{"id":28041,"date":"2014-11-23T20:52:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T01:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=28041"},"modified":"2014-11-23T20:52:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T01:52:48","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-november-21st-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=28041","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, November 21st, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Friday, November 21st, 2014&#8230;but first we interrupt our regularly scheduled programming for this important public safety announcement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Horrific crash kills 5 family members on &#039;dream trip&#039; to Disney World\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/11\/21\/horrific-crash-kills-family-on-dream-trip-to-disney-world\/?intcmp=latestnews\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">Horrific crash kills 5 family members on &#8216;dream trip&#8217; to Disney World<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/disney-crash-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27990\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/disney-crash-5.jpg\" alt=\"disney-crash-5\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/disney-crash-5.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/disney-crash-5-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Forget the fact the 16-year-old eldest child was driving when he fell asleep at the wheel close to midnight; all five family members killed, including the parents, were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>NOT<\/em><\/span> wearing seat belts! \u00a0The three kids who were strapped in, including the driver, lived.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>On a recent trip to a rug store in Alexandria TLJ frequents in the course of her interior design work, she learned her favorite salesman was hospitalized with a broken neck. \u00a0He&#8217;d been out on the Washington Beltway teaching his daughter to drive, she had panicked and crashed their vehicle. \u00a0She was buckled in and suffered no serious injury; her father, who wasn&#8217;t wearing a safety harness, is now a quadriplegic.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Please, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>always<\/em><\/span> buckle up; unless, of course&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/in-this-july-2010-photo-obama-appears-to-have-ignored-seat-belt-safety-guidelines.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27998\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/in-this-july-2010-photo-obama-appears-to-have-ignored-seat-belt-safety-guidelines.jpg\" alt=\"in-this-july-2010-photo-obama-appears-to-have-ignored-seat-belt-safety-guidelines\" width=\"465\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/in-this-july-2010-photo-obama-appears-to-have-ignored-seat-belt-safety-guidelines.jpg 465w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/in-this-july-2010-photo-obama-appears-to-have-ignored-seat-belt-safety-guidelines-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8230;you&#8217;re either of these two douche pumps.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, here&#8217;s the juice:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>the entire Dimocratic Party, indeed Progressivism as a whole, stinks like a whorehouse at low tide. \u00a0But the Marxist-in-Chief has a particularly odiferous stench truly his own.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rather waste words detailing the illegalities, lies and rank hypocrisy which characterize this treasonous snake&#8217;s latest unconstitutional pronouncement, we&#8217;ll let Megyn Kelly and David Harsanyi do the talking:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UIQT6xxPfQc\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Obama Puts The Republic Out Of Its Misery All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress \u2013 unless the President says otherwise\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2014\/11\/21\/obama-puts-the-republic-out-of-its-misery\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Obama Puts The Republic Out Of Its Misery<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Obama Puts The Republic Out Of Its Misery All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress \u2013 unless the President says otherwise\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2014\/11\/21\/obama-puts-the-republic-out-of-its-misery\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress \u2013 unless the President says otherwise<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Can-Obama-Suspend-Election-Laws-Too.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Can-Obama-Suspend-Election-Laws-Too.png\" alt=\"Can-Obama-Suspend-Election-Laws-Too\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Can-Obama-Suspend-Election-Laws-Too.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Can-Obama-Suspend-Election-Laws-Too-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cThis is how democracy works,\u201d Barack Obama\u00a0lectured the country\u00a0before giving everyone the specifics of his\u00a0<i>expansive one-man executive overreach<\/i>\u00a0on immigration. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>If you enjoy platitudinous straw men\u00a0but are turned off by open debate and constitutional order, this speech was for you.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Modern Democrats aren\u2019t the first political party to abuse power \u2013 far from it.<\/strong><\/span> Obama isn\u2019t the first president to abuse executive power \u2013 not by a longshot. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>But he has to be the first president in American history to overtly and consistently argue that he\u2019s empowered to legislate if Congress doesn\u2019t pass the laws he favors<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <em>It\u2019s an argument that\u2019s been mainstreamed by partisans <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and cheered on by those in media desperate to find a morsel of triumph in this presidency<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;No, the president didn\u2019t kill the process all by himself. Bush did it! Reagan did it!\u00a0True or not, twenty years from now, the minions of some Republican Napoleon will be screaming \u2018Obama did it!\u2019 And they\u2019ll have a sad story or a chilling warning that will justify why it\u2019s ok. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Because all legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States \u2013 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unless the president says it\u2019s super important<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Then <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>anything<\/em><\/span> goes.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hat tips to Bill Meisen and Speed Mach for the forwards.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: Whatever The Obamao&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>real<\/em><\/span> goal, if he planned on gaining enormous traction with Hispanics, he could have saved his breath:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"hd-font entry-title color3\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Poll: Lukewarm Latino support for Obama executive action\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/poll-lukewarm-latino-support-for-obama-executive-action\/article\/2556467\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">Poll: Lukewarm Latino support for Obama executive action<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/illegal-aliens-middle-finger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27964\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/illegal-aliens-middle-finger.jpg\" alt=\"illegal-aliens-middle-finger\" width=\"400\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/illegal-aliens-middle-finger.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/illegal-aliens-middle-finger-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Oops!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Obama White House is counting on strong Latino support as the president rolls out his executive edict legalizing millions of currently illegal immigrants. But a new poll suggests Latino approval of unilateral presidential action isn&#8217;t all that strong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll, released Wednesday, asked respondents, &#8220;Do you approve or disapprove of the president taking executive action on immigration, or do you not know enough to have an opinion at this time?&#8221; <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Overall, 48 percent of those surveyed said they disapprove of Obama&#8217;s action, versus 38 percent who said they approve and 13 percent who said they didn&#8217;t have an opinion or weren&#8217;t sure.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Among Latinos, more approve than disapprove, but not by a terribly large margin. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>According to a breakdown provided by the pollsters, 43 percent of Latino respondents said they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>approved<\/em><\/span> of the president&#8217;s actions, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>versus 37 percent who disapproved<\/em><\/span> and 20 percent who said they didn&#8217;t have an opinion or weren&#8217;t sure.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of the rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness in high places, they&#8217;re the subject of the latest offering from\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Billy Graham at\u00a0<em>CNSNews<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"page-title\" class=\"title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" title=\"Billy Graham: In Our \u2018Lawless and Wicked Age \u2026 We've Taught the Philosophy of the Devil -- \u2018Do As You Please\u2019\" href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/mrctv-blog\/michael-w-chapman\/billy-graham-our-lawless-and-wicked-age-weve-taught-philosophy-devil-do\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Billy Graham: In Our \u2018Lawless and Wicked Age \u2026 We&#8217;ve Taught the Philosophy of the Devil &#8212; \u2018Do As You Please\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/42-21860346.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27968\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/42-21860346.jpg\" alt=\"42-21860346\" width=\"350\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/42-21860346.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/42-21860346-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;There is only one solution to combating the problems afflicting young people, concluded Rev. Graham, and that answer is Christ:\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cChrist in the home, in the lives of the parents, is the only permanent solution to the menacing teenage social problems in America.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Church every Sunday and daily prayer \u201cwill solve 90 percent of the problems you have with your children,\u201d he said<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>America having twice elected Satan&#8217;s most devoted disciple&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ObamaDevilPicSatan-Obama-e1366525211640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27969\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ObamaDevilPicSatan-Obama-e1366525211640.jpg\" alt=\"ObamaDevilPicSatan-Obama-e1366525211640\" width=\"350\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ObamaDevilPicSatan-Obama-e1366525211640.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ObamaDevilPicSatan-Obama-e1366525211640-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/obamadevilsdisciplebibleminiseriespicofdevil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27970\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/obamadevilsdisciplebibleminiseriespicofdevil.jpg\" alt=\"obamadevilsdisciplebibleminiseriespicofdevil\" width=\"350\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/obamadevilsdisciplebibleminiseriespicofdevil.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/obamadevilsdisciplebibleminiseriespicofdevil-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;isn&#8217;t the problem, but rather symptomatic of a much larger and more serious moral disease. \u00a0After all, <\/strong><strong>when you believe in nothing you&#8217;ll fall for anything; or anyone! \u00a0Including&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Obama-sucker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-27973\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Obama-sucker-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Obama-sucker\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Obama-sucker-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Obama-sucker-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Obama-sucker.