From the Washington Times:

Crossing party lines to deliver a stunning rebuke to the commander in chief, the vast majority of the House voted Friday for resolutions telling President Obama he has broken the constitutional chain of authority by committing U.S. troops to the international military mission in Libya.

In two votes — on competing resolutions that amounted to legislative lectures of Mr. Obama — Congress escalated the brewing constitutional clash over whether he ignored the founding document’s grant of war powers by sending U.S. troops to aid in enforcing a no-fly zone and naval blockade of Libya…

The GOP resolution giving two weeks for Obama to explain fully what we are doing in Libya passed – the Democrat resolution calling for immediate withdrawal failed, but found 87 Republicans voting in favor of it, along with 61 Democrats. All in all, 91 Democrats voted for one or the other, or both. A stunning, bi-partisan rebuke to the President.

As I’ve said, the reason Obama finds himself in this fix is not because he ordered an intervention in Libya, but because he didn’t seek Congressional approval while at the same time intervening in a manner guaranteed to result in a stalemate. Had he got Congressional authorization then it would be at least a year before anyone in Congress could muster serious support for a withdrawal resolution…and had he intervened with sufficient force at the right time, it would have been over weeks ago, making resolutions for a withdrawal moot.

Our President simply does not understand politics, nor does he understand military operations. This maladroit intervention is going to hang ’round his neck like an albatross from now until the end of his term…which I hope will be January 20th, 2013. He did it all wrong, and now he’s losing support all down the line…because of his boneheaded actions, he’s now someone who is mistrusted in Congress in the use of executive authority, and that weakens him on the world stage. A terrible state of affairs for America to be in.

2012 just can’t get here fast enough.

Seems that San Francisco has a ballot measure coming up to ban circumcision – natural enough for a home of liberal fascism…a place where you can perform oral sex in public, but pretty much everything else is banned. But there is a problem, here – you see, Jews (and Moslems, for that matter) circumcise as a matter of religious practice…and, so, a ban works out as something anti-Jewish. Proponents of the initiative say it isn’t, but a bit of campaign literature put out in favor of the ban indicates otherwise:

Evil looking Jews faced with a nordic super hero. Where have we seen this before? Oh, yeah, in Der Sturmer:

Liberal anti-Semitism? We report, you decide.

(The caption in the Der Sturmer picture goes, “The sword will not be sheathed. The Stürmer stands as ever In battle for the people and the fatherland. It fights the Jews because it loves the people.)

And its an NPR poll, boys and girls – from Life News:

A new poll conducted by Thomson Reuters for NPR, coming after a Gallup survey showing Americans oppose all or most abortions, finds a majority of Americans say having an abortion is wrong.

NPR asked “do you personally believe having an abortion is wrong” and 59.3 percent of Americans polled said yes compared with just 40.7 percent who said no. The youngest age category of those polled, under 35, gave the most pro-life responses with 65.5 percent saying that having an abortion is wrong…

As Lincoln said in reference to slavery – if abortion isn’t wrong, then nothing is wrong. I think this is starting to sink in – after all, you can propagandize all you like about “choice” but the fundamental fact of abortion is that it is a final solution to a temporary problem. It is just unjust – killing an innocent child because the mother and/or the father is an idiot. Let the kid live; put him or her up for adoption…but don’t kill, for crying out loud. That seems to be the growing attitude among the American people.

And do keep in mind that it took decades of relentless education to get us here. The easy way out always seems best – and back in the 70’s the easy way out of growing un-wed pregnancy seemed to be abortion. It was quick, it was easy, it was painless…and the broad majority went along with it when the Supreme Court usurped the rights of the States and of the people to regulate the practice. And, trust me, it looked like it was done, for good – that we would never get back to a nation of Life. Well, those opposed to abortion never lost heart…despite crude propaganda directed against it, the pro-life movement patiently and lovingly kept up the fight, and now the reward is being reaped.

It is probably still the work of another 20 years to get a ban on elective abortion, but its coming that way…life is, after all, a wonderful thing and every person being born is a blessing, not a curse.

From The Hill:

In his speech to the Faith and Freedom Conference today, Jon Huntsman emphatically denounced the idea of a truce on abortion.

