What if we had left Saddam Hussein in power?

The Foreign Policy Initiative; Freeing Iraq From Saddam Hussein's Dictatorship Was Worth It  ...."Certainly, the U.S.-led coalition and the Iraqis paid a high price to liberate the country. But it is likely that the cost of allowing Saddam Hussein to remain in power would have been far greater over the long-term.

.... "Saddam likely would have reconstituted Iraq's weapons programs and re-emerged as a regional menace—just as the Iranians and North Koreans have in his wake. Indeed, the example of their nuclear programs reinforces the imperative of preventing rogue regimes from obtaining weapons of mass destruction."
But he did have sympathy from our left. American leftists never met a murderous dictator they didn't adore if he hated America.
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"As U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair said before the war began, "Ridding the world of Saddam would be an act of humanity. It is leaving him there that is in truth inhumane." "

Below: Sigh...if only. But now our foreign policy advisors are Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers.

 

The Sequester Lies; Where Are the Republicans?

Asylum Watch ; Because it's a crazy world out there and we have to live in it.

 "Are you  fed up with the lies told by our President, his Cabinet members, and other high level Democrats about the imaginary disastrous effects of the Sequester? There was no cut from anybody’s or any department’s budget in what remains of fiscal 2013 or any other year. The graph below shows the truth about federal government spending with and without the Sequester." (Source)

...."Are you  fed up with the lies told by our President, his Cabinet members, and other high level Democrats about the imaginary disastrous effects of the Sequester? There was no cut from anybody’s or any department’s budget in what remains of fiscal 2013 or any other year. The graph below shows the truth about federal government spending with and without the Sequester. (Source)"....

Don't Knox This 'Serious Network'

Ann Coulter  "Just days after the Turner Broadcasting System CEO claimed that CNN "is a serious news network," it aired a childish report on "Anderson Cooper 360" about convicted murderer Amanda Knox, which appears to have been written by Amanda's parents. Next up: "The Charles Manson story, reported by Squeaky Fromme."
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"But as Alan Dershowitz has said, the American media just adore Amanda -- at best, a liar and terrible person, at worst, a murderer -- because she's pretty.

"That's how a "serious news network" operates."

The Borking of Dr. Benjamin Carson; So much for Democrats being the great racial healers

The Obama years have seen race relations in America deteriorate sadly, but to discuss the subject openly is to risk financial ruin and blacklisting. Sadly now, we see what is beginning to happen to this decent man. Remember that many of these comments on Dr. Carson are made by those who honor people like Al Sharpton and Lewis Farrakhan.

BLACK RACISM AS A LIBERAL STRATEGY  "Racial tension, odious and vexing though it may be, is nonetheless merely a device being used by this administration and its surrogates to foment anger and resentment; indeed, there are many other fronts whereupon similar tactics are being implemented. A number of interwoven plans are coming to fruition at present, and the reason we are seeing displays such as Rev. Leon’s is because they are Obama-sanctioned, or are perceived to be.

"In other words, if it isn’t coming from White House operatives, it at least has the implicit approval of the president."

Dr. Ben Carson: An Unapologetic Conservative of Color Whom the Left Hates and Fears  "Mr. Terrell is not the first nor will he be the last to attack Dr. Carson. The contributors over at MSNBC have made it their mission to destroy Dr. Carson, whatever it takes. They see him as a direct threat to their narrative that minorities in America only achieve success through Liberalism, and that all opposition to President Obama’s vision of America is rooted in racism--not the logic that it has been tried before and failed several times over the course of history."  Then the author adds:

As a Conservative of Color, I myself have often said, “Watch how quickly your Liberal counterparts will take to personal attacks"--such as those of Terrell and Toure--"when you counter their ideas on government, race and personal responsibility.”

Besting the White House Marxists, Dr. Ben Carson style 

"Bob Woodward, Lanny Davis and any others with the cojones to speak out against the anti-American policies of the Obama regime should take a page from the book of the savvy Dr. Ben Carson."....

Ann Althouse quotes: Ben Carson "Wears the Mask."   " I don’t doubt that Carson was a conservative even then. I knew plenty of black people who loved their community and hated welfare. But white conservatives were never interested in them, and they were never as interested in Ben Carson as they are right now."

Related:  BET Is Part of the Problem  "Yet what does Bob Johnson's network glorify and promote? ...BET's programming is replete with sexual, profane, and violent content. ...What's worse, much of this content is aimed at children and teenagers. Bombarded with such imagery, what are many young black men going to replicate as they mature into adulthood?"

http://legalinsurrection.com/author/afbranco/

Dr. Ben Carson has been called a “Political Mandingo” and Uncle Tom on the pages of Daily Kos and elsewhere, and Republican’s “black friend” by Touré Neblett,
"This really is a disgusting argument, that every time a black conservative rises it is just a charade, the white man’s dream to fool everyone.  The argument presupposes that true blackness only belongs to Coates and not to Allen West, or Mia Love, or Dr. Ben Carson, or other black conservatives."

