Poor Blair House

From the WH - "President Obama and lawmakers will be looking to add to the distinguished history of Blair House today at their health care summit."

Poor Blair House. Now the health scam is visited on this fine establishment. We were there in ‘64 and ‘93. Fine spot, plenty of history. Too bad.

BO had a televised seance today that was all about "bi-partisanship." BO’s problem is not with Republicans; BO’s problem is with the 38 Democrats who voted against this cancer the first time. Guess why? They want to keep their jobs. No reasonable citizens want this piece of garbage. Even the acutely partisan CNN had to publish the results of their survey (too bad they ran it) - only 30% of Americans think the plan "would help their families."

Duh? Of course there are still plenty of lefties (we know a few) who think Americans are stupid, who don’t know what’s good for them. Oh. I see. But why do most folks reject this health plan? Because when BO tells them it is good for them, they know it is a lie. In summary, BO claims the following, that his plan will "make insurance more affordable," "set up a new competitive health insurance market," and "put our budget and economy on a more stable path by reducing the deficit."

This is false, and any fool who has bothered to do a little homework knows that’s so. From Heritage Foundation fellow Bob Moffit, "The Senate bill actually increases health insurance premiums and raises taxes on the middle class by $629 billion over ten years. It destroys what little there is left of a real competitive health insurance marketplace by instituting new price controls and standard benefit packages that will turn health insurance companies into public utilities. And the plan is so riddled with deceptive budget gimmicks that the White House's non-CBO scored $950 billion price tag actually comes to $2.5 trillion once an honest accounting has been applied.."

Of course this was never about health care anyway. That was merely the vehicle for a statist’s attempt to hijack this country.

Robert Craven

The perfect fit.

With BO’s reputation in a free fall, his operatives and compliant media flacks are blaming everyone else, failing to look within. For example, as Bill Thomas in the SF Chronicle reminds us, Bill Maher sees the problem caused because Americans, "are not bright enough to really understand the issues." Hah! The wag Weisberg of Slate whines the fault is due to the, "the childishness, ignorance and growing incoherence of the public at large." Too much.

We recall that the same types had Lincoln as an arm-dragging ape, a buffoon who could not get out of his own way. Hummm?

So history, as it is inclined to do, repeats. To those of us posted in these events, this is entertainment on a grand scale. This is special stuff, is it not? Certainly a portion of the US electorate failed at their scholarship before visiting the voting both last November. There is no question of that. But to claim the masses are ignorant - this is something only Democrats could own. Indeed, it is the perfect fit for this miserable party.

Summary: We have an individual who had not a snowball’s chance in hell of being elected if he were not half black. A dumbing down. First problem. We have an individual who is a Chicago political operative too slick for his own good. Second problem. We have an individual who is self anointed, who thinks he knows what is best for the masses because he learned it in school, then practiced it in the grievance business. Third problem. We have an individual, as we stated in the primary, who does not understand America or Americans. Fourth and final problem.

Trilling warned of these clowns, of what he called the "educated class." "Some paradox of our nature leads us," Trilling wrote, "when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion."

Perfect fit.

Thank you Lionel.

Robert Craven

Good For Obama

Perhaps we’re a tad too delicate in this post, just a tad too refined. Folks have told us - "Hey, you’ve got the insight, but cut to the meat. Why not simply say it?"

From one of these, just the other day, "George W. Bush had the cojones to stick it to China (Who demanded Bush not meet with the DL, especially in public) and meet publicly with the Dali Lama and attend a ceremony in the Capitol building in DC where Congress awarded the DL with the Congressional Gold Medal. The highest civilian award in the United States along with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Obowma, the coward, caved in to Chinese pressure and was not seen in public with the Dali Lama, and made the Dali Lama exit the White House through the Service Entrance, next to the piles of garbage. Obowma is an utter disgrace and a urine-stained coward. It is sickening that this xxxxxxxx is POTUS."

Whoa. Ok. Guess so. That’s right. Thanks Tom. We love the DL too. And we know BO is a gutless wonder. Suppose that gets the job done alright. We’re not personally inclined to resort to profanity, but ya, sure, it can work. Another BO screw up.

But wait! To be fair (and we always are) BO has demonstrated recently that he is capable of doing something right - like killing plenty of bad guys in Pakistan with US drones. Better that - killing the troglodytes who want to kill us - than to showcase these clowns in Manhattan, is it not? Good for BO. He’s a role model! We want to be the first to compliment the guy.

Now, Obama needs to sit down with the likes of Code Pink, Marin County types and the rest of the far left and explain that there is such a thing as justifiable conflict - the Civil War & WWII come to mind. Sometimes bad people need to be killed. The easy way out - the way of Code Pink, the far left, academia - is to champion peace as if these types were given to some sort of original insight. In fact, this is no contribution at all. We all (disturbed folks excepted) want peace - it is in our self interest. But stronger folk also understand that tough decisions are sometimes in order.

When an individual at our favorite nursery the other day, ranted - no more bombs! - we knew right then that if we do not protect her she will be the fist to go, like a child at the dinner table. Completely naive. Any fool can spotlight peace. It’s easy. And meaningless.

This is why the far left are known as the chattering class. To your room now children as your parents go about the securing of your future.

Stay with it BO.

Robert Craven

Jim Jones and Obama

Sorry you voted for Obama? Feel sometimes you’re back in Jonestown, Guyana, the morning of Nov/18/1978 and you’ve changed your mind?

We understand.

In the Super Bowl - Katie Couric interview, when asked about his frustration with the health heist, he said the following, as highlighted by the Weekly Std.’s Jeff Anderson: "Look, I would have loved nothing better than to simply come up with some very elegant, you know, academically approved approach to health care [that] didn’t have any kinds of legislative fingerprints on it, and just go ahead and have that passed. But that’s not how it works in our democracy. Unfortunately what we end up having to do is to do a lot of negotiations with a lot of different people."

Now folks, we did not make this up. BO said every word. We’re at the bottom of the barrel when a sitting president of the United States complains of the democratic process ("Unfortunately what we end up having to do is...."). Unfortunately ?

An "academically approved approach..."? Talk about a disconnect. This is voodoo stuff.

This is also too much fun, or would be if it were not that this individual is the leader of a whole lot of people.

No wonder no one will admit they pulled the trigger for this guy. No wonder every Democrat in Congress is fixin’ to jump ship before the tractor-pulled trailer arrives at the airstrip.

But then given what all of us knew, how could it have been any other way? BO was perfectly candid about his far-left ways. He didn’t fail this country any more than Jim Jones failed the Kool-Aid (actually Flavor-Aid) crowd.

Jones and Obama - only the stage has changed.

Robert Craven

INCEST

Most of the left try to fathom the destruction of their party, acted out right in front of them. Literary types, the media, legals, academics - all in a state of despair. The far left (most of Marin County) wondering why Americans are so stupid; the average Democrat wondering just why Obama will not move to center. Not long ago with the aid of the political harlot David Gergen, Clinton did just that; in so doing he saved his presidency. Now, Gergen complains that BO is not listening.

Our readers know the answer and thus have an anchor - elitist types associating only with other elitist types - a closed system. It really borders on incest does it not? The result, as is usually the case with incest, is a dumbing down. BO is such a product; he is a run-of-the-mill ideologue who regularly postures as a saint while insisting his opponents are sleazy. He feels he is the chosen one, perched high above the unwashed. To him it’s all about his kind directing the herd.

This is all very boring.

Noemie Emery, contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, reveals that BO has misjudged both the times and the country and that in his ignorance, "he has created a nightmare for most in his party..." And this elitist class? "It is full of itself, and values too highly its skill sets, which are entertaining, but not on the optimum level of consequence. On this optimum level are resolution, moral clarity, and an ability to understand and connect with a great many people, things for which the chattering class is not known. This class fooled itself, and much of the country, for which the country will not soon forgive it."

Emery concludes, "And what does this say? That our ‘educated class’ is educated beyond its intelligence, and mistakes mastery of its patois and attitude for wisdom and competence.’"

That’s about all there is to it folks. The rest is noise.

Robert Craven

Come On Back Harry

This implosion is such entertainment. It really is. If only we could savor it.

Andrew Malcolm writes in the LA Times, "But now that the sun has risen on the 386th day of the Obama White House, many political observers are coming to see that the ex-state senator from the South Side is running his federal administration in Washington much the way they run things back home: with a small....
...claque of clout-laden people from the same school who learned their political trade back in the nation's No. 3 city, named for an Indian word for a smelly wild onion."

This - the Chicago machine personified in Obama - is part of the story, something most of us had expected from day one, or before. It’s interesting background and explains day-to-day operations in the WH. But it’s not central to BO’s demise. That would be the disconnect, which in turn is to be understood when one understands that special kind of human being - the self-anointed.

BO’s nothing new in this regard. These types have been around in one form or another for years, glaringly so since WWII. Take the State Dept. It is thoroughly infested with Obama types. And was. Truman had a fit. From McCullough, "To Truman, the State Dept was ‘a peculiar organization, made up principally of extremely bright people who made tremendous college marks but who have very little association with actual people down on the ground.’ They were ‘clannish and snooty,’ he thought and he often felt like, ‘firing the whole bunch.’"

Come on back Harry.

Robert Craven

Too critical?

We’ve received a flurry of emails scolding us for implying in recent posts that those who voted for Obama didn’t do their homework. "How dare you imply that I was taken in," went one. "I know what you mean by the Kool-Aid crowd. You should be ashamed of yourself," went another. "Look. I was sick of Bush. I’m a bit disappointed with Obama but that doesn’t mean I’m stupid because I voted for him," went another.

Well, it’s tough to make a case for these folk. They had another choice in Hillary but voted for the party machinery’s favorite in the primary. By election day they had enough time to know the facts, one of which was that BO was pals with a convicted terrorist.

That should have been enough, for anyone. It wasn’t.

As we noted above, it’s tough to make a case for these types.

Robert Craven