Ruminations - 29jun2011

George Rebane

MediaMatters.org has declared “war” on Fox News.  This far left organization, one of many such enterprises receiving funds from George Soros, is seeking to squelch speech with which it disagrees.  This type of political action is a common distinguishing feature of progressive tactics drawn from the Saul Alinsky play book Rules for Radicals (1971).  Can you imagine the howling on lamestream media if any conservative voice even suggested that a liberal voice be constrained?  But about such programs as “Drop Fox” the lamestream is dead silent.

Team Obama has declared that its plans for the economy have not worked, and that they are now bankrupt of any new ideas.  Instead of offering something concrete in its next step to fix the economy (starting, say, with a budget), Team Obama has reverted to that perpetual bamboozle of delivering stump speeches criticizing the specific conservative programs now on the table.  An example is the President’s call for America to again “take the lead in manufacturing”.

It’s a safe smokescreen since his constituents are too dense to figure out that this can only happen through massive technological advances that increase worker productivity to unheard heights, thereby reducing manufacturing jobs to an absolute minimum.  Obama voters instead have visions of jobs, jobs, jobs - thousands of factory workers with lunchboxes coming out of big factory gates heading home for the evening after a well-paid workday (remember the newsreels of 40s and 50s?).  And the Community Organizer in Chief will do everything he can to imprint this fantasy on every simple mind in the land that can be registered to vote.

Lt Gen John R Allen, slated to replace Gen Petraeus in Afghanistan, testified to Congress that Obama’s announced 10,000 troop drawdown was NOT among the alternatives offered by the Pentagon to the President as he had claimed (oops!).  That little political alternative was stitched up out of whole cloth by a White House responding to the hard left burr under its blanket.

But the puzzlement about Allen is his turnabout statement, "Although I was not a participant in those discussions, I support the president's decision and believe that we can accomplish our objectives."  (The next theater commander on the ground was not consulted on what means he would have left to carry out what kind of objective??!!)  And since there is no way to achieve any straight-faced objective in Afghanistan after telegraphing our departure, why would a senior Marine general close out his career overseeing America’s drawn out retreat designed by a politician for his own political gain?  An honorable alternative would have been, “Mr President if we are to leave, then let us be out of there before Christmas.”  Retirement would have been another one.

Comments

[Russ Steele]

MediaMatters.org is non-profit 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization, that can educate, but cannot advocate. Fox News has more details here.

[Mikey McD]

Fox could not have paid for better advertising :).

[Todd Juvinall]

Hillary Clinton was an original founder of the Media Matters Loony Network.

[MikeL]

Team Obama does have a plan for the economy..It is blame the greedy rich, Big oil and those bastard Republicans.

Let's see.. if president idiot could tax at 100% the income from four 200K a year people, then that would about pay for his wife's little vacation to Africa.

I think we should raise the taxes on all of the rich liberals and those wealthy individuals like Warren Buffet who claim that they are not taxed enough.

[Douglas Keachie]

Te moment I saw "loony" I knew I'd see Juvinal. So you were AR, eh?

[MikeL]

Presidents idiots economic plan is as follows..

1.Call anybody a racist bigot if they disagree with his plan.

2.Make the following absolute comparisons..

A. Either private jet owners pay more taxes or poor disadvantaged children will not be able to afford college.
B. Either oil companies pay more to government or disabled veterans do not get disability payments.

3.In collusion with the Democratically controlled House and Senate spend roughly $700,000,000,000 of borrowed money in the hope of providing "Stimulus". Then, after the dust clears from all of the shoveling of non-existent shovel ready projects, and it is discovered that the $700 billion didn't do shit, blame the congress..since the congress is currently controlled by the Republicans.

4.Let oil companies drill for oil right above those salt caverns in Louisiana that hold the SOR. Let them tap 30,000,000 barrels of oil form the SOR to radically drive the down the cost of gasoline.

5.Keep promoting and funding the most expensive methods of producing electricity. Just think of all of the green jobs all of the envious folks would have had if Solendra (the solar panel non-manufacturer that spent about a billion tax payer dollars building a non-manufacturing facility in Fremont) not decided to be a non-manufacturer.

6.Work on golf game since that is where all the real deals are done.

[bill Tozer]

I happen to like Media Matters and comic books. It is not working out very well for our first black president. Maybe its time for our first woman president. Got to feel sorry for Obama. All his friends and allies are being thrown onto the trash heap of history. The economy was in the dumps when he took office and now he is has run out of friends and bullets. He put his faith in Timmy G, and Timmy G has never been right about anything for 17 years. Now Timmy G wants to bail and join the swelling ranks of former Obama economic advisers. Obama told Acorn they would always have a friend in the White House and now Acorn has evaporated into the mist. His spiritual adviser and the man who baptized his kids (The Reverend J Wright)currently disses our dear president. His buddy Van Jones got booted and his good pal Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground has gone underground when asked about the splendid job our President is doing. To make matters worse, Obama actually thought government would be the solution to our problems. Media Matters, Obama, The Far Left, and comics books are always good for entertainment and a chuckle.

[RL Crabb]

If you think Obama's hitting the bottom of the popularity barrel, just wait until the Repubs take charge. Democrats aren't the only party that lives in Fantasyland. Sure, you can drill, baby, drill and jump start the economy for awhile, but it won't last long, and the harder it is to find new oil the more expensive it will get.

And like I said a few weeks ago, the not-so-hidden social engineering agenda of the Tea Party has already reared its head with the convoluted abortion rules implemented by Kansas and Ohio. These new "requiements" foisted on the clinics would make any left wing bureaucrat proud.

And where exactly will these new Republican jobs be coming from, given that manufacturing in America is kaput?