It’s Wednesday, November 19th, 2014…but before we begin, a few more random thoughts on the passing scene.
First, what will it take for Liberals to realize that while most of the MSM remains willing to assist them in realizing the rewriting of history along the lines of 1984, the internet renders their efforts futile?
“I know zero credible evidence to support that conclusion,” Gruber told the non-partisan FactCheck.org in Feb. 2008 about proposals offered by Obama and his Democratic challenger at the time, Hillary Clinton. Gruber also offered his candid suggestion for how to actually control health-care costs. “At the end of the day, the only way to control health-care costs in America is to deny Americans health care they want,” Gruber said.
Perhaps this is why the Left remains so keen on gaining control of both access to and content on the web.
Second, how could anyone, in any way, continue to support animals who would celebrate the slaughter of five innocents, praying or not, by handing out candy and urging their children to act in a similarly heinous manner?!?
And was the mislabeling by CNN of this butchery as an attack on a mosque rather than a synagogue an inadvertent mistake…
…or simply a subliminal message conveying where their loyalties lie?
Furthermore, given this act of barbarism was utterly unjustifiable, what could possibly possess Reuters to even consider…
…offering any Palestinian defense of the altogether indefensible?!?
Third, since we’re on the subject, Progressives’ penchant for embracing the indefensible is perhaps best exemplified by the homage they continue to pay…
…the lowest form of life on the planet. Admittedly, we wouldn’t piss on Sharpton were he on fire; yet we never cease to be amazed at the hypocrisy and complete lack of any discernible morals in those who afford him legitimacy, let alone offer him praise.
Lastly, this headline from Politico begs the question how bad must this sitting Senator’s chances of reelection be to have her own people fail to pass what is essentially a meaningless measure?
After all, it’s not like the new Republican majority won’t pass the same bill come January. Maybe her Senate colleagues just don’t think that much of Mary; after all, there’s a lot of her not to like!
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, Thomas Sowell offers a brief history detailing the true impact of Progressivism:
“…If we wanted to be serious about evidence, we might compare where blacks stood a hundred years after the end of slavery with where they stood after 30 years of the liberal welfare state. In other words, we could compare hard evidence on “the legacy of slavery” with hard evidence on the legacy of liberals.
…Ending the Jim Crow laws was a landmark achievement. But, despite the great proliferation of black political and other “leaders” that resulted from the laws and policies of the 1960s, nothing comparable happened economically. And there were serious retrogressions socially.
Nearly a hundred years of the supposed “legacy of slavery” found most black children being raised in two-parent families in 1960. But thirty years after the liberal welfare state found the great majority of black children being raised by a single parent.
The murder rate among blacks in 1960 was one-half of what it became 20 years later, after a legacy of liberals’ law enforcement policies. Public housing projects in the first half of the 20th century were clean, safe places, where people slept outside on hot summer nights, when they were too poor to afford air conditioning. That was before admissions standards for public housing projects were lowered or abandoned, in the euphoria of liberal non-judgmental notions. And it was before the toxic message of victimhood was spread by liberals. We all know what hell holes public housing has become in our times. The same toxic message produced similar social results among lower-income people in England, despite an absence of a “legacy of slavery” there.
If we are to go by evidence of social retrogression, liberals have wreaked more havoc on blacks than the supposed “legacy of slavery” they talk about. Liberals should heed the title of Jason Riley’s insightful new book, “Please Stop Helping Us.”“
Here’s a case in point, again courtesy of the great Thomas Sowell:
“…Under the Obama administration, both the Department of Education and the Department of Justice have been leaning on public schools around the country to reduce what they call the “disproportionate” numbers of black male students who are punished for various offenses in schools.
Under an implicit threat of losing their federal subsidies, the Minneapolis Public Schools have agreed to reduce the disparity in punishment of black students by 25 percent by the end of this school year, and then by 50 percent, 75 percent and finally 100 percent in each of the following years. In other words, there are now racial quota limits for punishment in the Minneapolis schools.
If we stop and think — as old-fashioned as that may seem — there is not the slightest reason to expect black males to commit the same number of offenses as Asian females or any other set of students. When different groups of human beings have behaved differently in all sorts of ways, in countries around the world, for thousands of years of recorded history, why would we accept as dogma that the only reason one set of students gets punished more than others is because the people who are doing the punishing are picking on them?
Politically — which is the way the Obama administration looks at everything — any time they can depict blacks as victims, and depict themselves as their rescuers, that means an opportunity to get out the black vote for Democrats…”
While at the same time increasing Black dependency, decreasing what little remains of any sense of Black self-responsibility and condemning at least one more generation of Black Americans to what amounts to indentured servitude. The question inquiring minds want answered is:
Only if they’re ignorant, stupid or…
…making a fortune off the status quo.