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;a utterly inexperienced, wholly unqualified Marxist Mephisto whose true nature was always as obvious as the ears on his head to anyone with either half a brain, an ounce of common sense&#8230;or the merest amount of faith.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And since we&#8217;re on the subject of those lacking any moral fiber, the\u00a0<em>WSJ<\/em>&#8216;s Dan Henninger reviews&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Obama: The Hangover\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/dan-henningerobama-the-hangover-1416442010\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Obama: The Hangover<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Obama: The Hangover\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/dan-henningerobama-the-hangover-1416442010\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">The Gruber technocracy is a green sludge consuming the Democratic Party.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gruber-obama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27975\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gruber-obama.jpg\" alt=\"gruber-obama\" width=\"450\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gruber-obama.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gruber-obama-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;The Gruber incident poses a direct threat to the Democratic Party. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Jon Gruber\u2019s remarks matter not for what they say about the Democratic Party\u2019s modus operandi <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but because of the truths he revealed about the Democratic Party\u2019s reason for being<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> The Gruber threat to the Democrats isn\u2019t reputational; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>it\u2019s existential<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Democrats have believed for decades that if they build it\u2014a health-care entitlement or any other federal bestowment\u2014the voters will come. That political model is cracking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;The original Democratic idea was at least benign. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>In the hands of the Obama-Gruber coalition, it has finally degraded into something else. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">It has become malign, a politics that has to be faked or crammed down<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The brand is so damaged, the truth behind the facade so obvious even some of the most devoted Dimocratics are finally waking up and smelling the bullsh*t, as evidenced by the recent videos of Black Chicagoans identifying Progressives and their policies, not the GOP, as the problem. \u00a0Which is why the Left so desperately needs a fresh mass of uneducated, ill-informed citizens whose ignorance can be exploited through your tax dollars to create&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/illigal-immigration.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27999\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/illigal-immigration.jpg\" alt=\"illigal-immigration\" width=\"400\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/illigal-immigration.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/illigal-immigration-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;a new dependable, <em>depen<\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>dent<\/em><\/span> voting bloc.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And that, Charlie Brown&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Charlie-Brown-Christmas-540x273.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Charlie-Brown-Christmas-540x273.jpg\" alt=\"Charlie-Brown-Christmas-540x273\" width=\"350\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Charlie-Brown-Christmas-540x273.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Charlie-Brown-Christmas-540x273-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;is what The Obamao&#8217;s amnesty is all about!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And in the &#8220;MSM Bias&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>WHAT<\/em><\/span> Bias?!?&#8221; segment, Ann Coulter poses this rhetorical question:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Isn&#039;t Jonathan Gruber Worse Than the Downing Street Memo?\" href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/anncoulter\/2014\/11\/19\/isnt-jonathan-gruber-worse-than-the-downing-street-memo-n1921260\/page\/full\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">Isn&#8217;t Jonathan Gruber Worse Than the Downing Street Memo?<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27977\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/original.jpg\" alt=\"original\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/original.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/original-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;The Downing Street memo consisted of minutes from a July 2002 meeting of British labor, defense and intelligence officials during the run-up to the Iraq War, in which the MI6 head, Richard Dearlove, reportedly said that &#8220;Bush wanted to remove Saddam Hussein, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.&#8221;\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>These notes from a British cabinet meeting were called the smoking gun of Bush&#8217;s lying his way into war.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>By contrast, this week, NBC&#8217;s Chuck Todd dismissed the Gruber tapes as &#8220;a political story&#8221; and The New York Times said of Gruber: &#8220;In truth, his role was limited.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span> (NYT, March 28, 2012: &#8220;Mr. Gruber helped the administration put together the basic principles of the proposal, (then) the White House lent him to Capitol Hill to help congressional staff members draft the specifics of the legislation.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>But when the Downing Street memo came out, conservatives weren&#8217;t allowed to say, <em>Yeah, well, the British memo writer didn&#8217;t have anything to do with the president&#8217;s decision to go to war <\/em>&#8212; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>even though that guy really didn&#8217;t have anything to do with it<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> Those weren&#8217;t Tony Blair&#8217;s notes. They were a secretary&#8217;s interpretation of the MI6 chief&#8217;s interpretation of the Bush administration&#8217;s argument to the United Nations. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>It&#8217;s like a movie review, written by someone who knew someone who had seen the movie.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The memo writer also wasn&#8217;t being paid $400,000 by the Bush administration to make Iraq War policy. Jonathan Gruber was paid that much &#8212; plus another several million from the states &#8212; to design Obamacare. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>You don&#8217;t pay a half-million dollars to someone who is only peripherally involved in making policy. (Unless we&#8217;re talking about Obama himself.)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">There was no tape of Bush and Blair running around saying:<em> Trust this guy &#8212; the memo writer is our guide! <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>But that&#8217;s what Obama, Nancy Pelosi, then-Sen. John Kerry and other Democrats said about Gruber<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/em>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The MSM&#8217;s continuing refusal to expose what it knows to be complete and utter bald-faced lies emanating from the White House reminds us of what our dear departed Dad used to say (only on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>rare<\/em><\/span> occasions, mind you!) of at least two of his sons: &#8220;One of you&#8217;ll lie and the other&#8217;ll verify it.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In its slavish devotion to a President whose only claim to notoriety or achievement is the color of his father&#8217;s skin, the Liberal Fourth Estate, in all its forms, has forfeited not only its credibility but legitimacy. \u00a0As David Harsanyi notes in his article above, their concurrence on The Anointed One&#8217;s amnesty charade is evidence of their desperation &#8220;<strong>to find a morsel of triumph in this presidency&#8221;.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving on, writing at\u00a0<\/strong><strong><em>PJ Media<\/em>, Roger Simon exposes the reality behind another charade: that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>anything<\/em><\/span>, including the two-state &#8220;solution&#8221;, other than the total annihilation of Israel will ever slake the Arab thirst for Jewish blood:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"first_headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/rogerlsimon\/2014\/11\/18\/oh-jerusalem\/\">Oh, Jerusalem<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/obama_israel_crossed_fingers_12-6-13-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-27958\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/obama_israel_crossed_fingers_12-6-13-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"obama_israel_crossed_fingers_12-6-13-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/obama_israel_crossed_fingers_12-6-13-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/obama_israel_crossed_fingers_12-6-13-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/obama_israel_crossed_fingers_12-6-13-1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;What to say about the latest round of Islamo-carnage in Jerusalem that hasn\u2019t been said thousands of times before? Golda Meir made it all clear in her famous 1957 speech at the National Press Club in DC: <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>\u201cPeace will come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.\u201d<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>In other words, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>basically never<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> <strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The hate culture of the Palestinians \u2014 and almost all Arabs \u2014 is so deeply imbued it\u2019s hard to imagine it ever changing.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">After this recent incident, they danced in the street with hatchets and gave each other candy.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Lots of people have tried to make peace with them. The supposed war-monger Ariel Sharon uprooted his own people and gave the Palestinians Gaza. We all know what happened. Then prime minister Ehud Olmert offered the Palestinians the peace deal of the century. They walked away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The reason is obvious. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>The Palestinians don\u2019t want a two-state solution and never have.<\/strong><\/span> And not just Hamas with their infamous charter urging the death of all Jews, even Jewish trees (whatever that means) \u2014 all of them. Well, not absolutely all. <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>There must be one or two somewhere who really want to share the land with the Jews. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">I just don\u2019t know who they are.<\/span> Nobody does<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Yeah, the Arabs want peace alright; about as much as\u00a0<\/b><b>Obama wants transparency, the Ferguson protestors want real justice, Bill wants Hillary or the IRS wants to find Lois Lerner&#8217;s emails.<\/b><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, back in Washington, <em>FOX News<\/em> brings us the latest from the Administration in charge of everything but responsible for nothing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Former top IT guy tells lawmakers he knew little of ObamaCare site&#039;s problems\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/11\/19\/former-top-it-guy-tells-lawmakers-knew-little-obamacare-site-problems\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Former top IT guy tells lawmakers he knew little of ObamaCare site&#8217;s problems<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/notmyjob_20141119_122450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27963\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/notmyjob_20141119_122450.jpg\" alt=\"notmyjob_20141119_122450\" width=\"400\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/notmyjob_20141119_122450.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/notmyjob_20141119_122450-300x114.