It’s Wednesday, January 6th, 2016…but before we begin, the following’s worth a view, if only just to marvel at the idiocies which emanate from Donald Trump’s mouth at the 0:51 mark:
Sex with a subordinate intern…in the Oval Office…while conducting America’s business…and lying about it under oath…is no big deal. Yeah, maybe not in The Donald’s world; which is yet another reason we’ll never support him. Oh, yeah…and Bush Lied/People Died. This boob’s been all over map more than Carmen San Diego! With Republicans like Trump, who needs John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, John McCain, Lindsay Graham and Jeb Bush?!?
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, since we’re on the subject of idiocies emanating from the mouths of narcissistic nitwits, writing at NRO‘s Morning Jolt, Jim Geraghty offers his keen insight into the latest attempt at misdirection from The Man Who Would be King:
Obama Touts His Gun-Control Regulations, Because It’s the Easiest Option
The president’s going to spend this week discussing gun control. Because it’s what he loves to do, apparently.
On Monday he met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI Director James Comey and the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. He holds a White House ceremony to announce the measures on Tuesday. And on Thursday, Obama partners with CNN for an hour-long town hall to discuss gun violence in primetime.
Never mind that he couldn’t get a Democrat-controlled Congress to pass any of these proposals. Never mind that none of the mass shooters got their firearms from a gun show or the kind of casual seller that these regulations target. Just as the drunk looks for his lost keys under the streetlight because that’s where the light is, Obama focuses his energies where it is easiest.
Never mind that the Sunni–Shia world war is kicking into a higher gear. Never mind that ISIS is advancing in Libya. The Syrian regime continues to use chemical weapons from a program that President Obama said had been eliminated:
The Executive Council of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on 23 November 2015 expressed “grave concern” that chemical weapons (CW) had once again been used in Syria after its fact-finding mission (FFM) confirmed “with the utmost confidence” that sulphur mustard had been deployed in an attack on the rebel-held town of Marea on 21 August. Although the OPCW did not publicly identify the perpetrators of the Marea attack, the report added to the growing evidence about the Islamic State’s CW interest.
For those keeping score at home, we now have allegations of use of sarin, sulfur mustard, chlorine gas, and possibly “Agent 15,” also known as BZ or 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate. There are allegations of chemical-weapons use on about 60 separate occasions.
Never mind that the Chinese markets are crashing, suggesting the world economy is slowing which will eventually mean an economic slowdown here. Economists are suddenly slashing their predictions for growth.
“Plenty” of people who thought Obamacare would fix everything are finding the premiums and deductibles so expensive, paying the penalty looks like a better option.
But fighting ISIS, stabilizing the Middle East, building a prosperous economy, undoing the damage of Obamacare — all of that stuff’s hard.Obama would much prefer taking a victory lap over his decision to “tweak a few minor rules around the edges” — our Charles C.W. Cooke’s assessment — than to actually address any of these serious, worsening problems.
But, hey, The Anointed One said it; and if you’re not a racist reactionary, you have to believe it. Besides…
His questionable claims of constitutional expertise notwithstanding, B. Hussein knows as much about the law, outside of how to skirt and/or break it, as Eric Stratton, Rush Chairman…
…who, unlike The Obamao, we’d be damned-glad to meet! And are you not amazed that a monologue so heart-rending to this charlatan at its conclusion elicits laughter at its opening?!?
As Rep. Diane Black (R-TN) so accurately observed:
“What’s more, the President’s actions lack any basis in fact, as even the Washington Post was forced toadmitthat not a single recent act of mass violence could be prevented by new gun laws.“
Contrary to his misstatement today, this President no more believes in the 2nd Amendment than he does the Bill or Rights or the rest of the Constitution…as his seven years of increasingly lawless rule prove. And as he quite literally and repeatedly lied to America’s collective face this morning, why would anyone believe a word he says about anything?!?
All of which is part and parcel why, as Bret Stephens notes, 2016 will TRULY be…
“Two thousand sixteen will be the year of America living dangerously. Barack Obama will devote his last full year in office to shaping a liberal legacy, irrespective of real-world results. America’s enemies will see his last year as an opportunity to take what they can, while they can. America’s allies, or former allies, will do what they must.
And then Hillary Clinton will likely become president. Whether the Republican Party chooses to remain intact remains to be seen.
For aficionados of political delusion, it must have been fun to watch Mr. Obama rattle off his list of foreign-policy accomplishments at his year-end press conference last month. There was the Paris climate deal, the Iran nuclear deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, the opening to Cuba—“steady, persistent work,” the president said, that was “paying off for the American people in big, tangible ways.”
…Iran conducted two ballistic-missile tests in the wake of the [Obama’s nuclear] deal, both in violation of a legally binding U.N. Security Council resolution.When the administration murmured its intention to impose modest sanctions in response, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned that the sanctions would violate the deal and ordered his defense ministry to accelerate its missile program.
“The White House on Wednesday morning sent a notification to Congress that the Treasury Department would announce at 10:30 a.m. new sanctions on nearly a dozen companies and individuals” linked to the Iranian missile program, the Journal’s Jay Solomon reported last week. “The White House sent a second email to congressional offices at 11:12 a.m. stating the sanctions announcement had been ‘delayed for a few hours.’ ”
As of this writing, the sanctions still haven’t been imposed.Forty-two minutes sets a Guinness record in diplomatic self-abasement…”
As Townhall.com‘s Guy Benson notes:
“Iran pushed the envelope, hard. The US grumbled and vowed to retaliate with wrist slaps. Iran protested, loudly. The US backed off. Another humiliation. The Obama administration has demonstrated a willingness to countenance all sorts of illegal conduct by Iran in the name of maintaining its terrible nuclear agreement. The mullahs in Tehran are fully aware of this dynamic and are routinely probing the extent of their potent leverage. By threatening to destroy Obama’s geopolitical legacy project, the Iranians have discovered that they can extract even more concessions from the United States — as they recently did in response to Congress’ visa new waiver law. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are slamming this latest capitulation, which the White House murkily insists may only be temporary…”
“That headline question may seem premature, but it’s worth asking if only to reduce the odds that the Saudis are lost as we enter the last perilous year of the Obama Presidency. Iran and Russia have an interest in toppling the House of Saud, and they may be calculating whether President Obama would do anything to stop them.
