Recursive smart
Borepatch links to an article by the Czar of Muscovy and offers some thoughts. Both are insightful, and worth reading.
I oscillate between the position held by Borepatch (none of the likely GOP nominees are worth much, and our best chance is to split the power between them) and the Czar (Obamacare would be a disaster, literally not figuratively, and we have to stop it now). Personally, I don’t think there is a good choice. I think that that it may be too late to stop the train, and that it doesn’t matter who we elect. “Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos!”
I’ll add an additional thought. From Borepatch:
1. The stink of corruption has not yet led to Congressional criminal investigations. Between Fast and Furious and Solyndra, there are billions of dollars and hundreds of deaths that have yet to be publicly laid at the feet of the Progressive Altar. Battlefield preparation for that fight is not yet complete. If the Republican Party cannot be trusted to do even this, then they cannot be trusted with the White House.
Amen! As bad as Fast and Furious is, if nothing is done then we have set the precedent that you can use the instruments of government power to cause the slaughter of innocent people in order to further the oppression of your own citizens. There is a huge swath of folks on the left who have demonstrated over and over that they are willing to use that power, for whatever reason. A lack of reaction to Fast and Furious sends the message that you can continue to use that power.
Another uncomfortable realization
Borepatch pissed me off this morning. Not because of what he said…because of the video he linked to:
Here is the problem with Newt’s position: if we have one set of laws for “law enforcement” and one set of laws for “national security” and the difference between them is decided by the government, then we have already lost. Hell, we already know that they consider us terrorists. When the ends justify the means, there is no Constitution, and the battle is already lost.
UPDATE: And now we have this.
The uncomfortable realization is that the price of liberty may be a 9/11 scale attack. And it is probably cheap at that price.
Sen. Klein off to gun school
The blogosphere is abuzz about the story of Arizona State Senator Lori Klein, who is under fire for allegedly pointing her LCP at a reporter.
When I read the story, I shot an email to Jane Anne Shimizu, the PR director at Gunsite suggesting that they might want to offer the Senator a spot in one of their 250 classes. Jane Anne replied that they did just that, and that the Senator has accepted the offer.
Good job, Gunsite, and good job, Senator.
Edited to add:
Much has been made of what Sen. Klein did or didn’t do; whether she swept the reporter or whether he did it to himself. No matter what, the bottom line is that even a few yars ago I can’t imagine that an elected politician would be talking about the fact that they carry a gun for self defense. Self defense is mainstream. Good for Sen. Klein for taking the next step down that road.
Sounds like a plan!
I’ve been trying to stay apolitical here at Newbie Shooter, but this one takes my breath away:
President Barack Obama declared on Monday there would be no deal on raising the government’s debt limit if Republicans won’t compromise, and he said he would not sign a short-term extension — raising the stakes on volatile negotiations with the clock ticking toward an Aug. 2 deadline.
So the Republicans, who want to cut spending, had better compromise and raise taxes, or else…er, I’m not sure what. He won’t agree to raise the amount of debt that the government can take on? Thus necessitating a cut in spending?
I’m not sure he has thought this one through…
Edited to add:
From the same press conference:
I would rather be talking about stuff that everybody welcomes like new programs…
Maybe that’s part of the problem, buddy.
A picture is worth a thousand words
Enough said.
Hah!
Jennifer reminds us why the ballot box comes before the ammo box. Have you priced .308 lately?
Is it tyranny yet?
It is tyranny when the government mandates the water pressure for your toilet?
How about when it mandates low-flow for number one?
How long until it is a crime to use a number two flush for a number one?
Keep your laws off my toilet!
Quote(s) of the day
Fox and Friends provides our QOTD:
We can absorb another terrorist attack…
B. Obama, on the possibility of another terrorist attack
How can a President of the United States say something like that, like he is a detached observer who doesn’t care about the American people?
John “The ‘Stache” Bolton, on B. Obama on the possibility of another terrorist attack
Um….because he is a detached observer who doesn’t care about the American people?
Dear slimy politicians
Do you get it now? That (R) at the end of your name won’t save you. You’ve spent and spent and spent. The hangover is coming. And it is going to be a doozie.
US should shore up Afghanistan bank?
DUBAI – As depositors thronged branches of Afghanistan’s biggest bank, Mahmoud Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a major shareholder in beleaguered Kabul Bank called on Thursday for intervention by the United States to head off a financial meltdown.
“America should do something,” said Karzai in a telephone interview, suggesting that the U.S. Treasury Department guarantee the funds of Kabul Bank’s clients, who number about a million and have more than a billion dollars on deposits with the bank.
Seriously? No. Sorry. The money tree is broken. Too bad, so sad, bye-bye.
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