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The nation&#8217;s onetime top IT guy finally appeared Wednesday to answer questions at a House hearing on the botched ObamaCare website launch &#8212; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>and claimed it wasn&#8217;t his job to know about specific technical issues.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Todd Park, the former chief technology officer of the U.S., left House Republicans frustrated when he said he knew little about security problems involving Healthcare.gov or allegations that bosses at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversaw the project, bullied beleaguered tech workers into rolling out healthcare.gov prematurely. <strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Park acknowledged problems with the rollout, but said he was not involved with &#8220;day-in, day-out&#8221; operations and details<\/span><\/strong>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further proof, as if any were needed&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/obama-didnt-know.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27962\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/obama-didnt-know.jpg\" alt=\"obama-didnt-know\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/obama-didnt-know.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/obama-didnt-know-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Oh,&#8230;if you thought blanket amnesty and guns were the only gifts The Obamao was giving Mexico, here&#8217;s a little 411 from <em>FOX News:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" title=\"US Labor Department grants $1.4M to help Mexico support anti-discrimination laws\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/11\/19\/us-labor-department-grants-14m-to-help-mexico-support-anti-discrimination-laws\/?intcmp=latestnews\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">US Labor Department grants $1.4M to help Mexico support anti-discrimination laws<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/illegal-aliens-middle-finger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27964\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/illegal-aliens-middle-finger.jpg\" alt=\"illegal-aliens-middle-finger\" width=\"400\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/illegal-aliens-middle-finger.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/illegal-aliens-middle-finger-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>\u201cIs there no end to the madness?\u201d Judicial Watch writes on its website.<\/strong><\/span> \u201cEach year, Americans are forced to pay tens of billions of dollars to educate, feed, house, incarcerate and medically treat illegal aliens \u2013 most of them from Mexico \u2013 in the U.S. and now we\u2019re sending cash south of the border for a cause that\u2019s hardly ours to fund.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The goal of the grant, according to the Department of Labor, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is to increase compliance with the expanded protections against labor discrimination under Mexican labor law<\/em><\/span>, with a specific focus on combating gender discrimination, forced pregnancy testing, sexual harassment and discrimination based on sexual orientation<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guess subsidizing nearly half their GDP through the education, medication and employment of an ever-growing segment of their population just isn&#8217;t enough!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On the Lighter Side&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMclr-112114-king-IBD-COLOR-FINAL-147.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27991\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMclr-112114-king-IBD-COLOR-FINAL-147.gif\" alt=\"RAMclr-112114-king-IBD-COLOR-FINAL-147\" width=\"462\" height=\"326\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gmc12509720141120014400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27992\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gmc12509720141120014400.jpg\" alt=\"gmc12509720141120014400\" width=\"462\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gmc12509720141120014400.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gmc12509720141120014400-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lb1121cd20141120090409.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27993\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lb1121cd20141120090409.jpg\" alt=\"lb1121cd20141120090409\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lb1121cd20141120090409.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lb1121cd20141120090409-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cb112014dAPC20141120024509.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27994\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cb112014dAPC20141120024509.jpg\" alt=\"cb112014dAPC20141120024509\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cb112014dAPC20141120024509.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cb112014dAPC20141120024509-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSig-Nov20-Amnesty20141120060456.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27995\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSig-Nov20-Amnesty20141120060456.jpg\" alt=\"DSig-Nov20-Amnesty20141120060456\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSig-Nov20-Amnesty20141120060456.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSig-Nov20-Amnesty20141120060456-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMclr-112114-keystone-IBD-COLOR-FINAL-147.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27996\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMclr-112114-keystone-IBD-COLOR-FINAL-147.gif\" alt=\"RAMclr-112114-keystone-IBD-COLOR-FINAL-147\" width=\"462\" height=\"324\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/download19.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27997\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/download19.jpeg\" alt=\"download\" width=\"450\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/download19.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/download19-251x300.jpeg 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, November 21st, 2014&#8230;but first we interrupt our regularly scheduled programming for this important public safety announcement: Horrific crash kills 5 family members on &#8216;dream trip&#8217; to Disney World &nbsp; Forget the fact the 16-year-old eldest child was driving when he fell asleep at the wheel close to midnight; all five family members killed, 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