Your Daley Douchebag is….

The Bower-in-Chief! Via Hot Air

So much of an idiot, in fact, that according to Tapper’s source, at least one Japanese paper isn’t running the photo out of embarrassment. This tool actually groveled himself into a minor international incident.

The good news for O-bots? It wasn’t unprecedented. Nixon evidently made a modest bow to Hirohito in the early 70s. The bad news?

“Obama’s handshake/forward lurch was so jarring and inappropriate it recalls Bush’s back-rub of Merkel.

“Kyodo News is running his appropriate and reciprocated nod and shake with the Empress, certainly to show the president as dignified, and not in the form of a first year English teacher trying to impress with Karate Kid-level knowledge of Japanese customs.

“The bow as he performed did not just display weakness in Red State terms, but evoked weakness in Japanese terms….The last thing the Japanese want or need is a weak looking American president and, again, in all ways, he unintentionally played that part.

DOHbama! File this uder, “if Bush had done this”

Your quote of the day

Is from Sarah Palin

Amazingly, but not surprisingly, the AP somehow nabbed a copy of the book before it was released. They’re now erroneously reporting on the book’s contents and are repeating many of the same things they spewed during the campaign and afterwards. We’ve heard 11 writers are engaged in this opposition research, er, “fact checking” research! Imagine that – 11 AP reporters dedicating time and resources to tearing up the book, instead of using the time and resources to “fact check” what’s going on with Sheik Mohammed’s trial, Pelosi’s health care takeover costs, Hasan’s associations, etc. Amazing.

H/T to The Other McCain

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Thanks to Ruby Slippers

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Health care for seniors? Not so much!

Quote the Washington Post! 

A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending — one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama’s proposed overhaul of the nation’s health-care system — would sharply reduce benefits for some senior citizens and could jeopardize access to care for millions of others, according to a government evaluation released Saturday.

The report, requested by House Republicans, found that Medicare cuts contained in the health package approved by the House on Nov. 7 are likely to prove so costly to hospitals and nursing homes that they could stop taking Medicare altogether.

 So, how is this going to help seniors? It isn’t but can’t Congress fix this problem? Sure, but….

 Congress could intervene to avoid such an outcome, but “so doing would likely result in significantly smaller actual savings” than is currently projected, according to the analysis by the chief actuary for the agency that administers Medicare and Medicaid. That would wipe out a big chunk of the financing for the health-care reform package, which is projected to cost $1.05 trillion over the next decade.

 

Ah, rising costs, plus Medicare cuts, what would that look like?

More generally, the report questions whether the country’s network of doctors and hospitals would be able to cope with the effects of a reform package expected to add more than 30 million people to the ranks of the insured, many of them through Medicaid, the public health program for the poor.

In the face of greatly increased demand for services, providers are likely to charge higher fees or take patients with better-paying private insurance over Medicaid recipients, “exacerbating existing access problems” in that program, according to the report from Richard S. Foster of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Ah, America, are you REALLY ready for this trainwreck? Common sense! The demand for health care will rise once it is “free” and a “right”, add in medicare cuts, higher fees, and a plan that pushes forces more and more Americans into the government “option”, and the higher, and higher taxes needed to pay for this boondoggle. Add all that up, what do you get? Well, a complete disaster that will cause one catastrophic result, it will cost people their lives. It will lead to  RATIONING OF CARE!

“Core Principles”?

Cross posted at my new blog, What Would the Founding Fathers Do?

Dede Scozzafava, who ran as a Republican, in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, took money from the Rerpublican Party, then, upon leaving the race, endorsed the Democtrat, Bill Owens, is now lecturing Republicans on “core values”. Stacy McCain writes about this incredible hypocrisy at the American Spectator.

Say Anything blog has the understatement of the year about Dede Scozzafava: “Her calls for unity seem a bit weak after she essentially stabbed Republicans in the back by backing the Democrat candidate.” A bit weak, indeed:

Scozzafava continues playing the victim, claiming her conservative opponents engaged in “vicious” attacks. She displays a spectacular lack of self-awareness: “We need leadership that’s going to make sure that the party is strong going forward and that independent voices are heard from all ranks of the party.” Right — Dede was anointed as the Republican nominee in NY23 by a cabal of GOP insiders, and now she whines about the need to listen to “independent voices.”

