“What happens after the next soldier is kidnapped?”

Bosch Fawstin

Behind the scenes: How the Schalit deal came about   "For now, the entire defense establishment is focused on implementing the deal and getting Schalit home. But after he returns to his family in Mizpe Hila, the tough questions will need to be asked: How come Israel failed for five years to create a viable military option to release him from Gaza, or other means of leverage over Hamas that could have forced it to agree to this deal earlier than now.

"Israel will also have to ask itself what may the toughest question of all: What happens next time? What happens after the next soldier is kidnapped?" 

 Via Legal Insurrection which adds this perspective: ...."But if reports of some of the names included on the list are true, I also can’t help thinking about the families who lost loved ones in restaurants, night clubs, buses, and stores, seeing the killers of their children set free to what is sure to be a celebratory homecoming. Family members of those killed in the notorious Sbarro Pizza bombing (which was celebrated by Palestinian university students) already have petitioned the Israeli Supreme Court to try to stop the release."

http://fawstin.blogspot.com/

Boehner Confronts Obama on Phone Call

Commentary Magazine  (Excerpts) "As The Hill reports, the call was supposed to be a congratulatory one – Obama was pleased the House passed the free trade agreements he’s been promoting–but it quickly turned serious when Boehner confronted the president about his distortions of the Republicans’ jobs plan."  ....

The Speaker reminded the President that House Republicans put forth a ‘Plan for America’s Job Creators’ in May, and noted that he and other members of the GOP leadership team have spoken with the President and his staff about the plan and referenced it on numerous occasions, in letters and elsewhere.

...."By pointing this out during a phone call – and providing a readout to the press – Boehner is making it difficult for Obama to keep claiming Republicans don’t have a plan for job creation. Clearly, the president is now fully aware of this plan, and will have to come up with something legitimate about which to criticize Republicans on the campaign trail."  Alana Goodman
 Here's The Hill's report. ...."By providing a rare readout of the call, Boehner’s office is trying to highlight that Obama is ignoring attempts by House Republicans to address the jobs crisis."

Boehner chastizes Obama for 'forgetting' about GOP jobs bill    "Obama does this kind of thing all the time and the press lets him get away with it: He lies about Republican bills that counter or complement what he himself is proposing."
....
"This is how Obama will run for re-election. And since the press won't call him out for his lies, it will be up to the GOP candidate to set the record straight."

A Republican jobs plan  "I’ve explained how I think the Republicans played this one wrong, setting up a perfect scenario for the class warriors to claim that Republicans killed the jobs bill to protect the rich. On top of that, the Republicans in the Senate got hit for the fact that they didn’t have an alternative plan to offer … until now."  Neal Boortz

http://conservativedailynews.com/2011/10/obamas-mop/

Let's not forget to watch the media's treatment of Conservatives!

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2011/10/13/92640

The Pizza Man Moron: More Racial ‘Dog Whistles’ From George Stephanopoulos and ABC News    "According to the MSM’s own standards, there’s a very troubling racial taint to ABC News and George Stephanopoulos taking Mr. Cain out of context, undermining his resume with these pizza cracks, and deceptively using video to turn him into a fool in front of their missions of viewers." (video) 

http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/category/media-bias/

Networks Blame British Riots on Poverty, Ignore Moral, Economic Failure of Welfare State
"Not everyone was as quick as the networks to explain away the violence as a reaction to budget cuts (most of which haven't taken effect yet) or material poverty.
"British journalist Paul Willis blamed the riots on moral cowardice, arguing that "We Brits have ceded our public space to antisocial teenagers. There has been a collective loss of nerve."
"Other commentators went further, linking the riots with the British welfare state mentality."

A Tale of Two Protests: Media Cheer Wall Street Occupiers But Jeered Tea Partiers    "Where the Tea Party was met with skeptical claims of their motivations -- with some reporters claiming they were merely corporate backed puppets and others implying they were spurred on by their racist opposition to the first black president – the Occupy Wall Street crowd was depicted as an almost genial “grassroots” movement.
"While network reporters weren’t hesitant to describe the Tea Party as conservative, only once did a reporter attach even the “liberal” label to the overtly leftist Wall Street protestors."....
In fact, as the MRC’s Business & Media’s Julia Seymour documented, not one network report has called the protesters "radical," "extreme," "left-wing," or "socialist."  Emphasis added.

Is Obama beginning to play the race card?

