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Just like the filthy fever swamps of anti-American, anti-Israeli, anti-western bigotry – normally, such a kook as Freeman wouldn’t be a problem, but he’s to be the man advising President Obama on intelligence matters:

It should be pointed out that, despite his position as former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Freeman seems not to have too deep an understanding of the history of the Middle East. For instance, after the first Gulf War, Freeman told the left-wing journalist Alexander Cockburn that the prospect of an Iraq fractured by sectarian warfare was unlikely because, after all, the Shia and Sunni are actually pretty close pals.

“The behavior of the Iraqi Shia in the Iran-Iraq war convinced the Saudis that the Shia were not Iranian surrogates. Washington was obsessed by that idea, and attributed it to the Saudis. I don’t know where all this panic about the breakup of Iraq came from. After all, Mesopotamia has been there for quite a while-about six thousand years. Iraq is not a flimsy construction.”

The man knows nothing but the leftist bigotry he’s paid to parrot – and Obama, or his handlers, have selected him to handle the intelligence portfolio of the Administration! I mean, one must start to think that Freeman has some pretty nasty dirt on someone in the Obama Administration – if it isn’t that, then we have to go with Obama and his handlers being the most ignorant set of fools to ever govern a nation.

The MSM headline when Bush mangled his words:

Bush stumbles while asserting progress in education

The MSM headline when Hillary mangled her words:

Tongue-tied Clinton gets warm EU welcome

Now, what did Bush say?

“As yesterday’s positive report card shows,” Bush said, “childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured.”

And what did Hillary say?

Hillary Clinton raised eyebrows on her first visit to Europe as secretary of state when she mispronounced her EU counterparts’ names and claimed U.S. democracy was older than Europe’s…

…”I have never understood multiparty democracy.

“It is hard enough with two parties to come to any resolution, and I say this very respectfully, because I feel the same way about our own democracy, which has been around a lot longer than European democracy.”

Bush “stumbles” because, you see, he’s a hick moron…Hillary is “tongue-tied” because she’s a genius liberal…

Meanwhile, all Bush did was accidentally put an “s” at the end of “children”, while Hillary showed massive ignorance of basic facts.

It was in 1993, along with Virginia – and in both Virginia and New Jersey, the GOP is the early favorite:

Gov. Jon S. Corzine could face a tough re-election bid, according to the results of a new poll showing his approval ratings slipping and the Democrat trailing his likely Republican challenger.

Only 40 percent of registered voters polled in the Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind survey released Wednesday approved of Corzine’s job performance, with 46 percent disapproving upside down from results released in January.

At the same time, Corzine is behind former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie by 9 percentage points in a theoretical matchup, 32 percent to 41 percent.

The survey comes in the midst of a state budget crisis and follows Corzine’s proposal to cut more than $1 billion from the budget and to furlough state workers for two days to help close a $3.6 billion gap in the current state spending plan, brought on by plummeting revenues.

It also comes days before the governor is set to unveil the Fiscal Year 2010 budget, with sharp cuts and other actions expected to offset a projected $6 billion to $7 billion shortfall, potentially including additional furloughs, and even layoffs, if public workers continue to resist a wage freeze.

“When budgets are cut, public employees laid off, and taxes are in danger of being raised, lots of people think twice about their support for the incumbent,” said PublicMind poll director Peter Woolley.

Naturally, this is still waaaay the heck early and Corzine has vast resources to apply to his re-election bid, but no Democrat can be pleased that the GOP is holding the advantage in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial contests. Especially when one considers that we’re still pretty heavily into the Glo-Bama phase of the Obama Administration and he’s still riding high at around 60% approval. If Obama’s popularity tanks – highly likely given the economic disaster we’re heading into – then the headwind against Democrats will just become stronger and stronger.

I’m all in on this idea:

An organization called Tax Day Tea Party is getting ready to stage a national tea party on April 15 income tax return day, protesting what day call the “out of control government spending.”

The Tax Day Tea Party is the second round of the Nationwide Tea Party protests. The first tax party was in Chicago. It built upon the success of the February 27th “Chicago Tea Party” Rallies.

The organizers are now working to develop an even larger day of protests set to happen on April 15th, 2009 and have named it National Tax Day Tea Party.

If we can really gin up interest in this, we should turn it into a nationwide general strike – everyone who works to take April 15th off and pour into the streets to let the politicians know that we are, finally, mad as heck and aren’t going to take it any more. No more of this utter BS where bankrupt corporations like GM and Citi get billions of our dollars while we’re sitting down here wondering what to do with houses worth 50% of their value of two years ago. I haven’t even looked at my 401K in a month as I just don’t want to see it.

