{"id":27773,"date":"2014-11-12T18:55:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T23:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=27773"},"modified":"2014-11-12T18:55:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T23:55:29","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-october-13th-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=27773","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, October 13th, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Monday, October 13th, Columbus Day 2014…but before we begin, a brief observation on the fiasco which may soon make Dubya’s reaction to Hurricane Katrina look like a model of government efficiency.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Soooo…first the President assures us it’s “highly unlikely” Ebola would ever reach our shores; but should<\/em><\/span> it happen, his government has all the necessary procedures and policies in place to immediately contain it. \u00a0Yeah…and you can keep your doctor, health insurance plan and The Great Prevaricator swore never to take a vacation!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Enter one Thomas Duncan, an uneducated, unemployed Liberian who not only defied The Obamao’s own odds by introducing Ebola to America, but somehow managed to get around every step of the President’s vaunted identification and containment processes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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And n<\/strong>ow that one of the nurses who treated Duncan…at taxpayer expense, of course…has contracted the dread disease, the CDC says they need to modify the treatment protocols…while at the same time telling us they work<\/em><\/span>?!? \u00a0Oh, as an aside, they also mentioned\u00a0<\/strong>other<\/em><\/span> hospital employees may have become exposed\/infected in the same way?!? \u00a0The good news is, we’re assured an investigation is underway; the bad news is Lois Lerner is leading it!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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What amazes us isn’t that the level of public confidence in government is at\u00a0an all-time low, but that there’s any<\/em><\/span> support anywhere<\/em><\/span> for a single Dimocratic candidate for office!<\/b><\/p>\n

Now, here’s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n

First up, in keeping with our opening, and courtesy of Bill Meisen and The Weekly Standard<\/em>, a\u00a0brilliantly-written<\/em><\/span>\u00a0must-read piece from Steve Hayes detailing the complete collapse of this Communist’s house of cards:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Failure Upon Failure<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

The disintegration of the Obama presidency<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

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“…As we approach the sixth anniversary of his election, the Obama presidency is in tatters.<\/strong><\/span> Obama\u2019s policies, foreign and domestic, are widely seen as failed or failing. His approval rating is near its lowest point. Obama\u2019s base of support is loyal and fierce and shrinking. Much of the country sees him as incompetent or untrustworthy, and government, far from being \u201ccool,\u201d is a joke on good days and a threat on bad ones.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

…The Obama presidency has seen many low points, but this has to have been one of the lowest\u200b\u2014\u200bJimmy Carter questioning Obama\u2019s competence<\/em><\/span> and Bill Clinton questioning his integrity<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>…”<\/p>\n

Hayes is absolutely spot-on, yet doesn\u2019t even mention Fast & Furious, the purposeful race-baiting divisiveness and class-warfare, the illegal recess appointments and EPA overreaches, etc., etc., etc. \u00a0Likely he felt the scandals cited were sufficient proof of his point; but what does it say about this President, not to mention the fools who elected him a second time, when his misdeeds defy easy accounting?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since we’re on the subject of The Dear Misleader’s abject failures, writing at Britain’s The Independent<\/em>, Patrick Cockburn offers his assessment of Barry’s latest display of utter ineptitude:<\/strong><\/p>\n

War against Isis: US strategy in tatters as militants march on<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

World View: American-led air attacks are failing. Jihadis are close to taking Kobani, in Syria \u2013 and in Iraq western Baghdad is now under serious threat<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

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Sorry ISIS; ignorant, uninformed American voters and diehard Dimocrats have already done that…twice<\/span>!<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“America’s plans to fight Islamic State are in ruins as the militant group’s fighters come close to capturing Kobani and have inflicted a heavy defeat on the Iraqi army west of Baghdad.and bases on or close to the Euphrates River west of Baghdad fell in a few days, often after little resistance by the Iraqi Army which showed itself to be as dysfunctional as in the past, even when backed by US air strikes.<\/p>\n

