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The Current Crisis
Another Reason for Barack Obama to Go Home
Harry Reid can’t help him here.
WASHINGTON — Now that Governor Mitt Romney has revealed the details of his tax returns, it is high time that Senate Leader Harry Reid reveal the details of his relationship with that cow that was linked to him in a world exclusive right here in this very column last month. Doubtless, I shall be nominated for yet another Pulitzer, but as always I shall chastely demur, insisting, as in the past, that I consider this column a public trust. No award or commendation is required. Fulfilling my public duty as a citizen is in itself reward enough.
Last month, I was only very sketchy about Mr. Reid’s relationship with the cow. No names were included. No trysting places could be exposed. Yet, Mr. Reid claimed living, breathing, sources had informed him that the Massachusetts governor had failed to file his income taxes. The Senate Leader was adamant: no taxes had been paid by the governor over a ten-year period! Well, as with so many other things that the Senator says, it was poppycock. So go ahead, Senator, tell us all you know about the cow or I shall be compelled to tell all. Even the amusing story about where she got that cute bronze cowbell.
Interestingly, Mr. Romney and his wife’s tax returns reveal that they donated 29.4 percent of their income to charity in 2011, giving away $4,020,772 out of income of $13,696, 951 — not bad. President Barack Obama and his wife donated only 21.8 percent of their income, despite all their claims to exemplary public-spiritedness. They donated $172,130 from earnings of $789,674. Still they were veritable philanthropists compared to the miserly Vice President Joe Biden. He and his wife gave 1.5 percent of their 2011 income, their generosity amounting to $5,540 from an income of $379,035. Once again Joe, you are pathetic.
It is becoming clearer by the day that Barack Obama and Joe Biden are hypocrites of a classic sort. Mitt Romney is not the scoundrel he is being portrayed as by the Democrats but rather an exceedingly decent man and a perfect citizen. Dare I say it, a good neighbor? Moreover, he is a vastly more accomplished man in both the private sector and the public sector than either of these life-long spongers at the public trough. As for Harry Reid, I am not quite sure how to describe him. Surely he had to know that there was at least a danger that his charges of tax evasion against Mr. Romney were open to being exposed as false at any moment. All that had to be done was for Mr. Romney to do what he did last week, reveal his taxes.
My guess is that Mr. Reid has believed that it did not matter if Mr. Romney opened his books and revealed the Senate Leader as a liar and a fool. The Senator believed that the mainstream media — the Democratic media, that is — would simply ignore his failed charge of tax evasion and move on. That is precisely what the media have done.
Yet in recent weeks the Democratic media are having to ignore an awful lot of evidence that reveals the Obama record as a dangerous failure both domestically and in foreign policy. Domestically he has resided over the weakest recovery in modern times, and this month’s action by the Federal Reserve Board reveals still more. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has now announced that the economy is in need of his further ministrations, ministrations heretofore unthinkable. The recovery is in danger, and the lousy growth numbers and jobs numbers speak volumes.
Now the Obama foreign policy is in tatters. It was one thing to have the Russians and the Chinese giving Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton the back of their hands, but now the Arab world is too. The White House’s initial story about the assault on the Benghazi consulate was false. It was not a local rampage but a well-coordinated military attack. Soon we shall recognize that three days before the attack took place the American government was warned. Obama did nothing. American installations in Libya should have been prepared for the worst on September 11, as should American installations all around the world. Instead embassies in Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia, and Yemen were also attacked.
It is the end of President Obama’s Cairo Doctrine. Delivered in Cairo in 2009, President Obama imagined the speech — the most breath-taking mea culpa delivered by an American president ever — would represent a new dawn of friendship and cooperation between the United States and the Arab world. It failed. Now three years later the Arab world is in ferment against the United States. The only good that can come of this foreign policy disaster is that it came at an opportune time, election time. It is one more reason that Barack Obama should be retired.
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About the Author
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is the founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator. He is the author of The Death of Liberalism, published by Thomas Nelson Inc. His previous books include the New York Times bestseller Boy Clinton: the Political Biography; The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton; The Liberal Crack-Up; The Conservative Crack-Up; Public Nuisances; The Future that Doesn’t Work: Social Democracy’s Failure in Britain; Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House; The Clinton Crack-Up; and After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery.
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Aristocat| 9.27.12 @ 7:04AM
Obama is toast...A total failure on domestic and foreign policy.
Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 9.27.12 @ 5:48PM
Romney's religion is Romneyism.
