Thursday, February 3, 2011

Hey, That's Not Nice!

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion  "We all know how the liberal narrative goes: the Tea Party is supposed to be racist. Even after Andrew Breitbart's $100,000 challenge and the continual failure to pinpoint awful tragedies on the Tea Party, lefties everywhere persist on blaming the Tea Party for all that is backwards in America. Despite an overwhelming lack of evidence, their "incivility" has been blamed for everything one can imagine."....
 "Far more eye-raising, though, is this video where a "progressive" (their words, not mine) calls for Clarence Thomas to be put "back in the fields," oh, and then "[strung] up." They're "peaceful people," except for ... yeah, when they're not:"
Catch the sound bites of the "tolerant" left and the interviewer who draws them out at this rally.

Where Is the Media On Progressives’ Call to Lynch Justice Thomas?  "Where is the call for civility after progressives called for the murder of Roger Ailes? The lynching of Ginni Thomas? No condemnation of violence against women? 
"By their silence this is sanctioned.
"This video was published this morning and not a single progressive has condemned the contents. I will update if any do.
"I’m waiting, progressives, media. Defend this. You don’t have the luxury of silence anymore. Cast your lot."

Which is the party of 'No?'

Russ Vaughn  "I've been giving some thought to this business of Democrats and their paper-trained media pets referring to Republicans as the Party of No primarily because of Republican refusal to roll over and play dead on ObamaCare. The following are some issues and aspects of American life to which the Democrat Party seems to be fairly united in their opposition:"
....
"I came up with those examples right off the top of my head in a matter of minutes and I'll wager that AT readers can come up with many more. All of which leads us to the question:
"Just which party is truly the Party of No?"

Egypt: How Obama blew it

Rick Moran  "Supporters of "stability" may be heartened by this news but, as Springborg points out, our backing of the military's power play will only radicalize the population further, thus making the next uprising much worse for America and Israel.
"Read the whole thing."

Game over: The chance for democracy in Egypt is lost  "The final nail will be driven into the coffin of the failed democratic transition in Egypt. It will be back to business as usual with a repressive, U.S.-backed military regime, only now the opposition will be much more radical and probably yet more Islamist. The historic opportunity to have a democratic Egypt led by those with whom the U.S., Europe, and even Israel could do business will have been lost, maybe forever. Uncle Sam will have to eat yet more humble pie, served up by the dictator who has just been insulting him."

Mediaite
Soros blames Israel, encouraged by Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt  "Furthermore, the Democratic Party is beholden to this sugar daddy. He is not only a prominent supporter of many Democratic politicians (and was an early and outsized supporter of Barack Obama) but groups such as J Street also endorse politicians. He is the largest funder of so-called 527 groups (like MoveOn.oRg) who routinely help Democrats. They are being supported by someone who peddles anti-Semitic conspiracy theories."
Will they continue to sup with the devil?
 Related: Soros blames Jews for Egypt "One wonders how the defenders of Soros, many Jews among them, feel about this. Can we expect 400 rabbis to express outrage? I won't hold my breath." Jennifer Rubin

1979 Revisited  "More disturbing than President Obama’s tepid and ambiguous responses to the demonstrations in Egypt (which is all that he can or should do in the near-term) is the lack of longer-range policy goals, let alone anything like a how-to strategy. And the administration’s plan, ensured by the most recent announcements of Pentagon budget cuts, is to shrink the U.S. military posture. In sum, at the moment when the movement to create a new order in the region is accelerating – and who can seriously think that the likelihood of violence is diminishing, will be self-regulating, or can be met only with “soft power?” – the United States appears to be backing away."

Egypt, Liberty, and the Filling Pump  "He recalls with undisguised horror the atrocities of the mullahs, curses the murderous practices of the Ayatollah Khomeini and his successors, and reserves a special place in hell for Jimmy Carter, who betrayed the shah and facilitated Khomeini’s coup d’état.
"He is no more kindly disposed to Barack Obama, whom he accuses of having abandoned the Iranian people and for having by his silence during the popular uprising last year tacitly supported the regime of Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “Obama,” he says, “is the son of Jimmy Carter and he will make the same mess in the Middle East as his political father.”"
Drybonesproject.com

The Obamacare Assault on the Rule of Law

Heritage  "One can understand why the White House was so visibly shaken by its federal court Obamacare loss. The 26 states that are party to the Florida suit will account for 266 electoral college votes in the next election. Throw in Virginia’s 13 electoral votes, where another federal court has ruled against Obamacare, and that brings the total to 279, which is more than the 270 needed to elect the next President of the United States."

States of Resistance  "Governors are fleeing ObamaCare after the Florida ruling."

Obama 'Hears the Voices' of Egyptian Protesters But Ignores American Tea Parties?

FoxNation  "Think back now to the summer of 2009 when hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Washington DC and cities all across this nation to protest the Obama Healthcare Bill that was passed anyway, against the will of the majority of the American people. Did President Obama take to his all powerful, all seeing, presidential podium and say, "we hear your voices"? No, he didn't...In fact, the White House unbelievably declared that it wasn't even aware of the protest rally that received nationwide coverage in advance of the rally. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, "I don't know who the group is.""