“I do not believe the Republican party should focus only on our economic life — to the neglect of our human life.

That is a trade we should not make.

If Republicans ignore life, the deficit we will face is one that is much more destructive. It will be a deficit of the heart and of the soul.”

Smart rhetorical move. He talks in economic terms (“deficit”) about a social issue; thereby, highlighting both…

Indeed, very clever – now let’s see where he goes with this.

Seems that Mark Levin has had enough of conservative criticism of Sarah Palin – especially that being leveled by Charles Krauthammer. The DC Caller has the story:

…”The gentleman points out that Charles Krauthammer who is extremely thoughtful and measured in his words, even-tempered and so forth is all but that when it comes to Sarah Palin and very few of his arguments are substantive.”

However, Levin asked where she is wrong on the issues.

“Maybe there is one or two, but off the top of my head, I can’t think of any significant issue where Palin is not a conservative and where I disagree with her,” Levin said. “Can you?”…

I’ve long been an admirer of Krauthammer. He is one of the most intelligent and perceptive observers we have…but he does seem to have this blind spot about Sarah Palin. And he’s not the only one – plenty of people on the right, especially in the punditry-class, make objection after objection to Sarah Palin. But I’m with Levin on this – there aren’t any substantive criticisms being offered.

The only thing they can really hang their hat on is that Palin is, supposedly, “un-electable”. Well, so was Ronald Reagan. For that matter, so was Barack Obama. Think about it. Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton? Both needed a split opposition in order to have their political carcasses dragged across the finish line. Only a relative few Presidential candidates have ever been “electable” in the sense of there being no particular objection to their election – Dwight Eisenhower, Ulysses Grant, George Washington…everyone else had to have a series of lucky breaks and a lot of opposition errors to get in there. Sarah Palin is no more un-electable than anyone else out there.

This doesn’t mean that Sarah Palin can do it – or that she’ll even try. There is a possibility that she’ll opt to be a political king-maker in 2012 and beyond. There is a lot of advantage for her in such a role – great deal of power and influence without the burdensome responsibility of actually being President. But if she tries then whether she will win or lose won’t be based on a pundit’s estimate of her “electability” but upon how well (or badly) she campaigns combined with how well (or badly) the other side does…and, of course, with a backdrop of the course of events (if we’re sitting at 15% unemployment in October of 2012, Obama is pretty much done no matter what…5% and he’s pretty much re-elected).

If you don’t want Sarah Palin to be President, then tell us why – tell us what policies she is advocating which will be detrimental to the United States. Tell us precisely why you think the voters – 17 months from now – will certainly not decide to award her 270 electoral votes. Tell us why you know she can’t win – don’t just tell us she can’t. And if you can’t build a rational argument against her, then maybe the problem isn’t with Palin, but with you?

From Detroit Free Press:

Dr. Jack Kevorkian — embraced as a compassionate crusader and reviled as a murderous crank — died early this morning.

Known as Dr. Death even before launching his fierce advocacy and practice of assisted suicides, Kevorkian, 83, died at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, where he had been hospitalized with kidney and heart problems…

If he was in any way sincere about what he did, he would have hooked himself up to one of his own infernal machines and offed himself when it became clear there was no cure…but, no, he died in a hospital, which is where you go when you go when you want someone, some how, to keep you alive. Life being precious, after all.

Kevorkian was a serial killer who worked out a way to do his murders in broad daylight…and received plaudits from the rest of the Culture of Death for doing it. I hope a lesson has been learned here – anyone peddling death and despair is being a wicked mad man, not a hero.

Please offer prayers for the soul of our departed brother – while it may seem impossible that such a man can enter in to glory, with God all things are possible.

From Reuters:

Employers hired far fewer workers than expected in May and the jobless rate rose to 9.1 percent, raising concerns the economy might be stuck in a painful slow-growth mode…

Painful slow-growth mode? How about heading back in to recession? And that is because you can’t borrow and print your way in to real prosperity. Oh, sure, you can make the statistics look like there’s growth going on – but only for a while, and only at the cost of much worse economic times down the road. Government cannot create wealth because anything government does involves the use of wealth already created – depending on how it is used it can be a either an even exchange or a loss, but it can never be a net positive.