 

Her arguments for an inclusion of “independent voices” is a common one today. The argument from the David Brooks, and Meghhan McCain’s of the world is that the GOP must be a “big tent” party to survive and prosper.I do kot mind having a party that welcomes disagreement and debate over tactics, ideals etc. That is healthy. However, the fact is that the GOP just like the Democratic Party must stand for certain core principles, if it is to win elections.Our Founders had disagreements over varying issues, yet, they remained united on their principles. Their most basic principles, liberty, small government which obeys the people, the right to own firearms, national sovereignty, the right to self-defense, freedom of speech, and religion, and the most basic ideal, that our rights come from God, and cannot be taken or restricted by man our politicians, are the same ideals that Conservatives espouse today.

In other words, you cannot talk about a “big tent” GOP at the same time you are supporting ideals that run counter to both Republican ideals and those of Washington, Jefferson, Masdison, Franklin, and the other Founders.

The Big Tenters, if they were to get their way, would render the GOP into a weak, idealess party. Dede Scozzafava, and those who support her version of Republicanism, should stop whining and accept that they just are NOT Republicans. Sorry, but if you support card check, “reasonable” restrictions on firearms, abortion, Obamacare, higher taxes, and other Liberal ideals, you are NOT A REPUBLICAN!

The GOP can only stop the massive “change” that the Democrats are intent on forcing on the American people if we are strong and united. The Marxist utopian ideals that Pelosi, Reid,Obama and the rest are pushing so deperately right now will, if enacted, forever alter this nation. What, you thought Obama was joking when he repeatedly spoke of “fuundamentally changing America”? The nation our Founders created is at stake, our liberties, the liberties that are ours at birth, are at stake. This is a fight for the future of America. If the Left wins, we will become a nation that is over-taxed, over-regulated, indebted to and dependent upon the government for everything, and a nation that has no liberty, and no hope that our dreams can be reached. In short, America will die, slowly, painfully, and tragically.

The Dede Scozzafava’s of the world ARE part of that struggle, but, sorry Dede, you are on the wrong side of the fight. You are not someone who embraces the vision of the Founders. You are someone who, ultimately, embraces the vision that your “core principles” whatever they are this week, are superior, and should be forced on the American people, whether they like it or not!

Your Saturday must-read posts

I will be updating this through the night and early Saturday, helping my sister with the GatorNiece!

Grandpa John leads off with Islam vs Islamism

Ace has no problem with Carrie Prejean ’s “self-satisfaction”

Donald Douglas has a poll Nancy Pelosi should read

Another Black Conservative tells Obama it is too late buddy!

The Astute Bloggers wonder why Spain needs to teach this

Babalu has a case of Rubiomania

BlackFive has a few words for Eric Holder

BCB has Obama pegged

The Bluegrass Pundit has some non-sense from Montel Williams

Must-see TV from Bring the Heat

Bob Belvedere is trying to help a fashion felon

Inside Carol’s Closet we find MSNBS’s Silly Stick

Cassy has the latest douchebaggery from Code Pink

Cold Fury has one word FINALLY!

The Founding Bloggers has video proof the Liberals are stuck on stoopit! Conservative Mama adds a timeless quote. Conservartive Scalawag piles on

Doug Powers calls Obama a fat kid or something

Doug Ross has the world’s worst driver

Jamie Jeffords is not a Pelosi fan

Gateway Pundit notes that Pelosi is rushing

Hot Air ponders how many Carrie Prejean there are

I Own the World goofs on Keithy!

IMAO is talking monkeys and cannons?

JWF: You damned Christians!

Jules Crittenden thinks the media might be getting a clue

Left Coast Rebel wonders who will be watching our carbon footprints

Maggies Farm has your really cool pic of the day

Mark Steyn marvels at media stupidity

NRO has your nevermind moment of the week

William Jacobson has a problem

Michelle Malkin notes that the Amnesty Monster will just not die

Molten Thoughts tackles free speech in the military

Hotmes: We sure know how to pick ‘em

Moonbattery: Socks can cure global warming!