I wrote last week that Obama is more than likely to play the race card because blame-fixing is in his DNA. Look at the litany of blame-shifting the man has done during his three years as president; he will never accept responsibility for any mistakes- they are all caused by things other than him.

To date, Obama has not blamed racial factors but been content to let others do that for him. To be sure he has never to my knowledge reprimanded those who would blame race, but when the election draws near and he sees his presidency being branded a failure you can count on racial divisions being stoked by him personally.

Case in point; see the following article and tell me if you think the liberal press will call him out on this or join in his attacks on Republicans. TD

Obama: Republicans Don't Want A Place Where People "No Matter What They Look Like" Can Succeed"At a forum on American Latino Heritage, President Obama goes through a litany of ideas that he is for, including his new stimulus, and ends with "none of this matters to Republicans in the Senate." One of those ideas is believing America is "a place where every child, no matter what they look like, where they come from, should have a chance to succeed." "  Also here: A DISGUSTING Barack Obama.

Are you a Republican? Are you a racist? Because if you ask the Obamas, the answer is that you just might be.  From The Last Refuge

The man puts forth policies and programs that have not one chance of succeeding and then demagogues those who do not vote for them. And the ignorant protesters, media and celebrities continue to worship this president and his bankrupt philosophies.

Jobs Plan Fails, but Obama Doesn’t Get the Message

Heritage  "Take Senator Jim Webb (D-VA), for example. The Hill reports that he opposes raising taxes on ordinary income during a time of recession and that the federal government should encourage people to invest in the economy instead of raising their income taxes. In Webb’s own words:

I strongly believe that the way to bring good jobs back is to improve our economy in the private sector, and that means more capital investment. Winston Churchill once said something to the effect that you can’t tax your way out of an economic downturn any more than you can pick up a bucket if you’re standing in it.

And he called a joint session of Congress for this plan! The man is not only incompetent, he is eccentric and immature. Didn't he have any staff people who could caution him against these silly decisions?
More of Obama's class warfare demagoguery here.
"Rather than heeding to the palatable call from the majority of Americans weary of continued federal spending to grow the economy, including many in his own political party, President Obama is convinced that Hispanics will continue to support his policies by simply employing scare tactics."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/natebeeler

Gibson Guitar CEO warns that jobs may be sent overseas in aftermath of DOJ raid    "On Wednesday, he told The Daily Caller there could be casualties from the DOJ’s actions, first of which he said may be higher guitar prices.
"“It’s a zero-sum game,” he said. “You don’t create money out of thin air. So a dollar goes to lawyers in Washington, D.C. is a dollar that comes out of our consumers’ pockets, period.”
"But he also cautioned that American jobs could be lost and sent overseas."

Does a resume' and experience matter any more for the presidency?

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2011/10/13/92670

Progressives occupy Wall Street

Rich Terrell is at it again

The intellect of the occupiers   "The interviewer asks the young man about the sign. Mr. “Pay my Tuition” then comes up with some brilliant lines such as: “I think these billionaires are just getting a lot of money out of greed.” “They are exploiting people.” “We get taxed more than they do.” The interviewer then sets him straight. Then when asked why anyone should pay for his college tuition, the response from this Occutard went something like this: “It’s just my opinion.” “People can say whatever they want.” “Just because it’s what I want.”"  Neal Boortz;  Al Sharpton checks in with his wisdom here.

Yes, Soros Is Helping To Fund Occupy Wall Street Protests…

Soros, 81, is No. 7 on the Forbes 400 list with a fortune of $22 billion, which has ballooned in recent years as he deftly responded to financial market turmoil. He has pledged to give away all his wealth, half of it while he earns it and the rest when he dies.

Democracy’s New Discontents

Victor Davis Hanson  "To quote former Senator Clinton, many people are now “sick and tired” of the Obama administration’s efforts to silence critics. First, during the 2008 campaign, there was “Fight the Smears,” a website Team Obama started to monitor its critics. JournoList followed, with a liberals-only forum of influential media pundits venting their private anger over criticism of Obama. Now there is yet another version, AttackWatch.com, a creepy website — set up with melodramatic photos and “files” like an intelligence service’s red and black dossiers — that implores readers to scout around and send in examples of criticism of Obama."

