Palin: When does Karzai apologize for one of his troops killing two of our soldiers over the Koran-burning?

Hot Air  "Good question. I wonder which tack the inevitable sneering reply from her critics will take. Will it be that Afghans are perfectly entitled to value a copy of the Koran over the lives of two allied soldiers because that’s their culture, QED? Or will it be that, as occupiers, we deserve every bad thing that’s coming to us without apology, even by the guy whom we’ve been propping up for 10 years?"
...."Another good question: At what point do the endless groveling apologies become counterproductive?"

The Wednesday's Republican debate

Legal Insurrection: Romney’s “hollow and dispiriting” win last night  "I posted last night and again this morning that Rick Santorum had a terrible debate.

"But it’s fair also to point out that many of the shots Romney scored on Santorum were cheap shots, as pointed out by George  Neumayr at The American Spectator"...

Rick Moran: More of the same at AZ GOP debate   "Even GOP voters are tired of the nastiness, the exaggeration, the low blow, and the unwarranted attacks. At some point, the people simply tune out what they don't like about politics and either sit out the election or vote for the other guy. Whoever wins is going to have a hard time pivoting in a believable way to a more positive message and an all out assault on Obama."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/02/22/96605

Romney hits Santorum on 'take one for team'


CNN Caught Influencing Debate on Obama’s Behalf  "Faced with a weak economy and an unpopular health care program he’ll be fored to defend, Barack Obama and David Axelrod would like nothing better than to change the subject in 2012 to social issues. Sadly, CNN proved themselves more than willing to step up and do some early framing for them in that regard."


We will have more on this as the day unfolds.

There you go again; Obama places blame on others once more

Rick Moran: Obama blames Republicans for pipeline decision  "The price of a gallon of gas could be well over $4 by late April. And depending on events in the Middle East, they could go much higher than that. That's when the real questions by voters will begin. And the GOP better have some good answers to take advantage of it.

"With his moratorium on drilling in the Arctic, the Gulf, off the East Coast, and just about anywhere else, the president is reaping what his policies have sown since 2009. Domestic oil production has increased in spite of his policies, largely due to new technologies - including fracking - that his base is agitating for him to eliminate.

"He doesn't have a political leg to stand on. But he will seek to shift blame to the GOP anyway."

Watch for Senate Democrats to call oil company people in to rake them over the coals again.

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/02/23/96690

Neal Boortz: Gas hypocrisy "Jay Carney went on to brag that domestic oil production is at a record high right now.  That’s complete horsesqueeze, and here’s why.  The fact is that oil production is at a record despite Obama, not because of Obama.  Let me remind you of a few things."

• Oil and natural gas production on federal lands is down by more than 40 percent compared to 10 years ago.

• Under the Obama administration, 2010 had the lowest number of onshore leases issued since 1984.

• The Obama administration held only one offshore lease sale in 2011.

Investors.com, 8/2011: As Failures Grow, Obama Blames Others  "It seems all this president knows how to do is talk eloquently about problems or demagogue opponents. When he's not giving speeches, he's demagoguing. When he's not demagoguing, he's giving speeches. He doesn't know how to get much of anything done for the good of the country."


Gateway Pundit: Good Grief. Now Obama Blames the Founding Fathers For His Failures  "Barack Obama tried a new tactic this morning. Instead of blaming George W. Bush he blamed the Founding Fathers for his failures.  It’s their fault."

How's Obama's lowering of the oceans going?

Rick Moran:  Competitor of LightSquared run out of business by Obama administration  "Unfortunately for GlobalStar, circumstances beyond their control forced them to miss the deadline and that's when the FCC, the Department of Agriculture, and the White House all began to maneuver GlobalStar into bankruptcy.

"It is a complicated story so read the entire article at the [Daily Caller]. Crony capitalism at its most blatant."

http://terrellaftermath.com/

World Magazine: Gone With the Wind   "The 3,200-watts of solar photovoltaic panels provide one-third of the electricity that Bryce's family consumes, slightly reducing his monthly power bill. But the panels aren't without problems: The start-up costs were high, the inverter has already broken once, and the panels require regular cleaning.

"Bryce quickly wondered if the panels were worth the investment, and he soon realized that the limits of solar power for his Texas home extended to the rest of the country: Solar power won't run America anytime soon. Neither will wind power."

Michelle Malkin: The high priests of eco-destruction   "People of faith aren’t what’s bedeviling America. Blame the high voodoo priests of eco-destruction in Washington who have imposed a green theocracy on us all. Science be damned."  She comments:

 –Water wars and the Delta smelt. The infamous, endangered three-inch fish and its environmental protectors continue to jeopardize the water supply of more than 25 million Californians. Federal restrictions have cut off some 81 billion gallons of water to farmers and consumers in Central and Southern California.....
While Salazar manufactures a new biological opinion on the matter to get the courts off his back, unemployment and drought plague the Central Valley. And the White House stands by its “scientists.”

