Dem Fools & Other Silly Rabbits

Would these parading Russian soldiers defy Putin and refuse to take up arms against the U.S. simply because of the personal magnetism of our President Obama?

Prez Says We’re Heading For a Trainwreck

There’s something deeply unsettling in the psychology of Barack Obama. As he hurtles the US down the road to ruin, as he forces incomparably massive debt loads down our throats, as he belittles the million outraged tea partiers that took to the streets to protest his and Bush’s reckless, irresponsible fiscal shenanigans, he now realizes that this country is about to crash and burn. (Or is he just trying to cover his behind in future campaign ads and history books?)

So does he ask for the stimulus bill to be repealed? (It’s not too late. They’ve only spent 3%.) No.

Does he ask for the whole budget to be trashed and a new, drastically slashed one to be passed instead? No.

Does he tell GM and Chrysler they’re getting no more money, and all the banks should begin their TARP repayments immediately? No.

Apparently, no corrective action is necessary. This egomaniac just wants to lecture us that our debt load is not sustainable. It’s all our fault, not his.

A Bloomberg story, “Obama Says U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable,’” goes into greater detail, saying:

President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries.

“We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. “We have to pay interest on that debt, and that means we are mortgaging our children’s future with more and more debt.”

Holders of U.S. debt will eventually “get tired” of buying it, causing interest rates on everything from auto loans to home mortgages to increase, Obama said. “It will have a dampening effect on our economy.”

Earlier this week, the Obama administration revised its own budget estimates and raised the projected deficit for this year to a record $1.84 trillion, up 5 percent from the February estimate. The revision for the 2010 fiscal year estimated the deficit at $1.26 trillion, up 7.4 percent from the February figure. The White House Office of Management and Budget also projected next year’s budget will end up at $3.59 trillion, compared with the $3.55 trillion it estimated previously.

Two weeks ago, the president proposed $17 billion in budget cuts, with plans to eliminate or reduce 121 federal programs. Republicans ridiculed the amount, saying that it represented one-half of 1 percent of the entire budget. They noted that Obama is seeking an $81 billion increase in other spending.

Now back to the government spending spree—and forcing the credit cards to permit us to carry our own personal unsustainable debt loads. It’s the new, hip, Obama-mama way.

William F. Buckley He Certainly Is Not

The Huffington Post reports that “Keith Olbermann debuted a new and recurring segment on his show tonight called “Countdown’s WTF Moment.”

If you are unfamiliar with the acronym WTF, it’s typically only used by people such as Janeane Garofalo, Rahm Emanuel, Blago, Al Franken and sailors. (Sorry to throw you into *that* mix, sailors.) It stands for “what the …,” no, if your innocent ears and eyes have made it this far in life without being sullied, we’re not going to besmirch them.

It’s not a phrase or an acronym that any articulate person needs. Intelligent minds could go an entire lifetime without ever saying it or even thinking it.

What is it with MSNBC? With all their teabagging and pimping and wtf-ing, they’ve become incapable of discussing the news in ways that you don’t have to send children from the room.

[Question to the FCC: Can cable air MA (mature audiences only) programming during primetime?]

Even during their daytime supposed objective-news-only, they’ve got their anchors throwing hissy fits and being disgusting. Take, for example, another little scene approvingly reported by the Huffington Post, titled “MSNBC Anchors Erupt Over Miss California Press Conference: “Can I Vomit Right Now?” The triad erupting were Contessa Brewer, David Shuster and Tamron Hall. The effluent drama queen squawking about regurgitation wasn’t Contessa or Tamron.

The whole network needs a good scrubbing down with stiff brushes and lye soap. But with the anchors’ minds remaining in the toliet, it would be better to flush them all down the drain and start fresh with some lefties that can have a stimulatingly learned discussion of the news and policy and be repulsed by the idea of wallowing in the gutter for entertainment.

P.S. The page on which HuffPo has their publicity piece about Olberman’s new segment also had an ad for an article in The Nation, which says Olberman is Ed Murrow reincarnated. It’s hard to say whether that is a smear on Murrow’s legacy or the truth. Could be both.

“Say No To President Obama Or Throw Me In Jail”

That’s what Obama nemesis and former presidential candidate Alan Keyes told the administration of Notre Dame on Thursday, according to Indiana’s NewsCenter reports. (Video of the on-location interview with Keyes is also available through that link.)

Keyes and about 75 other protesters against abortion and embryonic stem-cell research held a rally at the gates of the Notre Dame campus, reciting the “Hail Mary” and other prayers, pushing strollers of dolls covered in fake blood and listening to Keyes’ firebrand style of speaking.

But when 30 of them entered the campus, further news reports say that 22 (including Keyes) were handcuffed, arrested for trespassing and had to pay a $250 bond to get out of the St. Joseph County jail.

Bishop D’Arcy’s diocese issued a statement saying they do not approve of any attempts to disturb the school’s graduation ceremony or “to drive a wedge between the Bishop of the Diocese and Nortre Dame.”

It’s likely that the Notre Dame class of 2009 will have quite a circus for their commencement exercises. Operation Rescue staged their own protest a week ago. Now Keyes’ merry band. And there doesn’t seem to be any let up in sight.

