Monday, March 31, 2014
President Selfie: Hopelessly Delusional, Cravenly Dishonest or Mind Numbingly Incompetent?
President Obama made a statement the other day in response to a question about what Mitt Romney had said in the presidential debates about a possible Russia threat. At the time, Obama cavalierly dismissed it as living in the past.
"The 80's called. They want their foreign policy back!"
He doubled down on that stupidity in his reply:
"Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors — not out of strength, but out of weakness"
Weakness? Really?? Was Germany in 1939 merely a "regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors — not out of strength, but out of weakness"? BTW, Mr. President, in case you were on vacation at the time, Russia did more than merely threaten her neighbors, she invaded one and annexed it with nary a shot fired. And as far as being merely a "regional power", exactly how many nukes and ICBMs does this "regional power" possess?
Prior to WWI, Archduke Ferdinand was the leader of a "regional power", whose assassination sparked a global conflict. Some of the "neighbors" the current regional power of Russia might be threatening, are members of NATO. The US has signed treaties with them, that we will defend them the same as if the US were attacked. To quote from their website:
NATO’s essential purpose is to safeguard the freedom and security of its members through political and military means.
Now, you can debate all day long
whether or not making alliances with various allies is the wisest course to take, or whether we will pursue this course in the future, but are we going to run away from these treaties we have already signed, as Obama has done with the agreements to guarantee the sovereignty and defense of the Ukraine?
The White House is making a big deal out of the fact that the last phone between Putin and Obama was initiated by Putin. Really? This is not because of any weakness. Putin is the kind of guy who, when he shakes your hand, you'd do best to count your fingers afterwards. He is seeking to consolidate his gains and perhaps gauge when the next bit of Russian adventurism might most effectively and efficiently take place.
Barack "President Selfie" Obama and John "Magic Hat" Kerry try to portray Russian acts of aggression as being "weak" and "old fashioned". Perhaps, if either had spent a significant amount of time in the military, they might have learned that the aggressor in a war is not "weak", and war, rather than being somehow a uniquely 19th century phenomenon or as old fashioned as last year's bicycle spandex, is historically an integral part of the human condition.
Someone had best remind The Least Serious President in the History of the Republic™, that part of his job is Commander-in-Chief, and to explain to him everything that goes along with that responsibility. If you can ever get him off the 18th green...
BTW, the headline does not preclude the possibility of a combination of all three.
Original art by John Cox. More at John Cox Art
Cross posted at Proof Positive
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Countdown To My Sunset Years
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Monday, March 24, 2014
Is It Possible To Remove A Senator On Grounds Of Mental Instability?
Senate Majority Leader and
babbling fool Harry Reid said
Monday that Republicans may have helped Russia annex Ukraine's Crimean
Peninsula.
Reid's charge comes despite
widespread support among Republicans and Democrats in Congress for providing
Ukraine with much-needed economic assistance and hitting Russian President
Vladimir Putin's government with sanctions.
Clearly off his rocker, Reid said
Republicans blocked the bill to "protect the anonymity of their big-money
donors" such as the Koch brothers, two of America's wealthiest men who've
strongly supported conservative causes. He was referring to an unsuccessful
attempt by some Republicans to include an amendment to the bill halting new IRS
regulations on groups claiming tax-exempt status.
"Republicans objected to
moving forward with this aid package unless Democrats agreed to allow the Kochs
and billionaires like them to continue to anonymously spend millions trying to
buy America's democracy," Reid said. "It's hard to believe. But
that's the truth."
In other news, Dingy Harry
claimed Republicans went back in time and caused the extinction of the
dinosaurs.
Break out the butterfly nets.
If I understand Harry Reid correctly, Republicans recently stole Crimea in an Ocean's 11 style heist and sent it to Russia in giant cake.
— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) March 24, 2014
Harry Reid blames GOP for Russia’s annexing Crimea. Also at fault for 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Apollo 13. http://t.co/6Zbn5RDRlS
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) March 24, 2014
ATTENTION: If your psych ward is missing an older, white gentlemen calling himself Harry Reid. Please pick up ASAP https://t.co/p1s70f6YaY
— Matthew (@Matthops82) March 24, 2014
UPDATE: Cardigan of iOwnTheWorld was kind enough
to link to this post.and we thank them.