Meanwhile a drive up Interstate 5 in California shows a chain of signs in barren fields proclaiming "Government-Created Dust Bowl" 


–Water wars and the Delta smelt. The infamous, endangered three-inch fish and its environmental protectors continue to jeopardize the water supply of more than 25 million Californians. Federal restrictions have cut off some 81 billion gallons of water to farmers and consumers in Central and Southern California. 

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..."While Salazar manufactures a new biological opinion on the matter to get the courts off his back, unemployment and drought plague the Central Valley. And the White House stands by its “scientists.”

Mother Jones blames it on global, er, climate change  and CBS blames the drought.


Judge Wanger Issues Injunction Against Federal Delta Smelt Plan in 2009. We can see how that battle came out.

BBC: A storm brews over food, water and power  "Environmentalists say the smelt is essential to the food chain, and that a decline in smelt populations has led to falling numbers of bigger predator fish like salmon and bass.
"Late last year, the US government's Fish and Wildlife Service argued that pumping water out of the delta harmed the smelt.

"A federal judge ruled water supplies to Central Valley farms should be reduced, in order to protect the fish."

As the Tunnel Dweller has previously noted, this is not your father's Democrat Party.

Ann Coulter: What's Their Problem With Romney?

Ann Coulter  "Just four years ago, one Republican candidate for president was avowedly pro-abortion (Rudy Giuliani). One had opposed Clinton's impeachment and tort reform (Fred Thompson). One supported amnesty for illegals, restrictions on core First Amendment speech, federal laws to combat nonexistent global warming, and opposed Guantanamo and the Bush tax cuts ("tax cuts for the rich!") and called waterboarding "torture."

"That last one was our nominee: John McCain.

"This year, every Republican candidate for president opposes abortion, promises to repeal Obamacare, opposes raising taxes, and on and on. Only one candidate is strong on illegal immigration, which is second only to repealing Obamacare as the most important issue facing the nation.

"That's the alleged liberal, Mitt Romney."

....

"We're being asked to hand Obama another four years in the White House in order to "send a message." To whom? And what message? That we're morons? Message received!"  (Emphasis added)

Thomas Sowell: The 'Fairness' Fraud

Thomas Sowell  "During a recent Fox News Channel debate about the Obama administration's tax policies, Democrat Bob Beckel raised the issue of "fairness."
"He pointed out that a child born to a poor woman in the Bronx enters the world with far worse prospects than a child born to an affluent couple in Connecticut.

"No one can deny that. The relevant question, however, is: How does allowing politicians to take more money in taxes from successful people, to squander in ways that will improve their own reelection prospects, make anything more "fair" for others?"

...."What is worse than class warfare is phony class warfare. Slippery talk about "fairness" is at the heart of this fraud by politicians seeking to squander more of the nation's resources."


Warren Buffet toon by MSNBC Powerwall

Obama gives us gas

http://terrellaftermath.com/

A look at Santorum

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Byron York :  Why Did Santorum Lose in 2006  "The biggest policy reason was Santorum's outspoken support for the war in Iraq. By November 2006, the war was going badly and threatened to turn into a full-scale catastrophe. President Bush resisted calls to change course. While Santorum's Democratic opponent, Bob Casey, called for a new policy, Santorum stuck with the president, and with the war. He even made it his primary focus in the last days of the campaign.
"The voters clobbered him for it."   That's what happens when you don't vote "present".


Consider the source; this is from leftist Maureen Dowd:  Rick’s Religious Fanaticism
It will show you what Mr. Santorum can expect from the Democrats if he is nominated. Dowd says of him: " He’s more like a small-town mullah."  Here she calls Santorum "grating."


Apparently Romney people take Santorum seriously

By the way, this Republican primary tracker can help you keep track of how the race for the nomination is going.

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/02/21/96637

Santorum's social issues trap  "When first reading McGurn’s statement, many conservatives probably reflexively blamed the “liberal” media for this hypocrisy. But, as the Drudge Report demonstrated yesterday, the conservative media is just as eager to keep Santorum trapped talking about social issues. Drudge’s “SANTORUM’S SATAN WARNING” headline was up most of the day, driving both mainstream and conservative media coverage. Rush Limbaugh even weighed in, admitting that Santorum was going to have to spend time addressing the issue:"

A year ago today at the Wisconsin protests, things had drifted from the Walker budget to more generic left-wing causes.

Althouse    "It was no longer apparent that the protesters were mostly Wisconsin school teachers. There were more UW students and teaching assistants. 

