Obama lifted his “licking their chops” line from the media

Patterico "Pres. Obama, in full damage control mode over skyrocketing gasoline prices, relied on the establishment media for part of his defense:

“Some politicians, they see this as a political opportunity. I know you’re shocked by that. Last week the lead story in one newspaper said, ‘Gasoline prices are on the rise and Republicans are licking their chops.’ That’s a quote. That’s the lead. Licking their chops. Only in politics do people root for bad news. They greet bad news so enthusiastically,” Obama said.

 "Although Allahpundit noted the general hypocrisy of Democrats when it comes to partisanship, It’s not like the Dems ever made rising gas prices a political issue is it?"


Here the Democrats attack President Bush over high gas prices. Plus they descended on the oil companies over their profits.



"Well, okay… maybe Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer and Chuck Schumer blamed the Bush administration for gas prices. But it’s not like Pres. Obama, great uniter that he hoped to be, ever made gasoline a political issue, did he?"

"It is worth noting that Obama lifted his “licking their chops” line from the media, as the press is going to help him with this issue as much as any other. Consider this gem buried in the NYT coverage of Obama’s problem:

Gas prices did not figure prominently in the Republican debate on Wednesday in Arizona, where the candidates trained most of their fire on one another.

"Translation: the fair and balanced crew at CNN did not ask the GOP field about gas prices on the day Obama felt compelled to publicly defend himself on them. The establishment media is interested in painting Republicans as fixated on birth control and cheering higher gas prices? Shocka!"

Obama, Oil and Algae

KRAUTHAMMER MOCKS OBAMA’S ALGAE ENERGY PLAN

"I was impressed by the President's analysis of this situation, where we have no control over the global price of oil," Charles Krauthammer said. "We're dependent on oil from unfriendlies. And he says, as we heard, drilling for oil to relieve our dependency is not a solution, it's not a plan. He said we have to go to clean energy. He talks about something really revolutionary today. Algae. A $14 million grant for the development of algae... I think this shows the vision, the hope and change he promised in 2008."  Hat tip to Bully Pulpit


PRAGER DESTROYS OBAMA’S ALGAE OIL SPEECH


Obama's oily deception  "It is beyond absurd that a country sitting on so much natural wealth refuses to exploit it for the benefit of its citizens and instead deliberately puts the nation in the position of being subjected to the whims of others and face national insolvency.  This can only be a deliberate strategy by those determined to destroy the basis of the American free-market economy.

Warning Signs:  Lower Than Pond Scum  "In a 2008 Wall Street Journal interview, Obama’s Energy Secretary, Dr. Steven Chu, famously said, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels of Europe.” Anyone who does not believe this administration has a deliberate policy of achieving this goal is just not paying attention. Remember that the next time you fill your car’s gas tank."

White House: We Got You 40 Bucks; Go Spend It on Gas  " He added that Obama has taken “a number of steps related to oil and gas production in this country,” including an exploration agreement with Mexico and additional drilling in the Arctic Ocean.

Earnest was pressed by another reporter on whether Obama was considering tapping into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Krauthammer: Overreach: Obamacare vs. the Constitution

Charles Krauthammer  "Let’s accept his contention that this “accommodation” is a real shift of responsibility to the insurer. Has anyone considered the import of this new mandate? The president of the United States has just ordered private companies to give away for free a service that his own health and human services secretary has repeatedly called a major financial burden.

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/02/19/96576

"On what authority? Where does it say that the president can unilaterally order a private company to provide an allegedly free-standing service at no cost to certain select beneficiaries?"

Illegal Immigration, Legal Immigration and Our lying president

Neal Boortz   "This may be a small thing for you … but when a president lies --- and when he lies knowingly and intentionally --- it should be a big thing, no matter how insignificant the lie.

Here’s what has my boxers in a bunch. Yesterday on the Spanish-language TV network Univision Obama zeroed in on the subject of immigration. He was telling the Hispanic Univision audience that the Republicans were anti-immigrant and anti-immigration.

"Now it take about 10 seconds of conversation to show that this is simply not true, and Obama knows it’s not true." 

....

"But ---- when you are a ruler rather than a leader; when you wish to transform America rather than restore it; lying is an acceptable process. And so it has ever been with Marxist revolutionaries."

Joe Wilson, we need you!

Zazzle

Victor Davis Hanson:   Please, A Little Honesty about Illegal Immigration  "We can argue about the history or the future of illegal immigration. But please spare us the psychodramatic appeals to a higher morality.
"In most respects, illegal immigration has proven as immoral as it is unlawful."

Obama Gives Illegal Aliens Phones For Votes  "Illegal aliens now quite possibly can call a toll free government number, 1-800-259-0957, to get a free “Obama Phone.” The program, conventionally known as Safe Link Wireless, is available to those are on food stamps or Medicaid. Applying for work permits that give them drivers’ licenses provides illegals proof of identity. With that, they enter America’s entitlement class and even become enabled to vote in our elections — for Democrats, of course."

Maybe US allies should riot and threaten Americans with beheading to have Obama respect them

Andrew C. McCarthy:  Why Apologize to Afghanistan?

Just say we're sorry and they will be fine with that.

