It’s Monday, July 7th, 2014…but before the 2014 July 4th holiday slips into history, we’re compelled to mention yet another undeniable bit of MSM hypocrisy: this July 4th made 1,290 days in a row, almost 42 months, The Obamao’s Socialist policies have forced American drivers to pay over $3/gallon for regular unleaded gasoline. The national average currently stands at $3.67/gallon, over DOUBLE where it stood when this Marxist ascended to office. And NOT A SINGLE PEEP out of either the Dims or their MSM shills.
Meanwhile, thanks solely to the evil efforts of the private energy industry…
And there’s a sh*tload more where that came from!
Think about it; remember when…
…a comparatively modest 17 months of >$3/gallon gas sent Progressives in both politics and the press into apoplectic orbit?!? What a difference 6 years…and the skin color and political affiliation of the President…make!
Now, here’s The Gouge!
Leading off the week, The Daily Beast‘s Eli Lake explains…
“…Maliki’s requests were rebuffed; McGurk’s warnings went largely unheeded. The problem for Obama was that he had no good policy option in Iraq. On the one hand, if Obama had authorized the air strikes Maliki began requesting in January, he would strengthen the hand of an Iraqi prime minister who increasingly resembled the brutal autocrat U.S. troops helped unseat in 2003. Maliki’s heavy handed policies—such as authorizing counter-terrorism raids against Sunni political leaders with no real links to terrorism—sowed the seeds of the current insurrection in Iraq.
But while Obama committed to sell Maliki’s military nearly $11 billion worth of advanced U.S. weaponry, he was unwilling to use that leverage in a meaningful way to get him to reverse his earlier reforms where he purged some of his military’s most capable leaders and replaced them with yes men. (Who: Maliki or Obama?!?) As a result of this paradox, the Iraq policy process ground to a halt at the very moment that ISIS was on the rise.
Two months later, ISIS captured the strategically important city of Fallujah in Anbar province. Five month after that, Iraq’s second-largest city—Mosul, in Nineweh province—fell to ISIS and an army of Sunni insurgents. At the time, senior Obama administration officials went out of their way to proclaim just how impossible-to-predict the collapse of Mosul was. But interviews with a dozen U.S. and Iraqi intelligence officials, diplomats, and policy makers reveal a very different story. A catastrophe like the fall of Mosul wasn’t just predictable, these officials say. They repeatedly warned the Obama administration that something like this was going to happen. With seemingly no good choices to make in Iraq, the White House wasn’t able to listen. (Or unwilling to act!)
“It’s simply not true that nobody saw a disaster like the fall of Mosul coming,” Ali Khedery, who served as a senior adviser at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, told The Daily Beast. “I can’t speak for anyone else, but I literally predicted this in verbal warnings and in writing in 2010 that Iraq would fall apart.”…”
This from the perpetually-Progressive Daily Beast. One important clarification: yes, Obama’s problem was “that he had no good policy option in Iraq”. But the dilemma was the direct result of his own incoherent initiatives and incompetence; and he alone bears the blame for what follows. All of it.
Since we’re on the subject of B. Hussein’s astonishing adolescence, Derek Hunter details what he terms…
“We don’t have a president leading our government; we have a petulant child throwing a series of temper tantrums.
Barack Obama has never shown an aptitude for leadership, mostly because he’s never led anything. But in his limited pre-government career as a community organizer, his job was not to accomplish anything. It simply was to get people riled up over the “injustice du-jour,” make them believe he has the cure for what ails them, and raise money. He’s run his presidency on this snake-oil-salesman mentality; only now, he’s begun to run out of suckers to bilk.
The president’s “legend” was built before a single vote was cast. He was the smartest, most gifted man to ever run for office because, well, people sitting in front of television cameras said he was. There was more proof of Bigfoot than his brilliance, but a lie repeated earnestly enough, especially to a people trained to look externally for solutions to problems in their lives, has a way of obtaining credibility that the truth has difficulty overcoming. The truth is a tree and the lie a weed – it needs time to truly take root and grow, but it then sprouts quickly and can choke out anything else near it.
…The euphoria has worn off all but the lost few unreachables. With his own dictates being rejected by the courts and the masses, his desperation is growing. Impotent in most legal ways, his shallow brand of leadership leaves him only with public temper tantrums, insults and complaints unworthy of his office. His “desperation bottom” has not yet been reached; he will keep falling because the alternative is beyond him.“
In other words, there’s truly no knowing…
…how low BO can go. Suffice it to say there’s nothing that’s beneath him…or her!
In a related item courtesy of Townhall.com, Jonah Goldberg provides a plausible explanation why…
“A new Pew survey found that 44 percent of Americans don’t often feel pride in being an American, and only 28 percent said that America is the greatest country in the world. Respondents who “often feel proud to be American” were overwhelmingly conservative (from 72 percent to 81 percent depending on the kind of conservative). A majority (60 percent) of “solid liberals” said they don’t often feel proud to be an American.
The polling data only proves what has been obvious for a while…“
Perhaps because, as Erick Erickson details, sooo many Progressives, led by the First Marxists, simply have…
“When the rights of individuals clash, both sides should be willing to step back and recognize that both have rights. When in conflict, neither side is truly winning nor losing. Each gets their rights and can disagree. But the political left in America has decided its rights and values are the only acceptable ones in our republic. That they lost in the Supreme Court this past week has sent liberals in America on a weeklong hysterical binge of fact distortion and fabrication…”
Case in point, as evidenced in today’s entry in the Environmental Moment, brought to us by the WSJ, which reports on a pervasive Progressive…
“…In a May 7 email, IPS Director John Cavanagh and Foreign Policy in Focus co-director Emira Woods informed Mr. Rossiter that, “Unfortunately, we now feel that your views on key issues, including climate science, climate justice, and many aspects of U.S. policy to Africa, diverge so significantly from ours that a productive working relationship is untenable.”
So after a 23-year association, Mr. Rossiter got the boot. Some readers may recall IPS as a stalwart opponent of U.S. policy during the long twilight struggle with the Soviet Union. Mr. Rossiter says he agrees with the institute on almost everything and calls it “the only anti-imperialist think tank in D.C.”
…When Mr. Rossiter pushed for a climate debate this spring, Mr. Cavanagh replied in an email: “My opposition to a future based on fossil fuels goes way beyond the math. It is rooted in one of Emira’s arguments, that as long as we’re dependent on fossil fuels, we’ll keep building bases in other countries to grab their oil. And, I’m watching what fossil fuel extraction has meant to indigenous peoples, to the people of Alberta.“
He’s referring to the oppressed self-governing people of Alberta, Canada…”
Yeah…you know; the ones with the free healthcare…and the nine-month wait for an MRI!
Speaking of medical malpractice, FOX News reports how, at least when it comes to Latin lawbreakers…
“…children in the camp had measles, scabies, chicken pox and strep throat as well as mental and emotional issues. “It was not a good atmosphere in terms of health,” she said. “I would be talking to children and lice would just be climbing down their hair.”
A former nurse at the camp told me she was horrified by what she saw. “We have so many kids coming in that there was no way to control all of the sickness – all this stuff coming into the country,” she said. “We were very concerned at one point about strep going around the base.”
Both the counselor and the nurse said their superiors tried to cover up the extent of the illnesses. “When they found out the kids had scabies, the charge nurse was adamant – ‘Don’t mention that. Don’t say scabies,’” the nurse recounted. “But everybody knew they had scabies. Some of the workers were very concerned about touching things and picking things up. They asked if they should be concerned, but they were told don’t worry about it.”…“
Next up, at least for the average American…i.e., NOT…
…let alone…
…you can become infected with Ebola virus, Dengue fever and/or Lord knows what else! Meanwhile, back at the ranch with The Gang Who Still Can’t Shoot Straight, some Campaign ’16 advice for Ted Cruz…or any other GOP frontrunner…courtesy of Balls Cotton, Trevor Loudon and Biff Spackle:
We’d enact every suggestion, with two important exceptions: first, we’d give Jeb two behind the ear (hypothetically, of course!); second, we’d switch the roles of Walker and Cruz. Ted is decidedly NOT ready for prime time; Scott’s done his time, and now is ready to shine.
On the Lighter Side…
Magoo
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