Obamao Souvenirs Difficult To Find During FLOTUS Visit To China
T-shirts, coin purses and posters
that show The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer portrayed as
Chairman Mao are normally available for sale at the Great Wall of China. But on
Sunday, when the Wookiee visited the Chinese tourist spot with her daughters,
the so-called “Obamao” souvenirs were
nowhere to be found. Or were they?
Sunday, March 23, 2014
#BarackTology: Millennials Rank The Top Obama Scandals
Students on the campus of George
Mason University picked the NSA collection of data, the president’s lie that
“If you like your health care plan, you can keep it,” and the IRS targeting of
conservatives as the top Obama scandals in a parody bracket released Friday.
Campus Reform asked students to
fill out a scandal-based bracket ranging from Benghazi and Fast and Furious to
the IRS targeting of conservatives and the NSA’s collection of data.
“It’s pretty incredible actually,
I didn't realize how many scandals were going on,” said one student.
Another millennial advanced the
IRS scandal because “that’s probably how [Obama] got into office.”
The “Elite Eight” choices are:
1. Benghazi
2. Obama’s “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan” promise
3. DOJ spying on AP reporters
4. The Fast and Furious gun-running scandal
5. IRS targeting conservative groups
6. The botched rollout of Healthcare.gov
7. Obama bypassing Congress to delay elements of Obamacare
8. NSA collection of citizens’ email and phone data
Tweet your
picks @CampusReform, #BarackTology
Saturday, March 22, 2014
If Nancy Doesn't Want To Take Her Medication Orally, I'm Sure We Can Arrange That She Can Have It Some Other Way
Four years ago the Affordable Care Act was
signed into law. During a press
conference on Thursday which a measly 15
journalists attended, Nancy Pelosi vocefirously stood at the rostrum correcting a reporter
who asked, “In the current environment in a swing district, is
Obamacare a winner or a loser politically?”
Pelosi replied, “I believe that
it’s a winner,” and then went into a dissertation on why it should be called by
its proper name.
“It’s called
the Affordable Care Act. It’s
called the Affordable Care Act. I know you didn’t intend any compliment or
derogatory—it’s called the Affordable Care Act, and the Affordable Care Act,
when people know what it is and see what it means to them, and that’s the case
that we have to make,” she rambled.
“And I tell him the same thing I
told you,” Pelosi said laughing. “Affordable. Affordable. There’s a reason—affordable.
Affordable. Affordable. Affordable. Affordable. The reason they changed the
name of it is because they wanted to get away, the opponents, from the word
affordable. And that’s why I’m patient with some of these comments, whatever it
is; it’s infinitely more affordable than the path that we’re on without it.”
You keep using that word
Nancy. I don’t think it means what you
think it means.
The reporter was quick to point
out that The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer himself had embraced
the term in 2012.
The only reason I can surmise that
she sounded like a broken record is that she either shit her pantsuit or it was
time for her meds.
UPDATE: Thanks a bazillion to Don Surber for linking to this post.
Friday, March 21, 2014
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Putin Changes Map Of World…Meanwhile Back At The White House
Russian President Vladimir Putin,
flanked by Crimea’s new leaders, formally signed a treaty of annexation of
Crimea in a grand hall of the Kremlin today. The borders have been formally redrawn
and the map of the world has now been officially changed.
Meanwhile, back at the White
House, The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer revealed his March
Madness bracket.
"These are not imaginative
picks," TWMDCO said. "But I think they're the right ones."
According
to Jon Terbush, “they're identical to the picks of colorful college
basketball analyst Dick Vitale.” What? He can’t even muster the stones to pick his
own brackets?
The world is in chaos and
Americans look to the man in the White House for a sense of stability and
safety.
Dmitry Kiselyov, an anchor for
state-controlled Rossiya 1 television, stood in front of an image of a mushroom
cloud and boldly
declared, “Russia is the only country in the world realistically capable of
turning the United States into radioactive ash.”
