Well, folks, another day of newsbiting... sparse newsbiting...
Yeah... part of it is me. I've been busy. But another part is the lack of surface info (Drudge, WSJ, NRO) worthy of newsbiting lately.
The normal post-Christmas lull...? Perhaps.
A general depression brought on by the beginning of Obama's second term and thus the continued accelerated decline of America and all that people like me hold dear? Yep... definitely that's part of it.
Folks... newsbites are by their nature "reactive." If the media won't play their part...
(*SHRUG*)
Anyway... I'll keep plugging away. And looking on the bright side... I've been throwing out more "stand alone" posts lately!
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* FOUR-PARTER... (Part 1 of 4)
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/338122/mccain-s-mideast-blunders-andrew-c-mccarthy
* A SARCASTIC - YET ON TARGET - EXPOSE BY ANDREW C. MCCARTHY.
I wonder if the jihadists of eastern Libya are still “heroes” to John McCain.
That’s what he called them — “my heroes” — after he changed on a dime from chummy Qaddafi tent guest to rabid Qaddafi scourge.
(*SNORT*)
* YEP... SOUNDS LIKE MCCAIN...
See, the senator and his allies in the Obama-Clinton State Department had a brilliant notion: The reason the “rebels” of eastern Libya hated America so much had nothing to do with their totalitarian, incorrigibly anti-Western ideology. No, no: The problem was that we sided with Qaddafi, giving the dictator — at the insistence of, well, McCain and the State Department — foreign aid, military assistance, and international legitimacy. If we just threw Qaddafi under the bus, the rebels would surely become our grand democratic allies.
This, of course, was a much more sophisticated theory than you’d get from lunatics like Michele Bachmann.
(*SMIRKING GUFFAW*)
Sit down for this, because I know it’s hard to believe anyone could spout such "nutter" stuff, but Bachmann actually opposed U.S. intervention in Libya.
(*WINK*)
She claimed — stop cackling! — that many of McCain’s heroes might actually be jihadists ideologically hostile to the U.S. and linked to groups such as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the terror enterprise’s North African franchise.
She even thought — yeah, I know, crazy — that if Qaddafi were deposed, the heroes would get their hands on his arsenal, ship a lot of it to AQIM havens in places such as Mali and Algeria, and maybe even turn rebel strongholds such as Benghazi into death traps for Americans.
* OH, THAT "CRAZY" MICHELE BACHMANN...
(*SMIRK*)
Good thing we listened to McCain, no?
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONTINUING... (Part 2 of 4)
This week, while the guys the senator and the Obama administration aligned us with in Libya (and would like to align us with in Syria) were busy taking Americans and other foreigners hostage in Algeria, in addition to using Qaddafi’s arsenal to fight the French in Mali, McCain was working his magic in Cairo. An unfortunate hiccup: McCain and his entourage, including fellow Libya hawk Lindsey Graham, showed up on President Mohamed Morsi’s doorstep just as it was revealed that Morsi, while a top Muslim Brotherhood official in 2010, had inveighed against Jews, calling them “blood-suckers” and “the descendants of apes and pigs” and claiming it was incumbent on Egyptians to “nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred” toward them.
Thank goodness Morsi was able to explain to McCain that his remarks had been “taken out of context.” (I mean, you can see how that could happen, right?) You’re making a few benign remarks about perpetuating hatred for enemies you describe as sub-human and all of a sudden they’re calling you an anti-Semite. Why, next thing you know, they’ll be saying Morsi could be an Islamic supremacist who is hell-bent on imposing a sharia constitution on Egypt when he’s not otherwise rolling out the red carpet for Hamas and demanding the release of the Blind Sheikh!
* YEP... IMAGINE!
Not to worry: McCain & Co. have promised to go to bat for Egypt’s swell president.
Sure, he has imposed a sharia constitution just as "crazies" like Michele Bachmann predicted the Muslim Brotherhood would do if it took power.
(That would be the same sharia that, less than two years ago, McCain condemned as “anti-democratic — at least as far as women are concerned.” Back then, McCain was warning that the Brotherhood had to be kept out of the government if there was to be any hope for democracy in Egypt. After all, he explained, the Brothers “have been involved with other terrorist organizations.”)
Now, however, McCain says he will push for American taxpayers to fork up another $480 million for Morsi.
* YEP... THAT'S OL' MAVERICK JOHN MCCAIN FOR YA!
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONTINUING... (Part 3 of 4)
Or, to be accurate, borrow another $480 million.