Christiane Amanpour’s Odd Egyptian Protest Video

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Big Journalism  "The exchange below that Christiane Amanpour has with pro-Mubarak Egyptian protesters is odd. They tell her that they hate America, that they want Mubarak, and then at the end she seemingly ignores an Egyptian with an English accent who politely asks for a moment of her time. It’s a very weird clip to release. Why? Does it seem to anyone else that there is this floating narrative that Mubarak supporters are villains?"

US Liberal Politics: Christiane Amanpour   Notice those with whom she is listed.

What Liberals Don't Know About Guns, Chapter 217

Ann Coulter " School shootings that have been halted were almost always stopped by the happenstance of an armed citizen on school property."

....In 1998, a student attending a junior high school dance at a restaurant in Edinboro, Pa., started shooting, whereupon the restaurant owner pulled out his shotgun, chased the gunman from the restaurant and captured him for the police.
          One dead.
See the pattern?
In response to Columbine, schools adopted "anti-bullying" policies; in response to Virginia Tech, eBay ceased selling magazines online; in response to the Tucson shooting, liberals want to ban the   particular magazine Loughner used.
 " And then the next killer will come along with a different arsenal and a different motive, and the only way to stop him will be with an armed citizen with a gun."

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

In Egypt, We Cannot Afford to Repeat Past Mistakes

Max Boot  "America’s role, as the champion of liberty, should be to usher Mubarak out of power as quickly and painlessly as possible in order to avert further bloodshed and to make it harder for malign elements to take advantage of the disorder for their own nefarious purposes. We did not do enough to aid democrats in Russia in 1917 or in Iran in 1979; in both cases, we stuck with a discredited ancien regime until it was too late and reacted too slowly to revolutionary upheavals. Let us not repeat that mistake in Egypt."

Krauthammer Questions Obama’s Need To Make Ambiguous Public Statements On Egypt  "Although Krauthammer did praise the strategy of being ambiguous in public and specific in private, he still thought it was not advisable for Obama to be injecting himself into the story and questioned “why does he pop up on television right after the President of Egypt speaks? He did that on Friday and he does it again today.” Expressing general solidarity with people in the streets is fine, but Krauthammer feared “it looks as if it was our decision, our pressure, and I’m not sure that we want a direct connection between our President and Egypt.”"

http://townhall.com/cartoons/jerryholbert
Who Tossed Egypt (to the Wolves)? "Still, it appears that the Obama Administration has been “reaching out” for some time to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt among other places, including here in the United States.  Most obviously, as Sean Hannity noted on his program with me and Egyptian expatriate author and former Muslim Nonie Darwish last night, President Obama insisted that Muslim Brotherhood representatives be included in the audience for his speech in Cairo in June 2009."

Daniel Pipes: Turmoil in Egypt; Why the military, not the Muslim Brotherhood, will come out on top   "But revolutions are hard to pull off and I predict that Islamists will not achieve a Middle East-wide breakthrough and Tehran will not emerge as the key power broker. Some thoughts behind this conclusion:"...

Thoughts on Chaos, Revolution, and Radicalism  "In short, at some point soon, we are going to have to come out and express our support for a non-Islamist constitutional state, period — without any Carter-esque talk of “moderate” Islamists."

Thomas Sowell: Spilled Milk

National Review Online  "But not everyone understands that any power given to any bureaucracy for any purpose can be stretched far beyond that purpose."
"In a classic example of this process, the EPA has decided that, since milk contains oil, it has the authority to force farmers to comply with new regulations to file “emergency management” plans to show how they will cope with spilled milk — how farmers will train “first responders” and build “containment facilities” if there is a flood of spilled milk."
(Emphasis added.) Is there no limit to how stupid liberals can be?

Mike Ramirez on the Green Movement

Obama Bumper Sticker Removal Kit (from 2010)


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Youtube  "You were drawn in by the promise of hope and change -- so much so that you decided to broadcast it on your car's bumper. Back then, you were proud to be seen in your Obama-mobile. Lately, however, you've gone from hopeful to woeful, and now you're stuck with a bumper sticker that you just wish would go away. You got change, but not one that you can believe in.
Like the bad tattoo that you got in college, your Obama bumper sticker is an embarrassment that seemed like a good idea at the time. Fortunately, now you can finally do something about it.


Top 10 Responses to Obama Bumper Sticker Removal Kit  With Brad Stine

Valerie Jarrett's Arrogance

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Thomas Lifson  "During an exclusive dinner hosted Monday by the Alfalfa Club, Obama adviser Valerie Jarret(sic) ...was seated at the head table along with several other big-name politicians and a handful of high-ranking military officials. As an officer sporting several stars walked past Jarrett, she signaled for his attention and said, "I'd like another glass of wine."
"Garçon!"