Liberal Logic – Susan Rice and Syria Edition

So the administration is on a full court press right now trying to change hearts and minds about Syria.  So, in thier infinite wisdom they have decided to send none other than Susan Rice out to do it.  You remember Susan Rice don’t you? The woman who went on five different Sunday talk shows to discuss how Benghazi and the death of four Americans at an oupost there was due to YouTube video, even after they knew full well it was a terrorist attack.

You can’t make this stuff up.  Truly.

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Is a 7th grader a threat to the president?

At what point does this become ridiculous and scary intrusive? I know the Secret Service has to check out just about every threat but really?

Maybe the mom was the real concern.

What do we think about this. Obviously anything the kid said wasn’t admissible in court, as I understand it, since she wasn’t present and he’s a minor.

Is Rahm Evil? And what about The One

His opponent in the mayor’s race cuts an ad accusing him on Freddie Mac. Evil-Man Economics Is Rahm evil?

You decide.

But I suggest those wanting a better future for Chicago, Illinois, and this country read Stanley Kurtz’s book, Radical-in-Chief:Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism . Rahm, never let a good crisis go to waste Emanuel was involved with the Left early on.

We are reaping the ruin the Left has sown for decades. Midwest Academy. ACORN. SEIU. The Dem Machine. The Chicago Way goes to Washington.

Shakedown after shakedown.

Are there any honest leaders left in Chicago?

And who is our president.

And the Midwest Academy folks, maybe they’re kicking themselves right now – I hope they are – for putting their files on record. And when I finally dug up these files, I truly was amazed because what we really had here was a living, breathing, Socialist front group as if it had been taken from the 1930s and transported into the ’80s and the ’90s and beyond in the United States.

Related posts: Acorn fells Obama tree?

The Core of Barack Obama.

More. In case you missed it. Jeffrey Lord, TAS:Boehner Takes On Radical-In-Chief

…Who will they demonize next? Jan Schakowsky is Frightened

UPDATE: Obama’s Double Vision. Logo above. And this.

WTF.

–crossposted at BackyardConservative

Sticky Wiki Morality

No Sheeples has covered the subject admirably in the previous two posts. Victor Davis Hanson explores the man-child playing god that is Julian Assange.

The closest I can come to judging this lack of morality play is in the context of school board meetings. The agenda was online, the attachment packet could be picked up a few days in advance, the meetings were on cable, and there was room for public comment. The board retired to the back room only to discuss personnel issues.

And there still could be incredible rancor.

It is very telling that the Obama administration is only now getting exercised about this all legally when diplomats and their administration’s cover is being blown. It was pretty much OK for our military and friends in Iraq and Afghanistan to be exposed–you know when actual lives, not reputations were at stake.

But why are we surprised by the dangerous, yes dangerous vanity of this presidency.

 

 

Hillbuzz Take on the Obama Oval Office Redo

Who needs a laugh.

More interesting than his grudging, dour and patronizing speech tonight.

My favorite comment here, besides Hillbuzz header:)

ShoreBank Bailout Turned Buyout: Corrupt Collusion

The greedy community organizing chickens come home to roost again and again. Via Chicago News Bench, the $367.7 million loss taken by the FDIC insurance fund at our expense:

“The money for the management buyout comes from the big Wall Street banks whose arms were twisted by the Obama administration, through intermediaries like Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL). Meanwhile, the government and the taxpayers are saddled with the responsibility of dispensing with ShoreBank’s bad assets. We are the victims of an insider deal, done at the highest levels of the administration and the Democratic Party. The ShoreBank bailout-turned-buyout is a corrupt collusion between Washington and Wall Street that will not create jobs or investor confidence in Chicago’s low-income communities. It will sustain the terrible idea that poor communities must depend on patronage to survive.

The corrupt community organizer model, twisting private sector arms to make bad loans, funneling taxpayer money to political favorites, generating kickbacks to politicos, while the poor are smashed down again and again, perennial victims too convenient to actually give a hand up as free individuals.

Related: Fannie and Freddie: Barney Frank Finally Comes Home to the Facts Larry Kudlow, Big Government

WSJ: Business Success Helps Society More Than Philanthropy

Related post here.

–crossposted at BackyardConservative

White House Gushes

Politico sucks it up uneasily. (But the oil is still gushing)

Nonetheless, West Wing officials are feeling very good about how the BP and McChrystal crises turned out -– and believe that their response may help the president pivot to the offensive. In each case, Obama did little second-guessing and acted decisively, according to participants in presidential meetings.