Appleby| 9.27.12 @ 7:09AM
Not to mention the serious insult Mr. Reid dumped on Mr. Romney's religion. I personally do not care for the LDS religion, but I have never seen nor heard anything about his interaction with his religion that would not be to his credit. I suspect that Mr. Reid's behaviour would not stand up quite so well to scrutiny, if anybody had the heart to look into it. How close does Harry Reid come to 10% of his income turned over to the Church, for example? When I was a Mormon, your name was written up on a public wall if you didn't ante up. I bet if you looked, you'd find Harry Reid's name on that wall.
TLP| 9.27.12 @ 3:59PM
He's a Mormon.
A Mormon who's going to Hell.
Where he belongs.
The Avenger| 9.27.12 @ 7:33AM
The democrats employ the age old trick. Throw enough crap at a wall and some of it will stick, especially if the "press" provides the glue. How stupid is the American electorate? Time will tell.
TLP| 9.27.12 @ 4:00PM
Contest, Tomorrow.
Von Mises Jr| 9.27.12 @ 7:47AM
Emmett makes a hugely important point here about our future freedom. It is also obvious to me that while Jay Carney the spoke's kid and the White House finally admit Benghazi and Cairo were terrorist attacks, Obama continues to lie at the UN and the View. This is because there are two sets of narratives for two audiences. The NYT, Newsweek, and MSM TV will never let the ignoramuses find the truth in their media mash. It is pottage for the stupid.
Now we have an "Internet Kill Switch" Executive Order being readied to shut off all dissenting dialog if little Barry is re-elected. We are not just facing a depression in this case, but a Soviet or Nazi-like propaganda moving forward. You will only hear what Dear Leader finds fit to print.
BTW, if Barry wins, Benghazi will not have happened by the end of 2013, just as the falsified drilling report has been scrubbed from the internet.
Pecos Pete| 9.27.12 @ 8:08AM
Back to Harry Red Reid ... I can describe him ... he is a POS. He is elected to the post of Senate Majority Leader by his fellow democrats. That tells me all I need to know about the majority of the democrat senators.
TLP| 9.27.12 @ 4:01PM
Contest, tomorrow.
Anthony| 9.27.12 @ 9:06AM
The MSM, like Harry Reid, are scum. Both have abused their positions of power and made a mockery of their respectives positions in the functioning of this great nation.
Reid especially deserves a special place in Hell. The dispicable reptile has no shame and no honor.
TLP| 9.27.12 @ 4:01PM
Contest, tomorrow.
PCC| 9.27.12 @ 9:27AM
It has long been an "infamnia" on this website, let alone on the left-leaning blogosphere, but I say again that I LIKE Mr. Romney, and I think he'd make, and hopefully will be given the chance to be, a great president.
spike59| 9.27.12 @ 10:41AM
I'm not the biggest Romney fan in the world politically, BUT...he seems to be a genuinely 'nice guy' with intact moral values, emotional maturity, an understanding of how the Constitution works, and a grasp of American values...which places him LIGHT-YEARS ahead of the bungler that was foisted upon us in 2008
TLP| 9.27.12 @ 4:14PM
What's not to like, about Mitt Romney?
He didn't get his House, from a guy doing a long stretch in Federal Prison.
He never Organized Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March.
He never sat in a Black Hate Church.
He never palled around with Unrepentant Domestic Terrorists.
He's never APOLOGIZED to our Enemies, for this Country.
He's been Married to the same woman, all of his life.
He raised 5 Good Sons.
He never had an 11 Year Affair with a Lounge Singer, in his first 12 Years of Marraige. He never RAPED anyone. Never Pulled His Pants Down in front of anyone. Never Groped anyone. Never Molested anyone. Never Lied to a Federal Grand Jury. And, to my knowledge, never left any Ick, on a Fat Intern's Blue Dress.
That was the guy who was The Main Speaker at The Marxist Muslim's Convention.
He never Ran Guns to Mexican Drug Cartels. Never ran up Trillion $ Deficits 4 Years in a row. Never added $6 Trillion to the Debt. And, never caused a Downgrade in our Credit Rating even Once, let alone Twice.
So WTF is your Problem?
TLP| 9.27.12 @ 4:15PM
Contest, tomorrow.
TLP| 9.27.12 @ 4:16PM
So WTF is your problem?
Ignore that.
I forgot who I was talking to.
Sorry.
Who Knows?| 9.27.12 @ 10:30AM
Barney Frank ran a gay prostitute ring out of his DC house, didn’t he?