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/today-322727-focused-workalso.html?pic=1

""The crowd was a bit thinner," inside the Capitol. "Lots of drumming." The sound of vuvuzela. Outside, there are some marchers. It's a bit wan. It's a Monday.
"The teachers prepare to go back to school, and there are intimations that the schoolkids will be drawn into the controversy. "I  can't believe people who are fighting to preserve their job benefits would even think to appropriate the children this way. It's mind boggling." "

Michael Barone: Prudence Is Key to Reversing Obama's 'Soft Despotism'

Michael Barone  "We have a House of Representatives 100 percent of whose members were elected in a historic Republican year, a president elected in a historic Democratic year, and a Senate two-thirds of whose members were elected in historic Democratic years and one-third in a historic Republican year.
"It should not be surprising that they cannot agree on policy. Most of the high-minded folk who decry "gridlock" would like the Republican House to say uncle. The Republicans bemoaning their leaders' lack of boldness imagine that if they force confrontation they can somehow prevail."

...."That is what House Republicans are fighting to reverse. With their presidential candidates at odds, with mainstream media disparaging them at every turn, they need to exercise prudence and not give in to passion that could defeat their purpose."

Rush Limbaugh: Tocqueville Foresaw the Obama Years  Quoting Tocqueville: 

"Thus, taking each individual by turns in its powerful hands and kneading him as it likes, the sovereign extends its arms over society as a whole; it covers its surface with a network of small, complicated, painstaking, uniform rules through which the most original minds and the most vigorous souls cannot clear a way to surpass the crowd; it does not break wills, but it softens them, bends them and directs them; it rarely forces one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one’s acting."

Obama, protector of the free world vs. Iran (That "little country" Obama referred to)

Victor Davis Hanson: Nuclear Realities  "In other words, if the Obama administration were to take us down to a few hundred bombs, it might send a signal to our allies that we could not possibly deter all their enemies simultaneously — and that they would be wiser to fend for themselves by obtaining their own nuclear arsenals. For each dozen bombs we retired, our allies might feel it necessary to make up the difference on their own."

...."The danger is not the bomb per se, but rather who has it. Most of us do not worry about a democratic Britain, France, India, or Israel possessing nuclear weapons. The fright instead is over a Communist authoritarian China, an unhinged North Korea, an Islamist Pakistan, or an unstable Russia having nuclear weapons. "

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/02/20/96584

DEBKAfile: Tehran steps into US-Israel Iran row with threat of pre-emptive strike  "Iran’s Armed Forces Gen. Mohammad Hejazi issued a new threat Tuesday, Feb. 21: “Our strategy now is that if we feel our enemies want to endanger Iran’s national interests… we will act without waiting for their actions.” "

Weekly Standard: The Obama Way of War  "...an anonymous administration official described Obama’s strategy as “spoiling” any second-war act of aggression while fighting the first. And the defense guidance goes on at length about “reversibility” as a “key part of our decision calculus” when defense cuts have to be made. In other words, the Obama Pentagon knows this is a very bad idea to begin with.  Hat tip to Keep America Safe

On Rick Santorum

Neal Boortz : Democrats rip Santorum "If you want just a small taste of what it would be like to run Rick Santorum as your GOP nominee, look no further than a DNC email released over the weekend.  One part read …

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"Rather than focusing on jobs, the economy, or any of the issues that matter most to Americans, he discussed man's 'dominion over' the earth, repeated his patently false claim that prenatal health care is a plot to force more abortions, and questioned the need for public education.”

"I received a lot of flak for my comments yesterday about Rick Santorum, yet not one person could explain to me how Rick Santorum would appeal to moderate or independent voters...."  

....There is only ONE  question you should be considering as you select from these four .. and that is which one of these candidates has the best chance of beating Obama.  That’s the focus of your decision … nothing else.   (Emphasis added)

Mr. Boortz writes this on his issue with Rick Santorum: 

Can you try to put yourself into the shoes of an independent voter for a second here?  You know obama(sp) is a failure, but you’re not sure the Republicans could be doing all that much better right now.  You’re willing, though, to take a good look at the GOP candidate to see if that is someone you might be able to support.

WSJ:  Sex, Lies and Rick Santorum; The politics of the double standard on social issues.   "There is, however, one area where Mr. Santorum needs to demonstrate a discipline it's not yet clear he has. That is the ability to resist the efforts to drag him out of the public questions into the weeds of theological debate."
...."Mr. Santorum cannot change the double standard. With a little discipline, however, he need not let himself be defined by it". (As happens in  the Neal Boortz article posted above.)

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/02/16/96337

Procon.org has this on Mr. Santorum's political statements  This site lists what they consider to be "Positions are categorized as Pro, Con, Not Clearly Pro or Con, or None Found."


Rich Lowry: The Effrontery of Rick Santorum "The media has unleashed the hounds on Rick Santorum."

We have liked Sen. Santorum very much, but our research on who can get Obama out of the White House goes on. Nothing is more important than keeping Obama from another four years at the helm of this nation and we have yet to find a candidate who can tell America how he is to be preferred to Obama. It will be hard; the Republican will have to run against a celebrity who is on magazine covers and daytime talk shows and who promises to give us anything we want for free.

I'm beginning to lose confidence in the American electorate's wisdom, and this next video doesn't help much. TD

What We Get For Our Education Dollars

But these "skulls full of mush" will happily vote for any whomever is endorsed by their favorite celebrity.