It’s Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014…but before we begin, we’d like to call your attention to a recent installment of Day by Day, which addresses the glaring hypocrisy of those who’d like us to believe The Obamao’s been subject to venomous hatred and unreasoned opposition the like of which has never been visited upon a sitting White President:
Here’s the juice: the spurious claims of the Administration and their MSM shills to the contrary notwithstanding, we’ve never seen a single Tea Partier ever holding similar signs. And if you were wondering, the signs shown above are/were not only real, but we’ve thrown in a few more for good measure:
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, writing at CNN Opinion, Newt Gingrich explains…
Remain calm…all is well!
“…The self-image of Obama as a bear is so delusional that it brings into question the degree to which he is simply out of touch with reality.
Which brings us back to Earnest’s quote about tranquillity in the international community. What he’s channeling is Obama’s personal tranquillity. From his perch in the amazingly Obama-centric world in which our President lives, look again at what the rest of us think of as serious problems:
Have any of the 1,000-plus Hamas rockets been aimed at Obama? No. That is why Obama is tranquil.
Have any of the thousands who are crossing the border tried to move into the White House? No. That is why Obama is tranquil.
Is ISIS an immediate threat to the United States that is likely to blow up the next golf course the President is playing at? No. That is why Obama is tranquil.
If you can reduce your presidency to a Starbucks visit, a man with a horse-head mask, shooting pool and visiting Joe Biden’s burger joint for lunch, you can have a successful presidency as you have defined it, even if the world is disintegrating…“
Since we’re on the subject of disintegrating circumstances, courtesy of Townhall.com, the great Thomas Sowell describes a downward-spiraling situation…
Then again, you may not!
“A country that does not control its own borders does not have any immigration policy. There may be laws on the books, but such laws are just meaningless words if people from other countries can cross the borders whenever they choose…“
Here, thanks to Little Bonanza Productions, is exactly how insane this Administration’s active support of illegal immigration actually is:
In a related item detailing additional pestilential Progressive policies, Gateway Pundit calls our attention to the fact…
Does this then make Warren a Fascist? No, rather it’s further proof the political spectrum is a circle rather than a straight line…
…and the thus Communists and Fascists share the same ideological characteristics and goals: totalitarian control over every aspect of your life.
Speaking of pestilential Progressives seeking totalitarian control over every aspect of your life, they’re the subject of the latest offering from Richard Samuelson writing at NRO:
“The law applies equally to all, regardless of their religious or political beliefs, their wealth or poverty, or their race. Moreover, it applies to government and the governed equally…The law can hardly be said to rule when it is applied or enforced in a biased manner, or when government employees exempt themselves from its reach.
…Granting tenure to clerical workers, mailmen, and others at that level of service is probably reasonable (although it might make sense to make it easier to fire people for misconduct or incompetence). But that does not apply to the higher levels of government, where our laws are written, interpreted, and enforced.
Trust, once lost, is hard to regain. For the good of the republic, therefore, we must fix our partisan civil service.“
Along with, though we’re open to debate on the exact numbers, a two-term limit for any U.S. Senator, and 10 years for any member of the House.
And in the Environmental Moment, writing at The Hill, Benjamin Zycher gives us the latest on the most recent convert of financial convenience to the Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming:
“‘He’ is Tom Steyer, fossil-fuel billionaire past and present, but now a global-warming activist with the zealotry of a convert, a major funder of politicians promoting the climate-change industry, and a scourge of climate deniers, the Keystone XL pipeline and ordinary people for whom inexpensive energy is a central condition for economic advancement. For reasons simultaneously obvious and subtle, Steyer is a bit touchy about the genesis of his vast fortune — the upper-crust cocktail parties can become rather uncomfortable when the expensive booze releases the ire of the environmental lefties — and so he has offered any number of rationalizations for the yawning chasm between his past investments in coal and oil and his current investment in climate change politics.
Whadda ya mean flying on a corporate jet to give a climate change speech is hypocritical?!?
Unsurprisingly, the rationalizations fall flat, as a billion-dollar coal-and-oil peg simply cannot fit into the apocalyptic hole of climate-change orthodoxy. And so Steyer now is making a virtue of necessity by framing his transformation as a quest for absolution, an effort consistent with the central nature of modern environmentalism as a religious movement. Consider Steyer’s recent essay in Politico Magazine: “How Climate Change Changed Me,” a title that calls to mind the vast and amusing number of real and imagined phenomena for which anthropogenic warming has been blamed. (Example: increased UFO sightings.) So: Is it the purported heat that has affected Steyer’s thinking? Or is it the contortions necessary to transform a fossil-fuels billionaire into a green superhero?
The answer is less obvious than one might imagine, as the essay offers the kind of sloppy thinking typical of college sophomores writing an assignment the morning it is due…“
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to the Entertainment Section, where we check in on another bad Liberal actor with an over-inflated ego and under-developed grasp of basic economics:
“Struggling actors who scrape a living working in repertory theatres should get paid a “living wage”, Sir Ian McKellen has claimed. The Lord of the Rings star said actors deserved the same economic recognition as other low-paid workers. A recent report found just one actor in 50 earned more than £20,000 a year. “Most actors are not rich – they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job,” Sir Ian told Radio Times…”
He’s right; they deserve exactly what they earn! Unless of course Sir Ian wishes to subsidize them himself out of his personal $55M fortune. Heck, maybe Tom Steyer will help!
Finally, on the Lighter Side…
Magoo
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