It’s Wednesday, December 24th, 2014…but before we begin, a few brief observations on Senator Tom Coburn’s parting thoughts, which to us indicate he’s been in Washington far too long!
On his friendship with Barack Obama:
“My relationship with Barack Obama isn’t based on my political philosophy or his…it’s based on the fact that I think he’s a genuinely very smart, nice guy. I just love him as a man.”
Really, Tom; “a genuinely very smart, nice guy? No, REALLY?!? Hitler was genuinely very smart, Tom; after all, he got the trains running on time, built the autobahns and, like your new bestest buddy Barack, could definitely excite a crowd with incredibly divisive propaganda. And let’s not forget, Eva Braun loved him as a man, while Goebbels, Bormann, Goering, Himmler and Heydrich thought he was a helluva guy…in a lot of ways!
On the 2008 election:
“I’m proud of our country that we elected Barack Obama. It says something about us nationally. You know, it’s kind of like crowning your checker when you get to the end of the checkerboard. Here’s another thing that says America’s special.”
Seriously, Tom; no, SERIOUSLY?!? Sooo…if in 2016 we elect the first female Socialist to the White House, and in return get four more years of unconstitutional despotism via executive order, will THAT be special as well?!?
On firing all members of Congress:
“If you want to fix things, that’s what I would do. If I was king tomorrow, that’s what I would do.”
Given this demonstration of Coburn’s judgement, were we king tomorrow, he’d be on his way out, regardless of his desire for reelection. George Washington had a very high opinion of Benedict Arnold. Unlike Coburn, Washington rethought his relationship with Arnold after Benedict, willfully and with malice of forethought, chose to betray his country.
Bottomline? Coburn is utterly lacking in judgement…and needs to expand his circle of friends.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, as you’ve undoubtedly heard, B. Hussein has supposedly sturck a telling blow for freedom!
North Korea goes completely offline: Report
North Korea is having major Internet problems just days after President Barack Obama promised a proportional response to the devastating hacks against Sony. The country, which the FBI accused last week of the cyberattack, is suffering a total Internet outage that experts at DYN Research said is out of the ordinary, as first reported by North Korea Tech. According to the research firm, North Korea’s Internet connectivity grew steadily worse beginning Sunday night, and then went completely offline Monday morning.
All of which means the only three people in Pyongyang with internet access couldn’t catch the latest on The Dear Leader web site…which is the only one Kim allows them to view. In the meantime, Kim’s got all his porn stored on an off-line hard drive.
As Commentary Magazine’s Jonathan Tobin observed:
“In an interview on CNN’s State of the Union, President Obama set off a minor controversy by referring to the North Korean cyber attack on Sony Pictures as an act of “cyber vandalism” rather than one of “cyber terrorism.” That argument as well as the one about whether the president was right to criticize Sony for backing down in the face of threats of violence and further hacking are not as important as to what counter-measures the U.S. is taking today to ensure that this crime doesn’t happen again. With reports that the North Korean Internet is currently out of service, it’s not clear whether this is due to a U.S. response or the Communist regime’s own defensive actions. But no matter what we’re calling what happened to Sony, the main point to be gleaned from these events is that this is no longer a matter of a private business deciding how to deal with a crime. From the moment that the U.S. government named North Korea as the perpetrator, this issue is President Obama’s responsibility to address and decisively fix.“
Which, as Bashar Assad, Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah, Hamas, Fidel Castro and every other Third World dictator and/or despot on the planet can testify, means exactly…
Next up, faced with reaping the whirlwind he’d previously sowed, the most incompetent politician since David Dinkins fights back:
De Blasio Attacks NYPD Officers That Turned Their Backs on Him
Democratic New York City mayor Bill de Blasio launched a disgusting attack on the New York Police Department officers that symbolically turned their backs on him before a press conference to address the shooting deaths of officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu.
…How did de Blasio’s office respond? By attacking the officers.
“It’s unfortunate that in a time of great tragedy, some would resort to irresponsible, overheated rhetoric that angers and divides people,” de Blasio spokesman Marti Adams said in a statement following the union leaders’ remarks.
Are you kidding us?!? What in hell would these hypocritical race-hypsters…
…have us believe got us here in the first place?!?
Meanwhile, Mary Jo Kopechne had this comment:
Which brings us to today’s edition of “That Was Then, This Is NOW!, courtesy of NRO‘s Joel Gehrke and our deliberately duplicitous Dear Misleader:
President Obama responded to black activists who deny that racial progress has been made in the United States by arguing that they are preempting the possibility of further progress.
