A Chronicle Of Obama’s Failures

Big Peace  "As the Presidential campaign season begins, it is important to reflect on President Obama accomplishments after his first two years. Rather than rehash all his achievements and failures, a simple chart can be more effective in telling the story."

Posted by Sean Hazlett Apr 8th 2011 at 11:54 am in Economy, Energy, Foreign Policy, Obama
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After Ryan’s leap, a rush of deficit demagoguery

Charles Krauthammer  "Ryan’s overall plan tilts at every windmill imaginable, including corporate welfare and agricultural subsidies. The only thing left out is Social Security. Which proves only that Ryan is not completely suicidal.
"But the blueprint is brave and profoundly forward-looking. It seeks nothing less than to adapt the currently unsustainable welfare state to the demographic realities of the 21st century. Will it survive the inevitable barrage of mindless, election-driven, 30-second attack ads (see above)? Alternate question: Does Obama have half of Ryan’s courage?
"I think not (on both counts). But let’s hope so."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/ericallie

Music of the American Civil War

Lincoln and Liberty - 1860 Campaign Song  From the Ken Burns documentary extra, "Songs of the Civil War".

American Civil War Music "Tinny electronic music, but if you want to know how each tune sounded, this is pretty extensive."

The Civil War Music Store.  "The top half is just ordering information. Scroll down and you will find sound bites of Union and Confederate songs."

Band Music from the Civil War Era and beyond.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwmhtml/cwmpres07.html

Law & Order & conservatives

I just surfed past "Law and Order, SVU" last evening and heard only the words "conservative bigot" spoken by Richard Belzer in the role of Munch. So I searched the words "conservative bigot law and order". Links included here are some of what came up.

Law [and] Order: Conservative Victims Unit  "This isn't the first time Law [and] Order writers have fantasized about murdering outspoken conservatives.  Last October, The View's Elisabeth Hasselbeck was left shaken when an episode of Law [and] Order: SVU featured a character that was raped twice and then murdered by a serial killer.  The victim's name was Elizabeth Hassenbeck."

 Rush Limbaugh Called a Drug Addict in NBC's New Legal Drama 'Harry's Law' "As the show's star Kathy Bates argued for the legalization of drugs while her client was being cross-examined by a totally hapless district attorney, she claimed the idea was first raised by Republicans, "When the party had thinkers, before it was hijacked by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, a drug addict himself" "

Ramirez on the Obama Energy Policy

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/michaelramirez

Hamas moving toward war with Israel

Yid With Lid  "Why, then, is Hamas provoking a new war? Part of the answer, of course, is ideology.

Hamas believes that the deity is on its side, that victory is inevitable, and that martyrdom is a substitute for good military strategy and strength. Hamas is also indifferent to casualties, material damage, and the suffering of its own people. Its goal is total victory, Israel’s destruction, and the mass murder of Israeli Jews.

"But none of that is new. What is new is a shift in the strategic situation..." Barry Rubin

The Dry Bones Blog

Kingdom of Lies

Victor Davis Hanson "As far as Hollywood, goes, as I have said, I do not go to the cinema at all. The choices are meager. We can watch a George Clooney, Matt Damon, or Ben Affleck — multimillionaires all of mediocre talent — uncover some corporate or CIA conspiracy that threatens the environment (their employers and distributors are not corporate?)...."

 "I think I also understand that the support for 11 million illegal aliens arriving here from Mexico without English, legality, or education is not fueled by tribal and ethnic chauvinism. I know that to suggest that extending immigration consideration to a new cadre of 11 million Koreans, Chinese, Africans, and Europeans with graduate degrees and capital would be racist to the core. ....I have seen those demonstrating for amnesty deprecate the US and its flag while championing Mexico, and I think I am supposed to understand that screaming at the country you wish to stay in, while singing praises for the country you do not makes perfect non-sense, in Humpty-Dumpty word fashion."

Diversity Lane

Slopping Up the Obamamedia Drool

Nealz Nuze  "It’s hard, though, to even find the most mindless of progs who will say that Barack Obama is the paragon of fiscal responsibility. Until you trip across a Time Magazine senior correspondent named Michael Grunwald in some dark irrational wasteland. NewsBusters has this gem from Grunwald: "[Obama]'s been a paragon of fiscal responsibility compared with Bush, but he's still blamed for the megadeficits primarily created by Bush's tax cuts and the Great Recession.""

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/glennmccoy

Boortz cites this Wall Street Journal article by Karl Rove: Obama Versus Bush on Spending "In going after Mr. Bush's fiscal record, Mr. Axelrod unwittingly revealed why Democrats are losing. Mr. Obama and congressional Democrats have made a mess of the nation's finances and are desperate to pin the blame on someone else. It's not likely to work."