…The Saudis are often difficult allies, especially the support by rich Wahhabi sheikhs for radical Islamist mosques and schools around the world. But in a Middle East wracked by civil wars, political upheaval and Iranian imperialism, the Saudis are the best friend we have in the Arabian peninsula. The U.S. should make clear to Iran and Russia that it will defend the Kingdom from Iranian attempts to destabilize or invade.“
Though we’re sorely tempted to advocate killin’ ’em all…
…and lettin’ God sort ’em out!
What’s worse (yes, we too shudder to think that’s even possible!), Hillary offers more of the same…
…when what we need is the Conan approach:
Which collectively contributes to why, as Commentary Magazine‘s Noah Rothman suggests…
And with good reason, you narcissistic totalitarian tool!
“…Conservative activists today generally regard George W. Bush as a well-meaning figure that nevertheless betrayed his party’s core supporters, deviated from ideological purity, and ultimately set their movement back. The notion that activist Democrats may soon similarly regard Obama seems on its face to be unfounded. After all, the president is entering 2016 with almost the same average job approval rating he took with him into 2015. The trajectory Barack Obama is on would appear roughly equivalent to that of popular former presidents like Bill Clinton. The indications are already clear, however, that Democrats will come to see Barack Obama’s presidency as a misguided failure – particularly if a Republican takes the White House in November.
…Obama is counting on the power of the presidential pen to enliven otherwise morose left-wing Democrats. The president’s final State of the Union address promises to be grand theater – so much of the president’s legacy hinges on 2016. If Democrats fail to win the White House for a third consecutive term, it will not be long before liberals take stock of the president’s works and despair. Somany of Obama’s achievements were temporary and tactical, and they will not survive the next administration.Unless Republicans nominate and elect a true Cincinnatus, Democrats will come to loathe the executive powers Obama expanded to achieve his short-lived victories as one by one those powers are deployed to achieve conservative ends.
Hillary Clinton could still secure many of Obama’s achievements if she wins in November. If, however, Republicans retake the people’s house in 2017, the Democratic consensus opinion will soon settle on the notion that the Obama presidency was a period of unrealized promise – one they are unlikely to see again in their lifetimes.“
Needless to say we were there well before this Islamo-fascist took office…though “loathe” doesn’t begin to describe the complete and utter contempt in which we hold him.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch with The Gang That Still Can’t Shoot Straight, courtesy of Townhall.com, Kurt Schlichter says it’s high-time some of poorer shots hang up their holsters:
“It’s time to say “Goodbye,” and in some cases “Good riddance,” to the asterisks, the footnotes, and the jokes running in the GOP primary. No, not a single vote has been cast, but the outlines of the real race are coming clearly into view. You have the kind-of-establishment candidates (Rubio, Christie), the sort-of-insurgents (Fiorina, Carson, Cruz), and Donald Trump. The nominee is in that bunch, and defeating that malignant, pant-suited monster is more important than stroking the inexplicably inflated egos of the others. Time for the players at the $2 a hand table to fold and add their voters back into the pot.
…Someone in these three categories is going to be the GOP nominee, and I’m voting for him or her in November. Now we need to figure out who it will be, and the also-rans need to free their voters to find the real nominee. The ones in it for the good of the country will, and when they see that this is not their year they will free their voters to help make that choice (Kudos to Governors Walker, Perry, Jindal, and Pataki). If your candidacy isn’t going anywhere, it’s time to get your asterisk out of the race.“
Trust us, there’s a lot of good, satiric analysis in between.
Turning to The Lighter Side…
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with James Taranto’s discovery of the Bizarroworld that is…
Safespacistan
“A Scottish gold miner faces up to five years in prison after outraging fellow workers at a mine in Kyrgyzstan by comparing a national delicacy to a horse penis,” London’s Daily Telegraph reports:
Michael Mcfeat was arrested under race hate laws in the country after his remarks on Facebook about the horse meat sausage known as chuchuk caused a temporary strike.
The 39-year-old posted a picture showing people apparently in a canteen, saying his colleagues were queuing out of the door for their “special delicacy, the horse’s penis”.
The British Embassy in Bishkek says it’s looking into the case, and we assume Mcfeat will soon be sprung. Meanwhile in the U.S., ABC News reported this story a couple of weeks ago:
Oberlin College students say college food is culturally insensitive.
According to an article published in the liberal arts college newspaper, The Oberlin Review, some students are specifically upset over modifications made to traditional Asian cuisine. . . .
Diep Nguyen, a College freshman from Vietnam, told The Oberlin Review “that Bon Appétit, the food service management company contracted by Oberlin College, has a history of blurring the line between culinary diversity and cultural appropriation by modifying the recipes without respect for certain Asian countries’ cuisines.This uninformed representation of cultural dishes has been noted by a multitude of students, many of who have expressed concern over the gross manipulation of traditional recipes.”
In other words, the cafeteria food isn’t very good, and the Oberlin students call it a hate crime. Today’s American college campus isn’t all that far from Kyrgyzstan.
They’ve obviously never sampled our mother-in-law’s cooking!
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