The president should be seen as
having his hand on the tiller of the ship of state. Instead, we and our allies see him with a
Sharpie® in his hand and dictators don’t fear the warnings of the leader of the
free world.
The Ultimate Polish Joke
Arriving in Warsaw, Poland
yesterday our village idiot reassured Poland and the Baltic states that America’s
98-pound weakling AKA The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer would
protect them from any Russian aggression like the actions the Kremlin took
in Crimea.
“You have an ally whose budget is
larger than the next 10 nations in the world combined, so don’t worry about
where we are,” Biden said to Polish President Bronislaw Komorowsk failing to confess
that the U.S. budget is comprised of borrowed money and a $17 trillion national
debt.
Uncle Joe’s trip is meant to send
a conspicuous message to Moscow, reinforcing the limited sanctions that the
United States and the European Union announced on Monday against Russian
officials and their allies over the parts they played in events in Crimea.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Photoshop™ Of The Day: They Never Made Fun Of Bush
UPDATE: Thank you to Israel Matzav for linking to this post.
Mocked By Moscow
Crimean Prime Minister Sergey
Aksyonov tweeted a photoshopped
image of The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer in a Russian
military uniform adding this pithy comment, “Interestingly, after
the success of the company in returning Crimea, Barack is getting the rank
of colonel?”
I am outraged at the chutzpah of
this apparatchik. Does Mr. Aksyonov not
realize the good fortune of Comrade Putin for getting into the invading
business while such a spineless, narcissistic opponent occupies the Oval
Office?
Our president deserved to be
photoshopped, at the very least, as a Russian four-star general with lots of
dangling sparklies to warn the world of his superior strategic Nobel Peace
Prize-winning foreign policies and his unparalleled skill in leading from behind.
This past Saturday, right before
a U.N. Security Council vote to declare Sunday's referendum in Crimea
invalid, American ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power
went over to speak with Russian ambassador to the U.N. Vitaly Churkin.
The photograph
of the confrontation which was tweeted by geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer
of the Eurasia Group depicts two members of Churkin’s staff standing behind the
ambassadors openly, flagrantly sniggering at the laughable state of US-Russian
diplomacy.
The United States is being disgraced and humiliated.
Our paper tiger president imposed sanctions on eleven Kremlin
aides and top government officials including Crimean and Ukrainian officials. The problem, however, is that the so-called “Russian
Oligarchs” had
already withdrawn $100 billion in US Treasury Bonds from the Federal Reserve
Bank in advance of the sanctions.
Comrade @BarackObama, what should do those who have neither accounts nor property abroad? Or U didn't think about it?)http://t.co/16KUTJPXOl
— Dmitry Rogozin (@DRogozin) March 17, 2014
I think some prankster prepared the draft of this Act of the US President)
— Dmitry Rogozin (@DRogozin) March 17, 2014
Boy, those sanctions sure backed him off. AP-Russian President Putin signs decree recognizing Crimea as "sovereign and independent country."
— Brit Hume (@brithume) March 17, 2014
Monday, March 17, 2014
Obama: "We’re Going to Stand Firm in our Unwavering Support for Ukraine"
President Obama, the Jar Jar Binks of 21st Century diplomacy, has assured the Ukrainian people that they have his "unwavering support". If any of you doubt Obama's resolve, just look at how he dealt with Assad of Syria. Assad was murdering children with poison gas. Obama made it "clear to the world that we will not tolerate their use", calling it "a crime against humanity, and a violation of the laws of war... If we fail to act, the Assad regime will see no reason to stop using chemical weapons."
If I may quote myself: "Got that? Assad is a dictator committing atrocities, killing children with poison gas, committing crimes against humanity we will not tolerate, so, we must not fail to act."
But, we didn't. Not even a pin prick. Will our "unwavering support" for the Ukraine be any firmer than our ephemeral resolve to stop a murdering dictator, killing children with chemical weapons? Vladimir Putin stepped into the Syrian debacle and gave our toothless, Least Serious President in the History of the Republic™ an excuse to do nothing and he took it gladly. Then he went on vacation. Again.