Unless and until we institute pro-growth policies – balanced budgets, low taxes, reduced regulations; ie, the creation of a free market in the United States – we will fundamentally get nowhere.

UPDATE: Are we already experiencing Great Depression levels of unemployment?

UPDATE II: For us to return to 2007 levels of employment we will have to create 250,000 jobs per month…until January, 2017. This can, actually, be done – if we go on a bender of making, mining and growing things. Here’s why, as long as Obama is President and liberals have power, we won’t: by “fracking” we’re finding massive, new deposits of oil to exploit in the United States. This falls under both the “mining” and “making” aspects of what we need…we’ll “mine” for the oil and then “make” oil-based products…naturally, liberals are aghast at this and are already working up complaints and lawsuits to stop “fracking”.

Until we get rid of liberalism, we’ll never get going.

The only way we can win in 2012 is to fight an aggressive – heck, hyper-aggressive – battle for the soul of America. Obama and his people have nothing – their hope is that a combination of fear-mongering and goody-dangling will convince a majority to stay with them. In order to break through these blandishments, we need someone who will just relentlessly attack the underlying assumptions of liberalism – someone who will point out that government debt is immoral, that merely passing out welfare checks is immoral, that the whole concept that government can make us happy and good is immoral. That if we wish to be decent, generous and good people we need a society of sobriety, hard work and thrift. A go-along-to-get-along, let’s work across the aisle Republican won’t be able to do it…because he will then be accepting the underlying premise of liberal governance: that government is what makes the world go ’round.

And that means, what? Well it means that our eyes should currently be moving towards Palin, Santorum, Cain, Bachmann and Pawlenty – each have, in their own ways, shown they both know what needs to be done and have the guts to try it. We can add in the possibilities of West, Ryan and Christie…while we dare not, unless they show some real fighting grit very soon, risk ourselves on a Romney, Gingrich or Huntsman. The future of our nation is at stake here. While we have it within us to revive and build ever higher, a nation can choose to decline and die – re-electing Barack Obama or electing a Republican who won’t be a revolutionary will be a choice to decline and die. Do we want America to be the most generous, powerful and richest nation in 2112? Then 2012 is the year we’ll decide it.

Remember, the Ruling Class – mostly Democrats but including a large number of Republicans – has already chosen: they just want to manage our decline and stay on top of the heap while we die. They choose this course of action, when you get down to it, when they found that they couldn’t win the Vietnam War the way they wanted…since they failed then, they assumed that America had failed, for good. Since about 1970, the Ruling Class has envisioned a world in which the United States becomes not just relatively weaker, but absolutely weaker…ever more international agreements to hamstring us; ever more of our State and personal sovereignty consigned to the central government or to international bodies; ever more welfare and government dependency to ensure we don’t rock the boat…ever more sociological drugs in the form of enervating popular culture. If we keep going as we have, we will finish as a nation – our grand children, at the tricentennial, will live in a world dominated not by the United States, but by dregs of a corrupt, dying international order. You want that? Then vote Obama – or RINO – in 2012.

I don’t know which of the fighters I’ll back in 2012 – but it will have to be a fighter, or no one. I don’t want any pussy-footing around. I want someone who will beat them until the fall, and then kick them while they’re down. I want someone who isn’t just hoping to put together an electoral college majority, but someone who is thinking of just how we can even win in the Democrat-heavy areas of the country. I want someone who will work on winning a dozen Senate and 25 House seats. I want someone who is in it not just to be President, but to utterly crush the enemies of liberty in the United States. Once that person firmly emerges from the field, that is the person I’ll back.

A warning shot across the bow – from Bloomberg:

…“It will be more challenging this time than it was last time to motivate our members,” Trumka, 61, said in an interview today at Bloomberg’s offices in Washington.

Trumka, head of the largest U.S. labor organization, said union members are frustrated by “wasted energy” in Washington on issues that he said don’t help workers: “hysteria” about the federal deficit, a White House review of regulations and Obama’s support for free-trade agreements.

