Posts filed under “Depends on the Definition of Change”
On Deficit-Financed Wars
This part of President Obama‘s Oval Office address was clearly aimed at Bush: Unfortunately, over the last decade, we’ve not done what’s necessary to shore up the foundations of our own prosperity. We spent a trillion dollars at war, often financed by borrowing from overseas. This, in turn, has short-changed investments in our own people, [...]
Trapped In A Kafkaesque Nightmare
Yahya Wehelie is an American citizen, born and raised in Virginia, trapped by President Obama‘s homeland security apparatus in a literally Kafkaesque nightmare which ranks right along with some of George Bush‘s most ludicrous homeland security shenanigans. This is far from the first time that Obama has been in the spotlight for seamlessly continuing the [...]
The Dream Team With Feet Of Clay
Back in January 2009, when President Obama was assembling his Justice Department team, liberal bloggers were giddy with excitement over the fine, fine people he was picking. Champions of the Constitution, and paragons of virtue, they were going to preside over the Constitution’s slow but complete recovery from the gang rape it had suffered for [...]
Enthusiasm
Shocking: Turnout among Dem voters dropped precipitously in 3 statewide primaries on Tuesday, giving the party more evidence that their voters lack enthusiasm ahead of midterm elections. In primaries in NC, IN and OH, Dems turned out at far lower rates than they have in previous comparable elections. [...] The latest weekly Gallup tracking survey [...]
Obama’s First Military Tribunal Case
Yesterday, the Obama administration proudly kicked off the “first major hearing of a military tribunal on (their) watch”. The poster child for the Obama military tribunals is a mere child. Or, at least, that’s what he was when he was captured, before being bunged into Guantanamo Bay. He has now spent a third of his [...]
In Defense Praise Of Military Commissions
Yesterday, attorney general Eric Holder held up military commissions for Guantanamo detainees as “not only appropriate, but also necessary.” It probably behooves us to ask: appropriate and necessary for what? Even he isn’t ready (yet) to argue that they are appropriate and necessary for the rule of law to triumph. They are appropriate and necessary [...]
NSA Wiretap Program NOT Declared Illegal
Yesterday, Judge Vaughn R. Walker handed down a ruling that the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping of Al Haramain, and two of its lawyers, in 2004 was illegal. At first blush, it may seem that Judge Walker held the NSA warrantless wiretapping program to be illegal. Especially when The New York Times‘ lede reads: A federal judge [...]
If You Were Against It When Bush Did It…
…it’s OK when Obama does it, right? The Obama administration will approve significant oil and gas exploration off America’s coasts, including a possible sale two years from now of leases off Virginia’s coast, administration officials said Wednesday. The move, which President Obama will announce Wednesday morning with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar at Andrews Air Force [...]
A Real Shot
It’s funny to me that people are speaking about the 2010 mid-terms as if the result wasn’t already baked in: “I think that there is a real shot we are going to get slaughtered in elections this fall if we aren’t leading the efforts to reform Washington. We campaigned in ’06 and ’08, and if [...]
I’m Sure the Pulitzer Committee Will Be Calling Me Any Minute Now
Obama’s liberal base ‘disengaged’ – USAToday (3/10/10): “The energized base which transformed the nation and elected our first black president (is) now disengaged,” Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile says. “If this was September, I would hit the panic button.” [...] Still, signs of trouble for the Democratic majority in Congress are springing up in: Virginia, [...]