Get to Work Stopping the Obama Tax Hikes

Heritage  "President Obama is right: presidents often do get too much of the credit and too much of the blame for the economic performance of the country. But there is one aspect of the economy that President Obama does have control over: taxes. And at a time when our nation’s unemployment still hovers around 10%, President Obama’s tax plan raises taxes by $1.8 trillion over the next 10 years."
Stop the tax increases and Obama's people will then call it the "Obama Tax Cuts" to claim credit. But Reagan once said there's no limit to what you can accomplish as long as you don't care who gets the credit.

Eric Cantor: Dems Didn’t Get the Message If Pelosi is Made Minority Leader

Gateway Pundit  "“I mean, the voters outright rejected the agenda that she’s been about. And here they’re going to put her back in charge,” Cantor, in line to become the House majority leader in the next Congress, said on “Fox News Sunday.”"

NPR’s Mara Liasson today told the FOX News Sunday panel that antiwar socialist Nancy Pelosi is just like Winston Churchill.  "Churchill lifted his country to victory. Pro-surrender Pelosi helped democrats triple the deficit and double the unemployment rate. She rammed through nationalized health care on a strictly partisan vote.
"There’s a big difference, Mara."

Glenn McCoy, Townhall

Advice to the GOP: Steal the Immigration Issue from Democratic Demagogues

Verum Serum  "Simply put, steal the issue. There is precedent for this move. Back in 1996, when Clinton was rocked by the 1994 Republican sweep, he moved to the center and declared the era of big government over. By doing so, he refused to play the losing hand and instead took credit for many of Newt Gingrich’s accomplishments."

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Bomb-proof tunnel with air conditioning: Obama's security go to extraordinary measures for his tour of the Gandhi museum

UK Daily Mail  "The White House has, according to some reports, booked the entire Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai, the city’s most luxurious. It is not uncommon for the grander heads of state to reserve a floor or two, but a whole hotel is unprecedented. This hotel was the main target of the 2008 attacks by Pakistani militants which left 166 dead."

American Groupspeak

Victor Davis Hanson  "The fate of [NPR's Juan] Williams reminds us that Americans have developed two personas — one public and politically correct, the other private. Mix the two and big trouble ensues.
"Here are some reminders about what to shut up about."...

Why is Hillary Clinton hiding? Perhaps it's because her foreign policy has been a failure

UK Telegraph  "The last 21 months have been a period of marked US decline, both at home and abroad, for which Clinton also bears significant responsibility. The notion that she will emerge unscathed from the political revolution sweeping Washington is highly fanciful. The US public is increasingly disillusioned not only with President Obama, but more broadly with the most left-wing government in American history – one that has not only undercut freedoms at home, but which has significantly weakened the perception of America’s power abroad, and her ability to project it." Nile Gardiner

The road to victory in the war on terror passes through Riyadh

Arab News  "The recently foiled terror plot that uncovered two bombs aboard airplanes headed for Chicago underscores Al-Qaeda's ongoing determination to strike at American targets. How the plot was discovered reflects an equally important reality: Saudi Arabia has emerged as one of Washington's most important allies in the war on terror, a vital player in the worldwide fight against Islamic extremists."

In denial

A.B. Stoddard  "...Obama must regain his image as a post-partisan pragmatist and that his recent efforts to rally the base to the polls for the midterm elections was too divisive. "In going into such partisan, harsh, class-oriented and divisive rhetoric, he's given up the magic of his candidacy," [Lanny] Davis said. "This is what he has lost. And I don't mean diminished; I mean lost. It's tragic."

Tales from 57 States: His Obamaness Addresses the Currylanders "Alas, it was at that very moment that some Currylanders first realized that His Obamaness spoke not from the heart, but from His prepared scrolls held high by...well, you know who. And so it came to pass that the Currylanders understood why, when speaking, His head turned from side-to-side, seldom looking forward. For he looked, left and then right, not to grace all with his oracles, but so that he could read from both scrolls, and just seem to be speaking to the peasants and serfs."
Earmarks Aren’t Even the Beginning  "...The debt, driven by unconstitutional and unsustainable federal intrusions into everything from how much carbon dioxide we emit to which light bulbs we use, is what in turn drives unemployment. The debt, coupled with government’s insatiable appetite for ever-greater control, is what impels the Obama campaign to tax every morsel of achievement, effort, and choice."... Andrew C. McCarthy

