Getting it wrong before he even gets to the Presidential starting gate:

Beyond the debt and the deficit, in Daniels’s telling, all other issues fade to comparative insignificance. He’s an agnostic on the science of global warming but says his views don’t matter. “I don’t know if the CO2 zealots are right,” he said. “But I don’t care, because we can’t afford to do what they want to do. Unless you want to go broke, in which case the world isn’t going to be any greener. Poor nations are never green.”

And then, he says, the next president, whoever he is, “would have to call a truce on the so-called social issues. We’re going to just have to agree to get along for a little while,” until the economic issues are resolved…

To call a truce in the matter of social issues is to surrender them to the left – because they will never, ever call a truce. This is one of thing which burns me up about some Republicans – the way they don’t get it about the left: they are in it to win the whole ball of wax.

The left wants America to be a carbon-copy of Canada, or France. Everything controlled by government, moral depravity given public support, Christianity booted out of the public square (they wouldn’t even mention Christianity in the proposed European constitution – as if anyone can make any sense of Europe without a grasp of Christianity) and the people disarmed, welfare addicted and prevented from actually changing the way things are done in government. It is what they want and they will never call a truce and will never compromise – anything they get in negotiations is just one more step on the path to total victory.

Don’t get me wrong, the economic and fiscal crisis in the United States commands priority but nothing exists in isolation. You won’t be able to sustain a free market economy if you have a population on welfare. People who are waiting for their government checks are not likely to be much moved by appeals to individual responsibility. Daniels might win the battle for a tax cut – but he’ll lose the war unless the people have the internal grit necessary to take advantage of a low tax economic climate.

There is a triad of things we must do to rescue our nation:

1. Balance the budget, lower the tax burden.

2. De-fund the left – taking away the massive government subsidies to things like Planned Parenthood who undermine the very concept of freedom which makes a low-tax, low-regulation environment worth while.

3. Vigorously investigate all forms of political corruption in the United States.

None of these things can be done in isolation – success in any one of them requires success in the other two. We can’t balance the budget without de-funding the left; we can’t de-fund the left unless we expose the corruption whereby the left gains its government subsidies; we can’t investigate corruption unless we make it part of a general reform of government as opposed to something which could be cast as a political witch-hunt. All are necessary, all are connected and failure in any one of the three will mean that our nation’s story is told.

And Mitch Daniels wants to call a truce! That, in and of itself, shows that he’s not ready to be the sort of President we need. Competent he would be; he would get some good things done – but unless he fully engages in the entire battle to restore America, everything he does will be ultimately pointless.

Goodness, this is getting weird:

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) called for South Carolina to investigate the circumstances that led to Alvin Greene winning the Democratic Senate primary in his state earlier this week.

“There were some real shenanigans going on in the South Carolina primary,” Clyburn said during an appearance on the liberal Bill Press radio show. “I don’t know if he was a Republican plant; he was someone’s plant.”…

This is the guy the Democrats elevated to the Majority Whip post – one of the highest positions in the House and one of the most influential in the nation. A place normally to be held by a sensible, hard nosed realist is filled by a man who is clearly unbalanced mentally. A Republican plant? How about you idiots in the Democratic party just plain and simple blew it?

Can’t get these cretins out of office fast enough…

Noted by Mitt Romney:

Has it come to this again? The president is meeting with his oil spill experts, he crudely tells us, so that he knows “whose ass to kick.” We have become accustomed to his management style — target a scapegoat, assign blame and go on the attack. To win health care legislation, he vilified insurance executives; to escape bankruptcy law for General Motors, he demonized senior lenders; to take the focus from the excesses of government, he castigated business meetings in Las Vegas; and to deflect responsibility for the deepening and lengthening downturn, he blames Wall Street and George W. Bush. But what may make good politics does not make good leadership. And when a crisis is upon us, America wants a leader, not a politician…

Unfortunately, all we’ve got is a politician – who only seemed to get galvanized to action when the polling started to go against him. Think about it – still no Presidential action on the floods in Tennessee. Why? No major MSM coverage (just as there wasn’t at the start of the oil leak) and thus no growing sense of crisis – and no effect on the President’s polling numbers.