The Wall Street Journal reports that a plane “trailing a giant photograph of a fetus aborted at 10 weeks” is already flying from now until the ceremony on May 17.

The WSJ article continues:

Below the airplane banner, antiabortion activists who have converged on South Bend are making their point in a more aggressive way. They are driving trucks around the perimeter of the campus and carrying signs outside the main gate showing images of aborted fetuses.

Meanwhile, even practicing Catholic Notre Dame students go soft-spined and tingle-legged at the thought of being in the presence of their Obama—and not wanting to be associated with those meanies who are demonstrating.

The WSJ describes one such student:

Caitlin Conway, a 22-year-old political-science major who attends Mass once a week, says she is excited by Mr. Obama’s appearance. She says she abhors the idea of abortion, but that she and others on campus are largely turned off by Operation Rescue’s tactics and extreme stance.

“I consider myself someone who supports life and wants to protect life wherever possible,” she says, “but I don’t want to identify myself as a pro-life American as [the movement] currently stands.”

That’s right, Caitlin. Don’t let your brain get in the way of your feelings. Don’t use that polysci degree to try to shape the movement as you would like it. Just join the happy herd being led into the stadium. Baaa.

Obama Worship Goes Secular Geek…

Atheists now to bow to Spock-O-Bama—a melding of two “mixed race icons”

The Salon.com article “Obama is Spock: It’s quite logical,” by Jeff Greenwald, carries the subhead “Our president bears a striking resemblance to the rational ‘Star Trek’ Vulcan whose mixed race made him cultural translator to the universe.”

This concept is apparently not shocking to Trekkies and media elite:

Spock has been on many minds lately, and not entirely because of the new film. Big thinkers in both print media and the blogosphere—from New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd to MIT media moguls—have referenced the Enterprise’s science officer in recent months, drawing parallels between the dependably logical half-Vulcan and another mixed-race icon: Barack Obama.

They’re not just talking about the ears. For those of us who watched the show in the 1960s (or during the countless reruns since), Nimoy’s alter ego was the harbinger of a future in which logic would reign over emotion, and rational thought triumph over blind faith….

Anyone who followed the early “Star Trek” with regularity knows how charismatic Spock was. If there were two characters I wanted to be as a young man, they were Spock — and James Bond. Both displayed total self-confidence, and amazing problem-solving skills. Both traveled to exotic destinations, and were irresistible to women. And both shared a quality that my generation lacked completely: composure.

Good gracious. This is taking a “thrill up the leg” to a whole ‘nother level.

Greenwald does capture one seemingly reasonable comparison between Spock and Obama: their physical bearing (at least in the head area). “The raised eyebrow, the lifted chin, the vaguely sarcastic mien — these were coins of the realm to my pubescent friends.” (Oh, what sad, lonely children they must have been.)

On the surface, most would agree there’s a similarity in those areas. But if you probe more deeply, a less impassioned observer can see that Obama holds his chin in a permanent, more emotional and jutting lift. His brows tend more towards being in a furrow or a scowl than raised. And on the other side, Spock’s vocabulary did not include “um” and “uh.” He did not use a teleprompter. And he certainly did not swagga.

Greenwald makes it clear that physical similarity is merely the jumping-off point. This is no simple hope-and-change fantasy that Obama’s gonna pay for his mortgage or buy him gas. He’s thrown his lifelong childhood-pain-and-isolation fantasies of becoming cool and powerful into this. All the crushed dreams and humiliations suffered when raised eyebrows and chins could not get him into the popular crowd are being avenged for him now by Spock-O-Bama:

“Star Trek” fans who bonded with Spock already understood what those of us who followed Obama learned early on: that witnessing a powerful intellect can be deeply satisfying on an emotional level. We got a similar hit from Martin Luther King Jr. and the Kennedys, of course, and from Bill Clinton. But while Clinton’s administration was smart, Obama’s seems futuristic.

Greenwald does take a moment in his article to indulge a futuristic, sci-fi fantasy:

Which is another reason why the sometimes audacious diplomacy of the Obama administration is innately appealing to those of us weaned on the credo of “exploring strange new worlds” and “seeking out new life and new civilizations.” And what if the Earth itself was visited by aliens? If benevolent ETs were to land on the Mall tomorrow, most of humanity would be proud to have Barack Obama speak for us. If Bush were still president, we’d be looking at “Mars Attacks.”

There’s a key word in that last paragraph that proves Mr. Greenwald is still living in a childish Trekkie fantasy world. That word is “benevolent.”

“If benevolent ETs were to land…,” Spock-O-Bama might frighten them off with an Air Force One photo op. But, really, Mr. Greenwald, which of all the diplomatically difficult dictators in the world are you calling benevolent? Kim Jong Il? Chavez? Hezbollah? Fatah? Osama Bin Laden? Somali pirates? Mugabe?

Paris Hilton could deal with “benevolent” ETs. It’s the dangerous, malicious, insane, conniving ones that Obama’s already having problems with. (And our long-time “benevolent” allies certainly aren’t showing him all the love and glory and slobbering that we were promised.)