Republicans in Senate block vote on Hagel

And Mr. Obama has worked so hard to cultivate friendships in the GOP

Senate Republicans block vote on Hagel nomination 
"Senate Republicans blocked a vote on Chuck Hagel’s nomination as secretary of defense on Thursday, launching an unprecedented filibuster and a severe rebuke to the White House.
"Falling one vote shy of the 60 needed to move forward on the nomination, the Hagel filibuster brought stark condemnations from President Obama and Senate Democrats for its precedent-setting nature -- the first time a defense secretary nominee had been filibustered. The setback came during what many believe is a critical period for the Pentagon as it winds down troops from Afghanistan and implements costly budget cuts.
"It was also a hard slap to a former colleague and member of the chamber."

And this next remark is pure Obama:

He added that “it’s just unfortunate that this kind of politics intrudes at a time when I’m still presiding over a war in Afghanistan and I need a secretary of defense who is coordinating with our allies” on U.S. strategy in the region.

Hagel fails to beat filibuster on day of more troubling revelations
"The Washington Free Beacon reported today about a speech Hagel gave in 2007 — as reported at the time by one of his supporters — that the State Department had become an “adjunct” to the Israeli Foreign Ministry."
"Hagel supporters are fuming, but he was a bad selection.  It’s not over, they can bring it up for another vote, but it’s time for this divisive and bad choice to step aside."

If we didn't laugh, we'd go nuts

All above: The Comical Conservative

Alan Caruba; From SOTU to SNAFU

Warning Signs

"The SOTU was yet another opportunity since 2008 to repeat that “nothing I’m proposing tonight should increase our deficit by a single dime.” I am still waiting for the mainstream media to challenge him on this, but unfortunately everyone will have to wait four years more before we don’t have to listen to it again.
...."The President’s ideological devotion to the notion that government can “fix” every problem and create job growth is a Marxist fantasy that will affect everyone’s life in the decade ahead. The sum total of the CBO projections is that socialism does not work and capitalism, when it is allowed to function, does."

Here's a real piece of work for you: Chris Matthews: Obama’s SOTU Speech Was Like Being At A Black Church 

Journalism is...

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Victor Davis Hanson on The Decline of America

National Review Online   Hanson writes of the post-war destruction of German industry compared with the relative British industrial survival:

 "Yet Britain missed out on the postwar German economic miracles, in part because after the deprivations of the war, the war-weary British turned to class warfare and nationalized their main industries, which soon became uncompetitive." Hanson continues:

The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel or to maintain adequate defense. Americans have never had safer workplaces or more sophisticated medical care — and never have so many been on disability.

Hanson sums up his thoughts with these chilling words:
"By any historical marker, the future of Americans has never been brighter. The United States has it all: undreamed-of new finds of natural gas and oil, the world’s preeminent food production, continual technological wizardry, strong demographic growth, a superb military, and constitutional stability.
"Yet we don’t talk confidently about capitalizing and expanding on our natural and inherited wealth. Instead, Americans bicker over entitlement spoils as the nation continues to pile up trillion-dollar-plus deficits. Enforced equality, rather than liberty, is the new national creed. The medicine of cutting back on government goodies seems far worse than the disease of borrowing trillions from the unborn to pay for them.
"In August 1945, Hiroshima was in shambles, while Detroit was among the most innovative and wealthiest cities in the world. Contemporary Hiroshima now resembles a prosperous Detroit of 1945; parts of Detroit look like they were bombed decades ago.
"History has shown that a government’s redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector’s creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy."Emphasis added, as you knew it would be.

 

We are his valentine

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Let's see what the low-information voter is being told lately, shall we?

A little perspective on Rubio's sip of water  "You want a cringe-inducing gaffe involving a sip? How about this incident of Obama's, now consigned to the memory hole?

Rubio water-swig replay tally: MSNBC 155, CNN 34, Fox News 12 [VIDEO]
"Throughout the broadcast day...MSNBC showed a replay of Rubio’s swig approximately 155 times — 101 of which came during “The Rachel Maddow Show,” which played the moment on loop at the bottom of the screen for more than 13 minutes."

...."Added Sullivan: “Why would they be so focused on a man reaching for water instead of on what he said? Because they know they can’t effectively tear down his message.” 

 Via Sweetness and Light

CNN Slides Ever Lower  "Their panel is more or less a Chris Dorner fan club, with one lonely exception who thinks the most salient fact is that he was a murderer:"...

What’s Gotten Into the Water at CNN?  "CNN’s anti-Rubio, anti-dihydrogen monoxide-themed Chyron is proof that “at long last, American media reaches peak moron. I’m just thankful that Newsbusters was there to capture it. They’ve waited years for this moment and now, finally, it’s here. Cherish it, guys.”
Big Journalism covers this here

Lets see; Bill Clinton was accused of rape, he used the president's office for, um, hanky-panky - once while on the phone. No. Not a career-ender. Nothing with the magnitude of taking a drink of water during a speech. But the one thing making it be a career-ender over Clinton's antics: the help of the press informing the voters who elected Obama. As with Clinton and Obama, these "journalists" have no shame, no capacity for embarrassment.

 

 Big Journalism has this same take:  "In the view of the mainstream media, leaving a drowned woman in your car at the bottom of a river shouldn’t end your career (Teddy Kennedy); ejaculating on an intern in the Oval Office shouldn’t end your career (Bill Clinton); allowing a male prostitution ring to run from your apartment shouldn’t end your career (Barney Frank); leaving Americans without security in Benghazi and quietly going to sleep as 4 Americans die there isn’t a career ender.

"Sipping water – now that’s the end of the world. After all, when all Democrats walk on water, sipping it just seems sacrilegious."

Well, the MSM does worship the water Obama walks on.

Zazzle

Chris Matthews on Obama's SOTU: 'There's Nothing Lefty in Here'  Speaking of MSNBC's Chris Matthews:

Why Matthews still has a job this morning is beyond me.

Poll Shows Media Wildly Out-of-Touch with Priorities of Americans "The media doesn't want to talk about the state of the economy, because Obama doesn’t want to talk about the state of the economy, because the media's nothing more than a tool of The State that prefers to cover issues one person (Obama) wants covered, instead of issues the people would like covered."

 Zazzle

George Stephanopoulos Touts Obama's 'Dramatic,' 'Emotional' Speech, Chided Rubio's 'Hard-Edged' Response  "George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday's Good Morning America delighted over Barack Obama's "dramatic," "emotional" and "ambitious" speech. During live coverage of last night's Republican response, however, the former top Clinton aide lectured viewers that Marco Rubio's speech was "hard-edged." " Primitive, according to MSNBC

 

WashPost Hires "Democratic Flack" Who Trashed Ann Romney As Having 'Never Worked a Day in Her Life'  "Imagine the firestorm of outrage that would be ignited in the liberal media were a conservative paper like the Wall Street Journal to hire a Republican pundit who insulted First Lady Michelle Obama during last year's campaign, even if said pundit subsequently apologized. Now compare that to the silence that most certainly will greet the Washington Post hiring Hilary Rosen as an opinion contributor."

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