White liberals don’t like being called racist
 

Liberals gone wild: Phoenix to Recruit Minority Lifeguards – Even If They Can’t Swim

The Gateway Pundit
In a staggering case of affirmative action gone wild, officials in a major U.S. city are actually recruiting minorities to be lifeguards at public pools even if they’re not good swimmers. It’s all in the name of diversity.
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Evidently officials are willing to compromise those “effective services” at 29 public swimming pools spread throughout the city. To diversify the lifeguard force, Phoenix will spend thousands of dollars to recruit minorities even if they’re not strong swimmers, according to an official quoted in a news report. Blacks, Latinos and Asians who may not necessarily qualify can still get hired, says the city official who adds that “we will work with you in your swimming abilities.”

This EU cartoon should apply here just fine

 

Unlike ObamaCare, the Republican Plan Will Work

Ben Domenech "The eight points that I noted as principles shared by the overwhelming majority of Republicans approach health care from a different perspective than Ezra and the Democrats. The accusation on Ezra’s part is that Republicans think we have too much insurance. He’s basically right – but there is a difference between saying “we have too much insurance” and saying “we have too many people insured”. It’s important to be careful here, because we’re judging how a Republican plan would work against how Obamacare’s supporters claim it would work, or ought to work. Democrats see getting insured as an end; but for Republicans, more healthy people is the end."
Emphasis added.

Benjamin Domenech is editor of The Transom

Obamacare Incompetence

Rush Limbaugh discussed the Joe Klein article below on his show Wednesday saying,  I Don't Think Obamacare Can Work, and Obama Doesn't Care If It Does or Not 

 At the future Obama library and Institute for Social Justice, whatever they call it, there aren't gonna be any testimonials to the details of Obamacare in any of the displays. There's just gonna be a plaque: Obama, first president to get national health care.  'Cause there isn't gonna be any praise to sing about this.  Mr. Klein, all Obama cares or knows about is that he successfully moved one-seventh of the US economy to government control.  And in his world, that equals compassion, power, and success.  The details of this, that's so beneath him.  He doesn't have time.  It's for other people to work that out.  In fact, I would venture to say that if somebody told him there was an implementation problem, he'd say, "Well, fix it," and move on to whatever else interests him that day or that moment. 

Joe Klein   "Let me try to understand this: the key incentive for small businesses to support Obamacare was that they would be able to shop for the best deals in health care superstores — called exchanges. The Administration has had three years to set up these exchanges. It has failed to do so.

"This is a really bad sign. There will be those who argue that it’s not the Administration’s fault. It’s the fault of the 33 states that have refused to set up their own exchanges. "Nonsense. Where was the contingency planning?"....

 

Remember that Obama said in 2008 that in ten years we would be Arab-oil free?

The Obama Administration and Foreign Policy

These people are as murderous as the North Koreans, but we fund their message . Do you think there is a child in this group who will grow up wanting to live peacefully alongside Israel? But I digress.

Misogyny or just gutlessness? "Or both? The political tool Obama chose to act as figurehead at the CIA, John Brennan, has shown himself to be just what me and many others figured. A hyena won't change its spots and Brennan showed that he is only at CIA to make sure Barry O doesn't take any collateral damage, operations be damned."

Military buildup in China near North Korean border continues as tanks, armored vehicles spotted   "Additionally, the troop buildup is a signal to Pyongyang that China will abide by its defense commitment to North Korea in the event of renewed conflict.
"China’s military maintains a mutual defense treaty with North Korea. The last time Chinese troops defended North Korea was during the Korean War."

 

“People love to say, ‘America can’t be the world’s policeman.’ Fine. But what if there’s a world criminal?”

 Rockets, Hate and Kerry’s Fool’s Errand  "As Kerry ought to know, the real obstacle to peace isn’t Israeli settlements or building in Jerusalem. It is the hate for Jews and Israel that is fueling the rocket fire from Gaza. But instead of trying to mollify Abbas’s bogus concerns about prisoners, the secretary would probably do more to advance the cause of peace were he to address the ongoing fomenting of hatred by the official PA media."

politifake.org

Letterman can't hold a candle* to Leno, politically, comedically or personally. Here's another reason why

Leno’s shot at the AP, Democrats, and immigration reform
"Obligatory, really, after the exceedingly silly public statement from the wire service yesterday. Newsbusters has the grab from last night’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno, in which Leno manages shots at the Associated Press, Democrats, and the rush for an immigration-reform bill in less than 30 seconds, including the applause:" 

“And in a groundbreaking move, the Associated Press, the largest news gathering outlet in the world, will no longer use the term ‘illegal immigrant.’ That is out. No longer ‘illegal immigrant.’ They will now use the phrase ‘undocumented Democrat.’ That is the newest – ‘undocumented Democrat.’”