Once the scope of the Gulf disaster could no longer be ignored, things started to look increasingly rocky for Obama and his Democrats – especially with the mid-terms looming. So, “action” started to be taken – mostly in laying blame, finger pointing and attempting to use the crisis to advance the leftist agenda. Lots of action, but still no leadership – and after all this time, as we approach the two month point, its clear we’re never going to get any. This problem will be solved by the ad hoc actions of people like Governor Jindal, not by Obama…Jindal is a leader in politics, Obama is just a politician.

The spill is not Obama’s fault. BP’s gross failure to recognize how bad it was is not Obama’s fault. What is Obama’s fault is his complete inability to take the clear, hard decisions necessary to repair the damage as swiftly as possible. This is all we’ve seen from Obama – its all we’re ever going to get from him. We’ve got an Occupant in Chief in the White House, not a President.

From Rasmussen:

Sharron Angle, following her come-from-behind Republican Primary win Tuesday, has bounced to an 11-point lead over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada’s closely-watched U.S. Senate race.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Nevada, taken Wednesday night, shows Angle earning 50% support while Reid picks up 39% of the vote.

The Reid smear machine is gearing up – he knows he can’t win on his record and his only hope is to make Angle do odious that Nevadan’s hold their nose and vote for him. We can’t let him do that – but to stop him, its going to take some money. Reid has millions from the special interests who have bought him – Angle needs $25 from you.

Give it to her – and lets send Harry Reid back to Searchlight.

Congratulations, Mr. President – you’ve brought us back to 1997:

The number of customers applying for a mortgage to purchase a property fell to the lowest level in 13 years last week, a sign the housing market is struggling without government incentives.

Purchase volume declined 5.7 percent and is at its lowest point since February 1997, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Wednesday.

Overall mortgage application volume, which includes loans for purchases and refinancings, dropped by 12.2 percent during the week ending June 4, compared with the previous week. Refinance volume tumbled 14.3 percent…

A strong pitch is being made behind the scenes for a renewal of the $8,000 home purchase tax credit – the real estate industry is facing complete disaster, and they want their federal subsidy. Never mind that it will make things worse in the long run – the people running the real estate show only care about the next month or two. Fortunately, for them at least, our government seems incapable of looking even a week in to the future, so the credit might well be renewed.

The longer we put off the drop of home prices to actual market value, the worse it will be when we are finally forced to allow it to happen. National bankruptcy is, at most, only five years away – some time between now and then it will become absolutely impossible to sustain current home price levels, and crash they’ll go (personally, I don’t think they can keep it up much longer – but Obama, Bernanke and the boys are determined to keep trying).

This is the change we can really believe in – only its for the worse.

Tuesday saw a surge of pro-life women candidates:

Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser called Tuesday’s victories for pro-life women candidates “the greatest affirmation of our mission in the history of the organization,” and “proof that Americans are responding to authentic, pro-life feminism.”

“We applaud Americans in California, New Jersey, Nevada, South Carolina and South Dakota for taking steps to support authentic, pro-life feminism with their votes,” said Dannenfelser. “Now more than ever, we need pro-woman, pro-life leadership. These women will usher in the year of the pro-life woman and win back critical pro-life margins in the House and Senate.”…

The liberal feminists were, if anything, in continual war against all that women stand for. Faith, family and home are words of insult on the left – but now women who are smart, strong and successful while at the same time pro-life and pro-family are rising to the top.

It is a sign of political health that such women as Sharron Angle and Carly Fiorina can rise so high – especially when some of the women who won on Tuesday were written off early on in the primary campaign (at one point, Angle polled a mere 5%). This is now the real Year of the Woman – the pro-life, patriotic, independent and courageous woman.