The status quo; NOT something Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn appears ready to accept based on this video clip supplied by our son Mike:
If only professionally-sensitive, situationally-ethical and selectively-outraged Progressives could find it in their hearts to put aside politics for just a moment and view the problem from a dispassionate, factual perspective, they’d see the greatest threat to Black Americans today is…Progressives themselves.
Next, writing at NRO, Victor Davis Hanson accurately describes the desolation, demoralization and dysfunction The Marxist-in-Chief is leaving in his wake:
“The last but long gasp of the Obama administration is characterized not so much by deceit and incompetence as by growing chaos. Everything appears to be coming apart. The chariot of state now veers up and down with a terrified Phaethon clueless at the reins. Whether it is ISIS, Ebola, Putin, or Obamacare, the common strain is not simple incompetence, but a maladroitness born of intolerant ideological fundamentalism.
Have our government agencies ever seemed more corrupt or useless or both, staffed by political cronies and leftist zealots? What ever happened to the old IRS, GSA, VA, Secret Service, NSA, NASA, EPA, or Justice Department? All seem now mere appendages to a larger agenda of fundamentally transforming America…”
We only wish we were attending his wake…today…at this very moment!
Moving on, the Washington Examiner‘s Tim Carney exposes the hypocrisy at the heart of every Liberal pretending to be a person of the people:
Follow the money!
“…Democratic politicians’ uncontrollable urge to do something is tied up with their view of government’s role as the champion of justice, the wise arranger of the economy and shaper of culture. But there’s a deeper motivation to do something, and the Republican leadership shares it: When government takes a more active role in the economy, it creates private-sector employment opportunities for the policymakers — and for their advisors, like Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber.
Gruber, the MIT professor who won almost $400,000 in contracts from the Obama administration in a non-competitive contract process, came into the spotlight again this month when a new video surfaced in which he admitted that “lack of transparency” was crucial to passing Obamacare. My colleague Byron York pointed to a more interesting Gruber detail: After the bill passed, Gruber won hundreds of thousands of dollars (Make that millions!) in contracts with state governments setting up the exchanges under Obamacare.
Gruber, then, had to mislead Americans (or maybe just their senators) in order to pass Obamacare, and that opened a gusher of lucrative contracts for him. There is no doubt that Gruber sincerely thought the country needed health-care reform. (A benefit of the doubt we’d never grant Gruber.) But still, his financial interest in the bill ought to have raised some skepticism about the numbers he was peddling. If Gruber had looked at his budget models and told Congress, “there’s no way you can accomplish what you want to accomplish without more taxes,” he would be a much poorer man today.
Congressmen and their staffers face the same incentives: Craft a sweeping reform, push it through Congress, and thereby make yourself very valuable to the states and private companies facing new mandates, regulations, and subsidies. Obamacare made many congressional staffers wealthy, but also some lawmakers. Even if doing something often makes an incumbent vulnerable to attack, it also helps him get a raise once he loses — and Obamacare is again a prime example of this…”
Take Bart Stupak for example; here’s how his surrender on ObamaScare was initially portrayed:
In reality, he was simply offered a number he finally found worth his principles. In other words, like any other whore, he wasn’t about morals; just price.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch with The Gang Who Still Hasn’t Demonstrated the Ability to Shoot Straight, Byron York reports on the latest Republican strategery to rein in The Obamao’s lawlessness:
“…Once GOP leaders decide on a course of action, there’s little doubt it will have the support of all 54 Republicans expected to be in the Senate next year. (That’s assuming Bill Cassidy wins in Louisiana.) But will some Democrats join to push the GOP over the 60-vote filibuster threshold? A number of Republicans believe they will.
But even if a move to counter Obama passes the Senate with 60 votes, the president will veto it. At that point, a shutdown battle could occur — but it would be a battle over shutting down the small part of the federal government tasked with enforcing the immigration order. Everything else would remain up and running.
That’s a far cry from what happened in October 2013. And now, in light of the GOP’s midterm victories, some Republicans are re-assessing that epic shutdown battle, too…”
Which brings us to an update, again from the Washington Examiner, on one endangered species whose extinction cannot come fast enough to suit us:
“Every time they have the opportunity to buck their leadership and really get something done, the Blue Dogs act more like Rep. Pelosi’s house cats,” said a senior House GOP aide.
But Schrader said he and his fellow Blue Dogs pride themselves on voting their consciences and that his votes reflect their districts. “My [constituents] are just tired of the fighting [in Congress]. They don’t know who to blame — is it the president, is it [Senate Minority Leader] Mitch McConnell, is it Boehner, the Tea Party?” he said. “They just say ‘We need you to work together.’ And our stock in trade is doing just that.”
Yeah…sure they do. Like The Obamao channeling the thoughts of those who couldn’t be troubled to vote in one of the most important elections in American history, this is simply another instance of Liberals hearing voices telling them Republicans need to compromise.
And if Schrader truly believes working with Republicans to be the Blue Dogs’ stock in trade, we’d short it.
On the Lighter Side…
Magoo
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