Well, and they would know. For sure.

But what about that huge skimmer that hasn’t been used yet?

And Bill Clinton has had enough. He says blow up the well.

–crossposted at BackyardConservative

McChrystal’s poor judgment

Though it’s undoubtedly true that President Obama was unprepared on Afghanistan and continues to lag sadly behind the competency curve on all matters presidential, how to explain the incredibly poor judgment shown by Gen. McChrystal in airing his dirty laundry in a lengthy Rolling Stone profile? A terminal case of buyer’s remorse? He did vote for Obama. Hot Air:

Via Chris Cillizza on Twitter, Politico has the PDF of the Rolling Stone article that has created a firestorm for General Stanley McChrystal — and it’s at least as bad as advertised.  Michael Hastings paints a damning picture of a military leader who seems to have built a toadying entourage, whose disdain and contempt for the political leadership of the country drips from every page, and who doesn’t seem to mind who knows it — until it hits the presses.

Hot Air quotes a McChrystal aide from the article:

Their first one-on-one meeting took place in the Oval Office four months later, after McChrystal got the Afghanistan job, and it didn’t go much better. “It was a 10-minute photo op,” says an adviser to McChrystal. “Obama clearly didn’t know anything about him, who he was. Here’s the guy who’s going to run his [bleeping] war, but he didn’t seem very engaged. The Boss was pretty disappointed.”

Of course this is perfectly consistent with everything else we know about Obama’s “leadership style.” But I don’t see how Obama can do anything but fire him. Read the rest at Hot Air.

Updated to add insight from Byron York, quoting a source who knows McChrystal well:

“Those of us who knew him would unanimously tell you that this was just a matter of time,” the man says.  “He talks this way all the time.  I’m surprised it took this long for it to rear its ugly head.”

“He had great disdain for anyone, as he said, ‘in a suit,’” the former military man continues.  “I was shocked one day in a small group of people when he took [former Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld to task in front of all of us.”

“The other thing about him is that he is probably one of the more arrogant, cocksure military guys I have run across.  That in itself is not necessarily a character flaw, but when you couple it with his great disdain for civilians, it’s a very volatile combination.”

Other items:

Guy Benson does justice to Obama’s wasteful, politically partisan commissions:

Candidate Barack Obama famously ridiculed his 2008 opponent for suggesting the next president establish a bipartisan commission to thoroughly investigate the myriad factors that contributed to the financial meltdown.  Obama snarked that John McCain was employing the “oldest…stunt in the book” and seeking to “pass the buck” by tasking others to “study the problem.”  (Here he paused for laughter).  Building up to an audience-fueled crescendo, Obama bellowed, “What we need now is leadership.”

Once elected president, Obama changed his tune.  Having created and exacerbated record budget deficits, Obama cracked open the old Washington playbook and found a certain stunt he thought might be useful.  Hello, deficit commission.  It promptly ran out of money.  Beyond that irony, many observers suspect Obama ultimately intends to use the panel as political cover (sometimes known as buck-passing) to violate his campaign’s central “firm pledge.”

Now the president is facing one of the gravest environmental disasters in US history.  Managing the crisis effectively, providing leadership, etc. has proven rather difficult, so Obama has found himself once again strangely attracted to the stunt he forcefully rejected on the campaign trail.  Hello, oil spill commission — for which Obama has requested $15 million in funding. Their job? To study the problem.  [Pause for laughter]. A wise use of taxpayer dollars? You’ll have to ask the deficit commission.

What we still need now is leadership. Read the rest.

Lastly, Peter Robinson interviews Mark Steyn and Rob Long, all week.  Part 1, about 8 minutes, is on the continuing relevance of Ronald Reagan.  Part 2, 5 minutes long, is on Reagan’s prescient opposition to government healthcare. Worth watching. (Mark looks very dapper, as usual.)

Rahmbo Drama

A whole thread dedicated to White House PR and its chief of staff at Memeorandum. I haven’t read most of it but this should be interesting.

I was looking at the Chicago side of things.

Will Rahmbo Thumb his Nose at the White House

Rahm Traded Favors with Blago: Report

Will he go now or wait until after the midterms?

What would be his next perfect job? What do you think?

…And it occurs to me the British press, which has often covered Obama embarrassments unlike the MSM, might be even more assertive in this area after his demonizing BP. (Well, they deserve it but it’s the principle of the thing, because who’s next)

Rahm as character witness?

From one bleepin pol bout another.

What could go wrong?

Blago mano a mano with Obama

Subpoenas The One.