"isolate Russia and diminish its place in the world" Diminish Russia's place while it increases its territory and resources? His carrot is larger than your stick, Mr. President. It's not that your words aren't pretty, Mr. President, it's that no one believes you when you say them.
"If you like your peninsula, people of the Ukraine, you can keep it!"
I don't know how many in the US are willing to start a shooting war to kick Russia out of the Ukraine, but unless that is at least an option, I don't see how Obama has a prayer of using "diplomatic" or economic means to do so.
Cross posted at Proof Positive
"Noah...Build Me an Ark"
You've probably seen the trailers for the new Russell Crowe movie "Noah". I really don't think I'll go see it, at least, not first run. Not because of Russell Crowe. He's a very fine actor and probably does the role credit. But, every time I see the movie referenced, I flash back to the seventies.
The year was 1976. There was a Christian documentary in the theaters: In Search of Noah's Ark (you can see the whole thing at the link, if you like!) They went into great detail about computer models of the seaworthiness of the ark, satellite photos of what might be the ark on what might be Mt. Ararat.
I'd seen it with a few friends and as we were leaving, one of them was most enthusiastic about what we'd seen and what it might mean to the world at large: proof that the Bible was true. I hated to burst his bubble, but I told him it wouldn't make any difference. Even if it could be proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that Noah existed and the ark was real and even the flood was real (some claim it was localized and not a worldwide flood), and they brought the ark down from the mountain as concrete, verifiable truth, people would still not believe.
Even if Noah's existence could be verified, there would be those who would write him off as some sort of New Age guru or astrologer, or Survivalist*, who somehow sussed out the coming flood, and the Judeo-Christian tradition just incorporated the Noah legend into their "mythology".
So, I would be pleasantly surprised if Russell Crowe's Noah closely adhered to the Biblical one (operative word being "surprised"), but Hollywood doesn't have the greatest track record on Biblical epics. So, if any of you happen to see it, drop me a note. Let me know what you think. (And if Noah's dialogue with God went any better than it did with Bill Cosby!)
*Dude! It was 1976! I didn't use that word!
Cross posted at Proof Positive
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Orange Sabres And Blue Devils Battle It Out For Conference Title
You know what they say about the
best-laid plans of mice and men. Months
ago I bought tickets to the 2014 ACC Tournament. A devoted fan of the Duke Blue Devils, I
wanted to be there to watch my team play.
I came down with pneumonia and my
dream of seeing my boys play in person was shattered.
The Blue Devils took on Clemson
Friday night and defeated them 63-62.
With that win they advanced to the semi-finals to face NC State on
Saturday.
I went to work confident that the
Wolfpack would be no threat to the Blue Devils, but just an hour into my shift
I began to feel so bad that I had to leave.
I went to the Emergency Room. The
game was on the TV in the ER Waiting Room.
Eventually I was taken into an examination room and the ER doctor
ordered blood work, urinalysis, EKG and chest x-rays.
While all this was going on, I
was fortunate that the exam room had a TV mounted on the wall. The ER nurse was kind enough to turn it on
for me so I could watch the game. I
guess she felt sorry for me because I was so sick. It was determined that I was suffering from
dehydration and viral syndrome. So the doctor ordered an IV drip and sent me on my way with a stern warning not to return to work for three days. I think I'll follow his advice.
It was exciting watching Jabari
Parker and T.J. Warren trading baskets in the kind of shootout
expected from the Atlantic Coast Conference's top two scorers.
Parker scored 20 points and the
Blue Devils beat Warren and North Carolina State 75-67 earning Duke its 31st
championship game appearance and its first since 2011.
The ACC Tournament Championship
starts at 1:00 PM ET with Duke going up against the Virginia Cavaliers a team
that Duke whipped in January 69-65.
Duke is the favorite to claim the
conference title.
At 6:00 PM the NCAA tournament
brackets will be announced. A victory
against the Cavaliers could earn Duke a No. 1 seed along with Florida, Wichita
State and Arizona.
UPDATE 3:20 PM: Congratulations to the Cavaliers. You played a classy game. You deserve to be ACC Champions. Best of luck on your march to the Final Four.
Friday, March 14, 2014
See B.S.
