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One must agree, Donald Trump as a candidate would be endlessly entertaining, at the least. So, NY Times writer goes after Trump – Trump fires right back:

Even before Gail Collins was with the New York Times, she has written nasty and derogatory articles about me. Actually, I have great respect for Ms. Collins in that she has survived so long with so little talent. Her storytelling ability and word usage (coming from me, who has written many bestsellers), is not at a very high level. More importantly, her facts are wrong!..

This, of course, in response to Trump raising the birth certificate issue. Just to be clear before we get started: My view is that Barack Obama was born in the United States. Furthermore, even if someone could demonstrate that he was born in Kenya, the fact that he was born to an American mother is sufficient, in my view, to make him a native-born American. Certainly he’s as much an American as any kid of an illegal immigrant just born here today. What is happening here, however, is that the refusal to simply dispose of the issue is keeping it alive…and allowing someone like Trump to make a lot of hay about it.

As to why Obama won’t simply clear up the matter is beyond me. I don’t know. Perhaps he is just annoyed with the questions and doesn’t want to show respect to those raising them? I can understand that because if anyone were to ever question the status of my birth, I’d tell them to go jump in a lake. It is highly doubtful that I would ever go to the trouble to find the original of my birth certificate and hand it off to critics. On the other hand, I’m not President of the United States and thus there isn’t much interest out there in where, precisely, I was born.

I’m not quite sure what Trump’s real plan is. It could just be media-mongering…the guy might like being in the lime light so much that he’ll use any means possible to get in to it. On the other hand, he has very correctly identified some of the problems facing the nation – especially in his harping on China’s unfair trade practices. It might be that he really is seriously thinking of running for President. One thing I have noted talking to people who love this nation but who aren’t political junkies, they are liking the fact that Donald Trump doesn’t hide behind mealy-mouthed words…he says what is on his mind.

In this, Trump could end up being formidable – whether he enters the GOP primary or seeks a third party run. And if he does really run for office, it could be that bringing up the birth certificate issue was just a clever means of getting him on the political map. How so? Well, regardless of what pundits and liberals and conservatives like me think about Obama’s nativity, for a large and (apparently) growing segment of the population the questions about Obama’s birth are just part of a pattern about Obama…the utter dishonesty of his biography, the secretiveness about his associations and accomplishments, his endless failure to level with the American people about what he really wants to do. When you want to attack a man in politics, its best to pick one, simple stick to start with…Trump has picked his, and its working.

From the IMF:

Mr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the following statement today on Portugal:

“The IMF has received a request for financial assistance from the Portuguese authorities and we stand ready to join the effort, together with our European partners, to help restore growth and financial stability in Portugal…”

The primary support for the IMF comes from the United States – and so, dear Americans, if you want to know who will be on the hook to help pay off Banksters who loaned Portugal too much money, look in the mirror. Yes, you can be mad at the Portuguese, if you like. They did go on a spending binge using borrowed money to give themselves a life style they hadn’t earned by hard work…but, then again, they wouldn’t have been able to do it if there weren’t bankers whose greed is only exceeded by their stupidity.

Think about it – from what I’ve read, Portugal, a nation of about 10 million people, needs $99 billion to square accounts. There is no way on earth that a population of 10 million – which is, by the way, declining because of a collapsed birth rate – can ever pay off $99 billion while also finding money for, you know?, living. It just can’t be done…but the Banksters loaned them that absurd amount and now want their money. Meanwhile, the Ruling Class is frightened that if the Banksters don’t get it, financial collapse will ensue with dangerous political consequences for, well, the Ruling Class. And, so, to the taxpayers they go…and not just us; they will also be hitting up European taxpayers, too.

More debt and more money printing…higher inflation and lower economic growth. All done because stupid people simply don’t want to face the consequences of their actions. Really, at best they are only buying some time. They are hoping against hope that some how, some way, a magical spurt of economic growth will ensue to create the phenomenal amount of new wealth necessary to both service the debt and make the newly printed money worth something. It won’t happen – we are doomed to financial collapse. The only question is how bad it will be – from really bad (the best-case scenario, right now) to utterly catastrophic (which is what we’ll get if we don’t stop this nonsense right quick).

Just burns me up – that it is happening and that there is little or nothing we can do to stop it before Election Day, 2012.

HAT TIP: Zero Hedge

Well, they (foolishly) averted a shut down:

After a long day of trading offers, the White House and House Republicans reached agreement Friday night on a budget framework that would cap 2011 appropriations near or below $1.050 trillion while cutting domestic and foreign aid by more than $40 billion from the rate of spending at the beginning of this Congress.