Alan Caruba: Occupy Wall Street: Communism's Clueless Foot Soldiers

Warning Signs   "The Occupy Wall Street youngsters are the latest foot soldiers of Communism, though it is likely most are too ignorant to realize it. They have been so thoroughly indoctrinated in government schools and by Hollywood and the media that they have no idea how they are being used by labor unions and other leftist organizations.
"The protesters are likely unaware of the misery and murders Marx’s Communism imposed on Russia courtesy of Lenin, Stalin, and those who followed in their footsteps. Mao's Red China murdered thousands as well in the pursuit of the “equality” that is the alleged goal of Communism and liberalism."...

Wingless, Bloodsucking and Parasitic: Meet the Flea Party!

Ann Coulter  "As a refresher: The Democratic National Committee called the tea partiers "angry mobs" and "rabid right-wing extremists." ABC said they were a "mob." CNN accused them of "rabble rousing." Harry Reid called them "evil mongers." Nancy Pelosi said they were "un-American." CNN's Anderson Cooper and every single host on MSNBC called the tea partiers a name that referred to an obscure gay sex act.

"But apparently liberals couldn't even convince themselves that tea partiers were an extremist group unworthy of emulation.
"At least they're embarrassed about what the OWS protesters really are: wingless, bloodsucking and parasitic. This is the flea party, not the tea party."
....
"They are not in the tradition of the tea partiers, much less our founding fathers. They are not in the tradition of the civil rights movement or Operation Rescue. They are in the tradition of Shays' Rebellion, the Weathermen and Charles Manson."

http://www.ocregister.com/sections/opinion/

Obama's new re-election strategy "With President Obama's sudden embracing of these protesters, one has to ask if this administration now believes that the public is short sighted enough to forget or dismiss all of the failures of this administration. Candidate Obama sold himself as the "President of all Americans, Democrat and Republican." It would now appear that dividing the nation and pitting the poor against the rich will become this President's reelection strategy. If so, I submit that dividing the nation and pitting the poor against the rich will also become this President's legacy."

Obama and the Iranian war on the US

http://iranpoliticsclub.net/cartoons/

Heritage: Obama’s Failure to Confront the Iranian Threat  "Meanwhile, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remarked that the plot “crosses a line that Iran needs to be held to account for.” Iran, however, crossed the line long ago, be it the country’s rogue pursuit of nuclear weapons, its calls for the eradication of Israel, its support of terrorism, its meddling in Iraq, or its interference with the movement toward democracy in the Middle East. Even without yesterday’s charges, the Obama Administration has had plenty of reason to take the lead on confronting the Iranian threat, but it has utterly failed to do so."


Two Men Charged in Alleged Plot to Assassinate Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States
"“As alleged, these defendants were part of a well-funded and pernicious plot that had, as its first priority, the assassination of the Saudi Ambassador to the United States, without care or concern for the mass casualties that would result from their planned attack,” said U.S. Attorney Bharara. “Today’s charges should make crystal clear that we will not let other countries use our soil as their battleground.” " From GlobalSecurity.org

Once again, the Obama administration intends to treat an act of war as a law enforcement matter.

"The attacks were part of a Iranian Quds Force plot wherein the Iranians intended to obtain the services of a Mexican drug cartel hit team."  And the cartel hit team will enter the US... how? And with weapons from where?

 Claudia Rosett: Did Ahmadinejad Know About the Iranian Terror Plot on Washington? "Terror and carnage in Washington, D.C., with the Saudi ambassador assassinated by a bomb while dining at a restaurant packed with 100-150 other customers, possibly including a number of senators. That’s what “elements” of Iran’s government allegedly had planned for this autumn...."

Walid Phares:  Iran Botched Act Of War In Washington  "The answer may well be their perception of US lack of will to contain them, let alone stopping them. They have read US unwillingness to “meddle” in the 2009 protests in Iran, as a sign of disengagement, read American retreat. Totalitarians are emboldened not moderated, when they feel their foes pulling back. The late 1930s were tragic examples of accommodating the fascists of Europe. It could be that the Middle East’ Jihadists, particularly the Khomeinist among them are on a similar track: advancing."

DEBKAfile:  US on global alert for Iranian reprisal that may jeopardize Shalit release   "US officials are deeply concerned that Tehran may not take lying down Washington's charge that the Revolutionary Guards' Al Qods Brigades were complicit in the assassination plot or the success of a prisoner exchange deal releasing the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from Hamas captivity."

Republican debate: Winners and losers

CBS News Political Hotsheet  "The Bloomberg/Washington Post GOP debate is in the books, which means it's time to take a look at who had a good night - and who didn't. Below, our take on the winners and losers from Tuesday's economy-focused face-off:"
Take this for what it is worth to you.