The US-led air attacks launched against Islamic State (also known as Isis) on 8 August in Iraq and 23 September in Syria have not worked.<\/strong> President Obama’s plan to “degrade and destroy” Islamic State has not even begun to achieve success<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> In both<\/span> Syria and Iraq, Isis is expanding its control rather than contracting<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Isis reinforcements have been rushing towards Kobani in the past few days to ensure that they win a decisive victory over the Syrian Kurdish town’s remaining defenders. The group is willing to take heavy casualties in street fighting and from air attacks in order to add to the string of victories it has won in the four months since its forces captured Mosul, the second-largest city in Iraq, on 10 June. Part of the strength of the fundamentalist movement is a sense that there is something inevitable and divinely inspired about its victories, whether it is against superior numbers in Mosul or US airpower at Kobani.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In the face of a likely Isis victory at Kobani, senior US officials have been trying to explain away the failure to save the Syrian Kurds in the town, probably Isis’s toughest opponents in Syria. “Our focus in Syria is in degrading the capacity of [Isis] at its core to project power, to command itself, to sustain itself, to resource itself,” said US Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken, in a typical piece of waffle designed to mask defeat<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> “The tragic reality is that in the course of doing that there are going to be places like Kobani where we may or may not be able to fight effectively.”<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for the US, Kobani isn’t the only place air strikes are failing to stop Isis<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> In an offensive in Iraq launched on 2 October but little reported in the outside world, Isis has captured almost all the cities and towns it did not already hold in Anbar province, a vast area in western Iraq that makes up a quarter of the country.<\/strong><\/span> It has captured Hit, Kubaisa and Ramadi, the provincial capital, which it had long fought for. Other cities, towns and bases on or close to the Euphrates River west of Baghdad fell in a few days, often after little resistance by the Iraqi Army which showed itself to be as dysfunctional as in the past, even when backed by US air strikes.<\/p>\n

Gee…maybe if this most-Manchurian of candidates hadn’t telegraphed what he intended to do, giving ISIS ample time to move their top leadership and more sophisticated weapons out of harm’s way into more densely-populated areas, the U.S. effort (and make no mistake about it, regardless of what B.S you hear about a coalition, this is a U.S.<\/em><\/span> effort!) might have proved more effective.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Regardless, air power alone has never decided a conflict; not even the first Gulf War. \u00a0And the battle against Islamic terror won’t prove the exception.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Next up, here’s a real shocker: yet\u00a0another example of B. Hussein’s unbridled predilection for hypocrisy:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Obama Hits GOP For Being Party of Billionaires Before Attending Fundraiser Hosted by Billionaire<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

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“President Barack Obama chided the Republican Party for catering to the ‘interests of billionaires’ in an email to supporters on Tuesday, then attended a series of high-dollar fundraisers, including one at real estate mogul Rich Richman’s house.\u00a0The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee fundraiser at Richman’s house in Greenwich, Connecticut, cost as much as $32,400 a person, according to the White House.<\/p>\n

…In addition to the event at Richman’s house, Obama attended a roundtable with Democratic supporters on Tuesday that was closed to press and a fundraiser at the home of\u00a0Bill White and Bryan Eure.\u00a0White is the former head of the Intrepid Air and Space Museum in New York. White resigned in 2010 after coming under investigation by then-state attorney general, now governor, Andrew Cuomo, for his participation in a state pension fund scheme.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>The attorney general’s office never brought charges against White, but the longtime Democratic donor was forced to pay $1 million in restitution to the government.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

That event at his home on Tuesday also cost $32,400 to attend.\u00a0Asked about the fundraiser by the New York Daily News on Tuesday, a White House spokesman declined to comment…<\/span><\/strong>“<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking of naked Progressive hypocrisy, courtesy of Townhall.com<\/em>, former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr exposes a particularly egregious example:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Voter ID vs. Concealed Carry \u2013 Liberal Hypocrisy Unmasked<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

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\u201cLet me be clear,\u201d Attorney General Eric Holder emphatically declared in a 2012 speech to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, \u201cwe will not allow political pretexts to disenfranchise American citizens of their most precious rights.\u201d Holder\u2019s remarks were a call to arms against efforts by Republicans to require that voters show identification when they go to vote. His words reflect a belief that the right to vote is so \u201cprecious\u201d that requiring individuals to show an ID before casting a vote is tantamount to being \u201cdisenfranchised.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

However, when it comes to protecting the right to \u201ckeep and bear arms\u201d \u2013 which, unlike the right to vote, is a right expressly guaranteed in the Constitution itself \u2013 the Attorney General of the United States is nowhere to be found.<\/strong><\/span> Apparently our Second Amendment rights are just not \u201cprecious\u201d enough to worry about when governments engage in actions expressly designed to \u201cdisenfranchise\u201d individuals from exercising those rights.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The hypocrisy is so<\/span> blatant it is painful<\/span><\/em>…<\/strong><\/span>“<\/p>\n

As is listening to a single word either Holder or his boob of a boss have to say. \u00a0Put another way, this is a lawless Attorney General who…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, how can the country have an honest conversation about Eric the Red’s favorite red-herring when the <\/em>b<\/span>iggest source<\/em><\/span> of the problem cannot even be discussed<\/em><\/span>, as exemplified by this report on a recent riot at the Arizona state fair:<\/strong><\/p>\n