Yes, its very true that I’m a conservative – but don’t any of you liberals feel a bit burned by now? I mean, come on: the guy promised us not a single earmark, and now it looks like we’ve got 9,000 of them coming down the pike. Just how many tax cheats has he nominated? We, the people, need to stand up for a moment here – demand that this stop, and work to defeat every single politician we can who proposes higher taxes in a recession, proposes pork-barrel projects while people are losing their homes, proposes that Big Union and Big Corporation get our money.

We’re heading for catastrophe here (and don’t even get me started on foreign and defense policy), and only we, the people, can stop it.

Given how bad Obama’s decisions have been and the ever clearer disaster he’s leading us to, when can we start calling for him to resign?

I’m going with October 1st.

UPDATE: Roger Kimball asks – is he incompetent, or malevolent?

Via a “we’ll help ya die” “assisted suicide” law passed in Washington state this past November with the assistance of the Orwellian-named “Compassion & Choices”:

An assisted suicide group has announced it will compile a directory of physicians who will assist terminally ill patients seeking lethal medication prescriptions after a Washington state assisted suicide law takes effect on Thursday. The group expects a “cultural shift” in the state will encourage more doctors to assist in suicides.

The move follows the passage of Washington’s Initiative 1000, which won nearly 60 percent of the vote in the November 2008 election.

Under the law, two doctors must certify that the suicidal patient has a terminal condition and has six months or less to live. The patient must be a state resident and must make two oral requests 15 days apart and submit a written request witnessed by two people.

Physicians and pharmacists are not required to write or fill lethal prescriptions if they are opposed to doing so.

Some hospitals are opting out of participation, which prevents doctors from participating in assisted suicides on hospital property, the Associated Press reports.

The group Compassion & Choices, formerly known as the Hemlock Society, backed the ballot measure.

The group’s executive director Rob Miller told the Associated Press the group is now compiling a directory listing physicians who are not opting out of the law and pharmacies willing to fill lethal prescriptions for the suicidal terminally ill.

“Physicians don’t understand yet exactly how the law works,” Miller explained. “Whenever there’s lack of understanding, there tends to be some reluctance.”

Some reluctance, indeed – but the “compassionate” murderers hope to get the ball rolling soon and, after people are desensitized, just start whacking people all the time who have become elderly, ill or otherwise inconvenient. I recall with my late mother-in-law that the doctors told us six months before she died that she’d be dead in a few weeks…if the Hemlock people had been around, someone might have offed her, and we would have missed having her around for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. God calls people home when they he, in his completely superior wisdom, knows they should go – for any one of us tiny, frail beings to try and figure out when we or anyone else should go is the acme of arrogance.

Where do we get these people who think that death is the answer? Don’t want the kid you’ve brought into the world? Kill him. Grandpa getting on in years and becoming a bit of a hassle to care for? Kill him. Having a bad time? Kill yourself.

Right now I’m in the process of caring for my father in what is very likely his last few months on Earth – this involves doing some rather graphic things which, in the normal course of events, one would never want to do…but, he’s my father and I’m glad to have him around for a while longer and he expresses joy that he is still here, even though he needs help even with some of the very basic tasks of daily living. These Hemlock-murderers would have me try to talk Dad into killing himself…or they would try to talk him into it, directly…explaining how his quality of life just isn’t “good enough”. A bunch of anti-human horsesh** is all that is. We’re all terminally ill, and have been since the moment of conception. We’re all gonna die – and, you know what?, you might die tomorrow, while in the pink of health…so why not kill yourself right away?

Last night I took the old man out for a little while – he played a little blackjack (he won $35, while they cleaned me out), had himself a scotch and soda, smoked a couple cigarettes and generally enjoyed himself. I had to use a wheel chair to get him in and out of the place and had to help him dress before going, and undress before he went to bed. I wouldn’t give that up for all the money in the world – and my Dad enjoyed being out; it is now a precious moment in my memory which I will carry with me to my grave. A comfort and a reminder, and a promise that one day we’ll all be back together again.

Kill him, or take him out for a scotch – you tell me, which was the better thing to do.

Of all the monumentally stupid foreign policy mistakes Obama and Co have already made, this may prove the most boneheaded:

My fellow columnist Gordon G. Chang made a piquant point in this space last week in his preview of Hillary Clinton’s trip to East Asia–her first trip abroad as secretary of state. Chiding her for what he regarded as a scheduling misjudgment, he wrote that “she should have reserved time for a stop-over” in India. I agree with him 100%.

Ironically, even as Mrs. Clinton was packing her valise for Beijing, a senior spokesman for the Congress Party, which heads the ruling coalition in New Delhi, made an impassioned freelance appeal for George W. Bush to be awarded the Bharat Ratna (“Jewel of India”), the country’s highest civilian award. The Bharat Ratna is a big, big deal in India and has been awarded only 41 times since its inception in 1954–and only twice to non-Indians, one of whom was the sainted Nelson Mandela. The Congress Party quickly distanced itself from its spokesman’s appeal, no doubt regarding it as a particularly impolitic show of nostalgia for Bush so early in the Age of Obama.