Want to bet that Hairy Reid is running a gay “cow” mating ring out of his?
Seriously, though, the excrement, that day by day spurts out if the liberal body, is good news. Remember, it takes time to decompose, so as the pile of s*it grows to the sky, and election day races into view, the essential great awakening of the voters has a chance.
However, Intrade is down to almost 25% Romney.
Can enough people break their attachment to The One, in time? I’m still conflicted. There IS a whole lot of hard wired fools allowed to vote.
Pace this, did you notice the Drudge link, “Children’s brains imprinted with fast-food logos”--
http://www.medicaldaily.com/ar.....brains.htm
Imprinting, IMHO, is definitely NOT limited to fast foods, my friends. Indeed, when I think of Obama, and the pictures of his most ecstatic fans at his events, and the many millions of others who have “lost their minds” over him, there it is---
Pavlov’s dog!
Imprinting.
I Caught a PBS snippet showing humans trying to save ape babies, who’d lost their mother. It was so cute, seeing them cling, piggyback, to the humans---that’s some imprinting, Obama!
TLP| 9.27.12 @ 4:17PM
Can I buy some Pot from you?
spike59| 9.27.12 @ 10:36AM
one might think that giving so many millions every year to charity, and paying a tax rate higher (according to IRS figures) than 97% of the American public, would be seen as a 'good thing'...but i'm starting to believe that his charitable giving REALLY bugs the Left; perhaps they feel that every dollar given to charity is one less dollar that Washington can confiscate
fmm| 9.27.12 @ 10:37AM
The Obama Doctrine: Party, Party, Party!
Bob's friend in Europe| 9.27.12 @ 12:03PM
I remember when Reid made claims that the US military had lost in Iraq. He was adamant. Just the other day Vice President Biden said we had removed 580,000 troops more than we'd actually removed from Afghanistan. In truth, he could have said 500 million without the US DNC media saying a word. Why worry about facts and details? Reid enjoys a special place in our government; he's protected from reality the same way the Ku Klux Klaner Senator Byrd was. Facts do not matter as long as you're a Democrat.
TLP| 9.27.12 @ 4:18PM
It's not that Facts don't matter.
It's that they don't know any Facts.
Contest, tomorrow.
Joellen| 9.27.12 @ 4:23PM
Well actually they know the facts but if the facts dont work for them then they are irrelevant. TLP - bringing more people into the "contest" tomorrow. Conservatives love competition.
TLP| 9.27.12 @ 6:31PM
I'll give you a hint, because I like you.
Boys From Brazil.
Bob Grant| 9.27.12 @ 12:14PM
Once you go Barack you never go back.
I mean, really, who could resist free cell phones?
Joellen| 9.27.12 @ 4:25PM
My gosh if you havent seen the video about the Obama phone lady(?) - go into drudgereport.com. Then email that to every sleeping American you know.
Intelligent Design| 9.27.12 @ 12:55PM
Obama has never held a real job, not even a newspaper route. To my knowledge, he's never been a clerk, waiter, laborer, accountant, manager, or business executive. He's never been accountable to shareholders or a board of directors. He is ignorant about how the economy functions. He may not even know the difference between fiscal and monetary policy. This helps explain why unemployment is higher now than it was when he took office nearly 4 years ago. His policies are all wrong, and he refuses to change them. A majority of voters know that, and they will throw him into the garbage truck of history on Nov. 6th.
Four years is enough time for Obama on training wheels.
TLP| 9.27.12 @ 4:19PM
Contest, tomorrow.
Look for my byline.
Minuteman78| 9.27.12 @ 4:18PM
I don't think he deserves retirement. Tried for treason and executed, perhaps.
Minuteman78| 9.27.12 @ 4:20PM
Meant - exiled.
Mike G| 9.27.12 @ 4:40PM
Exiled? I think we should stick with executed.
Mike G| 9.27.12 @ 4:42PM
Well, okay, not executed...that is a little rough. But surely exiled to some cave in a desert...you know, someplace close to his friends.
TLP| 9.27.12 @ 4:20PM
I like you.
You get it.
Contest, tomorrow.
Stkman| 9.27.12 @ 4:47PM
Stick with executed, its what he and Hillary both deserve right after their trial for manslaughter for the death of four Americans and treason against all of us.
Mike in N.C.| 9.27.12 @ 10:51PM
Keep your day job, Emmett. You have no talent for stand up comedy.
By imitating the way Republicans routinely behave, Reid is mocking his colleagues. Those on the right don't get it, but everyone else is enjoying the show.