Several days ago a story broke
that Emmy Award winning journalist Sharyl Attkisson had resigned as a decades-long
employee from CBS.
Attkisson is best known for her
investigation of the gun-running scandal known as "Fast and Furious" that
allowed firearms to reach a myriad of Mexican drug cartels. One of those guns was used in the murder of
U.S. Border Agent Brian Terry. Her work
on the story garnered an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2012.
A media analyst suggests that the
CBS News investigative reporter resigned because her bosses were annoyed with
her efforts to uncover several scandals within the Obama Administration
including the Benghazi debacle and Solyndra.
It was Attkisson who roundly
refuted Hillary Clinton’s claim that "I remember landing under sniper
fire" on a visit to Bosnia.
Attkisson was covering the First Lady on that trip and her memories
are: "To be sure, it was not the
'safest' trip for a first lady to take: there were serious risks in traveling
to Bosnia, even for the president's wife under the vigilant protection of the
U.S. military. It took some guts for her to go. But I don't recall, and did not
note, any close calls on this trip with sniper fire or any other dangers.
"
Many journalists now are no more
than channelers and echoers of what George Orwell called the 'official truth'.
Bogus characterizations of her work
contend that her reporting had become agenda-driven. CBS executives “doubt the impartiality” of
her reporting.
If by “doubt the impartiality” of
her work CBS is inferring that Attkisson refrains from exaggerations of news
events, scandal-mongering or sensationalism then, yes, Attkisson is guilty as
charged.
If by “agenda-driven” the Left is
implying that she is fighting for truth in Washington when they exude extreme
cowardice then, yes, they pegged her correctly.
Carrying the water for this
Administration smacks of yellow journalism.
The Liberal stenographers and White House poodles have abdicated their
role as the Fourth Estate and have morphed into a Fifth Column overtly
supporting a Progressive movement.
I strongly suspect that Ms.
Attkisson’s departure from CBS may well become a precursor to the wheels coming
off The Ministry of Propaganda.
They say the truth shall set you
free. Ms. Attkisson is surely free
now. Good for her. I wish her well.
Thursday, March 13, 2014
"Clueless in DC"
Dear Abby:
I'm in a bit of a quandary. I'm considered by many to be the leader of the E-fray Orld-way. As a consequence, I have an awful lot on my plate. Three times a day, in fact. (I haven't passed on a really sumptuous meal in the last five years! Sometimes, I have seconds! Thirds, even!)But, getting back to my problem...I'm at the top of my game. If there's a crisis anywhere in the world, I can draw a red line in my sleep! (I often have!) I then get a really serious look on my face and state that there are "costs" to actions. Believe me there are costs! Do you have any idea how much it costs to take my entourage down to Key West for a simple golf weekend? Less than Hawaii, sure! Or Martha's Vineyard or any of my bi-weekly vacation spots. But, cost is my middle name! (And here you thought it was "Hussein"!)Then I piously say that I join with our allies in their "concerns". (It sure beats the hell out of taking any meaningful action!) And it's not like there's no one to hold me accountable! I submit to hard hitting interviews on fake radio shows, fake TV shows and The View (but I repeat myself!). Just this week on "Between the Ferns", Zach Galifianakis read those questions with the same fake sincerity he did in rehearsal! But, what's a guy got to do to get a decent "Boxers or briefs?" question around here??Just listen to what that big meanie Jim Geraghty said about me:After a tough morning doing an interview with Funny or Die, and in between two fundraisers, President Obama did his part for the economy...I think he might be being sarcastic!!You may have heard of that little 'dust up' in the Ukraine. My dear friend Vladimir Putin, who has always been jealous of my charisma and charm, is moving Russian troops into the Crimean peninsula and massing troops and weapons on the Russian border. It's getting so that I cannot go on vacation, or happy hour with my fellow Democrats, or play a round or 36 of golf, without getting criticized for some perceived "lack of leadership"! Can you believe it?? Putin is ignoring me, Angela Merkel isn't taking my calls, Iran is ignoring our agreement on enriching uranium and Obamacare is coming apart at the seams.My question to you is, should I go with the pink sweater, or hold out for one with a matching scarf?
Signed,Clueless in D.C.
