Cheney on Defining Leadership
Liz Cheney on Obama’s response to the BP oil spill: “You know you’ve got a president who believes that saying something makes it so. You showed it in the last segment when he said he was going to have the most transparent administration in history. But, that doesn’t mean you’re actually going to be open and transparent. It’s not the same thing as we’ve seen with him. On the war, he says he knows were at war but he doesn’t actually understand he has to lead us in the fight… And, going down to Louisiana he says, “Gosh, I’m heart-broken. I’m angry. I’m frustrated.” And then going on vacation to Chicago really doesn’t send a message that this is a man who’s leading… A gift for reading the TelePrompter is not the same as leadership.“
24% of Americans Feelin the Love for Obama
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll this week shows that 24% of the nation’s voters still Strongly Approve of the job that Barack Obama is doing as president. The number for Strongly Disapprove is now 44%, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -20.
Mhew, the Won doesn’t care what the bitter-clingers think. With the Gulf Oil spill turning catastrophic, the stock market tanking, Europe set to riot, and North Korea about to start a new war, Barry is heading to Chicago for a long weekend of golf and rest. Nothing bothers this cool joker, nothing at all…
Your Duty as a Juror
“If the law is just, juries will naturally rule on the facts of the case. The criminal nature of intentional physical harm to person or property, and theft of property, by force or fraud, is nearly universally agreed upon. The common law has little to fear from nullification. The problem arises only when legislators criminalize failure to obey their statutes, many of which (every tax statute, every gun statute, every drug statute, every registration and licensing statute) are themselves criminal. These statutes could not be enforced if juries were told of their age-old right and duty to judge the alleged law as well as the alleged law-breaker. May it become so.”
– Bill St. Clair
f you want to know your rights as a juror, see fija.org.
Soaking Up Oil With … Hair
And the hay technique…
These ideas are a simple, economical, and ecologically safe way to clean up the Gulf oil spill AND THEY CAN START TODAY! If we can just get the GOVERNMENT AIRHEADS out of the way and let the people handle this…
Martha Meets the “Dangerous” Sarah
Back in November, 2009, Martha Stewart had said former Governor Sarah Palin was “very boring to me” and called her someone who was “confused.” Asked if she had actually watched any of Palin’s interviews, Stewart snarked, “ I wouldn’t watch her if you paid me.“ Stewart also called the guv “a dangerous person“ – and Martha should know she’s been to prison!
Yikes! Well, you never know when you’re gonna meet your worst nightmare at one of these elite media events. Stewart ran into the future Madame President at the Time’s 100 gala.
Don’t you love how Sarah has the moxie (and forgiveness) to walk up to all these libs who bash her, offer her hand in friendship, and says “hello, I’m Sarah.” That Sarah Palin would have such social grace must blow the mind of someone like Martha Stewart. Delicious irony there …
BP Oil + Obama are ThisClose
You think Dick Cheney has ties to Big Oil? Nah, the name is Obama. Barak Hussein Obama. From a Politico report:
While the BP oil geyser pumps millions of gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama and members of Congress may have to answer for the millions in campaign contributions they’ve taken from the oil and gas giant over the years.
BP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million to federal candidates over the past 20 years, with the largest chunk of their money going to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36783.html#ixzz0n51Gy500
Why Palin is the Left’s Worst Nightmare
In a piece he titles “Palin and the Leftist Elites,” Mark Hendrickson makes some key observations about what it means to be a progressive and a liberal – just obvious things that the left themselves overlook.
The left can’t stand that Palin, like Reagan, is not an “intellectual” – such as the left (highly) regards themselves. “To leftist intellectuals,” Hendrickson writes: “it’s okay to have a president who thinks he visited 57 states, a vice president who has claimed that Franklin Roosevelt went on television to calm the people after the stock market crash of 1929 (no TV yet, and Hoover was president) and a Speaker of the House who has insisted that we must switch from fossil fuels to natural gas. All ignorance, error, and mental dullness can be forgiven as long as one subscribes to the political catechism, “The government must control economic activity.” What is unacceptable, even evil, to them is someone like Palin who doesn’t subscribe to the same catechism, who just doesn’t “get it.”
Hendrickson was struck by a passage from the late Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises who wrote back in 1944:
The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office.
And we are still fighting these ideologies today! Apparently, we’ve learned nothing in the past 60 years – so we are bent on repeating these mistakes. Although Hendrickson makes the mistake of calling Palin “polarizing,” (and Obama isn’t?), the whole thing is worth a read.
