Tuesday, 16 August 2011
News..........
Meet Corporal Dakota Meyer
Poor Ol’ Bo « Neptunus Lex
Sangawi holds urgent meeting on Separated Areas
Kurdistan official denies sending Kurdish forces to Diala Province
Advise and Assist Brigade reflects on Operation New Dawn deployment
2 Peshmerga brigades head to Jalawla and Qazrabat
BRITS RECOIL FROM TEACHING RESPECT FOR AUTHORITY AT HOME OR SCHOOL
Syria, Turkey, Iran: It’s on
66 years ago today...
Yvonne the runaway cow brings fame to Bavarian village but no milk
US corn-belt farmers: 'The country has turned on us'
A Moment of Truth
Pedophiles Follow Close in the Footsteps of Militant Homosexuals
Man arrested in Ky. over fake bomb attack on Australian teen
Explosives detectors to be installed at gates of Mecca's Holy Mosque
Walton-backed museum sends ripples across USA
Bachmann win is a win for Obama, too
Tourists offered 'nude paradise'
America is rotting at its core
PACs gave nearly $65M to deficit 'supercommittee' members
Out: UK’s hormone plan to turn Hitler into woman
Good News From Iowa
Financial World Dominated By A Few Deep Pockets
Europe’s corporate bonds send an ominous signal
Two men almost drown by taking elevator into flooded basement
33 Mexican soldiers accidentally invade Texas
67,000 sheep stranded as live-export ship breaks down
Col Gaddafi fires scud missile at rebel territory as Nato braces itself for final violent showdown
Canada reinstates word 'Royal' into names of Air Force and Navy after 43 years
UN investigating Somalia famine aid theft
Russia foils plot to blow up Moscow to St Petersburg commuter train
Pakistan has made a grave error allowing China to inspect downed US helicopter
Slutwalk comes to Germany
Monday, 15 August 2011
News........
Pawlenty Shaken When Iowans Not Stirred
Assad Shells Alawite Stronghold
The Syrian Navy « Neptunus Lex
SETI is back on the air
Syria's navy 'shells port town of Latakia'
Video: Syria: Tanks roll into Latakia
The (polar) bear facts
Obama urges citizen rebellion against Congress
Photo of Obama saluting fallen troops questioned
Rick Perry's Immigration Policy...
Obama's 'one term' comments seen in new light
Iran to start Bushehr nuclear power plant by Aug. 30 "if tests completed"
Experts warn of China's rising imported oil dependence
Miss Hong Kong ladies visit USS Ronald Reagan Aircraft Carrier
Small banks say new mortgage regulations too onerous
The Reagan stimulus vs. the Obama one
Air Force Staff Sergeant Refusing Orders Until Obama's Eligibility Dealt With
Did media cover up Sen. Durbin's confrontation with reporter?
This time, U.S. fears a financial crisis from abroad
HUCKABY: Get your checkups so you can win the fight
UK loan goes sour for two banks
Tax fraud suspected in Obama land deal
Obamamandias
Libyan rebels strike crucial blow as they enter Zawiyah
Pakistan 'gave China access to bin Laden raid helicopter'
Libya: Tripoli braces for Gaddafi’s final curtain
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: nuclear weapons 'a waste of money'
Indian Navy captures hijacked vessel off Mumbai coast
Weekend Reading - The Glory of the Human Individual
Useful Aphorism..........from Rico
I sometimes 'reflect' upon this.
"We ARE what we repeatedly DO."
The thought belongs to Aristotle, the emphasis is mine.
Sunday, 14 August 2011
Political Pinball, One Day Later
In the primaries, politics is a lot like pinball as it moves in unexpected ways, lifting one candidate’s chances of getting the nomination, bypassing others. In the national election, it’s more like a bowling bowl, rolling down a straight and narrow stretch headed either to the gutter or a strike.
For Republicans, we’re in the pinball phase of the blood sport of politics. For Democrats, they have but one choice and that’s Barack Obama. Watch now as many Democrats re-register as either independents or Republicans.
How can you tell who the White House fears more as an opposing candidate? Just watch how many times David Axelrod, the public relations guy behind Obama’s win in 2008 gets on television to attack Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry who announced his candidacy on Saturday, the day of the Iowa straw vote. Then try to keep count of the number of lies he will tell about either.
In 2008, Axelrod had a totally unknown, charismatic Obama to sell who ran more against George W. Bush than John McCain. In 2011-2012, he has the most unpopular President since Jimmy Carter.
Axelrod honed his skills in Chicago politics. On August 9, Politico revealed that “Barack Obama’s aides and advisors are preparing to center the president’s re-election campaign on a ferocious personal assault on Mitt Romney’s character and business background, a strategy grounded in the early stage expectation that the former Massachusetts governor is the likely GOP nominee.” (Emphasis added)
Five days later Obama’s advisors had Gov. Rick Perry in the crosshairs. Romney had skipped the Iowa straw vote, but none of them believe the straw poll winner, Rep. Michelle Bachmann, has any chance of securing the GOP nomination. And they are right.
Like some pit bull chained up in the basement of the White House, Axelrod came charging out on Friday to attack Gov. Perry even before the straw vote made news. As Jeffrey Folks said in an August 14 commentary posted on AmericanThinker.com, Perry is “the most successful American governor in living memory.”
The political pinball has bounced away from Romney, Bachmann, and other GOP candidates and found its home in the Perry campaign. The longer it stays there, the more it will transform into a great, big bowling bowl headed straight down the lane and into the White House.
On one hand it will be fun to watch Axelrod and other Obama lapdogs foam at the mouth and spout all manner of lies about Perry, but it’s 2011, the economy is in the tank, the nation’s credit rating was downgraded for the first time in its history on Obama’s watch, the unemployment rate is officially at 9.1, and the dreaded “double dip” recession is in full bloom.
Moreover, Obama has lost his mojo. He is in the worst of all political positions; he is an object of ridicule.
Folks compared the Texas economy to California’s. Given that California is one of the most liberal States and Texas is comfortably conservative when it comes to policy, Folks noted that “What California lacks in the kind of political leadership that will attract new business. Economic growth in California—one can hardly call it ‘growth’—has been stagnant or worse over the past decade.”
“In April 2011, California ranked last among the 50 states in job creation” said Folks, noting it had an unemployment rate of 11.8% while in the same month, the unemployment rate in Texas was 8.2%.
“As Governor of Texas,” Folks pointed out, “Rick Perry helped to create a tax and regulatory environment that would attract new business to the state and allow businesses already there to flourish.” And Texas has a zero income tax!
Within twelve hours, former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty had dropped out of the GOP race and we can expect the others to follow suit with the likely exception of Mitt Romney, but Perry will demolish him in the primaries to come.
Republicans can already smell a winner and with good reason. Perry is the longest serving Texas governor and he has never lost an election. The Reagan Democrats of the 1980s put him in the White House and it will be the turn of the Perry Democrats this time around.
There’s a reason Obama is franticly trying to raise as much money as he can at this point, 14 months out from Election Day. In the months and weeks ahead, the smart money will no longer be there.
Only one thing is predictable, Axelrod and the Chicago political thugs that form the inner circle of Obama’s team will engage in every dirty trick, every slander, and every lie possible in a desperate effort to stave off the juggernaut of Gov. Rick Perry.
© Alan Caruba, 2011
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