Carol of No Sheeples fame has a three-ring circus!

Newsbusters reminds us that it is not the gas, it is the mileage!

NORC has Michael Steele intimidating Whitey!

Obi’s Sister has a post featuring three Tennessee Vols, a pellet gun, school spirit clothing, a prius, and armed robbery!

Old Virginia features a great Southerner!

Paco tries to explain Obamanomics

Patterico has a question for Obama

Dan Collins has bad news for Republican civil servants

William Teach ain’t afraid of no Zombies!

Protein Wisdom: What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

Public Secrets honors class!

Pundit & Pundette have denying deniers and the denials they deny!

Red State has a “spot the Douchebag” picture

Dan Riehl rips McCain’s Morons

Is Right Of Course trying to curse the Tide?

Right Wing News has a Liberal blog bashing praising Bush!

Ruby has a post just begging for some caption contests!

Saber has Moonbat churches and bells

Sister Toldjah HMMMMMMMMMMM

Pat is chillin’ like a villian

Man, am I glad this guy started blogging again!

Support ou Local Gunfighter has Venezuela taking the next step towards complete Stalinism

Sweeteness and Light has a very disturbing bit of news

The Classic Liberal dissects Krugman

The Other McCain examines the David Brooks man-crush and has tons of info from the Orlando Tea Party Stacy and Smitty get two links because they had the taste and insight to feature me in their headlines this week. Also, if I am nice enough to them, they might make award me another FMJRA Award!

Theo Spark sums up Obama very well

This Ain’t Hell has the blog headline of the weeek!

Richard McEnroe has the likely outcomes of Obama’s economic summit

TigerHawk has a very cool link

TrogloPundit corrects Senator Weasel Dick

Washington Rebel examines the EGO

Weasel Zippers examines fatal flaws

Wyblog closes us out with the Joan Jett Barbie Doll

 

Texas governor Rick Perry: Obama taking America towards Socialism

This is why he has my vote for governor, and hey, President Perry? Hmmm

The Statesman reported:

Gov. Rick Perry had some pretty strong comments about the Obama administration on Wednesday in Midland, saying, “This is an administration hell-bent on taking America towards a socialist country.”

AMEN! Simple, straight forward, and 100% correct!

Speaker Face Lift thinks it is fair to jail Americans for not having health insurance?

Apparently so, it is a little tough to hear Pelosi, on the video, but it is well worth the effort!

Hot Air has the transcript

Stone: Do you think it’s fair to send people to jail who don’t buy health insurance?

Pelosi: … The legislation is very fair in this respect.

Ed Morrissey has a chilling fact we all must heed!

If nothing else, it reminds us that statism always comes with handcuffs, and those cuffs always get explained by either fairness or patriotism. In this case, Pelosi uses both.

 George Moreno has a great question for the Speaker

Will we get health care in Prison, Nancy?

Ace has some great thoughts 

Think about this.

The left says: You are crazy to claim your so-called freedoms are being taken away, and you are a lunatic to scream about an overly powerful state which will use violent coercion (no one goes to jail without the threat of violence if he doesn’t, after all) to enforce its notions of the “economic good.”

And with the next breath the left says: By the way, you shall either buy health care insurance or we will throw you in prison for two or three years.

I’m paranoid? Really? I am not fretting here about some remote and unlikely possibility. We are not speaking here of “slippery slopes” or in terms of “what comes next?”

We are instead objecting to a black-letter law spelled out for all to see in the very first piece of legislation you’re proposing.

Pelosi and her vile ilk of Marxist fools have already shown that they care not what our Constitution says. They care nothing about the will of the people either. They see a chance to shove their evil ideology, yes, I said evil, down America’s throat, and they will stop at nothing to finish their ghastly endeavors.

They have shown their true agenda. They mean to dictate to us all how we MUST live, or else! We will accept their “approved” health care plan, don’t worry that you have no idea exactly what that “approved”  plan will entail. They, your would be masters will tell you AFTER they mandate that you MUST have it!

Obama: Hope, Change, and DITHERING!

Another Black Conservative, who is going to be on Glenn Beck tomorrow, nails Obama on his lack of resolve

Associated Press is reporting today that Obama has rejected all Afghan war options before him and is instead seeking “revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government.”