(You see, the United States is already so deep in the red that a $16.3 trillion debt ceiling is not high enough. In fact, we’re such a basket case that our debt-service and “entitlement” payments alone put us in a quarter-trillion-dollar deficit hole even before we borrow and print another trillion-plus for such ancillary expenses as the Defense Department, the Obama family’s vacations, and the $80-odd million that funds “democratization” programs at McCain’s International Republican Institute. But hey, no problem — what’s another $480 million on top of the $2 billion–plus the Obama administration has already extended to Morsi’s regime . . . to say nothing of the sizable U.S. taxpayer chunk of the $4.8 billion IMF loan the Brotherhood government is also about to get its mitts on?)
* IMAGINE A WORLD WITH JOHN MCCAIN... (*PAUSE*)... NOT IN IT.
(*FALLING TO MY KNEES TO PRAY FOR GOD TO TAKE MCCAIN TO HIS BOSSUM*)
Naturally, “extremist” conservatives like Michele Bachmann are wet blankets when it comes to this gravy train, too. Get this: She thinks that when you get to the point where you have to borrow in order to pay the interest on the loans you already can’t pay off, somebody needs to cut off your credit line — not inflate it by another two or three trill.
* WHY... (*SHOCKED PAUSE*)... THAT'S CRAZY TALK!
(*SNORT*)
Even more daft: She thinks that if you subsidize an organization, like the Brotherhood, that promotes sharia and Hamas, you’re apt to get more sharia and more terrorism.
* YEP... THOSE "CRAZY" CONSERVATIVES...
(*SIGH*)
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 4 of 4)
But look, that’s the kind of passé thinking we’ve come to expect from Bachmann. She’s the one, you may recall, who had the audacity to argue last year that it might not be a good idea for the secretary of state to keep as a key staffer a woman who worked for several years with a notorious al-Qaeda financial backer whose “charity” is formally designated as a terrorist organization — indeed, worked with him at a sharia-promotional journal he founded and in charge of which he put her parents, Muslim Brotherhood operatives (the surviving one of whom runs an Islamist organization, the International Islamic Committee for Woman and Child, that is part of an umbrella entity called the Union for Good — a designated terrorist organization run by Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the notorious Muslim Brotherhood jurist).
Congresswoman Bachmann was acting on the obviously "irrational" belief that Muslim Brotherhood influences in our government might lead to pro-Islamist policies detrimental to American security and interests — as if the State Department might tell pro-American Egyptian military rulers that they should stand down so the Brotherhood could take over; as if the Obama administration might order that information about Islamist ideology be purged from the materials used to train our intelligence agents; as if the Brotherhood, even as it counted its American aid dollars, would impose sharia, prosecute its detractors, and green-light the persecution of minority Christians.
(*SIGH*)
Such insane, Islamophobic scaremongering!
(*SMIRK*)
Insane enough that McCain, between praising his Islamist “heroes” and championing ever more funding for Islamist Egypt, made certain to lambaste Bachmann on the floor of the Senate over her concerns about Brotherhood infiltration of our government – leading other influential Republicans to follow suit.
* DAMN THE RINOs. DAMN THEM TO HELL...
And now, aping that display, People for the American Way — “PAW,” the outfit created by a hard-left Hollywood icon to smear Robert Bork and derail his Supreme Court nomination — is campaigning to have Bachmann booted from the House Intelligence Committee.
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
There is a war on over the course of American foreign policy and the security of the United States. The Left has aligned with the Brotherhood — some naïvely relying on the fiction that the Brothers are not the enemy vanguard, others seeing the Brothers as comrades in the quest for a utopian, post-American future.
In opposition, the GOP can either continue looking to McCain for leadership...
* AND WE SEE WHERE THAT'S LED US...
...or rally behind Bachmann the way the Left always circles the wagons around its stalwarts.
(*NOD*)
Anyone want to bet me on which way the Republicans will go?
* FOLKS... THE TRUTH IS WE'RE LIVING IN WHAT AMOUNTS TO A SINGLE PARTY DICTATORSHIP WHERE EXCEPT FOR A HANDFUL OF TEA PARTY REPUBLICANS IN THE SENATE AND A FEW DOZEN - TOPS - IN THE HOUSE, AND A GOVERNOR HERE OR THERE... PEOPLE LIKE US HAVE NO ALLIES WITHIN GOVERNMENT.
* THREE-PARTER... (Part 1 of 3)
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/337983/limitless-lawless-and-shameless-deroy-murdock
‘We don’t have a spending problem.”