"Defiling the Koran becomes an issue for Muslims only when it has been done by non-Muslims. Observe that the unintentional burning would not have occurred if these “fiercely protective of their Islamic faith” Afghans had not defiled the Korans in the first place. They were Muslim prisoners who annotated the “holy” pages with what a U.S. military official described as “extremist inscriptions” in covert messages sent back and forth, just as the jihadists held at Gitmo have been known to do (notwithstanding that Muslim prisoners get their Korans courtesy of the American taxpayers they construe the book to justify killing)."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/02/23/96712

Rick Moran: Afghans taking potshots at Americans: two more US officers killed  "Pretty soon, all Afghan security personnel will have to be disarmed if they are going to interact with Americans. You can be sure that for the present, meetings between Americans and Afghans are going to be tense affairs.
"Still waiting for President Karzai to apologize for the murderous behavior of his troops."

Atlas Shrugs: IRAN MILITARY OFFICIAL: ONLY BURNING WHITE HOUSE CAN MAKE UP FOR BURNING KORAN
"Coalition officials in Kabul dismissed claims by some Afghan officials that the two Americans were killed by a Western colleague."

WSJ: American colonel and major were both found shot in the head at the busy Interior Ministry  

http://conservativedailynews.com/2012/02/another-apology/

Koran-Burning In Afghanistan Connected To Cemetery Desecrations  "Headstones commemorating British and Allied servicemen, killed during World War II campaigns in the Western Desert, lay smashed and strewn across Benghazi Military Cemetery."
And under Obama, we will continue to buy our oil from these people.

"Barack Obama humbly apologized to the Pope  and said it was never his administration's intention to dishonor the holy book of Catholics and that he would be implenting(sp) harsh punishments for anyone in his chain of command found responsible."

.... And while there's nothing wrong with an initial apology, Hope n' Change is pretty unhappy about the fact that Obama is continuing to make apologies even after multiple people, including two US service members, have been killed in brutal anti-American violence.
"Analysts fear that Obama's continuing apologies are actually serving to make the violence worse by reaffirming that the incident was a big deal, while simultaneously showing weakness instead of resolve when our troops are attacked and murdered."

How 'bout them Republican Candidates?

Beltway Confidential: Campaign Roundup: links and commentary on all the candidates
Romney speech falls flat in Detroit.  Obama has got to be rolling on the floor, laughing.

I told Romney, you gotta go with the Greek columns!

Rick Santorum said Friday he regretted endorsing Mitt Romney for president in 2008.
Aw, geez, Rick.


Canada Free Press:  Republicans: still searching for a fight they can win   "This is because bills that pass Congress with bipartisan support and media approval in the days of Obama, are bills that increase spending and hasten our descent into drachma–based budgeting. And voting to extend the payroll tax cut is a perfect example."


NRO:   The Devil and Rick Santorum   Santorum " has been described, falsely, as an advocate of banning contraception. A dated joke about birth control made by one of his major supporters has been treated as a campaign scandal. A remark about Obama’s misguided environmental “theology” has been turned into an insinuation that the president is not a Christian.
"But the press has not had to invent controversial remarks by Santorum, who has supplied them himself."  Mona Charen says Don’t Pick Rick  He’d be too busy explaining his past statements to run for president. Michael Barone sees things pretty much the same way

Jonathan S. Tobin: Appeasing Ron Paul Won’t Work (01.13.2012)  Republicans are rightly concerned about Ron Paul playing a destructive role in the presidential campaign this fall. Efforts to keep him on the reservation are already beginning, and there is little doubt the significant number of delegates he may win for the party’s national convention in Tampa will have to be dealt with carefully lest they cause trouble and sabotage what will in all likelihood be Mitt Romney’s coronation.

UK Daily Mail: Newt Gingrich, R.I.P - and for the Last Time  "To forestall the usual responses from American "conservatives," let me make the obligatory denials: I regard Obama as the least competent president in American history and loathe the very sight of Mitt Romney.  Nonetheless, there is a candidate out there who is less competent than Obama and more duplicitous than Romney, and that is Newt Gingrich. He ruined the Republican Party once. Now, all he asks is a chance to destroy what is left of the United States." THOMAS FLEMING

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/02/24/96736

Scott Walker Needs Our Help Now in Wisconsin Recall

American Thinker  "Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker successfully passed legislation last year that put a few restraints on out-of-control public sector unions, despite their disgraceful Astroturf occupation of the State capital building, the death threats and everything else they tried. So the unions launched a recall petition against Walker, the Lt. Governor and four Republican Senators who voted with him.

The people recalling Walker were here.

The unions mobilized and garnered 1 million signatures for the recall, much more than enough. But now it appears that they used the ACORN vote registration fraud method of swamping state authorities with bogus documents. Some of these petitions are plainly fraudulent (Donald Duck for example) but Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board, the state agency charged with counting petitions, has said they can do no more than spot check and will assume all petitions are valid unless challenged.

Recognizing the importance of this recall and the potential threat to reform everywhere, True the Vote stepped in to do the job the State will not. TTV has created a simple system to check the validity of these petitions but they need to enter them into the system first. They only have until February 27th to get this done!

Union boss Trumka speaks

Anyone, anywhere with access to a computer can help. This is a real opportunity to have a visible impact on the outcome of one of the most important issues we face today. If Scott Walker loses they will start doing this all over the country anytime they don't get what they want!

You can sign up to help enter names right here:  http://www.ttvverify.com/volunteer/

This is the kind of grassroots activism we all can participate in. Please pass this to everyone on your distribution list and ask them to forward. We need to do this.