Apologizing for Obama’s Serial Apologies

U.S. Constitutional Free Press "This will be no easy task as the abjection of apology does not befit a great and admirable nation, but Obama has left his successor no choice but to apologize, both for his orgy of apologies to America’s enemies and competitors and for his churlish betrayal of America’s allies and friends."  Bing photos

Post-Election happenings among the Democrats

EPA official who pushed CO2 regulation resigns"We will know more when Obama appoints Heinzerling’s successor. If the next appointee is an advocate of aggressive regulatory expansion, then Heinzerling’s departure won’t have been an olive branch at all."

Mort Zuckerman: America's Love Affair With Obama Is Over  "He came across as a young man in a grown-up's game—impressive but not presidential. A politician but not a leader, managing American policy at home and American power abroad with disturbing amateurishness. Indeed, there was a growing perception of the inability to run the machinery of government and to find the right people to manage it. A man who was once seen as a talented and even charismatic rhetorician is now seen as lacking real experience or even the ability to stop America's decline."

Hitler learns the Republicans have taken both the House and Obama’s Senate seat  You knew this one was coming, didn't you?

Obama Doesn’t Rule Out Bypassing Congress and Using EPA Regulations to Cap Carbon Emissions "During his Tuesday press conference, Obama initially conceded that Republicans had run for Congress in this election expressly opposing cap-and-trade and that therefore it would be unlikely that cap-and-trade global warming legislation could pass in the upcoming Congress."

Top Blue Dog calls for Pelosi to quit  ""When you're in the worst economic downturn since the Depression, the Top Three issues should have been jobs and the economy, jobs and the economy and jobs and the economy," Matheson said. "The agenda got off on other things like cap and trade in the House." "
"The "cap and trade" energy legislation was Pelosi's baby, and it has been blamed for the loss of Democratic seats in moderate and coal-producing districts."

The Shellacking that Hubris* Wrought "“Public opinion is the lord of the universe,” Thomas Jefferson said. The Obama Democrats governed in blatant defiance of it and didn’t care to notice the trends that should have been a flashing red light on their ambitions." Rich Lowry, National Review
*Hubris: pride: excessive pride or arrogance/ excessive ambition: ...Synonyms: strutting, self-important, self-satisfied, smug, arrogant, conceited, hubristic.  Bing Dictionary

Election Question: How Can We Tell the Stupid People From the Smart Ones? "The problem is that these people just think they’re really smart but are in fact less than useless — less than useless in that they can’t do anything useful themselves. They become things like politicians and get in the way of actual smart people. In fact, they’ve developed a complex network of morons — the media, journalists, academics, NPR — to prop up each other as smart and call everyone who actually does useful things dumb. And if you try to explain how they’re actually just getting in the way, they get angry, since dumb people get angry when you explain things to them that they can’t understand."

Will Pelosi be minority leader?   "Incredibly, liberals seem to be perfectly satisfied with Pelosi, for the most part. They think they lost because the party didn't fight hard enough for liberal reforms the last two years and they're not going to blame Pelosi for that.
"Let's hope such delusional thinking lasts beyond 2012."

'Progressive' Is a Funny Name for Poverty!

American Thinker  "Columnist Jonah Goldberg recently put questions to President Obama in an article entitled "U.S. Following European Dead End." Goldberg asked, "If your philosophy is so great, how come the countries that have embraced it for generations are so much poorer than us?"
"Goldberg also wondered why no one has asked Obama "about the incongruity of saying his policies have laid a new foundation for economic growth and job creation when the countries he's trying to emulate are trying to dismantle the very same foundations in order to survive.""
Emphasis passionately added.

Offensive Jihad/ The One Incontrovertible Problem with Islam

Raymond Ibrahim  "Indeed, if the implications of offensive jihad were fully embraced, humanity might be compelled to view the Muslim world as a perpetual, existentialist threat, in need of preemptive containment. That said, and considering the willful ignorance of the West's political elite — who are guided less by objective facts and more by their "feel-good" ideals — Muslim talk of offensive jihad, no matter how loud or ubiquitous, will likely continue to fall on deaf ears."  Liberal ears must be burning right now.