By Deborah Durkee on
2/27/2009 10:31 AM
Obama’s Straw Men.
Karl Rove has an excellent column in the Wall Street Journal on President Obama’s tactic of setting up straw man arguments. Really well worth reading. Keep your ears open when you listen to him (if you’re able to listen to him—I find it quite difficult):
President Barack Obama reveres Abraham Lincoln. But among the glaring differences between the two men is that Lincoln offered careful, rigorous, sustained arguments to advance his aims and, when disagreeing with political opponents, rarely relied on the lazy rhetorical device of "straw men." Mr. Obama, on the other hand, routinely ascribes to others views they don't espouse and says opposition to his policies is grounded in views no one really advocates.
On Tuesday night, Mr. Obama told Congress and the nation, "I reject the view that . . . says government has...
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By Ted on
2/27/2009 6:57 AM
OK, while I'm not crazy about a day certain for ending military operations in Iraq, I am for moving in that direction of allowing the Iraqi government to assume responsibility for their own security. While giving a date certain plays into the hands of some of the players in the region who may not have the Iraqi peoples best interest at heart, it is a plan I can swallow much easier than all the government cheese he has been handing out on the domestic front. Iraq is a country that has a lot of blood from America's best on it's soil and we all dearly hope that the blood that was spilled there will not be in vein because of a desire for a hasty withdrawal, but it is time to begin the process.
My hope is that we move in the direction outlined by Sec. Gates and President Obama but I hope their plans will be adapted to the circumstances as they unfold. The plans for the 35,000 to 50,000 remaining...
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By Ted on
2/26/2009 9:19 PM
It looks like my friends and family in Missouri have the potential for an interesting election in the coming months. Keep an eye on this one!
Read about it here: http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/02/26/sarah-steelman-called/
Show Me!!
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By Deborah Durkee on
2/26/2009 9:11 AM
Obama removes the mask.
Jennifer Rubin over at www.pajamasmedia.com says Obama has finally revealed himself in his speech to the country the other night. For those who’ve had blinders on (that’s you “conservatives” and “libertarians” who voted for Obama because you thought he would govern from the center) – he’s a man of the far left, as we tried to warn you:
During the campaign certain Republicans and libertarians tried to convince us Obama was a moderate, a sort of Bill Clinton “third way” reformer — and certainly no radical as conservatives claimed. Conservatives remained skeptical. Then during the transition, the debate as to Obama’s political philosophy continued. He sprinkled his cabinet with sober figures and experienced economic gurus. So perhaps he was moderate in outlook and restrained in ambition.
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By Deborah Durkee on
2/25/2009 10:52 AM
Obama needs a “not to do” list.
Holman Jenkins has a great column in the Wall Street Journal. According to Jenkins, Obama needs to put away childish things like global warming, energy independence, Ponzi welfarism, more government control over health care and class warfare tax politics. His basic theme: Obama needs to address the world that is, not the world he wants:
Put away childish things, President Obama said during his inauguration. He couldn't have found a theme more suited to the moment. The preoccupations that he and most politicians are used to running on, and that still characterize too many of his administration's utterances, are being exposed in the global economic disaster as the soppy indulgences they always were. Snip –
We don't really have the slightest idea how an increase in the atmosphere's component of CO2 is impacting our climate, though the most plausible indication is that the impact is too small to untangle from natural variability.
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By Deborah Durkee on
2/24/2009 7:31 AM
Eleven states declare sovereignty over Obama’s actions.
These states are calling on Obama to cease and desist. “Regardless of the specific reason behind each of the resolutions in the 11 states, all of them direct the federal government to “cease and desist” in its reckless violation of state’s rights.”
State governors -- looking down the gun barrel of long-term spending forced on them by the Obama “stimulus” plan -- are saying they will refuse to take the money. This is a Constitutional confrontation between the federal government and the states unlike any in our time.
In the first five weeks of his presidency, Barack Obama has acted so rashly that at least 11 states have decided that his brand of “hope” equates to an intolerable expansion of the federal government’s authority over the states. These states -- Washington, New Hampshire, Arizona,...
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By Ted on
2/23/2009 11:29 PM
President Bush committed $85 million for Gaza's and Hamas' recovery after their rocket attacks on Israeli civilians. They got their asses kicked and driven back to live in the squalor they created for themselves and now along comes Hilary wanting to up the ante to $900 million. Just where in the hell is all this money to be coming from? Can we afford another Democrat running around doling out taxpayer money? This must be the Democrat plan to raise U.S. creditability among foreign nations, they’re out there buying friends with our tax dollars. Let your legislator know you'd like to have the fun of spending your own money buying friend, you don't need their help. Tell them to quit spending your money like drunken sailors looking for a tattoo parlor.
Check it out here: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1066381.html
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By Deborah Durkee on
2/23/2009 10:27 AM
The problem with bank nationalization.
Former Federal Reserve Bank vice president and former Citigroup vice president, Gerald O’Driscoll, says that unlike Sweden’s successful takeover of failing banks, Congress would quickly politicize seized assets (just look at what happened at Fannie and Freddie). O’Driscoll is now a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.
There are some commentators, pursuing an ideological agenda, who want to use the current crisis to nationalize the entire financial system. That is nationalization in the style of a Latin American despot. It is presumably not what most advocates of bank nationalization have in mind, and certainly not what Mr. Greenspan or Mr. Graham are advocating. Those two advocate temporary nationalization of a limited number of institutions, until they can be restructured and put back into private hands.
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By Ted on
2/22/2009 9:58 PM
A Bill Huff Contribution:
Here are 12 rules from Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. Alinsky was a role model for both Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama. Some of these tactics will look familiar to those who have been paying attention to the tactics of the Left over the last 20 years or so. Look at Rule 12, for instance:
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.
This is how they have attacked people like Robert Bork, Newt Gingrich, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, and Rush Limbaugh.
I continue to think that Obama is purposely talking negatively about the economy to push us into a deep recession for his own political motives. If he is, indeed, doing this purposely, I think...
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By Ted on
2/22/2009 9:30 PM
Is this America's and the Democrat leadership's Iraq and are they up to the battle that must be waged to win a war? Obama has promised change and so far the change we have received is not measuring up to the change promised. It takes more than words on a teleprompter to be a real leader.
Check out what the Mexican's and our Border Patrol are up against and I don't think they are going to settle it with negotiations. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D96FHENG3.html
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