Cross posted at Proof Positive
Monday, March 10, 2014
Got Crow?
With their ears to the ground,
crystal balls at the ready and a few Magic 8 Balls for extra measure, long-in-the-tooth
Republicans like five-term senator Mitch McConnell are mounting an aggressive
effort to undermine the credibility of advocacy groups like the Tea Party by
denying them any Senate primary victories, cutting into their fund-raising and diminishing
them as a future force in Republican politics.
At the apex of the rise of the
Tea Party, the conservative groups stirred up a hornet’s nest for establishment
Republican candidates.
“I think we are going to crush
them everywhere,” McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, said in a New
York Times interview, “I don’t
think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country.”
McConnell, the GOP Post Turtle,
is one of three establishment Republicans who are facing primary challengers
backed by Tea Party conservative groups. The Senate Conservatives Fund, The
Madison Project, and FreedomWorks are supporting Matt Bevin, McConnell’s rival
in Kentucky.
"I won't let you down. I will lead with integrity…We will debate our
ideas openly, we will vote without fear…The best conservative ideas for lifting
Americans out of poverty will get a hearing," promised McConnell at this weekend’s
CPAC conference.
"It was a speech by a politician," one attendee
noted wryly.
Declaring the need “to crush them
everywhere,” are the words of a self-serving, small-minded power hungry
politician who has already been in Washington far too long.
Running to his real friends at The New York Times to trash the very
people he was attempting to court just days before is loathsome and
despicable. I hope Bevin wears him out
in the primary. We don’t need a betrayer
of limited government
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Duke Blue Devils’ Impossible-To-Stop Two-Man Wing Game
I insist on gloating today. I insist on being annoying about it too. Today, that’s how I’m going to roll.
All season long, I’ve heard it
said and I’ve seen it written that Duke has been on an up-and-down roller
coaster ride with a “bitter slump pushing them to the brink of being unranked”
before finding themselves late in the season.
The first meeting of the 2013-14
regular season between Duke and Carolina was to have been February 12th. Mother Nature decided to dump “Snowpocalypse”
on Chapel Hill and the Dean Dome instead.
That game was rescheduled for February 20th.
Duke led the Tarheels during the
entire first half but lost control in the second to lose 74-66. I was crestfallen. A short two days later, my boys would take
revenge for their February 1st overtime lose in the Carrier Dome to Syracuse 91-89.
The Orange came to our house, Cameron
Indoor Stadium, where all the “Crazies” live.
It was at Cameron that The Orange found out that they are not the gods
of the ACC and that rules ignored at your house can be equally ignored at our
house. It was the scene of Coach Bonheim
literally losing his shit over a clear blocking foul and enduring a 66-60 loss
to my beloved Blue Devils.
Last night was Senior Night. The Tobacco Road Rivalry was set between The
Heels and the Devils. I had a feeling in
my heart of hearts that this meeting would end in victory for my beloved Blue
Devils.
I was right.
Jabari Parker had his most
polished game of the season late night.
Even with Carolina’s best defender, J. P. Tokoto, draped all over him in
an attempt to frustrate him Parker patiently picked his spots. One possession he would receive a post entry
pass, face up and nail a jumper. The next, he'd face up again, see Tokoto anticipating
the jumper and drive right to the rim.
Rodney Hood scored 24 points and
combined with Parker for 27 of Duke’s 40 first-half points. As strong as their first half was, the real
clinic came in the second half.
The Blue Devils led by as many as
19 points during multiple stretches, breaking down the North Carolina defense
to shoot 50.9 percent from the field. At certain points, it looked as if
Hood and Parker were toying with a fangless Tar Heel defense.
Hood finished with 24 points on
8-of-13 shooting and knocked down three of Duke's eight shots from beyond the
arc.
Duke's last 16 points came at the
charity stripe. The Devils did not hit a field goal in the final 6:56 because
Carolina had apparently decided to start fouling early to get back in the game. On a lesser team that strategy might have
worked. Carolina didn’t reckon that
Quinn Cook and Rasheed Sulaimon and the shooter-heavy lineup were going to be
cold-blooded at the stripe.