“There’s no reason for folks to be patient. I’M impatient.
The president gave the interview on Friday. Last night [Saturday], he called for “patient dialogue” in a statement on the Saturday murder of two police officers in Brooklyn.
“I unconditionally condemn today’s murder of two police officers in New York City,” Obama said. “Two brave men won’t be going home to their loved ones tonight, and for that, there is no justification. The officers who serve and protect our communities risk their own safety for ours every single day — and they deserve our respect and gratitude every single day. Tonight, I ask people to reject violence and words that harm, and turn to words that heal — prayer, patient dialogue, and sympathy for the friends and family of the fallen.”
What a difference a day makes…let alone the assassinations of two non-White cops!
As Thomas Lifson notes at American Thinker:
The expressed impatience when cops kill perps strikingly contrasts with the patience when an assassin executes innocent cops. Patience or lack thereof is an indicator of priority, obviously. But there is something even worse lurking in this statement. Andrew McCarthy of National Review points out the stunning presumption behind this call for dialogue:
Dialogue is an exchange that takes place when there are competing points of view and it is reasonable to believe that both of them may have a point. Does the president really think there are two sides to this story?
Then there’s this opinion born of experience, as recounted by Roger Simon writing at PJMedia:
“Because I am in New York for a short visit and, as the world well knows, the city of my birth is in a period of racial turmoil, I am going to say something I have been thinking about for a long time. And because I am one of the relative few to have spent long periods of his life on both the left and the right and because I was a civil rights worker in the sixties. I think — though it is purely personal and based only on observation — I have earned the right to an opinion. So here goes.
The left is vastly more racist than the right. It’s not even close. Since I was publicly identified with the right, roughly from when I started blogging in 2003 (although it was actually several years earlier in private), I have personally witnessed not a single incident of racism from anyone who could be considered a right winger and heard only one racial slur — and that was from a Frenchman. In the seven years I was CEO of PJ Media, I came to know or meet literally dozens of people who identified with the Tea Party. I did not hear one word of anything close to racism from any of them even once. Not one, ever. This despite their being accused of racism constantly.
The left, on the other hand, is filled with racism of all sorts, much, but not all, of it projected. I used to hear racist comments all the time during the seventies and eighties when almost all my friends were leftist or liberals. During that time black racism was pretty much continuously on the rise, aided and abetted by whites.
It had been going on for a while. I first encountered black racism from the person of none other than Julian Bond (later the president of the NAACP), who treated me, a civil rights worker involved in voter registration, in a racist, anti-white manner in the SNCC offices in Atlanta in 1966. Stokely Carmichael treated me that way also. That was at the beginning of the Black Power movement and I excused it then as “a phase” that had to be gone through. I was mistaken and naive. It was racism pure and simple. I, and others, never confronted or named it then.
Now we live in culture where there is considerably more black racism than white racism…”
All of which amounts to, in the learned opinion of the Washington Examiner‘s Noemie Emery…
“It’s been a bad couple of weeks for the liberals’ narrative outlook on life. One after another of their favorite genres has blown up in their faces as they have been caught telling and promoting stories that were too good to be true...”
But, in the interests of fairness, as NRO‘s Andrew McCarthy cautions us, two wrongs don’t make a right:
“…Imperious judicial activism is no better than imperious executive overreach. That the result the judge reaches happens to accord with conservative sentiments does not make the exercise any less invalid. After all, what offends conservatives about President Obama’s machinations is his disregard for the Constitution’s limits on his authority. Judge Schwab, analogously, has run roughshod over constitutional boundaries that limit the exercise of judicial authority. The Constitution empowers judges to resolve only cases and controversies that are actually before the court. In this case, President Obama’s decree was not before Judge Schwab — at least until he gratuitously directed the parties, who had not raised it, to address it…”
Moving on, courtesy of the Washington Examiner, in another example of the constitutional crises which continue to play out around us, Michael Barone recounts how…
“The total discrediting of Rolling Stone’s story on rape at the University of Virginia has shined a light on one of the least palatable features of American life: the so-called epidemic of rape on campus.
Authorities from Barack Obama on down have cited the phony statistic that one in five college women is raped. Phony, because it’s based on a 2007 survey conducted at two Midwestern schools, not of a random sample, but of a small number of self-selected respondents. The study also includes unwanted touching and kissing in its broad definition of “sexual assault.”
A Department of Justice survey released this month presents a different picture. Between 1995 and 2013, it reports, an average of 0.61 percent of female students were raped or sexually assaulted every year — 2.4 percent over four years, not 20 percent. Moreover, DOJ reports, that rate has been declining significantly in recent years, in line with a national decline in rape.
