It’s Wednesday, January 13th, 2016…but before we begin, a couple of random thoughts on the passing scene. First, courtesy of Hope n’ Change, what The Dear Misleader would have said tonight were he somehow compelled to speak the truth:
Second, though we disagree with their tactics in the strongest terms, is anyone else curious why the MSM has not provided Group A…
…the same positive coverage and tacit encouragement they afforded…
…Group B? Maybe if one of the Bundy Boys defecated on a police vehicle…or news van?!?
Or of course surrendered their personal firearms, the possession of which, unlike Zuccotti Park in NYC, is a specific right granted American citizens by the Constitution.
Oh,…did anyone else out there relish watching the Cincinnati Thugs self-immolate once again in the AFC Wild Card game?!?
Now, here’s The Gouge!
We lead off the mid-week edition with a few telling moments from last Thursday’s anti-gun propaganda play. First:
Sorry Captain Kelly; with all due respect…which is very little if not nil…who gives a rat’s behind what Gabby and you believe, think or advocate?!?
Just as…
…you’re wife taking one in the head, while unfortunate, does not afford you either special authority or expertise on anything, particularly an issue about which you obviously know so little.
Second, imagine Americans…
…NOT trusting a man who’s told more lies than…
…Pinocchio’s twin separated at birth? Note also The Great Prevaricator’s arrogance and dismissive attitude towards anyone who refuses to recognize his infallible wisdom.
Last, and certainly not least…
Father Pfleger? Seriously, Father Pfleger; the radical, completely non-Catholic “priest”, and one of The Obamao’s earliest, bestest Socialist soulmates?!? What does it say about CNN‘s malice of forethought, not to mention their actual interest in an informed discussion, this fire-breathing fool was included in the audience?
And if Pfleger were truly interested in combatting gun violence, shouldn’t he be back in Chicago, the city with the toughest gun laws on the planet, combatting Black-on-Black shootings?!?
In a related item, one Tricia Bishop, Educated Idiot, demonstrates why we gave up our subscription to The Baltimore Sunyears ago:
“It’s inevitable when my husband and I visit family these days that the subject of violence in Baltimore comes up. Often, I’m the one who raises it. But when it came up last week on a trip to see my parents in Georgia, I got my back up. I thought of the 11-hour drive south and the billboards we passed along I-81 boasting guns for sale (“A Glock for Christmas”!), and of the story my brother-in-law, who lives in Florida, told of a neighbor stopping by to shoot the breeze in his suburban driveway, a handgun holstered at the man’s waist as their kids played nearby.
I’m less afraid of the criminals wielding guns in Baltimore, I declared as we discussed the issue, than I am by those permitted gun owners. I know how to stay out of the line of Baltimore’s illegal gunfire; I have the luxury of being white and middle class in a largely segregated city that reserves most of its shootings for poor, black neighborhoods overtaken by “the game.” The closest I typically get to the action is feeling the chest-thumping vibrations of the Foxtrot police helicopter flying overhead in pursuit of someone who might be a few streets over, but might as well be a world away. But I don’t know where the legal gun owners are or how to ensure that their children, no matter how well versed in respecting firearms, won’t one day introduce that weapon to my daughter.
And so, as President Barack Obama announced plans this week to tighten background checks for gun buyers and increase gun tracking and research, I thought, that’s all well and good, but how about adding something immediately useful(not to mention unconstitutional!): a gun owner registry available to the public online — something like those for sex offenders.(You know…convicted criminals!)I’m not equating gun owners with predatory perverts, but the model is helpful here(which means you are!); I want a searchable database I can consult to find out whether my kid can have a play date at your house…”
Something tells us Tricia’s far more worried about her children’s potential contamination by an alternate, far more reasoned and attractive an world-view than their mere physical safety.
Which brings us to our next item, courtesy of James Taranto, who offers his observations on the thoughts of another Progressive rocket surgeon:
Your Secret Is Safe With Her
You know gun control is unpopular because its advocates never use the term. Of late they’ve started employing the euphemism “gun safety.” New York Times columnist Gail Collins has an idea: Why not take gun safety literally?
“The nation could find a rare moment of gun consensus by supporting safety training,” she writes. “And since we’re awash in firearms anyway, we’d be better off if people knew how to use them without hitting anything other than their target.”
Hitting the target—now that’s our idea of gun control! If only there were some sort of“nationwide rifle organization”that could teach people this stuff.
“...”It is no accident that President Obama’s America has given rise to Donald Trump,” writes Ben Domenech, publisher of The Federalist. “It is an America that is more tribalist, where people feel more racially and religiously divided; more politically correct, where people feel less free to speak their minds; and it is an America where trust in the nation’s elites, whose skills are credentialed but unproven, are at historic lows.”
My colleague (my euphemism for “boss”) at National Review, Rich Lowry, recently argued that Obama’s contempt for the law and the Constitution is also partly to blame for Trump’s appeal and sparked a new “post-constitutional” moment on the right.
