The American Spectator

YOU’RE IN, PHIL
Re: Philip Klein’s You’re Out, Tom:

Hi there good people —

I love — make that LOVE — The American Spectator and the opinions you publish. I read most but rarely follow the visitor comment threads that follow. Today, I ran through all the comments attached to the “You’re Out, Tom” piece by Philip Klein. Actually, I was looking to see if anyone else picked up on the delicious, but unstated, look back to the role of Michael Corleone in the original Godfather. The juxtaposition in concept with Mr. Obama is wonderful.
— Mark Merritt
Fiddletown, California

Editor’s note: Alan Brooks got it, at 5:55 p.m. yesterday: “‘You’re out, Tom.’ Mikey to Tom Hagen, right?”

I dearly hope someone in the Republican Party is collecting the plethora of precious lines pouring out from Democrats making excuses for their paragons of tax-evading purity.

Pah!

If, that is, they can keep from choking and gagging every time they read them.
— A. C. Santore

IT PAYS TO HAVE A FRIEND NAMED OBAMA
Re: George Neumayr’s Class Carfare:

Thank you Mr. Neumayr for pointing out that the Emperor has yet to get dressed, and that his court is also sporting clothes from the same haberdashery!

However, the spin that the MSM is putting on all of this is that they failed to pay some taxes, when in reality the miscreants have failed to report income. Had you or I failed to report a paltry quarter million in income, we would surely be in tax court facing penalties that include incarceration. Mr. Obama took pains to explain yesterday that he did not want to even hint that there are 2 sets of rules, you know, the pesky old double standard. Except that there ARE 2 sets of rules, and Mr. Geithner proved it last week.
— Greg Mercurio
Vacaville, California

Watching the unfolding debacle between the Great One’s minions and a stumbling, tripping, drunken Congress, I see the great ocean liner has hit the iceberg. Folks are still in the control room assuring passengers the jolt they felt was a small bump in the night, while sharks from Al Qaeda start gathering around the vessel. Tax issues? I am more concerned with a statement yesterday from the Great One’s staff, after a shaken Gen. Petraeus left the White House. The statement read, and I quote:

“In their report, the Chiefs concluded that the existing American goals in Afghanistan, established by the Bush administration, are overly broad and ambitious. The report does not call for abandoning U.S. hopes of turning Afghanistan into a moderate Western-style democracy, or for halting counter-narcotics efforts, but it does suggest making those steps part of a long-term vision, rather than a goal.”

I see talk show hosts fixed on jabbering wildly about the cheating crooks in Congress, when what should be spoken aloud is the military’s abandonment. With a son on his 9th tour (yes, ninth), I am on my knees imploring my Heavenly Father to just bring him home safely to his family, his wife and lovely little girl, “Liberty.” Our men and women fight for precious liberty and freedom, not for a vague “vision.”

Someone needs to focus on the fact (both on radio and in your management) about where all this is heading when we suffer a catastrophic loss, militarily speaking. Yesterday it was also announced that if any generals reproached the Great Ones desire to leave Iraq in under 16 months, they could pack their bags and find a job elsewhere. No one talks about these things but we military families are watching unfold the final assurance, which some of us knew, that Obama is worse than a Chicago politician. He plans to dismantle the United States as we know it.
— Beverly Gunn
Texas

TAKE IT TO THE BANK
Re: Lawrence A. Hunter’s Killing the Big, Bad Banks: