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What exactly do you have to do get put into jail for being a bona fide sex offender in Washington State?
When 13-year-old Alycia Nipp didn't come home from a trip to Wal-Mart, her family had no idea where she was, but a tracking device was transmitting the location of her alleged killer. . . .Darrin Sanford, 30, was one of several homeless people living near the field in an abandoned home slated for demolition, police said.
He was convicted in 1998 of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes and luring minors with sexual motivation; he was sentenced to probation, said a Clark County sheriff's report. When he was released from jail in January, following a November probation violation, Sanford was fitted with a global positioning tracking unit on his ankle, according to the Washington Department of Corrections. . . .
Sanford was wearing the device seven weeks later when he tried to rape Licy before beating and stabbing her in a field a couple of blocks from the street where she lived, according to police.
Sanford violated his probation three times between November 2006 and November 2008, the DOC said. When he was released in January, he was required to check in daily with a probation officer, which he did the day before Licy's murder and the day after her body was found.
"Hey, Sanford, you gonna kill any teenage girls tomorrow?"
"No, no, I'm good. I mean, not unless they laugh at me."
"Well, don't try nothing funny, Sanford. See you tomorrow."
(Two days later.)
"Hey, Sanford, missed you yesterday. You kill anybody? Your ankle bracelet looks okay."
"Yeah, well, look, I was here the day before yesterday -- what was I going to do, kill someone in between then and today? Gimme a break!"
"Yeah, right, what was I thinking. But don't skip tomorrow, Sanford!"
It's an awful story, and part of it is about a kid who wasn't nearly scared enough of places and people she should have been scared of.
I don't think that will be a problem in Clark County for a while.
Originally posted on Likelihood of Success, Ron Coleman's pretty good blog.
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Via Glenn Reynolds, it appears that someone is questioning the crammed-down concept of "Obama the intellectual." Indeed, that's one of the themes of the last couple of days, as his Harvard Law Review "experience" is being questioned as well.
Only I already asked that question in a post called, well, "Obama the Intellectual?" In June. As I said regarding another fabulously credentialed young Democratic President:
Intellectuals are as intellectuals do. Bill and Barack utilized their credentials, as they had every right to and as almost everyone else does, as stepping stones toward the realization of their grand ambitions. But neither of them can in any way be credited as having demonstrated a genius for anything other than achievement of that ambition. And this is not the same, we should recall, as a genius for leadership or government, with which we might credit a Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy or Ronald Reagan. Neither man can be credited with being the moving or creative force behind the building of any great institution, public or private; of a noteworthy government program, initiative or policy; or a political movement that transcended the political institutions of their time and place.
Originally posted on Likelihood of Success.
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The NY Post's Kyle Smith has a hilarious piece caricaturing the media's favorite "conservatives" ... essentially "conservatives" who don't like authentic conservatives. A snippet:
Dear Mainstream Media:I'm a conservative who believes that other conservatives are fat, drug-stuffed, money-grubbing warthogs like Rush Limbaugh, or scary inbred backwoods retards like Sarah Palin.
So can I please be your go-to guy whenever you need a conservative viewpoint?
When you assemble an op-ed page or a panel discussion that has three or four liberal commentators - plus a liberal moderator (if this is TV) or a liberal news section (if this is print) - I volunteer to be the one voice you allow to speak for the loyal opposition.
I am available to write cover stories for Newsweek, hold down the other side of the New York Times op-ed seesaw against Paul Krugman and Co., or fill in whenever David Gergen is unavailable to supply analysis of President Obama's next magnifiquent speech for CNN.
I promise that the only conservatives I will ever praise will be safely dead (Churchill, Reagan, or, if this is PBS, Edmund Burke).
Sample phrases with which I plan to begin my columns:
"As a conservative, I am deeply troubled by the comments of (name of conservative), who just this week said (conservative things)."
Please read the whole thing.
Are you paying attention, David Brooks and Kathleen Parker?
(Via Don Surber)
Cross-posted from the Sister Toldjah blog.
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You know things are not going well with Obama's talking points (this wasn't really a promise, just a complaint and position by That One) when even the New York Times is calling him on it, albeit softly: Administration Is Open to Taxing Health Benefits
The Obama administration is signaling to Congress that the president could support taxing some employee health benefits, as several influential lawmakers and many economists favor, to help pay for overhauling the health care system.
The proposal is politically problematic for President Obama, however, since it is similar to one he denounced in the presidential campaign as "the largest middle-class tax increase in history." Most Americans with insurance get it from their employers, and taxing workers for the benefit is opposed by union leaders and some businesses.
I never particularly cared for that plan, as it was espouse by Senator McCain, since it was "tax me then give me a rebate/welfare check," but, of course, that is not the point. I have to agree with many leading Democrats in Congress and union officials, do not start taxing my health benefits, but, that's not the point. The point is, Obama is learning that there is a vast difference between thinking that running for president is experience to be President of the USA and actually being President of the USA. Which is why it is always Obamateur Hour!
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This article was e-mailed to me, and I knew I was in for a good one when I saw the title: "Parenting techniques to try on your spouse". I automatically knew that spouse really meant husband, and as I read the article... I saw that I was right!!
The other day, as I stood in front of the open freezer waiting for a dinner idea to strike, I noticed that the ice tray on top of the stack was empty. So I took it out. The second tray was empty too, as was the tray beneath it, and so on until the sixth and final tray, which held a single cube, spotted with grains of coffee.My husband had evidently been at it again.
I was gearing up for a tirade when I heard a calm, reasonable voice in the back of my mind say, "Choose your battles." I stopped short. I knew this voice; it was the voice of every parenting expert whose books I've avidly devoured since the birth of my first child seven years ago.
This same voice had talked me down when my kids yowled for candy in the supermarket checkout line, screamed at the sight of the hairbrush, or flat-out refused to even try the lovely broccoli I'd cooked especially for them.
But how could my parenting gurus possibly have anything to do with what was destined to be a purely marital spat? "Choose your battles," the voice repeated as I ran cold water in one of the trays. Well, it was worth a try.
When Greg walked in the door that evening, late again, I bit my tongue and avoided any mention of ice, trays, or irresponsible husbands. And the evening turned out to be much more pleasant than it would have been otherwise.
The next day, I considered the matter in detail. Could it be that the same tactics I use on my two sons -- one in second grade, the other still in diapers -- might work on my husband as well? Would, say, a cranky toddler and a cranky 34-year-old scientist respond to the same things?
The author then goes on to explain various child-rearing techniques to try, such as rewarding positive behavior.
Good behavior rewarded leads to more good behavior. But would my husband take the bait?I decided to find out on a Saturday, one of my precious days to sleep late. At 9:30 that morning, when I staggered downstairs to the kitchen to find my older son, Zander, using his spoon as a Cheerio catapult, 10-month-old Thad elbow deep in the dog's water bowl, and my husband buried in the sports section, I took a deep, cleansing breath. "I really appreciate your letting me sleep in," I began.
"The baby wakes up so much at night all week long that staying in bed on Saturdays keeps me from going insane. Thanks again for all your help."
My husband lowered his newspaper. "You're welcome," he said, looking me firmly in the eye. "You know, I wouldn't mind sleeping in occasionally myself. Maybe we could trade weekends from now on, so we both get a chance to relax."
Disaster! A few snappy retorts came to mind, but I had a sinking feeling that this particular battle was definitely better left unchosen. What I needed was another time-tested parenting strategy.
This lady sees trading weekends as a disaster? Really? I'm guessing she sees it that way because she wakes up early to take care of the kids every day. But I'm assuming he does too, for his job. So maybe I'm just missing the explanation of how it's a "disaster" to take turns sleeping in. I would have thought that his suggestion was a perfectly good suggestion, but then again, I'm not a woman who thinks I need to "train" my husband like I "train" a toddler.
But wait, it gets better. She even advocates giving your husband a time-out!
Monday began badly. I had foolishly permitted Thad to fiddle with our bedside clock during a diaper change on Sunday, so the alarm didn't go off. Zander missed the school bus, Greg left in a hurry, and I missed my morning opportunity to shower and collect my wits.I spent the day feeling harried and unproductive, and by the time my husband got home (37 minutes later than he promised -- but who's counting?), I had managed to feed and bathe the kids, but that was it. The house was a disaster. There was nothing for us to eat. "Where have you been?" I hissed.
Things went downhill from there. I mentioned loudly that my day had been so hectic that I hadn't even had a chance to shower. Greg countered by listing the many ways in which his day had been hectic, and he wondered whether I'd managed to accomplish anything during his absence.
I pointed out that a bracing shower in the morning often helped a person feel like accomplishing things. My husband remarked that in a household that always runs late, a person with places to go can hardly be expected to stick around while another person indulges showering whims.
I took exception to the implication that the running late was my fault. He pointed out that it wasn't his idea to let the baby play with the alarm clock. "Oh, sure, blame the baby," I said bitterly. "Probably it was the baby's fault you were 37 minutes late getting home tonight, too."
"I wasn't late," he said, wounded. "I said I'd be home around 7."
"Around 7 is not seven 7:30!" I cried. "Go to your room!"
Greg stared at me. Oh, dear. In my excitement over my great baby-gate success, I'd forgotten to consider whether the time-out needed modifications for adult application. With all the dignity I could muster, I turned on my heel and marched up the stairs to my office.
If I couldn't send my husband to his room, I'd just have to go to mine, shut the door -- and let him cope with feeding the kids and getting them both to bed.
I almost felt like she should've added in a SO THERE! at the end, and stuck her tongue out at him as she retreated.
While there were some other examples of toddler-training techniques she gave that you could use that are not included here, she concluded
that hey, husbands really DO need to be trained like babies!
So, did the week of using parenting skills in my marriage work? Absolutely. For one thing, it was tremendously refreshing to see these strategies actually get results. (Grown men are amazingly more responsive than children, I thought one night as Greg picked up all the towels while Zander ignored my exhortations to get out of the tub.)It turns out that trying to find the best way to relate to your kids (who certainly put all kinds of new stresses and strains on your relationship) can actually help you relate to your spouse.
Articles like these just kill me, and on so many levels. I'm not even a man, and my blood is boiling. I can only imagine what my male readers must be thinking. Particularly insulting was the example in which her husband, after the kids were in bed and the chores were done, wanted to play Scrabble with her. He was cheerfully following her around the house, asking her to play a game with him. She wanted him to, in her words, "just leave her alone". So she spent fifteen minutes with him to get him off her back, after which she was able to escape the clutches of her dreaded husband into a bath. By the time she was done, he was already asleep.
Just for fun, let's imagine that a man had written this article about his wife, and recommended that husbands train their wives using these same manipulative skills. How quickly do you think the outcry would come?
I think the first issue here is the obvious contempt and condescension she has for her husband. Anyone who looks at their significant other as someone they need to train has a serious problem, and it's not their spouse. This woman so clearly lacks respect for her husband, it's sickening. And not only does she lack respect for him, but she's proud of it. She's proud of the way she feels, proud enough to write an entire article about it and tell other women to emulate her behavior. The "men are so stupid" attitude is on full display here, telling other women that they need to train their stupid, obnoxious husbands as if they were animals at the zoo. Men are idiots and easy to manipulate, and thank God for their brilliant, savvy wives who can train them to be better.
Well, here's my advice to the woman who wrote this article, and the women who read it. Try not to be such a condescending, obnoxious bitch as a start. Treat your husband with respect. Maybe then you'll be respected in turn. If you want something, you give it first. If you want your husband to love you, then shower him with love. If you want him to respect you, show him respect. In relationships, you get what you give.
Is all of the advice in the article necessarily bad? No, some of it is good advice. Choosing your battles and rewarding good behavior are great things to practice. But the condescending attitude ruins any of the goodwill that her advice might have held. Relationships and marriages are about partnerships. You should treat your spouse as if they were your partner and your equal, not as if they were someone you needed to train.
Sadly, the comments section in the article just goes to show that this is not a one-woman issue. The men were, unsurprisingly, insulted and indignant. The women thought the advice was fantastic. One woman even ventured a theory that men are really only "grown-up babies". It kills me to see men so easily demeaned and disrespected in our culture today. Why do so many women feel they are so above men?
It is never healthy to treat an adult as if they were a child. Again, marriage is about partnership and communication. Women need to stop acting like spoiled children who look at their husbands as pets or children they can train and manipulate to do their will.
Cross-posted from Cassy's blog. Stop by for more original commentary, or follow her on Twitter!
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“What has talk radio done for us lately?”
That’s the title of Andrew Pavelyev’s new article at David Frum’s NewMajority.com. Since Frum has been making a new career out of critcizing Rush Limbaugh – complete with a widely discussed Newsweek cover story -- you can guess the thesis of Pavelyev’s wonkish article:
“While not actually offering any new compelling vision, talk radio hosts filled the vacuum and appointed themselves custodians of conservative orthodoxy and enforcers of ideological purity. While they don't seem to have any measurable (positive) effect on general elections, they certainly wield a lot of influence in the nomination process.”
Meanwhile, Frum hasn’t been the only one with Rush in his sights: the campaign to bash Rush is now – disturbingly – official White House policy! Good to know Obama and Co. have their priorities straight...
The Dems even held a contest for an anti-Rush billboard campaign, and chose a tone deaf, unfunny winner that left folks either laughing (at the Dems, that is) or scratching their heads. It amounts to a free ad for Rush Limbaugh, assuing anyone even gets it in the two seconds they devote to seeing it on the side of the road. Gives new meaning to Rush’s expression “the drive by media”!
Investor’s Business Daily ran a thought provoking op-ed:
“Democrats say Rush Limbaugh is running the Republican Party. Better Rush than George Soros, who is running the Democrats. At least Rush believes in freedom, capitalism and letting you keep what you earn...”
(PS: don’t forget that IBD runs Outloud Opinion, which offers free podcasts of columnists like Michelle Malkin, Thomas Sowell, Dennis Prager and other conservative favorites.)
ON THE AIR THIS WEEK:
Needless to say, Rush Limbaugh is still playing up his famous CPAC speech and the resulting publicity. His on-air tear is now in its second week, and his ratings are up.
G. Gordon Liddy talks frankly to author, former Bush advisor and CEO Leslie Sanchez about the GOP, immigration, Latino culture and issues impacting Hispanics in America.
Brass Balls Radio talks to Gerry Nicholls, a veteran Canadain conservative strategist who talks about balancing principle with electibility, and effective communication for conservative politicians – no matter what country they’re from!
Dennis Prager had a great week, that kicked off with his interview with passionate anti-Islamist and former Muslim Noni Darwish. (A Muslim caller says the Koran forbids killing people -- but then can’t come up with any proof.)
Andrew Breitbart sat in for Dennis Miller on Thursday, sounding weary after finishing up a visit to GOP hotshots in the Beltway, a bunch of folks he calls “a strange brew of toxic people.” Breitbart says the GOP is in disarray, and too many so-called conservatives are too busy infighting to oppose Obama’s creeping socialism.
In honor of Obama’s porkulus spending bill, Emmett of the Unblinking Eye joined Hugh Hewitt to run down “The Top 10 Pig Movies of All Time”. Hugh’s guests this week included Rick Santorum, Christopher Hitchens, Mark Steyn and the always delightful John Stossel.
My guilty-pleasure highlight of the week? Ross Douthat? Never heard of him, says Dennis Prager of the guy about to replace William Kristol as the NYT’s inhouse “conservative.” Ouch!
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A rather abundant number of years ago, I became aware of a whole subculture of humanity that I suspect exists within all societies that get things done. I shall call it, until such time as a better phrasing comes along, the "All Those Not Volunteering Take One Step Back" culture. A task arises, executive in nature, one that cannot be achieved by a committee or even by a trio or duo; it demands a singular pair of hands and an investment of effort and energy that may or may not be significant. And out come the excuses: I don't know how, that's not my field, I'm not authorized, I'm dyslexic, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. The disability varies -- the outcome remains the same. No action forthcoming from this quadrant; look elsewhere. One cannot help but wonder how they would respond to a real crisis. The house must burn all the way to the ground, because no hose is available and your wrists are too feeble to carry a bucket even half-full?
There is some military humor to the effect that this is a long-standing tradition in certain branches of our armed forces. I reckon there must be some truth in it, but it certainly cannot be completely so. How in the world could my nation ever have become a superpower, with the troops responsible for the killing-of-people and breaking-of-things all waiting around for the next fella to deal out the mayhem? That would be like having no military at all, and countries with no military at all, do not become countries like the United States. And from even just a cursory reading of our history, to say nothing of our present headlines, I know better than that.
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This is a tiny tempest metaphorical of a much greater thing, that which is being batted back-and-forth, from sea to shining sea, right now. Rush Limbaugh on President Obama's plan to re-make the United States into a dirty little European-style socialist mud-puddle enclave:
What is so strange about being honest in saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to restructure and reform this country so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? Why would I want that to succeed?
Chris "I Feel A Tingle Up My Leg" Matthews on Limbaugh:
Before we break if you didn't know better this past week, you'd think Rush Limbaugh was more important than the guys in Washington and women in Washington actually elected to do things. How many U.S. senators would invite the President of the United States to come to their home turf and debate them? Well two facts are clear about this human vat of vitriol. He relishes the attention and he sells anger as a weapon.
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Limbaugh's high-handed, melodramatic, off with their heads, oratory reminds me of those over-the-top movie villains. You know, the ones who issue ludicrous commands to snuff out the good guys, like James Bond's arch nemesis who wanted the supremely confident Bond - gone.
Chris Matthews: A Human Jacuzzi of StupidOr a human hot tub of frothy Obama-Love...
Well, I'm not quite understanding the point. I've been getting into it here-and-there with the Obamatons, some of whom, believe it or not, aren't quite willing to admit yet that maybe there was a downside to the decision last November to put the substitute-Jesus in the White House...even with all the flawed appointments, the market tanking, the snobbery, the attitude, the list goes on and on and on.
They -- well, some of 'em -- are still marching in lock-step, demanding unanimity. And I guess the explanation lies in this connection Matthews has made, a connection that, in my mind, has not yet been made complete. Limbaugh advances the argument that the sitting President has a plan in mind, a plan that logical people who love the country should want to oppose. Not music to your ears if you're a supporter, but hey, that is the essence of loyal dissent isn't it? And this is vitriol; it is equated to dunking a someone into a tank full of man-eating piranhas.
Until someone can explain that to me in a way that makes some measure of sense -- and I doubt they can -- in my mind, that is a psychosis. It's worse than failing to come to grips with a mistake you've made and thereby standing guilty of two mistakes -- although that's an important component to what is going on here. As I wrote in my own pages lately...
Just realized something about these folks. You'd think, as much attention as I'm forced to pay to them, and as much attention as I continue to pay to them when I'm no longer forced to, there would eventually be a point of complete saturation. But it would seem if I am indeed bright enough to reach that point, it's taking me awhile to get there.They don't give a rat's a*s what policies are implemented. The One could invade Iran tomorrow at noon, and Planet Obamafan would be erupting into a standing ovation.
They don't care about what consequences, good or bad, result from the policies. Dow is tumbling, as Buck points out -- is it alright with them if the rest of us notice it? NO! We should look the other way.
So they don't care about the goals, they don't care about the methods implemented to reach the goals...it logically follows, any one point between those two ends, likewise, they don't care about it.
They care about who's running things. Obama won, they say, and He won by something decisive. Therefore, let's all get behind Him...the important thing is to be unified.
If it was a valid claim that The One was victorious to some extent that equates to virtual unanimity, it would be a silly, useless and redundant exercise to dish out instructions to show some sense of unity that is already there. But the real point here, is, these people do not want the economy fixed. They just want everyone to be on the same page -- that is how they do their thinking, through a process of sanitization. They're exercising a gut-instinct...seek out whoever might be from a rival village, and "fix" the situation until there are no rival villages. How they really intend to do that fixing, perhaps if they thought that through a little bit more, made some commitments to what they are & are not willing to do, they'd be a little bit less frightening.
Unfortunately, this mindset is going to end up identifying as an enemy, anyone who thinks logically. Obama stumps for, and then signs, a stimulus. In so doing, He creates an Obama Doctrine that is diametrically opposed to the Will Rogers Doctrine of "When you find yourself in a hole, the first step is to stop digging." According to Obama's one and only true accomplishment thus far in His term, when the economy is sucking large and there's no money in the piggy bank, the thing to do is to spend what you don't have and make sure you spend it reeeeeeaaaalll big. And when people aren't feeling confident as potential investors or as potential consumers, when they have the impression they need to hang on to every little dollar bill they've got, and this is what's dragging the economy down...tax the living h*ll outta them. Oh yeah, I know, 250k and above, 95 percent, and all that.
Point is, I don't think opposing that automatically makes you vitriolic. Maybe I'm biased in saying that. As I said above already, I'm looking to someone else to explain to me how the connection is made, and I'm doubting like the dickens that anyone, anywhere, truly comprehends it so they could do the explaining. But I do know Matthews' opinion is important here, probably more important than mine, in that he speaks on behalf of so many others. You're supposed to march in lockstep with The One, or else you're a nasty person.
So that "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism" stuff went sailing out the window on January 20. But hey, if you've been paying attention, you know that already.
Cross-posted at House of Eratosthenes.
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I am still trying to decide what I think about this situation:
A judge in Wake County said three Raleigh children need to switch from home school to public school. Judge Ned Mangum is presiding over divorce proceeding of the children's parents, Thomas and Venessa Mills.Venessa Mills was in the fourth year of home schooling her children who are 10, 11 and 12 years old. They have tested two years above their grade levels, she said.
"We have math, reading; we have grammar, science, music," Venessa Mills said.
Her lessons also have a religious slant, which the judge said was the root of the problem.
"My teaching is strictly out of the Bible, and it's very clear. It is very evident so I just choose to follow the Bible," Venessa Mills said.
In an affidavit filed Friday in the divorce case, Thomas Mills stated that he "objected to the children being removed from public school." He said Venessa Mills decided to home school after getting involved with Sound Doctrine church "where all children are home schooled."
Thomas Mills also said he was "concerned about the children's religious-based science curriculum" and that he wants "the children to be exposed to mainstream science, even if they eventually choose to believe creationism over evolution."
In an oral ruling, Mangum said the children should go to public school.
"He was upfront and said that, 'It's not about religion.' But yet when it came down to his ruling and reasons why, 'He said this would be a good opportunity for the children to be tested in the beliefs that I have taught them,'" Venessa Mills said.
All sides agree the children have thrived with home school, and Vanessa Mills thinks that should be reason enough to continue teaching at home.
This is one of those odd times where I can see both sides of the argument.
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Here's the Right Wing News guest blogger line-up this week-end.
Saturday
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Bookworm from Bookworm Room
Cassy Fiano
Kathy Shaidle Five Feet Of Fury
Morgan from House of Eratosthenes
B. Daniel Blatt from GayPatriot
Gina Cobb
John Stephenson from Stop The ACLU
Little Miss Attila
Cassandra from Villainous Company
Sunday
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Ron Coleman from Likelihood of Success
Sister Toldjah
William Teach from Pirate's Cove
Michael Illions from Polipundit
MCQ from QandO
Make sure to give all of them a warm welcome and check out their blogs!
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Baldwin Park democrat, speaking for probably several others:
President Obama did not come down from on high. He is not a miracle worker. He can not wave a magic wand and make things miraculously happen. He is a mortal. A human being. Nothing more and nothing less.President Obama and his Administration hit the ground running on day one and have kept up a whirlwind pace ever since. Few Presidents have accomplished so much in such a short span of time. But not all of his campaign promises can be enacted in his first hundred days. The unprecedented number of high priority and competing issues facing the new President means that some changes will simply have to bide their time.
The changes will come, not as quickly as some would like, but they will come. Everyone needs to be realistic in judging President Obama's performance so early in his Administration.
Barack Obama is too busy posing for magazine covers to actually do the job to which he was elected.There is a price to be paid when a president throws a party every other night, weekends in Chicago or Camp David and poses for magazine cover after magazine cover.
After 51 days in office, Barack Obama has appointed only 73 people to 1,200 jobs that require Senate confirmation.
If they require Senate approval, they are important jobs.
But Obama is too busy to properly vet the people and appoint them to fill the jobs to get the work done.
That is his job.
And he shirks it.
And now we pay the price.
The London Independent reported: "Last week, it was all smiles and handshakes as Gordon Brown and President Barack Obama put on a show of unity in Washington.
"But yesterday, Sir Gus O'Donnell, Britain's most senior civil servant, exposed transatlantic tension when he protested that Downing Street was finding it 'unbelievably difficult' to plan for next month's G20 summit in London because of problems tracking down senior figures in the US administration. 'There is nobody there. You cannot believe how difficult it is,' the Cabinet Secretary told a civil service conference in Gateshead."
The Times of London and other newspapers had similar accounts.
If our allies cannot reach us because Barack Obama has failed to appoint someone to answer the phone, how are we to have any friends in the world?
And yet this naïf little twit who barely qualifies to be a back bencher in the Illinois legislature had the nerve to tell reporters last week: "President Obama has accomplished more in 30 days than any president in modern history."
He really said that.
He really thinks that.
He really thinks that because he could get legislation passed through a Congress that is overwhelmingly Democratic that he is God's gift to the nation.
And it just got recalled; there's nothing left.
If I could travel back in a time machine to early November and tell people "Barack Obama is going to be defended by only a slim minority among his most ardent followers, for his underperformance in His first 50 days in office," it would be perceived back there as extreme, fringe, kooky, agitprop right-wing propaganda.
And yet. Here we are.
Cross-posted at House of Eratosthenes.
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Our sister publication asks analysts whether the administration's economic forecasts are too optimistic. They would have gotten a more interesting discussion if their query had been "Is the Pope Catholic?" Of course they're too optimistic. In fact, the word optimistic is too optimistic. A better choice might have been "insane". Like Greg Mankiw, I would love to find a sucker investor who is willing to take the other end of a bet that both growth and revenue will fall short of the administration's predictions.
Having defended Obama's candidacy largely on his economic team, I'm having serious buyer's remorse. Geithner, who is rapidly starting to look like the weakest link, is rattling around by himself in Treasury. Meanwhile, the administration is clearly prioritized a stimulus package that will not work without fixing the banks over, um, fixing the banking system. Unlike most fiscal conservatives, I'm not mad at him for trying to increase the size of the government; that's, after all, what he got elected promising to do. But he also promised to be non-partisan and accountable, and the size and composition stimulus package looks like just one more attempt to ram through his ideological agenda without much scrutiny, with the heaviest focus on programs that will be especially hard to cut.
The budget numbers are just one more blow to the credibility he worked hard to establish during the election. Back then, people like me handed him kudoes for using numbers that were really much less mendacious than the general run of candidate program promises. Now, he's building a budget on the promise that this recession will be milder than average, with growth merely dipping to 1.2% this year and returning to trend in 2010. Isn't there anyone at BLS who could have filled him in on the unemployment figures, or at Treasury who could have explained what a disproportionate impact finance salaries have on tax revenue? These numbers...well, I can't really fully describe them on a family blog. But he has now raced passed Bush in the Delusional Budget Math olympics.
That, I daresay, was the majority of The Holy One's voting base.
I've bet some money that His Anointedness was going to be a one-termer, and then I said later on I'd like to double my stakes on that one if I had any takers. That was a stupid thing to say, and I'd like to retract it. What I meant to say was that I'd like to quadruple those stakes.
In 2012, He will not be getting any votes from the "There's Just Something About Him!" folks. They'll know there isn't. Also, He will not be getting any votes from the "I Just Want To Be Part Of This Thing!" folks; we will have already had a black President, and there won't be any thing to be a part of.
Oh, people will want change in '12...far more than they wanted it in '08. Far, far more. They'll be hungry for change, and hungry for hope. They just won't see Him as the Savior who can deliver it anymore.
Cross-posted at House of Eratosthenes.
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Mark Sanford, the governor of South Carolina, said this the other day about the possible effects of all of the spending the Obama administration was doing and planning:
"What you're doing is buying into the notion that if we just print some more money that we don't have, send it to different states -- we'll create jobs," Sanford said. "If that's the case, why isn't Zimbabwe a rich place?... Why isn't Zimbabwe just an incredibly prosperous place. 'Cause they're printing money they don't have and sending it around to their different -- I don't know the towns in Zimbabwe but that same logic is being applied there with little effect."
Unless, of course, you want to make a racial thing out of it. Rep. James Clyburn, Democratic Majority Whip, reacts to Sanford's lesson and example of Zimbabwe:
"For him to compare the president of this country to Mugabe. ... It's just beyond the pale," said Clyburn, who has sparred with Sanford over the Republican's refusal to accept all the state's stimulus funding.[...]
"I'm sure he would not say that, but how did he get to Zimbabwe? What took the man to Zimbabwe? Someone should ask him if that's really the best comparison. ... How can he compare this country's situation to Zimbabwe?"
And besides:
"Rep. Clyburn always plays the race card," shot back Sanford spokesman Joel Sawyer, who said his boss has also compared the stimulus to failed government policies in Germany and Argentina. "This policy will result in hyper-infaltion. ... [Clyburn] is ripping off the people he purports to represent."
Round 2 to follow.
[Crossposted at QandO]
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Maxine Waters scandal....Democrats sure are rich!
This just in: The World Is NOT In Fact Ending At This Present Moment. All Crisis Talk Was Just For My Own Amusement....Oh, And It Was Politically Useful. And It Was Fun!
Enforcing the Country of Birth Proof clause...a new bill.
About Syracuse: I watched the game through the second overtime--the in-laws are huge Syracuse fans (season tickets!). Being from the Big Ten and being that Syracuse are the perennial under-achievers, I mostly watch so I can make fun of them. Not last night. The hubby asked me who I thought would win after the second OT. I said,"Whomever is in the best shape." But Six overtimes? That comes down to mental strength....everyone is worn out by then.
With all due respect, Allah, my in-laws bleed orange and they said the basket didn't count, though, my reaction was the same as yours, "How do you not give the shooter the benefit of the doubt when it's that close?" With instant-replay, that's how.
Sarkozy does Mexico "without one faux pas" while Obama offends Brazil, Mexico and Britain. Winning the world, he is.
Finally, it's Iowahawk Day. Dave Burge is the satirist-in-chief. I have had a hawt blog-relationship with Iowahawk from my beginning blog days. He put up pictures of muscle cars and hot jail-babes. He drinks Scotch and wins brawls. He's a manly blogger in a league of pretending boys with poison pens. Read his love advice and letter from the smarty-pants set.
By the way, today is #FollowFriday on Twitter. Come join the party!
Cross-posted at MelissaClouthier.com
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...there's no place to go but down. Looks like President Obama is coming into the land of mere mortals, not that the press would portray him that way:
A detailed examination of presidential popularity after 50 days on the job similarly demonstrates a substantial drop in presidential approval relative to other elected presidents in the 20th and 21st centuries. The reason for this decline most likely has to do with doubts about the administration's policies and their impact on peoples' lives.There is also a clear sense in the polling that taxes will increase for all Americans because of the stimulus, notwithstanding what the president has said about taxes going down for 95% of Americans. Close to three-quarters expect that government spending will grow under this administration.
Hell hath no fury like an American scorned. We'll see how long the love-fest lasts. I'm saying it was over five minutes ago but some don't want to admit it yet.
Cross-posted at MelissaClouthier.com
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I probably should have stuck this graphic from RWN reader DrucilaB in The Democrats' Rush Billboard Fail post (We're almost at 100 suggestions for the Obama billboard contest for Monday and there is still time to add yours), but this was good enough that it deserved its own post.
Lol, awesome!
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First KGB alumnus and current Russian strongman Vladimir Putin warned us not to commit economic suicide by going off the rails into socialism, now it's the nominally still communist Chinese:
China's premier didn't say it in so many words, but the implied warning to Washington was blunt: Don't devalue the dollar through reckless spending.Premier Wen Jiabao's message is unlikely to be misunderstood at the White House. It is counting on Beijing to help pay for its stimulus package by buying U.S. bonds. China already is Washington's biggest foreign creditor, with an estimated $1 trillion in U.S. government debt. A weaker dollar would erode the value of those assets.
"Of course we are concerned about the safety of our assets. To be honest, I'm a little bit worried," Wen said at a news conference Friday after the closing of China's annual legislative session. "I would like to call on the United States to honor its words, stay a credible nation and ensure the safety of Chinese assets."
As America's economy is taken down by the Marxists who have control of the government, it will bring the world's economy down with it. Maybe the Moonbat Messiah will unite all the world after all — against his insane Cloward-Piven spending orgy.
On a tip from Name. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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Tax and spend liberals have been driving anyone interested in producing wealth out of California, leaving the state on the brink of bankruptcy. Chairman Zero and friends must figure this won't be a problem for them, because you can't escape the federal Leviathan by moving from one state to another. But then, you could always take your productive activity out of the country completely…
[A] wave of energy companies has in the last few months announced plans to move to Switzerland — mainly for its appeal as a low-tax corporate domicile that looks relatively likely to stay out of reach of Barack Obama's tax-seeking administration.In a country with scant crude oil production of its own, the virtual energy boom has changed the canton or state of Zug, about 30 minutes' drive from Zurich, beyond all recognition. Its economy was based on farming until it slashed tax rates to attract commerce after World War Two.
It still has a chocolate-box old town with views over a lake to the high Alps, but is now surrounded by gleaming corporate offices — including commodity trader Glencore and oil refiner Petroplus — shopping malls and housing developments. …
Swiss cantons are free to set their own tax rates. For example in Zug, corporate tax is about 16 percent but can fall as low as 9.5 percent for companies that do most of their business outside Switzerland. That compares with an average global corporate tax rate of 25.9 percent, according to consultancy KPMG.
If the government had any interest in ending the recession, it would slash taxes; America could be booming like Switzerland. But the Obama regime is not about to let a crisis go to waste by letting it end.
On a tip from J. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you'll find links like:
QandO: A pictorial summary of the Obama nomination folliesCracked: 5 accidental inventions that changed the world
Atlas Shrugs: 52 days, 52 mistakes for Obama.
The List Universe: 12 last known speakers of a language
Celebslam: Denise Richards bikini pics.
Also, you'll want to see these vids on Right Wing Video,
Its 3 AM, the phone is ringing... and Barack Obama is p*ssed?Obama On Mount Rushmore, Part II (This is hilarious)
Experts Agree Giant, Bioengineered Crabs Pose No Threat
Poor Guy Expected A Little Too Much Of His Hummer
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30) Dan Gainor
29) Chuck Norris
28) Wes Pruden
27) Jay Nordlinger
26) Quin Hillyer
25) Mike Adams
24) Larry Elder
23) Brent Bozell
22) David Harsanyi
21) Jack Kelly
20) Jeff Jacoby
19) Kevin McCullough
18) Tony Blankley
17) Dennis Prager
16) David Limbaugh
15) Lorie Byrd
14) Burt Prelutsky
13) Rich Lowry
12) Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
11) Karl Rove
10) Michael Barone
9) Charles Krauthammer
8) John Stossel
7) Michelle Malkin
6) Jonah Goldberg
5) Walter Williams
4) Victor Davis Hanson
3) Ann Coulter
2) Mark Steyn
1) Thomas Sowell
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