Labor leaders said in recent weeks that they would withhold financial support in next year’s election from candidates who haven’t sided with unions consistently…

I remember how in 2008 the unions were convinced they were going to entirely get their way after the election. A Democrat Congress, a Democrat President…”card check” (which would allows unions to legally bully workers in to unionizing) was just the tip of the labor iceberg. They wanted it all – and were sure they were going to get it. What was to stop them? Only the fact that union policies are radioactive and even with a big majority, Democrats were afraid to go out on a limb for the unions. Now the unions have lost their Democrat House, have no ability to pass union legislation through the Senate…and aside from a few absurdities like Obama trying to stop Boeing from opening up a non-union factory in South Carolina, Obama isn’t really doing much to advance the union agenda at the executive level.

I guess Trumka has found out what he was really for – just to provide donations and muscle for the Democrat part of the Ruling Class. Now he’s trying to get conditions on his continued support. Fat chance – once you’ve sold your soul, it is very hard to get it back. Perhaps if Trumka and the rest of the union bosses had concentrated on being pro-worker, things would be different…but as tools of the Democrat party, all they’ve done is tied themselves to a losing cause.

I do wonder – what made anyone on the really think that leftist policies were popular? No, don’t try to tell me “Obama won”: Obama won in spite of his (mostly hidden) socialist views…anyone with any sense at all knows that 2008 was an effort to find the man most unlike President Bush, and Obama turned out to be him. There was no vote in favor of Obamunism…but they all came in to power with dreams of the socialist dawn. Now they’re about to find out just how badly they miscalculated…

Gotta be one of the most transparent attempts to influence politics I’ve ever seen:

Moody’s Investors Service warned Thursday that it might review the government’s Aaa debt rating for a possible downgrade as early as next month if there is no progress toward a deal in Washington to increase the $14.294 trillion federal borrowing limit and cut deficits…

I mean, come on – other than the economic “experts” who are routinely flabbergasted when economic data “unexpectedly” comes in bad, does anyone buy this line? We’re supposed to believe that if we don’t agree to pile on more debt then our debt rating will get worse? This is akin to saying we’ll never sober up unless we have another drink. Moody’s – a charter member of the bankster/bureaucrat gang of idiots – is just trying to stampede the GOP caucus in to voting for more debt.

The biggest worry our banksters have is that the free money will be cut off – that they’ll actually have to deal with their balance sheets rather than just “extend and pretend” their way in to fat, annual bonuses. The massive infusion of cash since late 2008 has allowed the “too big to fail banks” to act as if they’re not insolvent…stop that flow and their bankruptcy will be revealed. No more being the boss; no more fat paychecks, no more moving and shaking with the elite… it is a nightmare which cannot be borne. So, they are trying every trick in the book to keep the money flowing…and if that means suckering us in to agreeing to run up our debt to 120% of GDP, they’re ok with it.

And don’t think the banksters are in this by themselves. Oh, no – they’ve got their politicians, too. My goodness, do you know what might happen if the free money stopped and the banks failed? Economic recession, that’s what! And right in front of an election. Don’t you know what that would do to re-election prospects? For crying out loud, such an event could see Palin/West taking office in January, 2013…and those two clowns not only don’t know the right people in DC, New York and San Francisco, they don’t even care who the right people are! So, we gotta get that debt ceiling raised…and if that means we’ll have to tell people that granny will die of starvation if we don’t, then that lie is worth it.

Don’t fall for it, good people – we don’t need to raise the debt ceiling. Not now, not ever. All we need to do is control spending. Yes, I’m terribly sorry but we’ll have to spend less than we planned. In fact, if we just dialed back to the horrendously profligate budget year of 2004, we’d be running a surplus…not only not borrowing any more money, but paying off debt. No need for a debt ceiling increase there.

From now until 2012 just expect more and more of this – the Ruling Class is going to try and scare a majority in to thinking that if the Ruling Class goes, so goes the nation. But we know better – we know that if all the Bernankes, Soros’, Pelosis and Obamas in the world dropped of the face of earth tomorrow, it wouldn’t harm us in the least. And in 2012 we’re going to prove it by getting rid of all of them.