Upon Noticing the Townhall Cartoon Page is Especially Good Today

The Empty Suit Known as Barack Hussein Obama extended his open hand to the Iranian regime in 2009 and had it cut off. Now, in 2013, proving once again the Left is uneducable to history, he contemplates extending his remaining good hand.

Perhaps it's because the Saul Alinsky Radical Occupying the Oval Office has a stealth agenda to "fundamentally transform" America?

Meanwhile, the country is just beginning to find out what Nanny Pelosi meant when she said we needed to pass the bill to find out what's in it.

But, the die is cast, Barry's crappy economy is about to become a lot crappier.

Still, the Narcissist-In-Chief remains supremely confident.

For he knows his slavishly dedicated propagandists in the corrupt and biased liberal MSM will dutifully gloss over the fact his foreign policy might as well be the riddle of the sphinx ...

...and marginalize as 'raaaaaaaacist' anyone who correctly analyzes the root cause of inner city gun violence ...

... and cover up a panopoly of power abuse scandals ...

... because they all have passed through the same pseudo-intellectual salons that produce Leftist utopian ideology monomania.

Archiving 'This Just In' (8/18/13 - 9/15/13): The Great Red Line Debacle of 2013 and Other Sundry Observations

9/15/2013
The current situation on the arms control front is Putin watching Assad watching WMD stockpiles acquired only God knows how. Wolf watching fox watching hen house. Oh well, I guess we'll have to wait for the declassified KGB files to finally learn what happened to Saddam's WMD.
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9/13/2013
Harry Reid's talking point yesterday regarding the House Conservatives' push to pass a Continuing Resolution that funds the entire government except for ObamaCare was 'the anarchists are winning.' That's rich ... coming from a Senate Majority Leader whose Senate failed to pass any budget at all in fiscal years 2010, 2011, and 2012. Hey, Dingy Harry, here's an idea ... follow the constitutional process. Put your head down, shut your mouth, and do your job. Pass your CR, let the House pass its CR, hash out the differences in conference, and send the compromise to the President. Or is that too much work?
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9/11/2013
Putin vs. Obama in diplomatic chess is about as even a match as Navy SEALs vs. Swedish Bikini Team in a marksmanship contest.
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9/11/2013
One year anniversary of the Benghazi terrorist attack ... and who has been held accountable? For the attack? For issuing stand down orders to American responders? For the YouTube video lie?
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9/10/2013
The big news today on the war and peace / highstakes diplomacy front is that the KGB Colonel has brokered the deal with his Syrian puppet that will save the planet from the war mongering, red line ultimatum issuing, Community-Agitator-In-Chief. Whew! See, that overload reset button is paying big dividends with Russia already. Obama’s next bold move should be to drape his Nobel Peace Prize around Putin’s neck in a Rose Garden ceremony. Maybe then Putin would be willing to return the Super Bowl ring he stole from Robert Kraft. You know, as a good will gesture. Then … who knows? Anything might be possible! We might even be in a position to convince the KGB Colonel to exchange Edward Snowden for a year’s supply of Stoli vodka.
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9/7/2013
Obama's most recent rhetorical justification for intervening in Syria is steeped in Susan Rice's "Responsibility To Protect" (R2P) nonsense. Translation: We are the world's cop. Let us review the last time R2P was applied in the real world. On the advice of Rice (peddler of the Benghazi YouTube lie), we bombed the snot out of an inert threat - Ghadaffi - for nearly a year. So, what is the situation on the ground in Libya today? Total chaos. A veritable 'Thunderdome' of Jihadi misery and strife. Brilliant. R2P nonsense is exactly what I expect to come out of the Empty Suit's mouth during the big speech to the nation this coming Tuesday.
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9/5/2013
My congressional representative has come out in favor of the big plan to lob a few ineffectual missiles into Syria. He's the OFA funded, CAIR-linked, socialist technocrat known as Gerry Connolly. Well, that's it then ... if Obama has the lickspittle vote locked up, I guess the resolution is fated to pass.
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9/4/2013
I have a question for New York Times ersatz conservative David Brooks. Who would win the street fight - Hafez Bashar al-Assad or a neatly creased pair of trousers? Who would win the chess match?
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The Empty Suit's 'red line' dodge today is it wasn't his standard, it was the world's. So, channeling Cuba Gooding ... 'Show me the coalition, Barry!'
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9/3/2013
Assad has stated plainly that if the Empty Suit Known as Barack Hussein Obama lobs even one missile into Syria, Syria will respond with missile attacks on Israel. Then what? Who's up for World War III? And for what? To protect the rhetorical credibility of the amateur occupying the Oval Office? Count me out.
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If Congress votes 'No' on authority to go to war in Syria, and the Demagogue-In-Chief does it anyway, the constitutional remedy is impeachment. Period. End of sentence.
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9/2/2013
So, Bathhouse Barry finally sees a reason to follow the constitution and consult with Congress ... the reason being he desperately needs a exit ramp off the Stupid Highway he built for himself in relation to Syria. The combatants in Syria are a brutal puppet dictator whose strings are pulled in Moscow versus a witch's brew of Islamist radicals. The US has no interest in either side winning. The only rational courses are staying completely out of it, or bombing them both back to the stone age. May our elective representatives make the correct choice. Happy Labor Day.
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8/30/2013
The big national debate today is whether to bomb or not to bomb in Syria ... with or without Congressional approval ... with or without an international coalition ... all because the Speechifier-In-Chief, who was the candidate who ran on Bush is a war criminal, drew a rhetorical red line in the sand before thinking through the consequences. IMHO the solution is to issue a 'red line waiver' to Syria. If the 'waiver' dodge is good enough for ObamaCare ...
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8/29/2013
Hey, did you hear about the big MLK commemorative march yesterday? You might think they would have invited the one and only black US Senator to speak. That would be Tim Scott, SC (R)(T). Oops, my bad - wrong party.
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8/28/2013
When Obama bombs the snot out of Assad, what will become of the evidence on the ground Assad has Saddam's WMD? Future histories hang in the balance.
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8/26/2013
Remember when Obama (stupidly and divisively) said if he had a son it would look like Trayvon? Well, then, I guess if he was a scout master with a Boy Scout troop it would look like those three stone cold killers in Oklahoma. And not reaching out to the victim's family in what is literally an international incident? Only Obama could screw up relations with Australia (Australia!) from the White House.
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8/22/2013
With the advent of ObamaCare, I predict an increase in the number of Jewish mothers pressing their sons to become, and their daughters to marry, bureaucrats.
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8/21/2013
Seen today on the corner of 6th and E Streets, NW, District of Columbia ... a big shiny rescue truck with the markings "National Capital Region Homeland Security" and "Mobile Air Unit 1." A truck. WTF? Does the driver say "Go go gadget, rotors!" to make it fly? And it needs to be numbered? Are there yet more out there?
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8/19/2013
The difference between Democrat politicians and Mob bosses is the Mob bosses actually find work for their union toadies.
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8/18/2013
15 year old son informed me today two rival "rap gangs" at his lavishly financed public middle school had been suspended for engaging in a "knife fight" last spring. As a concerned parent, I naturally probed for details to determine if it was time to consider taking on the extra expense of private high school. I asked "was anybody cut"? The answer was "no." A "knife fight" where no one was cut? He has four more years left in the public school system. We might just make it to the end without needing to take the radical action of flight to private school.