Behind the closed doors of special meeting of the Republican Conference, Speaker John Boehner presented the package to his party as at least an agreement in principle and said at one point: “We have a deal.” The Senate should now feel confident enough to move ahead with a stop gap spending bill to avert—or at least shorten—any shutdown beginning at midnight…

The only reason the Democrats agreed to a deal is because they figured they’d lose if the government shut down – that is absolute. Entirely political animals who don’t care about the fate of America, Democrats would have shut the government down for a month if they thought they’d gain an advantage out of it. We could have – and very much should have – pressed them to do it…we could have got $100 billion in cuts out of them.

But, still, we did get some cuts – and now its on to the fight over, first, the debt ceiling and then, more importantly, the 2012 budget. At least it is now known – and I hope the GOP leadership is paying attention – that the Democrats will not go for a shut down…they are deathly afraid of the American people figuring out that a shut down doesn’t affect American life. So, press them harder, next time.

Big question: How in heck did this get made?

But timely, none the less. Some times you really do have to commit your life, your fortune and your sacred honor for something more important than yourself.

Here’s why – from Open Secrets:

…In 2010, Planned Parenthood and a California affiliate together spent more than $700,000 on federal lobbying efforts, a Center for Responsive Politics analysis of federal lobbying records finds. By comparison, all other organizations that primarily advocate for abortion rights collectively spent $247,280 on federal lobbying efforts during the same period, according to the Center’s research.

Planned Parenthood’s political influence efforts hardly stop at lobbying.

The organization’s political action committee, for example, donated more than $148,000 to federal candidates — almost all Democrats — during the 2010 election cycle. The PAC spent more than $443,000 overall.

Planned Parenthood also recorded $905,796 in independent expenditures during the 2010 cycle — money spent in support of, or in opposition to, federal political candidates, largely through advertisements. The top beneficiaries of this money were Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.)…

And how can Planned Parenthood afford this massive effort? Because PP gets about a third of its annual budget from the federal government. Right around $360 million per year. When you have that kind of “free” money coming in, shelling out $1.6 million for politics is easy. You can claim all you want that no federal funds are used for abortions or for politics, but the PP budget is the PP budget…you have to budget for salaries, insurance, equipment, buildings, abortions and lobbying. If Reid the Magic Money Fairy comes along and gives you a bag of money to cover, say, salaries, insurance and equipment, then the money you would have spent on that can go for other things – like abortions and politics.

Democrats are fighting for PP not because of health care. Believe it or not, you can get a cancer screening – for free – plenty of other places; additionally, if PP is cut off from federal funds, they’ll still have more than $700 million to spend…not exactly chump change and that will cover a lot of cancer screenings. No, Democrats are fighting in the last ditch on this because almost all the money PP spends on politics goes to Democrats – in return for showering $360 million of other peoples money on PP, Democrats get a $1.6 million payout which works out to a clear profit for the Democrats of, well, $1.6 million. Its a great deal for PP and Democrats. Not so much for everyone else.

Meanwhile, of course, PP is actually quite a nauseating and inhuman organization. They are America’s largest abortion provider. They cover up rape and child abuse. They eagerly assist in other criminal, sexual activity. They are dishonorable and dishonest and no decent person should have anything to do with PP. A cut off of federal funds is just an exercise in basic morality and common sense. Naturally, Democrats fight against it.

HAT TIP: PJ Tatler

From The Hill:

…A spokesman for Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Friday morning said spending cuts, not social policy provisions, are the “largest issue” preventing an agreement to keep the government open.

“While nothing will be decided until everything is decided, the largest issue is still spending cuts,” Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said in an email. “The American people want to cut spending to help the private sector create jobs — and the Democrats that run Washington don’t.”…

Democrats are already in war mode on this – using the tired, worn out play book of the left that any spending cut is an attack upon the poor and helpless. We might as well get in to war mode, too – start attacking all the monumentally stupid spending the Democrats want to keep. Let’s have it out – a nice, contentious and long-term battle, and then let the people ultimately decide between the sides. This is a fight I’m sure we will win.

Think about this – we’re going to spend more than a trillion dollars more in 2012 than we spent in 2008. On what? I mean, seriously, its not like we weren’t spending bags of money in 2008 – what additional, vital government tasks require us to spend more than a trillion dollars more than we spent in 2008? Anyone got an answer for that? Can anyone say what government is doing now which (a) wasn’t done in 2008 and (b) is vital to the lives, safety and liberty of the American people?

Mountains of flapdoodle have been piled on to government…and the Democrats are merely trying to defend this, because that is how they buy votes and pay off campaign donors. It is time for this to come to an and – and it won’t come to an end unless we fight it out. Shut it down. Don’t give an inch – until Democrats agree to stop bankrupting America, make no deals.

From Daily Press:

The leader of the free world may be coming to Williamsburg for some rest and relaxation if Congress is able to come to agreement on the budget. President Obama and the First Family are planning to visit the area this weekend in what the White House described Wednesday as a “long-planned family trip to Colonial Williamsburg.”…

I’m sure they’ll have a great time – and I’m sure the President’s daughters will enjoy themselves and learn a bit of American history (perhaps even how to be proud of America before your husband is a front-runner for President?)…but it does seems a bit insensitive. I mean, what with wars going on, the nation going bankrupt and more and more Americans not being able to afford a family trip due to the high cost of gasoline…perhaps Obama might have just sent the girls and stayed home, himself?