Those soothing words are apparently none other than Barack Obama’s.
Maybe the Spendaholic-In-Chief is missing something. America is being tortured by a free-spending federal government that acts irresponsibly on good days and illegally on bad ones.
In just the first quarter of fiscal year 2013, Washington dug Americans $293 billion deeper down the hole...
That pace likely will make this the fifth consecutive year with a federal deficit exceeding $1 trillion.
This was obscene enough when George W. Bush botched the 2008 financial meltdown. Since then, Obama gleefully has frolicked in red ink.
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONTINUING... (Part 2 of 3)
Federal welfare spending is set to increase 80% between now and fiscal year 2022... What fuels this explosion in the dole? According to a January 15 analysis by Senate Budget Committee Republicans, bureaucrats use “aggressive outreach to those who say they do not need financial assistance.” Also, “recruitment workers are even instructed on how to ‘overcome the word “no”’ when individuals resist enrollment.”
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
This week, the Republican-led House approved $33 billion in Hurricane Sandy assistance. This sum, atop another $17 billion, includes such non-sequiturs as $10 million for FBI paychecks, $50 million to plant trees around America, $150 million for fisheries, and $2 billion for interstate highways.
* I'D LIKE TO PUT A BULLET IN THE HEAD (I'D SAY BRAIN... BUT DO THEY HAVE BRAINS...?) OF EACH MEMBER OF CONGRESS WHO VOTED FOR THE SANDY PORKUBUS PACKAGE.
The boarded-up storefronts, gutted walls, and missing floors of numerous establishments in Lower Manhattan hint at the far graver pain that Sandy’s victims still endure in demolished parts of the Northeast. Republicans should have used this legislation as a tutorial on limiting disaster relief to relieving disaster, not opening the vault to those with the stickiest fingers.
* AGAIN... I'LL SAY IT... I'LL WRITE IT... I WISH THESE "REPUBLICANS" WERE DEAD.
Meanwhile, Washington’s record-shattering profligacy may be less frightening than its burgeoning lawlessness.
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 3 of 3)
Legal, schmeagle. Washington does whatever it wants.
Senate Budget Committee Republicans report that the Agriculture and Homeland Security departments “have promotions to increase the number of immigrants on welfare despite legal prohibitions on welfare use among those seeking admittance into the United States.”
Congressman Tom McClintock (R-CA) complains that Congress routinely spends tax dollars on programs whose legal authorization has expired. (This is like using a company credit card years after you were fired.) Last year, McClintock tried to cut about $250 million from the International Trade Administration. “The ITA’s authorization lapsed in 1996 — 16 years ago,” McClintock marveled. “It has not been reviewed or authorized by Congress since then, but we still keep shoveling money out the door.”
* FOLKS... HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU... THE RULE OF LAW HAS EFFECTIVELY COLLAPSED IN AMERICA - AT LEAST IN RELATION TO THE OLIGARCHS.
The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 requires that authorizing legislation “be in place before the regular appropriation bills can be considered” by Congress. Nonetheless, the CBO confirmed last year that “Congress has appropriated about $261 billion for fiscal year 2012 for programs and activities whose authorizations of appropriations have expired.” These included $3 billion for Community Block Grants, $24 billion for No Child Left Behind, and $31 billion for the National Institutes of Health.
McClintock recently...proposed that the House Republican Conference adopt a rule to block unauthorized appropriations. McClintock’s idea lost a voice vote, with perhaps 40% siding with him and 60% backing the GOP leadership and choosing to spend taxpayer dollars on programs whose legal basis has evaporated.
* AGAIN... FOLKS... HOW MANY TIMES NEED I POINT OUT THAT FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES JOHN BOEHNER AND THE MAJORITY OF ELECTED "REPUBLICAN" HOUSE AND SENATE MEMBERS ARE BASICALLY... "CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRATS?" (AT BEST!)
For its part, the Democrat Senate is a crime scene. The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 compels senators and representatives to pass a budget by every April 15. Whatever. The Senate has not enacted a budget since April 29, 2009.
Rather than huddle with Republicans to rescue America from this mess, Obama is as petulant as ever. He refuses to bargain with Republicans, saying they simply should raise the debt ceiling without restraining spending. Obama said he would not “have that negotiation with a gun at the head of the American people,” presumably with GOP fingers on the firearm. What vulgar rhetoric, post-Newtown.
Finally, what about the $16,456,185,258,774 national debt? Like Ol’ Man River, it just keeps rolling along.
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