On September 8, 2015,
in Uncategorized,
by magoo1310
It’s Friday, September 4th, 2015…and as it’s been a long week, and frankly we’re more than a little burned out, here’s an abbreviated edition of The Gouge!
First up, courtesy of NRO, Thom Tillis recounts Ronaldus Magnus’ counter to The Dear Misleader’s glaringly obvious red herring:
“The United States entered negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran in an undeniable position of strength. Sanctions on Iran were working as intended: causing the Iranian currency to crumble, wreaking havoc on Iran’s financial sector, and dramatically cutting Iran’s oil exports. Iran’s economy was teetering on the verge of collapse. As President Obama noted earlier this year, the United States imposed “the toughest sanctions in history” that “helped bring Iran to the negotiating table.”
During the final presidential debate in October 2012, the president outlined his necessary condition for a deal, declaring: “The deal we’ll accept is they end their nuclear program.It’s very straightforward.”
However, once at the negotiating table, it was clear that President Obama wasn’t motivated to strike the best deal possible to end Iran’s nuclear program. Instead, he was intent on striking any deal — even a bad one.
Throughout the process, President Obama’s chief negotiators ignored nearly 40 years of open Iranian hostility toward America and our allies. They also chose to ignore the fact that Iran has repeatedly broken the terms of its previous international agreements — breaches that prove Tehran’s word is worth only as much as the paper it’s written on.
…The end result is a disastrous deal that not only fails to stop Iran’s nuclear weapon capability — it also paves the path for Iran to become a nuclear state…”
Contrast Iran’s reaction to The Obamao’s absolute abasement…
…with the Ayatollah’s reaction to Reagan…
…simply assuming office. Coincidence?
We don’t believe in it…particularly as applies to the relative success of Conservative and Progressive policies; i.e., no such thing.
As Commentary Magazine‘s Rick Richman terms it:
Kerry’s Speech Tops Chamberlain’s Remarks
The nuclear incineration of Israel is one helluva legacy!
In his speech yesterday on the Iran deal, Secretary of State Kerry mentioned “Israel” or “Israeli” 26 times – protesting a bit too much about his concern for the ally put at existential risk by the Obama administration’s cascade of concessions. Even eerier was the similarity of Kerry’s words to those of Neville Chamberlain in the British parliamentary debate on the Munich agreement in 1938.Here is Kerry’s assertion about Israel, together with his concluding words:
The people of Israel will be safer with this deal, and the same is true for the people throughout the region. … [H]istory may judge [the Iran agreement] a turning point, a moment when the builders of stability seized the initiative from the destroyers of hope, and when we were able to show, as have generations before us, that when we demand the best from ourselves and insist that others adhere to a similar high standard – when we do that, we have immense power to shape a safer and a more humane world. That’s what this is about and that’s what I hope we will do in the days ahead.
In the debate on the Munich agreement, Chamberlain’s claims were actually more modest than Kerry’s. He acknowledged the criticism he had received for saying that the agreement signaled “peace for our time,” and he said he hoped Members of Parliament would not “read into words used in a moment of some emotion, after a long and exhausting day, after I had driven through miles of excited, enthusiastic, cheering people – I hope they will not read into those words more than they were intended to convey.” He said he knew “weakness in armed strength means weakness in diplomacy” and he had a program to accelerate Britain’s re-armament. Then he described the effect of the agreement on Czechoslovakia and his hopes for the future:
It is my hope and my belief, that under the new system of guarantees, the new Czechoslovakia will find a greater security than she has ever enjoyed in the past…. Ever since I assumed my present office my main purpose has been to work for the pacification of Europe, for the removal of those suspicions and those animosities which have so long poisoned the air. … The question of Czechoslovakia is the latest and perhaps the most dangerous [obstacle]. Now that we have got past it, I feel that it may be possible to make further progress along the road to sanity.
At least Chamberlain did not wax on about “the builders of stability” overcoming “the destroyers of hope.” At least he did not compliment himself for insisting that Hitler adhere to the best in himself. At least he did not assert that such insistence would “shape a safer and a more humane world.” And he had the good grace to admit that his extemporaneous remark about “peace for our time” resulted from a long day and cheering crowds.
There will be no such crowds for President Obama and Secretary Kerry. Chamberlain proceeded with a 369-150 vote in Parliament, while the Iran deal will proceed against bipartisan opposition in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, both the Senate and the House as a whole, and the majority of the American people, as expressed in multiple polls.President Obama will use a partisan minority to make an end run around the Constitutional requirement for treaties – a provision the Founders intended to insure that any significant multi-year foreign commitment would not proceed without a national consensus reflected in a two-thirds Senate vote – as his secretary of state employs rhetoric, in prepared remarks, that would have embarrassed Neville Chamberlain.
As Jonathan Tobin notes, also courtesy of Commentary Magazine:
“…Recall what Obama said a month ago: “Let’s not mince words. The choice we face is ultimately between diplomacy or some form of war.” In reality, his administration is delivering both…”
Which begs the question…
That would be absolutely, utterly, unabashedly and incontrovertibly…
Here’s the juice: we’re truly living Orwell’s 1984:
Barack Hussein Obama, solely on the strength of his sonorous voice and skin color…and the active connivance of the MSM…has declared the certainty of war as peace with his surrender to the Mad Mullahs of Iran. Black Americans, having seen the complete collapse of their “community” through the depredations of Dimocratic designs…blame Conservatives. And Hillary Clinton, who lies about as well as a five-year-old caught with their hand in the cookie jar, remains a viable candidate for President of the United States.
Hells bells; Tom Brady, as big and obvious a cheat and liar as Barack and Hillary, not only will continue to play this season, but apparently won’t even suffer even the most minimal suspension because a judge determined he wasn’t adequately forewarned of the consequences of cheating!!!
As was played by the British during the formal surrender at Yorktown…
…it’s The World Turned Upside Down!
Progressives are representative of what Christ himself observed in John 8:44:
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
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