Oh yeah, Marcus Paige, the vaunted
second-half wonder boy looked scorched at the end. I loved his expression. That’s why I picked that photo to chop.
It was an exhilarating game to
watch. I couldn’t have asked for
anything better to cheer me up after spending a week at home with pneumonia.
From here, it’s on to next week’s
ACC Tournament in Greensboro.
Four slots still remain to be
determined as of this writing. Already
locked are (1) Virginia, (2) Syracuse, (3) Duke, (4) North Carolina and (5)
Pitt.
Carolina and Duke have drawn byes
and won’t see action until Friday.
Go Duke. And by the way, Carolina GTH.
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Terminating With Extreme Prejudice The Doctrine Of Drift, Decline And Defeatism
“Conservatives must remember the
policies and victories of Ronald Reagan. We can and must replace the
Obama-Clinton-Kerry-Biden Doctrine of drift, decline and defeatism with a
Reaganite foreign policy. That is the key to success this November and in 2016,
and that is the key to ensuring America’s freedom and security in the years
ahead,” said former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, on the
opening day of this year’s CPAC.
Saturday we will learn the final
results of the CPAC Straw Poll. CPAC
attendees are rejecting the Republican establishment and its brand of Big
Government "me-too-ism" in favor of candidates who are authentic
representatives of the grassroots conservative base of the Party.
The
results of the first poll give Rand Paul 29%, Ted Cruz 17%, Ben Carson,
Marco Rubio and Chris Christie 10%, Scott Walker 7%, Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush and
Rick Santorum 2%, and Mike Pence (1%)
Note: Sarah
Palin and Bobby Jindal did not receive enough votes to remain on
the leader board.
The GOP has a deep roster of
potential presidential candidates. The
table below provides you with the current list and the non-viability I see in
their candidacy. I welcome your
opinion. If it differs from mine, I’d
love to discuss them openly with you. We’re
all in this together—standing guard over liberty.
CANDIDATE
|
NOT VIABLE FOR THIS
REASON
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Kelly Ayotte
|
Her alliance with McCain and Graham
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Scott Brown
|
Lied about his swearing-in ceremony RE: Obamacare
legislation
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Jeb Bush
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Bush family name a distracter
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Ben Carson
|
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Chris Christie
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Bridgegate scandal, Obama Super Storm Sandy bear hug
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Ted Cruz
|
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Nikki Haley
|
Participated in Mark Sanford fundraiser
|
Mike Huckabee
|
“Open borders policy, ordered administration hard drives
destroyed before leaving office, “Criminal Coddling” scandal, Wayne Dumond
parole scandal
|
Jon Huntsman
|
Supports cap and trade, believes in global warming, once called
Obama “a remarkable leader”
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Bobby Jindal
|
50% job disapproval by voters in Louisiana, do not favor his run
for the presidency
|
John Kasich
|
Ohioans are not on board with a Kasich run for president
|
Peter King
|
Said Rand Paul was “part of the Hate America crowd and doesn’t
deserve to be a U.S. Senator.” He also targeted Ted Cruz
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Bob McDonnell
|
Currently battling federal corruption charges
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Susana Martinez
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Political novice on the national stage
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Sarah Palin
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Still trying to build political capital, may never receive the
support she deserves following her betrayal by John McCain
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Rand Paul
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Rick Perry
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May not be able to overcome his “oops” gaffe in 2012 debate or
the unfortunate “boys will be boys” remark when U.S. soldiers reportedly were
discovered to have urinated on the corpse of a Taliban fighter in Afghanistan
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Marco Rubio
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Obama used him like a cheap hooker on Immigration Reform bill,
he got his 30 pieces of silver
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Paul Ryan
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The Ryan-Murray “budget deal” makes outrageous
cuts in pension benefits to wounded and disabled veterans, essentially
robbing them
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Rick Santorum
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He hit his ceiling in 2012, prone to tapping into angry
resentments
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Tim Scott
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Political novice on the national stage
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John Thune
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Lacks extensive out-of-state focus
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Donald Trump
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Blowhard
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Scott Walker
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I believe he is dedicated to finishing what he started in
Wisconsin
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