Are you kidding me? Keep in mind that Obama has ZERO military experience and for all intent and purposes Joe Biden is a borderline retard. These two jokers think they can come up with a better strategy than General McChrystal who is actually on the ground?

Quite frankly none of this makes any sense. On one hand Obama claims his reason for his dithering is because he has concerns about the credibility and stability of the Afghan government, yet on the other hand, he is looking to turn over responsibility of the war to the Afghan government.  If the Afghan government isn’t credible or stable why add such a big problem to its plate? Wouldn’t it make much more sense for us to secure the region first so that we can work with the Afghan government to get its act together?

I really cannot add aything here, except to say this does not really surprise me at all.

Do not forget, check in on the Beck show to see a Liberal’s worst nightmare!

Is there anyone who didn’t know that Nidal Malik Hasan was an Islamist?

Seriously, everyday we hear new evidence that Hasan was a twisted Jihadist in waiting. Donald Douglas has the line of the night.

Now they tell us!

From CNN, “Classmates: Hasan Defended Suicide Bombings, Held Islamist Views“:

Those who knew Nidal Malik Hasan before he was a major in the Army — and the suspect in last week’s mass killing at Fort Hood — say he was long known for militant Islamist views.

Doctors who crossed paths with Hasan in medical programs paint a picture of a subpar student who wore his religious views on his sleeve.

Several doctors who knew Hasan spoke to CNN, but only on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation of the shooting, which left 12 soldiers and one civilian dead and dozens of other people wounded.

Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who faces 13 counts of premeditated murder, “was clearly espousing Islamist ideology” during his time as a medical student at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, one of his former classmates told CNN.

I am almost speechless. PC has infected every corner of our lives and our society. God help us.

 

 

*VIDEO* Fast Eddie’s Carbon Credits

Video- Michelle talks about PC, terrorism, Fort Hood, and how great my blog is

OK, I did make up that last one, but this is still a must see video! Via HotAir, and be sure to read the great quotes there.

Today in Carol’s Closet

Hmmm, Carol is talking about erections? You dirty girl you!

Earth to Newt

If you really want to heal the wounds of NY23, and reach out to Conservatives there Newt, this ain’t the way to do it!

The odd couple of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and the Rev. Al Sharpton will bring their quest for education reform to Baltimore on Friday.

 Gingrich and Sharpton are on a three-city “listening and learning” tour to find out which school strategies are working and why.

 

The former speaker is a conservative Republican, and Sharpton is a civil rights activist and liberal Democrat. They don’t agree on much, but they found common ground in the concept that education is the new frontier on civil rights. They say the quest to improve schools should be nonpartisan.

Yes, Newt, it ought to be a non-partisan thing. But that Sharpton guy? He is anything but non-partisan, Newt! He is a race pimping thug Newt! A con artist. He is the last person you ought to be sucking up to!

Michelle Malkin echoes my thoughts, ot maybe I echo her thoughts. Anyway, I hear an echo!

“Nonpartisan?” How about non-racial demagogue/non-hoaxster?

No quest to improve schools can succeed when it includes one of the nation’s worst, grievance-mongering shakedown artists.

This alliance was a bad idea when it launched.

Even worse now in the wake of the NY-23 debacle.

Newt, if you thought Dede stuck a big knife in your back, just wait to Al “Pimp my Hair” Sharpton sticks it to you!

Your Marxist Moron of the Day 11-11-09

That whole Fort Hood thing? No biggie according to Matthew Yglesias

I think a pretty good case can be made that this kind of situation actually is the main face of the terrorist threat. Not a big well-thought-out plot centrally directed from a “safe haven” in South Asia and undertaken by brilliant covert operatives, but the desperate violent act of a clearly disturbed individual. It’s going to be very hard to prevent this sort of thing. As long as the United States remains a country in which firearms are widely available—for the foreseeable future, in other words—we’re going to be unusually vulnerable to mentally ill spree killers of various kinds, including spree killers who nod in the direction of Islamist thinking.

