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Enemy of the Week
The Iceman Cometh
The great man recently declared, must to the dismay of the Gaia contingent, "We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers," and not necessarily in that order. Thus it is disturbing that last week is being regarded as a holy week by leading adherents of our nation's great religions and nonreligions. Where they saw saintliness and nirvana, we saw suffering and unaccountability and a coldness of spirit you would not believe.
For instance, the new president's opening words, "My fellow citizens." Was this a cruel joke? Twelve million undocumented immigrants in our midst, and they're being excluded this way? Or has an executive order already naturalized and registered them as voting Democrats? Perhaps the great new One was simply signaling his preference for the French national anthem and its revolutionary summons of the citizenry (citoyens) to arms. Like nobody in recent memory, our leader speaks to one and all in multi-layered mis-direction.
If only he had learned from Katrina -- how many countless thousands of loyal, vetted, and certified supporters were coldly abandoned in the Third Street tunnel and other approaches to the holy grounds of Capitol Hill while a heedless government went about its self-congratulatory business? While Yitzak Perlman fiddled (or pretended to, as the Obama-Biden team looked up at him and pretended to listen), a breakaway nation of Obamists burned. No mean feat in a deep freeze.
Let them eat change, the inaugural committee chairman and master of ceremonies Dianne Feinstein told the huddled masses. Or more precisely, she injected an unprecedented doctrinal note in the proceedings that could keep her from being spied on by CIA director Leon Panetta. Said Ms. Feinstein, "future generations will mark this morning as the turning point for real and necessary change in our nation."
Picking up on Dianne's subtlety, the distinguished Rep. Dennis Kucinich showed that he too is ready to get with the program when he managed to be among the first to greet, congratulate, and whisper something to the new president. Just the other day we received a secret communiqué alerting us to the menacing new book Dennis has authored, "35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush." At the risk of becoming an indicted co-conspirator, you can check it out here. We assume he's being paid by the count.
The loony-bin contingent's tentacles extend to the Oval Office, if New York Times coverage of the new president's knuckle-headed chief of staff is even remotely accurate. We can't wait for the follow-up report on the chatty new veep. What's an indicator of meaningful change? According to the Times, it's when Rahm Emanuel is said to be "trying to…cut down on his use of profanity." And he worries that he's not being a good father to his three young children. No word if he also feels bad for saying Republicans are "bad people who deserve a two-by-four upside their heads." Which perhaps explains the White House's second thoughts on shutting Gitmo down for good, not that there's aren't Republicans happy to claim they fed Rahm that line.
Republicans will not be cowed, regardless. Two of them actually voted against confirming Hillary Rodham Kissinger as our nation's latest secretary of state, one day after Sen. John Cornyn felt the wrath of Sen. John McCain for delaying the vote. Oddly, in the final tally Cornyn was not among the two who voted no.
Republican resistance will have to build in other ways. Here was a squandered opportunity. Several days before his initial swearing in, the then-President-elect dropped by the offices of the Washington Post, one of many follow-up visits in which Mr. Obama has reminded reporters not to waste their questions. Coming across a reportedly pregnant news aide, he proceeded to violate her privacy and to stereotype her situation by asking her when she was due. Then he interfered with her naming rights, saying, intimidatingly, "I hear Barack's a good name."
Couldn't she have responded, and thus cheered all those in need of post-1964-like uplift, "I prefer Barry"?
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AJN| 1.26.09 @ 6:38AM
Two 'no' votes on M. Hillary? The R's have linguini for spines. I'll never vote R again. Why should I?
Melvin| 1.26.09 @ 7:02AM
Ms. Fienstein needs to be investigate by the ethics committee for her role when she chaired the committee for government contracts by steering government work to her husband's company.
Stefie| 1.26.09 @ 7:05AM
AJN, the republicans are such a disappointment. It almost makes you wonder if it's all deliberate.
Time for the New World Order and Barry will lead us there. )-:
Melvin| 1.26.09 @ 7:07AM
My good people, the only thing that we can do, that the Republican Party leadership isn't doing.. "D e f i a n c e ! "
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ajn| 1.26.09 @ 8:10AM
Yes, Stefie, I think you have a point.
Bring back the Whigs. The R's have run their course. I used to think the R's the stupid party and the D's the evil party. Now I think we have 2 evil parties. One is actively evil, the other is passively evil.
Since the firm establishment of direct taxation the environment that could enable a state based (or other lesser magistrate based) nullification movement was smothered?
Individual defiance, brother Melvin, is a noble thought, but inherently impossible to organize (see CSA, 1865). Destruction of the 16th Amendment and a return of the individual states financing the federal government will have to precede any hope of reclaiming our liberty.
Sadly, I don't see a non-cataclysmic way for that to occur.
George| 1.26.09 @ 8:45AM
We now have only one political party with national power, The Demoblican. At least it has two factions: those who favor unrestricted abortion and those who tolerate it. Big whoop!
Grant| 1.26.09 @ 12:17PM
Don't be harsh about the cabinet appointments, isn't the President entitled to who he wants as long as they aren't criminals. Besides I want to see the betting line on how long HRC will last. At least until Bill shakes someone down for another $100 Million.
