A Nancy Pelosi defense fund?
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Morons
…elected by morons. Exhibit A: a Democrat county supervisor who thinks that Arizona doesn’t share a border with Mexico. As one commenter notes, Idiocracy
Welcome To The Revolution
Just one more day until the new film-production concept goes live, at least for FB users.
Idle Question
Am I the only person who wishes that the president would spend all his time on the golf course? Every minute golfing is one in which he can’t continue to wreck the country.
It’s About Time
The Muslim Students Association of UC Irvine has been suspended for a year. I hope that school administrations at other places will start to grow a spine, too. But I think it’s too little, and way too late. Up until now, the behavior of the administration at UCI has been appalling, not just looking the other way, but actually justifying the MSA’s anti-semitic activities.
Two Days To Go
To a new funding mechanism for American movies for American viewers.
Thoughts On McChrystal And Petraeus
A link roundup.
My question is, when did he go from being General Betrayus to General Petraeus? When George Bush left office? I think people are going to have a lot of fun in the next couple days digging up derogatory quotes from the secretary of state, president and vice president from happier, anti-Petraeus days, when they were in the minority and had the luxury of being politically irresponsible.
[Update a few minutes later]
OK, some similar thoughts from VDH:
It is one of ironies of our present warped climate that Petraeus will face far less criticism from the media and politicians than during 2007–8 (there will be no more “General Betray Us” ads or “suspension of disbelief” ridicule), because his success this time will reflect well on Obama rather than George Bush. It is a further irony that Obama is surging with Petraeus despite not long ago declaring that such a strategy and such a commander were failures in Iraq. And it is an even further irony that he is now rightly calling for “common purpose” when — again not long ago, at a critical juncture in Iraq — Obama himself, for partisan purposes on the campaign trail, had no interest in the common purpose of military success in Iraq.
It’s a lot easier to campaign than to govern.
[Update mid afternoon]
And so it begins. Here’s an example of a little less than three years ago, from the senator who is now president:
“The best way to protect our security and to pressure Iraq’s leaders to resolve their civil war is to immediately begin to remove our combat troops,” Mr. Obama said. “Not in six months or one year — now.”
In his address, Mr. Obama proposed removing American combat troops at a pace of one or two brigades a month, which is about twice as fast as American commanders in Iraq have deemed prudent. There are currently about 20 combat brigades in Iraq, which General Petraeus has committed to reducing to 15 next summer.
As I said, it’s easier to campaign. Especially when you’re a Democrat, and the press never holds you accountable for your past words or actions.
To Whom It May Concern
Any use of the phrase “science project” or “toy rocket” or “hobbyist” with regard to ULA and SpaceX at this point will identify the user as either clueless or disingenuous. Certainly no one worth paying attention to, at least on the subject of space policy. Note, this is a comment spurred more by the commentary over at Space Politics than anything in particular here. It was just a perfect storm. 😉
Five Years
…since Kelo:
I’m glad to see all this local patchwork to fix it, but it seems like this might be ripe for a constitutional amendment, given how unpopular it was. Of course, as the video notes, it’s popular with politicians. On the other hand, if it was that popular, it would have been a lot harder to make all the local progress against it. If every state that has either changed state law or amended their constitutions to increase citizens’ rights against rapacious local governments would ratify a federal amendment, it would have a lot of margin for passage.
As If Obama Doesn’t Have Enough Problems
The next Lebanon war.
Maybe he can just keep apologizing to Damascus and Tehran.