Can this be one reason that Leno is on his way out at (MS)NBC?

*Where did the phrase "can't hold a candle to you" originate?  "I understand it to mean that the person has so much less skill or beauty, intelligence, talent, or some other good quality) than you that the comparison can't even be made. Apprentices used to hold candles to light the work that a master artist or craftsman was doing. The person who held the candle was at a lower level in his or her career than the master. What is implicit in the saying is that the person is not worthy even to hold the light for you."

Liberals cannot learn because they will not be taught; Obama administration pushes banks to make home loans to people with weaker credit

As leftists love to point out, fifty million people voted for Obama. That is, I'd say, the O.J. Simpson jury multiplied by four million. (So much for "I trust the wisdom of the American people")

WaPo

"The Obama administration is engaged in a broad push to make more home loans available to people with weaker credit, an effort that officials say will help power the economic recovery but that skeptics say could open the door to the risky lending that caused the housing crash in the first place.
"President Obama’s economic advisers and outside experts say the nation’s much-celebrated housing rebound is leaving too many people behind, including young people looking to buy their first homes and individuals with credit records weakened by the recession."

Obama administration to banks: Why aren’t you making higher-risk loans?   "On one level, it’s almost unbelievable that anyone would ask this less than five years after the housing-bubble crash and the near-wipeout of Western financial institutions.  On another, it’s almost inevitable, given the efforts by the governing class and the media to ignore the central failure in that bubble, which was incentivizing increasingly risky loans with government cash and coercion, which created a false-equity trajectory that nearly ruined us.  If that core cancer gets overlooked, it simply keeps coming back:"....
John Wayne said, "Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid".

Tunnel Wall published this back in December:
New Study Finds Democrats Fully to Blame for Subprime Mortgage Crisis that Caused 2008 Financial Disaster
For you low-information voters who re-elected Obama, here is a summary of this story:  Obama and other Democrats applied pressure on the mortgage industry. I believe charges of "racism" were leveled and the industry buckled, giving loans to people who went in knowing they could not pay for these.

 In spite of warnings from the Bush Administration, the housing industry collapsed, causing the US economy to fall into what is called "the Great Recession" at the end of the Bush Administration. This led to the mess that Obama has repeatedly said he "inherited". Obama has pushed this "inherited" excuse for over four years (accurately enough, save for who caused it), blaming it on President Bush, unfairly.



Find the economists in this picture.

All this has been absorbed by the low-information electorate (watchers of The View,Oprah, People Magazine readers, Obamaphone recipients,and all TV shows into the late evening,  et al) who number about fifty million.
I'm not sure news people on the networks, CNN and MSNBC could be classified as "low-information", but as collaborators. Rather than being "low-information" people themselves, they helped create those low-information voters.

I believe it is accurate to say that President Bush inherited this economic mess from Barack Obama. Obama is now doubling down on these actions, making them even more draconian, so we can expect the next administration to inherit a big mess from all this. TD

The mayor of Las Vegas calls Obama "a real. slow. learner."

Obama’s Appeal to Emotion Versus Reason

Jonathan S. Tobin  "Gun control advocates lament this change and say, as the president did today, that it is a function of forgetfulness. That’s why, as Seth wrote earlier, the Michael Bloomberg-funded campaign to promote the issue is seeking to rekindle outrage over Sandy Hook with emotion-laden commercials depicting the parents of the victims. But the problem here is not a lack of concern for the memory of the slain or callousness on the part of growing numbers of Americans. It is the fact that the case for the president’s proposals relies primarily on just this sort of emotion rather than reason. The longer we have to think about it, the less sense these restrictions make to people."

I discussed my problem with guns in this previous post: Seeking an effective argument FOR gun control
 Here, two respected writers discuss the case against taking away individual firearms from Americans. Yes, it is true that if guns did not exist everywhere in this nation those little children in Sandy Hook would be living right now and I only wish that were the case. But it is not and there are violent people out there in their thousands and they are armed; willing and lusting to watch innocent people die in bunches by their hands. How, exactly do you gun-control advocates plan to remove those weapons from their blood-thirsty hands?
I will honestly look for a reasoned argument FOR gun control that contains effective means for keeping us safe from those who carry weapons illegally and are willing to do us harm. Cartoons showing crazed, wild-eyed gun owners don't wash.
As yet, I have seen only politically correct, emotional responses to the issue that have no value other than simply making a politician look as if they are doing something. TD