraud, waste, and abuse tweaks for ObamaCare after earlier denigrating this approach in the general. BHO the partisan reduced a solid theory of economics with a proven track record – supply side – to someone’s “article of faith.”

November 2012 can’t come soon enough. Unless Donald Trump’s private eyes turn up something that will help us get rid of this walking, talking disaster for the republic sooner …

Update 4/14/2011

Radio man Chris Plante just moments ago made a very salient point over the air waves.  Barry's so-called 2014 trigger proposal is a statist's subterfuge designed to implement his program with or without Congressional approval.  How did I, in my infinite wisdom, miss this critical point?

Update #2 4/14/2011

In keeping with the Swami (Chris Berman) theme that runs through this blog, I will promote this News Real Blog comment to auditable "prediction."

I'm gonna go out on a limb here ... Barry's first veto, and the first veto override immediately thereafter, will be over the Bush tax "cut" renewal. Gridlock will ensure the only viable choices are extend all or extend none, just like in December. 2/3 of congress will want nothing to do with the extend none scenario. That is, if he doesn't cave first over a gridlock situation that will raise taxes on everyone. It'll be the rare and magnificent flip-flop-flip. Barry in a box.