Friday, May 7, 2010
Miranda and Public Safety
Charles Krauthammer "My view is that we should treat enemy combatants as enemy combatants, whether they are U.S. citizens (Shahzad) or not (the underwear bomber). If, however, they are to be treated as ordinary criminals, then at least agree on this: no Miranda rights until we know everything that public safety demands we need to know."
The President and the Politics of Civility; Barack Obama should lead by example.
Karl Rove "If Mr. Obama is serious about his commitment to courtesy and respect, then he will need to demonstrate presidential leadership and rein in the verbal excesses of the leaders of his own party. He could start by having a conversation with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who condemned those with different views on health care as being "un-American." He might also share a word with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who recently accused Republicans of being "anti-American" and wanting to continue to "make love to Wall Street" by pressing for changes in a bill regulating the financial industry." Related, if you think about it: Lester Kinsolving: White House press corps pit bull "He did not mince words with the Bush White House. And he is not mincing words with Team Obama." Unfortunately he got a dose of White House disrespect.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Yes, Words Do Matter!
Victor Davis Hanson "Bottom line: Words matter. While we may think the “reset button”/“I’m not Bush” Obama rhetoric will win hearts and minds abroad, and give us new parameters of operations, our enemies may well look far more to words than to deeds — and see in them a radical loss of our deterrence ability. So the Hasans, Abdulmutallabs, and Shahzads of the world interpret our new philological magnanimity as weakness, regardless of whether it is or not. And that seems to me very dangerous indeed. Maybe the president can drop the “tea-bagger” slurs and forget Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, and instead warn radical Islamists to knock it off — or else."
Failure-in-Chief
Newt Gingrich "The controversies over the Arizona immigration plan and the Obama Administration’s response to the oil spill in the Gulf may not seem related, but they have a key common characteristic: both originate in the failure of Washington. In both cases, President Obama faces a real danger of a political backlash from which he will be unable to recover. " Then this: “Countries and Terror Groups That Were Absolutely Terrified of Bush Now Think Obama Might Apologize to Them”… GOP Rep. Peter King
TEA PARTY PERCEPTIONS
Neal Boortz "Have you noticed how the ObamaMedia has managed to pull this one off? They have managed to marginalize the Tea Party movement and put it on the defensive .. Tea Partiers are having to spend far too much time trying to explain to bed-wetting liberals that they are not racists. In a sense, the Tea Partiers are guilty until proven innocent in the eyes of the ObamaMedia - it will be assumed that if you are a Tea Partier, you are a racist. That is, unless you can prove otherwise... and to a liberal there is no way for anyone with a conservative point of view to prove they are not racist." And this: JUST IGNORE THE "R" WORD . So much for the post-racial president.
Was the Times Square bomb a test?
Neil Braithwaite "But I guess the most important question has already been answered - for American citizens and Islamic terrorists: Can a car bomb be successfully planted at will in a large, densely populated city in the United States in 2010?" Neil Braithwaite writes political commentary and satire and is a regular contributor to PoliticalDerby.com.
Reviving the White House Press Corpse
American Thinker "When Lester Kinsolving, WorldNetDaily reporter and member of the White House press corps, recently asked Robert Gibbs why President Obama has not held an open press conference since July of 2009, Gibbs launched into this lengthy, mocking tirade . It would have been no shocker if Gibb's blast had concluded with the admission that Obama was giving the press corps an extended time-out. "
Rep. Andre Carson: Tea Party Protesters Are ‘One of the Largest Threats to our Internal Security’by Larry O'Connor
Big Government "I could have sworn the guy who just tried to set off a car bomb in Times Square was Muslim…"
Lost 1995 Obama interview surfaces: the young 'civil rights lawyer' predicted the economic fall of America and--wait for it--decried racial politics
Doug Ross Journal "Economics is not a zero-sum game. America has, within the last two centuries, raised the world out of the miasma of colonial technology into an era powered by computers, medical miracles and instantaneous global communications. America represents the most magnificent society ever seen on the planet, not because it's stealing food out of the mouths of the poor, but because it provides the most opportunities. And that structure is facilitated by the Constitution, despite its recent perversions and breaches by the Statist Democrats."
Is There a Pattern Here or What?
Victor Davis Hanson "One, we are doing our darnedest to playact that radical Muslims who are trying to kill us are not trying to kill us; and two, we are not seeing a lot of peaceful blowback from the virtual closing of Guantanamo, the virtual trial of KSM, the reach out in the Al Arabiya interview, the "reset" rhetoric, the Cairo speech, and the apology tour — 2009 saw the most terrorism attempts since 2001."
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