It’s Tuesday, June 17th, 2014…and we begin the day with a question U.S. citizens of every color should be asking: if the flood of ignorant, illiterate illegals are, as The Obamao has stated with a straight face, America’s future…
…what role does he have in mind for my kids?!?
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, courtesy of The Washington Free Beacon, something to remember as the Middle East continues its descent into utter chaos…and 2016 draws near:
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was a leading and outspoken supporter of the Obama administration’s decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq and even defended the White House’s controversial failure to reach a status of forces agreement with the Iraqi government. Team Obama’s decisions in Iraq are coming under intense criticism from experts and lawmakers across the political spectrum in light of the seizure of key Iraqi cities by a violent Muslim extremist group that is seeking to transform the nation into a strict Islamic state.
Clinton emerged as one of the top supporters of the withdrawal and defended the administration’s failure to secure a status of forces agreement, which would have kept several thousand U.S. troops in the war-torn country and potentially prevented extremist terror groups from resurging in Iraq, according to a Washington Free Beacon review of the likely presidential candidate’s past statements and interviews.
Clinton touted the United States’ commitment to Iraq in 2011 and said the Obama administration has “a plan in place” to ensure Iraq’s security. “Are the Iraqis all going to get along with each other for the foreseeable future?” Clinton wondered in one 2011 interview. “Well, let’s find out.”
In other words…
…they instituted yet another horribly misguided, devastatingly destructive policy for short term political gain knowing it would eventually, quite literally, blow up in the faces…of others. But hey…what’s a few hundred thousand lives compared with Dimocratic control of government?
Meanwhile, in “The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend…Even if They’re My Most Implacable Foe” segment…
This is akin to the farmer negotiating henhouse security with the fox.
Then again, as the WSJ‘s Bret Stephens details, what could or should one expect from an Administration which, as the immortal Rhah might put it…
…ain’t never been right:
Was it only 10 months ago that President Obama capitulated on Syria? And eight months ago that we learned he had no idea the U.S. eavesdropped on Angela Merkel ? And seven months ago that his administration struck its disastrous interim nuclear deal with Tehran? And four months ago that Chuck Hagel announced that the United States Army would be cut to numbers not seen since the 1930s? And three months ago that Russia seized Crimea? And two months ago that John Kerry’s Israeli-Palestinian peace effort sputtered into the void? And last month that Mr. Obama announced a timetable for total withdrawal from Afghanistan—a strategy whose predictable effects can now be seen in Iraq?
Even the Bergdahl deal of yesterweek is starting to feel like ancient history. Like geese, Americans are being forced to swallow foreign-policy fiascoes at a rate faster than we can possibly chew, much less digest.
Consider the liver. On Thursday, Russian tanks rolled across the border into eastern Ukraine. On Saturday, Russian separatists downed a Ukrainian transport jet, murdering 49 people. On Monday, Moscow stopped delivering gas to Kiev. All this is part of the Kremlin’s ongoing stealth invasion and subjugation of its neighbor. And all of this barely made the news. John Kerry phoned Moscow to express his “strong concern.”Concern, mind you, not condemnation.
If the president of the United States had any thoughts on the subject, he kept them to himself. His weekly radio address was devoted to wishing America’s dads a happy Father’s Day.
But only after squeezing in a quick round or two of golf in Palm Springs following some more hypocritical hyperbole directed against climate change deniers. Heaven forbid some enterprising reporter ask The Dear Misleader how much fuel Air Force One burns flying from L.A. to Palm Springs, let alone how much water it takes to keep a golf course in the Coachella Valley green.
And since we’re on the subject of the worst foreign policy team in our nation’s history, let’s check in, courtesy of the WSJ, on one of its principle architects:
Hillary Clinton’s presidential, er, book tour hasn’t gone well, but not because she isn’t trying to avoid controversy. Asked last week by the Toronto Globe and Mail if she believes the U.S. should build the Keystone XL pipeline, she replied: “I can’t respond.”
Who knew an oil pipeline was classified information? As the former Secretary of State explained, “I can’t really comment at great length because I had responsibility for it and it’s been passed on and it wouldn’t be appropriate.” If she told you, she’d have to kill you. Or, to put it differently, if she told you, some Democrats might try to kill her presidential chances.
So what do Liberal anti-Semitic, anti-Christian advocates of homosexuality, abortion-on-demand and all things immoral do when their absolutely out of airspeed, altitude and ideas?
Suddenly…and quite hypocritically…find religion!
No…the biggest influence in your life, Hilly, is your enormous ass; which you’re obviously trying to reduce by lying it off!
Speaking of obvious liars, as The Blaze relates…
“…A veteran IT professional tells TheBlaze that the IRS’ claim that the agency lost two years’ worth of former IRS official Lois Lerner’s emails is “simply not feasible.”
…Norman Cillo, an Army veteran who worked in intelligence and a former program manager at Microsoft, argued it is very difficult to lose emails for good and laid out six reasons why he believes Congress is “being lied to” about the Lerner emails…“
In other words, not only didn’t it happen, it quite frankly couldn’t have happened…unless of course someone, with deliberate malice of forethought and active intervention, made it happen!
Next up, in the “Blast from the Past” segment, courtesy of the WSJ…
Adam Smith on roads and bridges to nowhere.
When high roads, bridges, canals, &c. are in this manner made and supported by the commerce which is carried on by means of them, they can be made only where that commerce requires them, and consequently where it is proper to make them. Their expences too, their grandeur and magnificence, must be suited to what that commerce can afford to pay. They must be made consequently as it is proper to make them.
A magnificent high road cannot be made through a desert country where there is little or no commerce, or merely because it happens to lead to the country villa of the intendant of the province, or to that of some great lord to whom the intendant finds it convenient to make his court.
A great bridge cannot be thrown over a river at a place where nobody passes, or merely to embellish the view from the windows of a neighbouring palace: things which sometimes happen in countries where works of this kind are carried on by any other revenue than that which they themselves are capable of affording.
It’s worth noting the primary sponsors of a recent and well-known example of a literal Bridge to Nowhere, Ted Stevens and Don Young, were and are Republicans. Further proof, if any were needed, term limits are a significant part of any solution to what ails America.
On the Lighter Side…
Finally, in the Sports Section, we mark the passing of a true legend:
Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn dies of cancer at age 54
In an age dominated by selfish, self-centered, pampered professional athletes, many of minimal talent, Gwynn was a breath of fresh air and a true example for youngsters. He will be missed.
Magoo
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