For much of the Obama presidency, conservatives seemed to have intensified their reverence for the rule of law and the Constitution. But what did it get them? Obama went and did what he wanted to do anyway. He vowed to use his pen and phone like a ball and scepter. “Middle-class families can’t wait for Republicans in Congress to do stuff,” Obama told a crowd last year. “So sue me.” He was referring to a lawsuit launched by then-Speaker John Boehner over the Obama administration’s nakedly lawless chicanery implementing Obamacare. A few days later, the president demanded, “Really? Really? For what? You’re going to sue me for doing my job?“
The problem: Obama the constitutional lawyer hasn’t read his job description; it says the president should “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” Obama doesn’t really care. He sees his job as doing the things he wants to do and being the sort of president his biggest fans want him to be. That’s why over the holidays, he reportedly ordered his lawyers to “scrub” the laws to find ways he can take new unilateral action against gun ownership.
Well, two can play at that game.
Enter Trump, via his fabulous escalator. The GOP front-runner isn’t openly contemptuous of the Constitution; it just doesn’t enter his thinking very much. If he believes something is worth doing, he says he will do it. He makes little effort to explain how he will get Congress to agree, never mind write the laws the president is supposed to faithfully execute. And that’s the way Trump’s fans like it…”
Meanwhile, back at the ranch with The Gang That Still Can’t Shoot Straight, writing at NRO‘s The Corner, Jim Geraghty details…
These Trump Family Fights Are Brutal
You don’t often see ”retaliated by withdrawing the medical benefits critical to his nephew’s infant child” in profiles of political front-runners. But Sunday’s New York Times article, discussing Donald Trump’s relationship with his late brother Freddy, includes it at the bottom:
Then came the unveiling of Fred Sr.’s will, which Donald had helped draft. It divided the bulk of the inheritance, at least $20 million, among his children and their descendants, “other than my son Fred C. Trump Jr.”
Freddy’s children sued, claiming that an earlier version of the will had entitled them to their father’s share of the estate, but that Donald and his siblings had used “undue influence” over their grandfather, who had dementia, to cut them out.
A week later, Mr. Trump retaliated by withdrawing the medical benefits critical to his nephew’s infant child. “I was angry because they sued,” he explained during last week’s interview.
But hey, no worries; I’m sure that cutting off medical care for an infant won’t come up in attack ads in the general election.
We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again: this clown has more skeletons in his closet that’ve yet to see the light of day than Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer…combined!
Since we’re on the subject of career criminals, in the Follow-Up segment…
“The Department of Veterans Affairs said Friday two high-ranking officials were finally demoted in response to a federal probe that found they manipulated the agency’s personnel system for their own gain, but a key lawmaker is asking why they weren’t prosecuted.
Federal prosecutors announced on Christmas Eve that they would not pursue charges in the case, but the Justice Department has not responded to Rep. Jeff Miller’s inquiry into why no charges will be filed. On Friday, the Department of Veterans Affairs said in a statement that it took “final action” to “demote” two Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) Senior Executives to General Schedule positions…”
We could be wrong, and we fervently hope and pray we are, but if The Obamao’s Department of Injustice won’t bring charges against these two petty grifters, do you really believe the likes of Loretta Lynch will attempt to take…
…Hillary down?!?
And in the Environmental Moment, in yet another undeniable example of Liberal hypocrisy, it’s…
“…That was the story last week out of Kenya, where U.S. Ambassador Robert Godec told Kenya’s energy minister that Washington would help Nairobi raise $18 billion to finance its PowerAfrika project. The pipeline would stretch from Kenya’s Rift Valley to Lamu on the coast. “Kenya needs $18 billion worth of financing,” Mr. Godec said, according to a dispatch in Oilprice.com, “so one of the questions we are discussing is how we can work together with the private sector and governments to raise that sum, to find ways to make certain that this financing becomes available.”
Has Mr. Godec checked with Secretary of State John Kerry, or, perhaps more important, anti-oil Democratic financier Tom Steyer? Kenya and Northeast Africa could certainly use the investment and jobs that would come from the oil project. Then again, so could the United States. What’s with the double standard on pipelines?…”
“…The former Boston Red Sox left fielder had an incredible 19-year career, but it ended with two performance-enhancing drug suspensions. However, Ramirez said he doesn’t think that should necessarily take away from everything else he achieved.
…“Like I say with some of my friends, I could tell you, ‘Look at that guy: He’s a cheater; he uses steroids.’ Maybe you smoke weed. Maybe you do cocaine. Maybe you cheat on your wife. Maybe you’re a drunkard. It’s the same.Nobody’s perfect.”…”
Uhhh…Manny; had the druggies, skirt-chaser and drunkard been vying for the Addicts, Adulterers and Alcoholics Halls of Fame, their imperfections not only would have recommended, but indeed qualified them. Unfortunately, Cooperstown tends to demand perfection, as Pete Rose, Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds can attest.
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