But the truth is that, for all his unpopularity in the U.S. (and Europe, and Latin America, and the Middle East, and practically everywhere else outside Albania and Georgia), Bush is a much-appreciated figure in India–at least in high policy circles. As many have noted, both in Washington and New Delhi, the one indisputable foreign policy success of the eight Bush years was America’s invigorating new alliance with India…

And there goes Hillary to China and Obama finds time to talk to Hamas terrorists…but no one seems to be paying attention to India. The author goes on to generously suggest that Hillary’s failure to visit India isn’t a slight to India – but the plain fact of the matter is that the “special relationship” we’ve had with Britain since World War Two should now be transferred to India. In confronting Chinese ambitions, fighting Islamist terrorism and maintaining democratic solidarity, India and the United States require the assistance of each other. Everything which can be done to keep India on side should be done – and the Obama Administration doesn’t even seem to notice.

Perhaps because India is a democracy it is incapable of being so relentlessly corrupt that Democrats will fall all over themselves to get in on the swag – as regards China, its clear that Hillary has a serious conflict of interest. Or it might just be that India isn’t on the left’s radar – Euro- and Commie-centric, America’s left probably couldn’t spot India on a map.

I hope that someone in the Obama Administration swiftly wakes up on this issue – we need India, India needs us and the world is a safer place when India and the United States work together.

And I defy anyone to say they are surprised about this:

Even as news of the investigation into mega-lobby firm PMA Group grows, Democrats are fighting efforts to check the tarnished group’s influence.

The FBI raided PMA’s offices last November, as well as the stately exurban mcMansion belonging to the firm’s founder, Paul Magliocchetti. The probe appears to center on suspected phony campaign donations tied to the group. (A spokesman for the group declined to comment.)

In what could politely be described as a rearguard action, Democratic lawmakers have defeated an effort to start a congressional ethics investigation into the firm.

Why are Democrats being so brazen?

1. Because Democrats know that their own people are too servile and incurious to hold them to account.

2. Democrats believe they have a lock on power for another 60 years, and thus only have to please their own servile and incurious people.

Its already quite toxic in DC these days – everything is for sale and no one is calling the corrupt to account. Obama’s talk of honesty is long been proven the most laughable of lies; its got so bad in the Administration, with tax cheat after tax cheat being nominated, that its clear Obama never for a minute intended to conduct the nation’s business honestly. As for Pelosi’s long-forgotten pledge for the most ethical Congress, one might as well pine for the Moon as expect that to happen.

We’ll have to see if Democrats are right about their immunity – with their attempts to silence the critics, they might be able to make it happen. Personally, I don’t think they will be able to do so, but anything is possible with people this corrupt.

There is something incredibly wrong when the White House and the Democratic Party cares more about going after critics in the media like Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli, and Jim Cramer than going after terrorists.

What can we take from these acts of desperation? Well I think the obvious thing is that the Obama campaign didn’t end on Election Day… it is still in full force. The difference between now and before the inauguration is that Obama can (and will) use government resources to bully and/or silence his critics. I fully expect that conservative pundits will find themselves audited at least once over the next four years… a similar intimidation tactic used by the Clinton administration.

In the end this tactic of attacking Obama’s critics, especially Rush Limbaugh, will backfire.

The strategy took shape after Democratic strategists Stanley Greenberg and James Carville included Limbaugh’s name in an October poll and learned their longtime tormentor was deeply unpopular with many Americans, especially younger voters. Then the conservative talk-radio host emerged as an unapologetic critic of Barack Obama shortly before his inauguration, when even many Republicans were showering him with praise.

Soon it clicked: Democrats realized they could roll out a new GOP bogeyman for the post-Bush era by turning to an old one in Limbaugh, a polarizing figure since he rose to prominence in the 1990s.

Limbaugh is embracing the line of attack, suggesting a certain symbiosis between him and his political adversaries.

“The administration is enabling me,” he wrote in an e-mail to POLITICO. “They are expanding my profile, expanding my audience and expanding my influence. An ever larger number of people are now being exposed to the antidote to Obamaism: conservatism, as articulated by me. An ever larger number of people are now exposed to substantive warnings, analysis and criticism of Obama’s policies and intentions, a ‘story’ I own because the [mainstream media] is largely the Obama Press Office.”

The Democrats, now lead by Barack Hussein Obama, are attempting to make up for their lack of leadership by making Rush Limbaugh their scapegoat… But the notion that Rush leads the GOP is just as silly as saying Chris Matthews or Keith Olbermann lead the Democrat Party.

Any President should have bigger fish to fry than his critics in the media. He fooled a lot of people on Election Day into thinking he was ready to be president, but he has yet to act presidential while in office.

Just can’t figure out what to write, dear people.

Have at it.