In other words, there is no suddenly raging epidemic of rape on campus. Nevertheless, colleges and universities have been scampering to comply with mandates from the Obama Department of Education to set up procedures in which campus administrators, with no legal training, act as investigators, prosecutors, judges, juries and executioners. Accused students are not allowed to have lawyers or to confront witnesses, and legal rules of evidence do not apply. State legislatures have passed or are considering laws requiring schools to adopt (and many schools are adopting) a “yes means yes” standard, requiring express consent at each stage of a sexual encounter.
These kangaroo courts can and do expel male students, putting a blot on their records for life. No wonder dozens of them are suing universities and getting big cash settlements. No wonder 28 current and retired Harvard law professors signed a letter calling such processes “deeply unfair and undemocratic.”…”
Which pretty well sums up Tom Coburn’s new bestest buddy Barack in a nut shell; or perhaps, more accurately, an…
…acorn!
And in today’s Environmental Moment, writing at the WSJ, Larry Tribe throws the weight of his considerable professional opinion behind the pronouncement…
“As a law professor, I taught the nation’s first environmental law class 45 years ago. As a lawyer, I have supported countless environmental causes. And as a father and grandfather, I want to leave the Earth in better shape than when I arrived.
Nonetheless, I recently filed comments with the Environmental Protection Agency urging the agency to withdraw its Clean Power Plan, a regulatory proposal to reduce carbon emissions from the nation’s electric power plants. In my view, coping with climate change is a vital end, but it does not justify using unconstitutional means.
Although my comments opposing the EPA’s proposal were joined by a major coal producer, they reflect my professional conclusions as an independent legal scholar. I say only what I believe, whether I do so pro bono, or in this case having been retained by others. After studying the only legal basis offered for the EPA’s proposed rule, I concluded that the agency is asserting executive power far beyond its lawful authority…”
All courtesy of Tom Coburn’s new bestest Buddy Barack, the best thing that ever happened to America; are you getting our point?!?
Since we’re on The Left’s favorite subject, courtesy of the WSJ, Bret Stephens reports on what he sees as…
The Marvel of American Resilience
Autocrats can always cultivate prodigies. The question is what to do with the remaining 99%.
“When I talk to foreigners, they’re even more impressed than many Americans by this renaissance,” says my Journal colleague Gregory Zuckerman, author of “The Frackers.” “They understand that it only could have happened in America.” (And this despite the on-going, concerted efforts of Tom Coburn’s newest, bestest buddy to undermine it!)
Fracking has now upended energy markets, pummeled petrodictators, confounded OPEC, forged deeper North American economic ties, slashed U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions to their lowest level since 1995, and sunk a nail into the coffin of most renewable-energy schemes (though there will be no slaying that zombie, as our future historian would also know).
Fracking is one industry. In time, the advantages it has given the U.S. will fade as the technology is more widely disseminated. Then it will be on to the next thing. Which, it is safe to say, will also be of American origin and design.
Here, then, is the larger lesson our future historian will draw for her students: Innovation depends less on developing specific ideas than it does on creating broad spaces. Autocracies can always cultivate their chess champions, piano prodigies and nuclear engineers; they can always mobilize their top 1% to accomplish some task. The autocrats’ quandary is what to do with the remaining 99%. They have no real answer, other than to administer, dictate and repress.
Tell us again, Tom, what “a genuinely very smart, nice guy” the man dedicated to the destruction of the Republic is?!?
On The Lighter Side…
Finally, we’ll call it a day with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of the Crime Blotter, courtesy of the Kentucky New Era. Today’s tale is entitled, “My Old Kintucky Homeys”:
3 adults plead not guilty to sodomizing 15-year-old boy at house party in Kentucky
Three adults charged with sodomizing a 15-year-old boy who suffered critical injuries in the attack have entered not guilty pleas. The Kentucky New Era reports 20-year-old Dayton R. Jones, 18-year-old Samuel A. Miller and 19-year-old Tyler R. Perry were arraigned by video Wednesday in Christian County Circuit Court.
Meanwhile, the newspaper reports a court docket shows a 17-year-old boy charged in the case is set to be arraigned on Thursday and will be charged as an adult. In all, six people have been charged in the case, with some counts stemming from sharing video of the attack. Police say the boy was sodomized in October while incapacitated at a house party in Hopkinsville.
Kentucky New Era, hell! Sounds like the same old “Kintuck”…
…to us!
Magoo
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