Breaking Down Barry's Big Syria Speech

Official transcript here.

The Cliff Notes:

My administration has done nothing to deter one among many of the world's tyrants for over two years.

If my administration continues to do nothing to deter this one specific tyrant, World War III is inevitable.

I could do something to prevent the inevitability of World War III if I wanted to, but punting to Congress and public polling is politically safer.

Iraq is in a more precarious security position because my administration couldn’t negotiate a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) to keep a few garrisons in country.

After I announced a half ass ‘surge’ with date certain withdrawal, and more than 2/3 of all casualties have been taken under my watch, Afghanistan is basically right where the previous administration left it.

I am ruling out the only way to really win the fight – boots on the ground.

Launching standoff weapons such as cruise missiles is no ‘pin prick.’ Just ask the unintentional collateral civilian casualties on the other end.

I have no intention of actually defeating the tyrant. Just sending a ‘message.’ If his message back is ‘let’s do World War III’ I have no contingency plan.

We are not the world’s policeman.

The really good news tonight is I have Vladmir Putin around to make me look irrevlevant on the world stage. Now I can get back to f*cking everything up here at home.

If Putin’s set up fails to deliver the goods, we are the world’s policeman.

America is not the world's policeman.

America is the world’s policeman when I say it is.

Footnote

Got that?

Update 9/12/13

The New York Times has decided today a Vladimir Putin op-ed is fit to print. I linked Al-Jazeera's link to get the undiluted propaganda. But I'll summarize it in one sentence for you. Authentic KGB trained Godless Communist b*tch slaps stealth Saul Alinsky trained Godless Communist all over the world stage. The world now waits breathlessly to learn what the Community-Agitator-In-Chief meant by "flexibility" on the open mic. Domestic news watchers now anticipate David Brooks' op ed stipulating Obama's trousers have a much neater crease than Putin's.

The Rare amd Mysterious LAS Personal Update (2013-09-03)

Regarding how I feel today about that little legal proceeding I mentioned at the end of the 'Afterword' ...

Lyrics:
These days I feel immune

To all the sadness and the gloom
If things fall into place
Get onto the right side of grace


Moving close
Those things seem so far away


I could take that walk
I’ll just stay where I am

My Pandora radio feed piped this gem into my ears and it was perfect in the moment. I was also reminded how hard the Darklands album grabbed me when I first bought it (1989?), though I cannot recall a precise reason why beyond the general brilliance of the songwriting. Darklands was my personal introduction to the Reid brothers' band and was released 17 years prior to Stoned and Dethroned, which was the album on which These Days was included. (1987 vs. 1994).