There are days for sunny morning walks in the garden, where dew-bejeweled roses release their fragrance on the light breeze.
These are not those days. These are days of harsh realities demanding sharp answers. This is now … time for thorns.
Berkeley to France…
Nearly every year French students riot about costs, or not being able to get the classes they want, but now it’s the lovely little trust fund babies at the University of California.
Post Office kills Santa…
As if the US Postal Service didn’t have enough problems, it has now killed one of its most popular programs at the North Pole.
Quintessential empty suit…
The London Spectator has the perfect view of His Oneness, here.
Graham vs Holder…
Sometimes I want to shake the famously quirky Lindsey Graham until his teeth rattle. But every once in a while he is brilliant.
Yesterday was one of those times. Watch here as he absolutely slaughters Attorney General Eric Holder, who was never able to provide any logical reason for transferring KSM and Co. to the civilian system, despite hours of testimony.
I’m trying to find a clip of Sen. Jon Kyle quoting from Andy McCarthy’s National Review article this week, in which the latter accurately described Holder as “a lawyer whose firm is among those responsible for the litigation-driven delay that became a lawfare triumph for al-Qaida.”
Here is McCarthy’s withering post on Holder’s performance as well.
Former Attorney General and Senator John Ashcroft thinks Holder lacks authority to make such a decision.
And Terrence Jeffrey reminds us that in May His Oneness said he’d use military commissions to try those who violate the rules of war.
The decision to bring the 9/11 plotters to New York is pure politics, nothing else.
Reid’s bill…
Having gotten the CBO score, old Harry has actually kept his word and posted the bill. Here it is in all glorious 2,047 pages of it.
SEIU vs Eagle Scouts…
Labor unions once served a valuable and worthy purpose, but those days are long gone. As far as I can tell, they now exist only for the purpose of acquiring political power using money taken by force from their members. They have demonstrated repeatedly their willingness to kill the goose laying all those gold-plated pension plans and idiotic work rules.
And now SEIU is contemplating going after the Eagle Scouts for clearing a hiking path as a volunteer service project. Remember that this is the favorite labor union of His Oneness, and that its president has already made at least 22 trips to the White House.
UPDATE: Public outrage and common sense have claimed 7 union scalps!
Politics of law…
I’m not alone in thinking the departure of two Obama lawyers and the expansion of his personal lawyer’s purview is not merely odd, but a matter of concern.
My antennae always quiver when an administration is stuffed with attorneys without there being an obvious explanation, such as Clinton’s impeachment. I think that His Oneness and Our Lady of Perpetual Dissatisfaction got law degrees for the same reason both the Clintons did —- not because they loved the law and sought to serve justice, but because they wanted to understand the law in order to circumvent it.
This attitude is the rule, not the exception, in the current administration, and it poses a danger to our country and the Constitution. We have already seen how much damage all the attorneys in Congress are capable of inflicting on we the people.
Obamacare vehicle…
The chief actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has found that the House version of Obamacare would raise the costs of healthcare by $289 billion over the next 10 years.
Democrats will point out that the CMS report did not review tax provisions, which help offset the price tag of the House bill, but CMS clearly states that it fails to meet a key claim: “With the exception of the proposed reduction in Medicare… the provisions of H.R. 3962 would not have a significant impact on future healthcare cost growth rates.”
I hope this wonderful photo from the Patriot Post turns out to be true!
We know this cartoon, from the same source, is already true.
Political speech…
American Thinker has a post on political terms, which would be a lot funnier if it weren’t so true…
