Obama's dream scenario....

Anti-Chávez Channel Is Taken Down:

"''They must comply with the law, and they cannot have a single channel that violates Venezuelan laws as part of their programming,'' Diosdado Cabello, director of Venezuela's state-run telecommunications agency, said Saturday."

Sound familiar?

Nothing HATES success more than failure....

Berkeley High may cut lab classes to fund programs for struggling students:

"Most districts would not argue with such a record, but Berkeley High's science labs are embroiled in a debate over scarce resources with overtones of race, class and politics.

Campus leadership has proposed cutting before- and after-school labs -- decreasing science instruction by 20% to 40% -- and using that money to fund 'equity' programs for struggling students in an effort to close one of the widest racial and ethnic achievement gaps in the state."

You see, all the liberals see the need for teaching evolution, they just refuse to practice it....

Wow - a real mouthful!

The Context Of Middle-Class Frustration:

"The members of the lower class are generally seen as the clients of a collectivist movement, the recipients of the social benefits it promises. Their desperation and anger become fuel for the movement, providing both righteousness and voting power. The collectivist only needs to conceal any hope of finding prosperity beyond the generosity of the State, and keep the lower class convinced that government is the only moral actor in the economy. Review the speeches of Barack Obama, and search for anything that suggests the poor should look anywhere beyond the government and its social programs for salvation.

It’s clear that the middle class is the great enemy of collectivism. Only they have the combination of voting power, money, and economic self-interest to see the growth of government as undesirable, and provide effective resistance. They generally view their interactions with government in a negative light – they’ve all spent time in the Department of Motor Vehicles mausoleum, spent hours wrestling with tax forms, or been slapped with a traffic citation they don’t think they deserved. They understand the inefficiency and emotional instability of government, and instinctively resent its intrusion into their lives. A health-care takeover is the best chance collectivists will ever have of persuading the middle class to vote itself into chains… but for the better part of a century, they’ve been able to hear the hammers of the State ringing on the metal of those chains, in the forges of taxation and regulation."

Heh...

Revenge Isn’t An Economic Policy:

"President Nero needs to stop fiddling while the USA is burning! Cut tax rates,
start drilling for oil and cut Congress' pay!"

Hitting the nail on the head!

Obama: The Anti-John Adams:

"...Ann has smart commenters, and Kent offers this brilliant summary. ”Because, so far as President Present is concerned: this is a nation of men, not laws. He is, at his core, the anti-John Adams.”

That’s it. I find a whole host of reasons to dislike Mr. Obama, but this sums the issue up as nicely and succinctly as I can imagine. If you haven’t watched the HBO series on Adams, you must do so as soon as possible. After completing it, sit back and ponder the proposition that Obama is, at his core, the anti-John Adams."

Funny, I bet Hannity and Limbaugh don't think radio is "a dying industry"...

Air America to Cease Broadcasting Immediately:

"“The fact of the matter was, it was always a very challenging business proposition, and it never had the right management,” said Sam Seder, who hosted programs on Air America until last year.

The headwinds were enormous, he said, adding, “Radio is a dying industry.”"

Amazing isn't it? For "progressives", it's NEVER their fault. The only possible reason for failure is someone or something elses doing, because they think their cause is just; and, logically, the only reason for failure is the forever "other" who deny them their rightful place of success. Hence, the need for government protection....

What a forever crock....

Certainly, Congress cannot.....

Can Immigrants Solve Our Health Care Problems?:

"First, let’s dispel a common myth: By providing outpatient care earlier, we can diagnose and prevent disease before it becomes expensive to treat. Fewer hospitalizations and fewer emergency room visits, some hope, will reduce overall costs. The effect is undeniable, but overstated. On balance, findings from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment, one of the largest social experiments ever conducted, suggest that insurance increases costs. The best estimates suggest spending by the uninsured could increase by $85 billion with universal coverage."

Why would anyone be surprised?

Charles W. Calomiris:

"I am puzzled that anyone can claim to be puzzled by the collapse of the popularity of the Obama Presidency (which I have been tracking and talking about here in the Arena for many months). Candidate Obama was elected by misleading people that he would govern as a moderate. That cat is now out of the bag. He is obviously a leftist bent on redistribution, rising control of the economy by government, protectionism, and bailing out auto unions. His political style is also not as advertised: he is just another Chicago-style political bully, who uses backroom deals (healthcare is the most obvious example) to get what he wants.