Wankel| 1.26.09 @ 3:10PM
>> AJN, the republicans are such a disappointment.
Oh but goodness GRACIOUS don't you know that Lindsey Graham has such a GOOD TIME at them balls...
Dustoff| 1.26.09 @ 3:36PM
Grant.
Let's see. We have a AG who let terrorst free.. then the Mark Rich problem. Plus we have tax guys who can't pay his taxes.
Sorry, but I'm going to complain.
loulou| 1.26.09 @ 6:47PM
Obama is NOT a natural born US citizen and may not even be a US citizen at all.
Don't the Kristols, Krauthammers, Grahamnesties, know that conservatives will not support GOP sissies?
George| 1.26.09 @ 7:09PM
I'm through with the country club R's let them get their new majority from the Hispanics after they give them amnesty. They want a kiss my ring constituency.
RightofRush| 1.26.09 @ 10:25PM
Can it be that more than a few have an inkling of have been going down since Reagan?
Bush, Inc., and Clinton-Obama are not rivals. They're joined at the hip. Maybe more than a few have figured out that it's not an accident that the "War on Drugs" is little more than a tragic joke and that our pourous border is no accident as well.
The grand design? To destroy our sovreignty by envisorating our econ0my and national identity.
To what purpose? Hello North American Union!
RightofRush| 1.26.09 @ 10:29PM
The American Spectator needs a mechanism for proof reading. ...inkling of what has been going down...
David Govett| 1.27.09 @ 12:14AM
Those desperate to rule + those desperate to be ruled = Can't be good.
LeftofLenin| 1.27.09 @ 12:16AM
Hahaha, try taking one more look. Envisorating...did you mean eviscerating? And if you take that argument to it's inception, our national identity would have to be Native American.
Melvin, that story sounds familiar. Where did I hear that one? Oh right, that's what the Repubs have been doing for years, ahem, Halliburton, ahem. But then, to be fair, I guess Cheney was putting taxpayer money directly into his own coffers. Closer to the topic of unethical spousal influence, anyone remember Leura Canary? We all remember her, right? She's the one who directed her office to fabricate criminal charges against Gov. Seigelman during a campaign at the behest of her GOP operative husband, after a friendly tap on the shoulder and whisper in the ear by Karl Rove. Even Halliburton isn't as bad as hijacking the Justice Dept. and using it as a political battle axe.
To you, loulou, all I can say is last time I checked, being born in the United States makes you a natural-born U.S. citizen, unless you believe that Hawaii is not a part of the United States. There was one candidate who ran for president that was not a natural-born citizen. His name is John McCain. Would it have prevented his taking office if he won? No. Would you have been upset about that? I think not.
Nick| 1.27.09 @ 2:40AM
leftofCommieMassMurderer,
I'm a native American. I was born here. I'm native. Everyone born here is native American.
J David| 1.27.09 @ 8:55AM
As long as conservatives let the *Republicans* be their sole representative body they DESERVE exactly what they get! These people were voted into office, they lied about what they said they would do in office and there are no consequences but that Republicans are losing power.
Until conservatives start thinking outside the box and take their support down the road to some other political entity, SO BE IT! I keep reading these comment threads, and listening to Rush grousing about betrayal and no leadership, and boo-hoo-hoo... It is so pathetic it would actually be funny if the country was seeing the end of its days...
If someone(s) does not represent; they fraudulently misrepresent who they are, and what they will do, as the Knee-pad RINOs have done, it is time to find some entity that will, and stop cryin' in your beer.
J David| 1.27.09 @ 8:56AM
...if the country was not seeing the end of its days...
RightofRush| 1.27.09 @ 12:28PM
Hey Lefty: Thanks for the spell check.
BTW, A certificate of live birth is not a birth certificate. All it means is that, yes, Barry was born alive. His thoughtless mother didn't abort him in Kenya.
Aside from no legal birth certificate, there is no college transcript, and no batismal certificaate as well. The latter omision to alieviate angst among his Islamic brethren. They do not take kindly to those desert the faith for Christianity.
Maybe he didn't. His first international address was on al-Arabyia.
As for your point about "native americans", we western european folks were just taking back what was taken from our brother, Kenniwick man.
Ted| 1.29.09 @ 1:45PM
OK, OK, OK, enough already, I can’t take any more hoaxes: First we have Al Gore’s global warming, next comes Obama being a constitutionally qualified President, followed by Obama’s stimulus plan, but now we have Robert Reich telling us why we need stronger unions. Are we heading for Saturday Night Live 24/7?
LeftofLenin| 2.1.09 @ 6:25PM
RightofRush: That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. A certificate of live birth is a birth certificate. I just looked at mine. Right there on the top, it reads "certificate of live birth". Here's a little quote from wikipedia for you:
Whereas the long form is a copy of the actual birth certificate, a short form is a document that certifies the existence of such certificate, and is usually titled a "Certification of Birth" or "Certificate of Live Birth". It is NOT a document to verify that a baby is born alive.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/jun/27/obamas-birth-certificate-part-ii/
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Sweep under the rug over a hundred years of murder and theft by saying you're related to a 40,000 year-old corpse and then stand at the borders with a stick to beat back anyone trying to gain entry. Does anyone else see the irony?
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