What does Newt’s huge low-cost turnaround, in the face of all the money that Romney has spent, presage about the fall election with the hundreds of millions that Obama plans to raise?
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Heh: “Newt’s win in SC shows that big money can’t persuade as well as threats of violence from Chuck Norris.”
What we learned. Actually, it’s not news to me. This kind of one-sided media bias has been on full display for a very long time.
Michael Belfiore went on a tour of the factory last week.
All that “smart diplomacy” has lost Egypt:
The White House completely miscalculated in Egypt, as it did in Gaza. It seemed only to care for the mechanics of the electoral process rather than the meaning of the results. Washington vacillated on who its Egyptian allies really are. We had long shared with the Egyptian military understandings on national security, ours with an eye to maintaining peace in the region. That relationship is now pretty much lost.
Americans, in their perennial innocence, have demanded that the generals turn over power to the civilians whomever they may be, just as they did to the Persian shah, just as they did after Israel’s pullout from Gaza when they hadn’t a clue about the danger posed by Hamas. Our ingenuous attitude has been tantamount to handing over Egypt on a silver platter to the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists, who ironically are coming into power as democrats.
Their new foreign policy will include opening the blockaded border with Gaza, ending normal relations with Israel, and opening them with Hamas and Iran in such a way as to alter the balance of power in the region against U.S. interests. Indeed, one of the few things that unites the political parties in Egypt is an anti-Western foreign policy. Cairo has already allowed Iran’s warships to transit the Suez Canal; failed to protect pipelines supplying energy to Israel and Jordan; endorsed the union of Hamas and Fatah; and hosted conferences in support of “the resistance,” that is, terrorism.
They’ve rolled the clock back to the seventies in terms of Israeli security. And in some ways it’s much worse.
It’s Obama’s first big campaign lie.
I fearlessly predict it won’t be his last.
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Well, here’s a partial explanation for the Keystone decision. It benefits Obama crony Warren Buffet.
…and the leisure class. If it wasn’t obvious during the year that he was totally focused on health care instead of fixing the economy, it should be crystal clear now that Obama doesn’t give a damn about jobs, unless they go to his cronies.
Quin Hillyer sure doesn’t like Newt. Of course, there’s an assumption in that phrase that he actually is of “the Right.”
…from Andrea Harris. Yes, just because Google opposes it doesn’t make it good.
An article on the Left’s obsession with making things more expensive.
They’ll be able to do it on the moon, too. This is one of the technologies that will enable space settlement.