Finally, the idea that he would help heal race relations has been damaged by various actions and statements (one of my friends who voted for Obama partly in the hope that his presidency would change race relations in America was very bothered by the President's recent statements about how much minorities would benefit from healthcare 'reform' -- isn't he everyone's President, my friend wondered). The problem is not with the execution of the Obama presidency; the problem is that America really didn't want this President and they thought that they had elected a different one. Spin won't solve this problem; elections will."

Acting like children is what liberals do for a living..... why complain?

The Perils of Ignoring Bad News:

".....putting your fingers in your ears and humming is no way to govern."

Friedman is being found out - about time!

Commentary:

"Poor, declining America. The writing is on the wall, isn’t it? A once-great nation is now muddling along with its quaint democratic government, passé freedoms, sub-bullet-speed trains and — the kiss of death for any great civilization — bad motel Internet."

Context is everything!

JammieWearingFool:

"President Obama and Sen. Chuck Schumer were for Harold Ford Jr. before they were against him."

And yet another day.....

Downplay Danger and Willful Ignorance:

"In short, Obama’s out-to-lunchness was both strategic (downplay the war against Islamic fundamentalists) and the result of abject ignorance, perpetuated throughout his administration, as to just how serious was the threat of a Yemen-hatched plot to attack the American homeland. The ho-hum rhetorical ploy has blow up in the Obami’s faces and is likely to be adjusted, although not to the extent that the president would use the words “Islamic fundamentalist” or some variation thereof to describe our enemy. But what about those who apparently didn’t grasp the nature of the threat we faced?

It is appalling, really, that those who wrapped themselves in a cloak of ignorance and carried out foolhardy policies (e.g., refueling the terrorist pipeline in Yemen) should remain in their jobs. Yes, the president is responsible, but he can’t be fired for another three years. In the meantime, what’s the excuse for keeping everyone else around?"

And what else would you expect from a professor who never created a job for anyone in his life?

Commentary:

"That inspirational candidate from 2008 is nowhere to be found now. He’s reduced to mouthing bureaucratic platitudes. Is it part of the gambit to de-escalate, once again, the war on Islamic terrorists? Or has he simply lost the rhetorical touch, run out of things to say? Maybe his “eloquence” wasn’t eloquence at all but a short list of buzzwords and New Age window dressing meant to disguise a candidate with a thin resume and limited repertoire of executive skills. Just wondering."

Clueless Obama....

Lehman:

"“President Obama continues to totally ignore one of the important thrusts of our 9/11 recommendations, which is that you have to approach counterterrorism as a multiagency intelligence issue, and not as a law-enforcement issue. He’s made a lot of commission’s members angry for dismissing our report and ignoring key recommendations.” Obama, he adds, has taken a “lawyer-like, politically-correct approach” to national security issues like terrorist watchlists and no-fly lists. “You got to blame the president for enforcing the politically-correct and legalistic policies that led to these failures.”"

Bravo!

The Hugh Hewitt Show:

"We are 45 weeks from the chance to begin to repair the damage that has flowed from marrying high school rhetoric and plans with power. We had another close call yesterday. Pray we keep being lucky for a while longer until we can start to be smart again."

No Shit...

Charlie Foxtrot:

"OK, so we the press doesn't have the Bush administration to kick around anymore, but I will bet you dollars to doughnuts that someone with connections to the Obama Administration will appear on CNN or MSNBC and present the spin that this was somehow the fault of Bush Administration policies.

Mark my words...."

Quote of the Day

Instapundit:

"The trouble with socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people’s money."

Oh, Yes! You are being lied to....

The Clarity of False Choices:

"What about those who do not like the status quo but have a different vision of reform, not because they want to go farther than Obama does but because they want to go in a different direction, toward more choice, more competition, and less government involvement? In Obama’s world, they do not exist; instead we have his bold yet achievable plan, pitted against socialist utopianism and blind partisan intransigence. Let me be clear: This is a false choice."

Quote of the Day....

The New Editor:

"The Democratic Party is not so much a political party anymore as much as it is a public relations firm whose primary target audience is that of a remedial civics class."

Quote of the Day....

Megan McArdle:

"I try not to watch the Sunday political shows. If God had wanted me to engage in such an activity, he would have provided me with a small hammer with which I could repeatedly smack myself in the head once a week for three hours."