The world is being turned up side down – and at the end of this year, nothing will ever be the same in American politics again.

A necessary statement from the floor of the House:

The Turks and the rest of the Islamists must be made to understand that Obama and Co are a passing thing in the United States – Israel’s friends are legion, and we will get back in to power in the by and by.

The lady has pull:

Some of Sarah Palin’s riskiest endorsements scored major victories Tuesday for the former Alaska governor, showing off her power in Republican primaries.

Palin had four primary endorsements in play – Carly Fiorina, Nikki Haley, Terry Branstad and Cecile Bledsoe – and three won or moved on to a runoff.

Palin served different roles for each candidate – sometimes spotlighting conservatives not well known to the national scene while at others validating conservative credentials to an unsure grassroots and even stepping in to deflect nasty attacks.

Whether she decides to run in 2012 or not, she’ll be carrying a lot of political weight all through the 2012 campaign. In a time of political upheaval, someone who’s conservative/populist credentials are spotless like Palin’s will be able to use her endorsement again and again to either defend someone against attacks or shoot them in to public notice. Especially if, as I expect, her actions secure a lot of GOP victories in November, she will be a king maker in the Republican party.

This, on the whole, is good for the party – we need someone who can stand up for principle. And in the long run, this might be a better service to us than even her being President.

Excellent idea, but dangerous:

Although most of the recent talk regarding flotillas has revolved around ships sailing toward Gaza, at least two plans have emerged for “reverse flotillas” – from Israel toward Turkey – to highlight what organizers have labeled the Turks’ “shameless hypocrisy” in their criticisms of the Jewish state.

The most ambitious of the two plans has been devised by members of Israel’s National Student Union, who this week announced their intention to set sail toward Turkey, in an effort to bring humanitarian aid to the “oppressed people of Turkish Kurdistan” and to members of the “Turkish Armenian minority.”

Which is all quite true – the Turks have behaved brutally with the Kurds and Armenians; far worse than anything the Israelis have done to anyone. No notice is really taken of it because the Turks aren’t Jewish or American, and thus there’s no upside to talking of their savagery. You get no notice in the press, no invites to human rights conferences and, of course, given that the Turks are Moslem there’s always that chance you’ll wind up dead if you look cross eyed at them.

Given the nature of the Turkish government, I would advise these young Israelis not to actually carry it out. The IDF was forced to defend itself against terrorists and 9 people died – the Turks might well massacre everyone in the flotilla even if no resistance is offered. Its a grand gesture, but I can never support a move where innocent people might be killed to no good effect – it won’t stop the lies about what is going on in Gaza, nor will it stop what is truly happening in Turkish occupied Kurdistan.

And this is from Fox News, and so demonstrates how even in a place where they are trying to be fair, they still slip in to inaccuracy in favor of a pre-set story line – the headline:

Mexican Teen Killed by U.S. Border Patrol Agent

So, the story is about a Mexican killed by a US Border Patrol Agent, right? Well, that is the story if you follow the “America defending the borders is bad” meme – but here’s the real news, noted only in the 7th paragraph:

The official, who agreed to discuss the matter only if not quoted by name, said the video also shows what seem to be four Mexican law enforcement officers driving to the edge of the dry but muddy bed of the Rio Grande, walking across to the U.S. side, picking up an undetermined object and returning to Mexico near the area where the boy’s body was. Like their U.S. counterparts, Mexican law officers are not authorized to cross the border without permission.

Law enforcement officials of the Mexican government illegally entered the United States – and did so in order to manufacture evidence that US Border Patrol agents had crossed in to Mexico to shoot a Mexican citizen! That is the story! The story we’ve heard again and again – but always kept quite: Mexican officials, including allegations of armed Mexican soldiers, crossing our borders.

But, it doesn’t fit the MSM story line – and so its buried in the story and not given any context. Until we get an MSM – an entire MSM – which will tell the truth and the whole story, we will continue to be ill-served by the organizations which allegedly inform us of the day’s events.