But the larger point is that while these incidents are serious crimes and major tragedies for the victims, they hardly rise to the level of a major macro-level social crisis. They’re certainly not a first-order national security threat. And even put in the lower-stakes context of violent crime in America, the whole set of mentally disturbed spree killers is a pretty minor slice of the pie. Reducing the volume of these incidents isn’t going to inspire gun rights enthusiasts to support major curbs in firearms availability, and certainly shouldn’t convince Americans to contravene our commitments to diversity and non-discrimination. Simply put, if this is the terrorist threat then the terrorist threat isn’t that big a deal.

A Liberal blaming guns? OF COURSE! A Liberal trying to twist the facts any way he can to avoid calling this terrorism? OF COURSE!

Sad, just sad! H/T to Donald Douglas

 

On Veterans Day…

A new niece!

 

Just got in from the hospital, where my sister delivered an 8 pound 8 ounce girl, a GatorNiece!

Welcome Savannah Grace Meyer!

General Casey Should Be Fired NOW!

General Casey: Diversity Shouldn’t Be Casualty Of Fort Hood – Reuters

EXCERPT:

“Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse,” Casey said.

Click HERE For Rest Of Story

I DARE him to say THOSE WORDS to the surviving soldiers and family members of the men and women who died at the hands of Major Nidal (Islamo-terrorist) Hasan!

The Political Correctness Bomb That Exploded At Fort Hood

Nidal Malik Hasan is an Islamic terrorist who, with premeditation and contempt for our military’s anti-terrorist mission in the Middle East, murdered 13 American servicemen and women, and wounded 30 more at Fort Hood, Texas last week. To refer to him as something other than an Islamic terrorist is to ignore the painfully obvious facts surrounding the case, yet that is precisely what the leaders of the American leftist movement, and their sycophantic drones in the news media, are doing.

They are intentionally ignoring the fact that he has been a vocal critic of our nation’s war against Islamic terrorism, even going so far as to argue with soldiers under his psychiatric care against the very mission to which they’ve devoted their lives.

They are intentionally ignoring the fact that he attended the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia at the same time that two of the September 11 terrorists did, and has stayed in contact with its hate-preaching imam, Anwar al-Awlaki, even though the radical terrorist recruiter has since fled to Yemen.

They are intentionally ignoring the fact that he is a Muslim extremist who handed out copies of the Quran prior to his vicious and unprovoked attack on our nation’s bravest men and women.

They are intentionally ignoring the fact that he shouted “Allahu Akbar” during the massacre, a phrase routinely exclaimed by Islamic terrorists while committing just such atrocities.

To argue that Mr. Hasan was not, as far as we know, a member of an organized terrorist group, is entirely irrelevant when considering the nature of who he is and the obvious motivation behind his heinous actions.

He is clearly sympathetic to the cause of the Islamofascists that his fellow soldiers combat on a daily basis, and has time and again exhibited a sincere disdain for America’s war policies.

The fact that Mr. Hasan is an Islamic terrorist is not in question, at least not to anyone with a functioning brain and the ability to view events objectively. He is a Muslim and he did commit an act of terrorism as sickening as any other. CASE CLOSED!

What is in question, however, is a system which has allowed so obvious a threat as he to exist within the U.S. military; nay, to do more than exist; to advance with uncommon speed to the rank of Army Major!

And what is the unmistakable flaw in that system? Rampant political correctness. Our defenses have not been weakened by a lack of understanding on our part of the enemy’s ideological worldview, intentions or methods of operation. We know exactly who we’re facing, what they want and how they intend to accomplish their goals.

The fault lies with those military commanders and their counterparts in the political realm who have chosen to forgo the rational courses of action associated with the concept of self-preservation, all in the name of multiculturalism.

In essence, it is we who have blown a gaping hole in our own defenses, for no better reason than to appear ethnically and culturally tolerant to the rest of the world, and it is we who must seal that hole as soon as humanly possible.

We have allowed the cancer of political correctness to permeate every aspect of our society for at least a generation, and now it has settled in the last bastion of hope for liberty and justice in the world, the United States armed forces. Advanced by enemy spies, political cowards and traitors alike, this weapon of mass delusion is as dangerous to America’s survival as anything the Islamofascists can throw at us. The true horror of this particular weapon is that we created it, and it is only we who can be harmed by it.

By Edward L. Daley