Well, here’s what we’ll do – we’ll work night and day from now on to ensure that Obama has plenty of time to spend with his family come 2013.

Michael Yon’s latest:

…Today, spring 2011, we are making net progress in Afghanistan. I first began writing from here in 2006. In these five years I’ve brought you unending negative news on the matter of how well the Unites States and our allies have succeeded in meeting our goals in the war. But now, for the first time, the tide may be turning. Different enemy factions in this theater have been taking a brutal beating.

This isn’t the endgame. But the battle for 2011 is unfolding before our eyes. Recent observations suggest that it will be the most deadly so far…

The bottom line seems to be that good things are getting done, it is very difficult and often bloody work and, in the end, we can come out of Afghanistan with a win – or, at least, as much of a win as we’re likely to get. The troops on the ground (and, it must be noted, the various contractors and aid groups, as well as a goodly portion of the Afghan people) are willing to do what it takes – what will decide the fate of Afghanistan is our political will to see it through. Will we keep it up?

2012 is coming. Obama clearly would prefer to have Afghanistan done before he gets deep in to his re-election mode. The American people are tired of war – and increasingly distracted by domestic woes. The Taliban will want to try and drag things out and continue to sap our political will to keep it up. Everything is balanced on a knife edge…

I pray for our troops, for our allies and for our leaders to show the wisdom and courage necessary to do the right thing.

May happen – from CBS:

The United States may consider sending troops into Libya with a possible international ground force that could aid the rebels, according to the general who led the military mission until NATO took over.

Army Gen. Carter Ham also told lawmakers Thursday that added American participation would not be ideal, and ground troops could erode the international coalition and make it more difficult to get Arab support for operations in Libya.

Ham said the operation was largely stalemated now and was more likely to remain that way since America has transferred control to NATO…

This is what comes of not moving at the right time. As I’ve said, had we moved early, a bit of air power would have been enough to topple Gaddafi when the rebels were right outside Tripoli. By the time we did move, air power was only sufficient to ensure that Gaddafi wasn’t able to roll over the rebels. At that time, ground forces should have been on the table – and right off the coast of Libya…and, at need, an airborne division and Marine regiment or two should have dropped on Tripoli as the rebels were advancing. That would have finished it. Now, air power is insufficient and we’d probably have a pretty nasty fight on our hands if we tried to get right in to Tripoli.

So what’s next? If we don’t just wash our hands of it, it will have to take a major ground force effort…both to back up the rebels as well as ensure they can advance. At least a division of troops (about 20,000 or so) will be necessary to finish this thing off – as well as the willingness to both take and lose lives. What will Obama do? I don’t know, but I’m not at all hopeful that we’ll either get out or go all the way in…my fear is that we’ll just hang around as things get worse.

As an aside, anyone besides me note how rebel movements in the Moslem world seem to have cooled down? Its like they no longer have any faith that the international community will help them, or something…

Hot Air has an ongoing thread of the stunning news coming out of Wisconsin where, on Wednesday, all and sundry figured the union-tool had eked out a victory over justice…but now things may have changed dramatically:

In a political bombshell, the clerk in a Republican stronghold released new vote totals adding a net total of 7,582 new votes in the tight state Supreme Court race to Justice David Prosser, swinging the race significantly in his favor.

Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus said Thursday that she failed to save in her computer and consequently report 14,315 votes cast in the city of Brookfield, omitting them entirely in an unofficial tally released after Tuesday’s election. The new totals give 10,859 more votes to Prosser from Brookfield and 3,456 more to Kloppenburg, she said. Smaller discrepancies turned up in two other communities as well…

Liberals, naturally, are upset – and that is a good thing. Stay tuned.

UPDATE: From the comments over at Hot Air:

I’m very late to this thread, but does anybody else half-suspect that maybe the Republicans in Wisconsin finally did something on purpose in order to outfox the vote-fraud artists? Like — deliberately hold back thousands of ballots and claim that they had fewer votes than they actually did so that the fraudsters would adjust their vote counts to a figure that was too low?

If that’s what the Republicans did, then they deserve an “attaboy” for strategic thinking. 🙂

I did get the distinct impression on election night that someone had the slows in reporting the numbers from GOP strong holds…no evidence, just a sensation, as it were. This, to me, was good tactics – it is very hard for Democrats to steal an election when they don’t know how many votes they need. Regardless of what actually happened, the rule must be from now on that solidly GOP districts must not report until very, very late…count ’em by hand if you have to, but go as slow as possible. Make the Democrats shove their fraud through before they’re sure how many they need…that’ll put a huge spoke in their vote fraud wheel.