Category: Barack Obama

Palin Vindicated on Russia, Ukraine: ‘I Could See This One From Alaska’

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She who laughs last:

Sarah Palin may be having a bragging rights moment.
In 2008, when she was the GOP vice presidential nominee, Palin questioned in a speech whether then-Sen. Barack Obama would have the foreign policy credentials to handle a scenario in which Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine.
“After the Russian army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama’s reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence — the kind of response that would only encourage Russia’s Putin to invade Ukraine next,” she said in Reno, Nevada on October 21, 2008.
The former Alaska governor was happy to highlight her prediction on Friday and scold those who criticized her 2008 comments.
“Yes, I could see this one from Alaska,” she said on Facebook. That remark was a reference to a 2008 interview in which Palin argued that Alaska’s proximity to Russia helped boost her foreign policy experience.
Saturday Night Live parodied her remarks in a now-famous sketch with Tina Fey, who played Palin on the show, saying “I can see Russia from my house.”
On Facebook, Palin continued to explain how she anticipated a growing crisis between Russia and Ukraine, where there has now been an uncontested arrival of Russian military forces by air at a Russian base in Ukraine’s Crimea region. They are believed to be Russian land forces, according to a U.S. assessment.
“I’m usually not one to Told-Ya-So, but I did, despite my accurate prediction being derided as ‘an extremely far-fetched scenario’ by the ‘high-brow’ Foreign Policy magazine.”

And while Vladimir Putin was reportedly sending 2,000 paratroopers to the Crimean peninsula, what was Obama’s reaction?

President Obama himself, having delivered a limp warning to Vladimir Putin, decamped for a meeting of the Democratic National Committee, where he told a cheering crowd: “Well, it’s Friday, it’s after 5:00. So this is officially happy hour with the Democratic Party.”

 


Obama: OFA ‘Doing God’s Work’

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Steven Ertelt of LifeNews noticed that quote from an event last night, and was reminded of when President Obama said “God bless” Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the United States.

By the way, I’ve been researching a follow-up on Miriam Weeks, the Duke University freshman Women’s Studies major who pays her tuition by performing in porn as “Belle Knox.” Just a warning to anyone who might be curious: Her Twitter feed is NSFW.

Someone in the comments of last night’s post suggested that the reason Miriam Weeks doesn’t use her real name is because her parents would not approve. Well, her father’s a doctor and they sent her to a private Catholic prep school, so that’s a good guess, but I was reminded of an old Chris Rock comedy routine:

“They don’t grade fathers, but if your daughter’s a stripper, you f**ked up. . . . Some of them were abused, and some of them just missed a few hugs . . . . ‘I’ll show you! I’m going to dance naked to Motley Crue records!'”

Miriam Weeks has done much more than merely dance naked.

 

Quote Of The Half-Decade @TedNugent

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by Smitty

Bad Ted; bad (emphasis mine):

“I do apologize – not necessarily to the President – but on behalf of much better men than myself, like the best governor in America, Gov. Rick Perry, [and] the best attorney general in America, Greg Abbott [of Texas],” Nugent said.

“I apologize for using the street fighter terminology, like ‘subhuman mongrel,’ instead of just using more understandable language such as ‘violator of his oath to the Constitution,’” Nugent continued. “I apologize for using the term. I will try to elevate my vernacular to the level of those great men that I’m learning from in the world of politics.”

The #OccupyResoluteDesk School Of Leadership & Management

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by Smitty

It is slightly redundant to point and laugh at the useless tool, I know. However, we can be reasonably confident that he’ll never be held accountable for the damage he’s done here under the sun, so laughter is as good as it gets. We’re certainly paying for it.

As much as I love #OccupyResoluteDesk, it is starting to get a bit dated. The instantly classic “I can do whatever I want” does bring a certain South Park character to mind. Should we refer to BHO as ‘Jimmy Cartman’? Tying our previously worst president with a cartoon character seems to capture Obama about right. Thoughts?

‘L’Etat, C’est Moi’

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President Obama is a law unto himself:

“ObamaCare” is useful shorthand for the Affordable Care Act not least because the law increasingly means whatever President Obama says it does on any given day.

He has once again delayed the employer mandate. The timetable for implementation of the law — which was written into the law — turns out to have been meaningless, and our latter-day Sun King has granted so many exemptions to the law that it has no meaning beyond his royal will. Everybody made fun of Nancy Pelosi for saying that Congress had to pass the bill (which neither she nor any other Democrat member of Congress had read in its entirety) so we would know what was in it.

Now we see her point, however: It didn’t really matter what was in the law, because Democrats don’t believe in the Rule of Law, and ObamaCare was essentially carte blanche: “That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.”

 

Can You Make #ObamaCare Other Than History’s Most Expensive Pile Of Bollocks?

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by Smitty

This petulant assertion would come close to funny, if it didn’t come from a guy so mired in thuggish scandals. The GOP should get the audio and run that in a fundraising loop. This November isn’t an election; it’s a pre-impeachment vote.

Failure Is Not a Public-Relations Problem: The Brutal Economics of ObamaCare

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“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail)

The Congressional Budget Office report about the economic impact of ObamaCare is out, and it paints an ugly picture. The Hill:

The new healthcare law will slow economic growth over the next decade, costing the nation about 2.5 million jobs and contributing to a $1 trillion increase in projected deficits, the Congressional Budget Office said in a report released Tuesday.

The Washington Post:

The Affordable Care Act will reduce the number of full-time workers by more than 2 million in coming years, congressional budget analysts said Tuesday in the most detailed analysis of the law’s impact on jobs.

ObamaCare is a disaster in pretty much exactly the same ways that Republican opponents of the bill predicted four years ago, although it’s also been a disaster in ways that even its harshest opponents did not predict. The problem for Obama, Democrats and their media allies is that they have treated the failure of ObamaCare as a matter of public-relations, as if the reality of failure could be concealed by a P.R. blitz claiming that it was actually a success. But the laws of economics can’t be changed by wishful thinking or political spin, and the failure of ObamaCare is a matter of basic economics.

 

 


Could Jamie Casino Find ‘A Smidgen’ Of Corruption At The IRS?

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by Smitty

Via Brietbart and Instapundit, we may have found just the guy who can help our poor, beleaguered, yet supremely self-assured Rodeo Clown-in-Chief. Clearly, #OccupyResoluteDesk needs help to track down that non-existent smidgen of corruption so dreadful in its purely fanciful form that it caused Lois Lerner to take the 5th.

This blog sees a Chief Executive in a jam, and raises the call to get that man some assistance sorting all this. Say, an electoral tsunami on the first Tuesday in November.