More lies

I have to say that I am not surprised to learn that the government web site intended to list all stimulus spending and to detail who got the contracts pertaining to that spending will not be up and running for about a year. More precisely, the web site will be functional, but it will not have the relevant information put on it until some time next spring.

Obama made a big deal out of his new transparency initiatives. The people were going to learn all the details of his stimulus plan -- he was going to have them posted on the net for all to see. What utter BS! Obama simply lied.

Let's put it this way: Anyone even marginally aware of how a web site works knows that it would be possible to put the majority of the information about stimulus expenditures on the web by June 1 of this year if a directive came down from the Great Change Maker to his minions directing that this be done. Surely, a big chunk of the info could be listed. will it happen? Certainly not. Listing those who get billions of our money from the Obamacrats might open them up to charges like cronyism or illegality and we cannot have that. It might hurt St. Barack. Instead we have Obama claim that he is telling all and that is the only thing we get.

It will be interesting to see if there is any backlash at all in the media with regard to this blatant misrepresentation by Obama. Oh what the hell -- let's call it what it really is, a blatant lie!

As of now, the only change we are seeing from Obama is the loss of the openess of the Bush Administration -- and that is not easy to do.

Disbarment for Bush Administration lawyers

In what has to be the strangest move yet by the Obamacrats, they are now planning to have the lawyers who wrote the so-called torture memos disbarred. What utter nonsense. There is no crime to giving a legal opinion in good faith. Indeed, giving incorrect advice is also not a crime. Nor is it the basis for disbarment from the practice of law. One has to imagine the conference room where the Obamacrats are huddled around a table trying to figure out what to do. They cannot prosecute these lawyers since there was no criminal activity. They realize that they cannot do anything to these memo writers. but wait, if they themselves follow the law and do nothing, then the crazies in the Democrat base who are out for blood will be upset. What to do, What to do? Oh.....Let's ask that they be disbarred. As John Lovitz used to say, "Yeah...That's the ticket." Only problem is that there is no basis for disbarment. No crime. No fraud. No misconduct of any kind. Just an opinion that the Obamacrats don't agree with.

What's next in the new post-partisan world? Will the Obamacrats try to institute capital punishment for favoring lower taxes? Maybe 40 lashes for speaking ill of Obama. In truth, the Democrats seem more and more like the Stalinists the are.

Obama, Iran and israel

Today, the Vice President of the United States is quoted as saying that the US will only be able to help Israel stop Iran from producing nuclear weapons if Israel agrees to a palestinian state. As usual, Joe Biden speaks in ignorance and even then messes things up more. First of all, Israel agreed to a two state solution during the days of Arafat. In the last year of the Clinton presidency, Ehud Barak offered Arafat 99% of everything he was asking for at the Camp David peace conference. As Abba Eban famously said, the Palestinians never lose and opportunity to lose and opportunity. Accordingly, Arafat's response was not to accept the offer which would have given the Palestinians a state for the first time in history; rather, he turned it down and began the Palestian terrorist uprising, the result of which has been misery for the Palestinians, economic ruin and the isolation of the Palestinians. Biden ignores this history and makes a statement which implies that the obstacle to peace in the middle east is the Israeli government. Somebody should tell Biden the buffoon to learn the facts before he speaks.

Even worse than being unaware of the facts, however, Biden is also backwards when it comes to the threat from Iran. True, Israel is at great risk from Iranian nuclear weapons, but so is the United States. If the mullahs get nukes, it would be easy for them to put some on freighter ships bound for US ports and to blow them up in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Miami. The Iranians have already made clear that they believe it to be the highest calling to die in a holy war, whether against Israel or the Great Satan, the USA. Quite simply, they do not care if the US retaliates with nukes against them. Biden the buffoon ignores this. By putting the Israelis in the middle here, he is doing great work for the Iranians. He has taken the focus off of Teheran! Now the mullahs can say that they need progress between Israel and the Palestinians before they will move on nukes, all the while proceeding with development of weapons. After all, they are only agreeing with the obama administration.

Let's hope that the Netanyahu government in Israel does not fall for this nonsense. The best thing Israel can do now for itself and for the USA as well is to ignore Biden the buffoon

Boston shrinks the globe

Having lived in the Boston area for years, I take a perverse sort of pleasure watching the Boston Globe hover on the edge of oblivion. For year after year while I lived there, I watched the Globe support every union issue that came up in the news. No cause was too pro-union to be considered unbalanced. No argument could ever be won by the evil management that -- according to the Globe -- was always trying to undermine the poor unions. Now, the unions are about to force the closure of the Globe. Talk about poetic justice!

Unions are an important and necessary part of a healthy economic system. They have to be realistic in their demands, however. More precisely, the unions have to be realistic in what they will accept. The Globe's newsroom workers are not. Isn't it great that the very people who gather the news are putting themselves out of work. For once, this is change that I can believe in.

Freedom of the Press

Much has been made in the last few days of the threats made to the Chysler bondholders to give in to the White House plan for the "rescue" of Chrysler. Apparently, people are supposed to feel shocked that Obama and his folks threatened those who would not go along with the deal with being smeared by the White House press corps. Why does this surprise anyone? Obama has the press under his total control and he uses that control often. Thus, Obama has a press conference where he actually says that he does not want the government to run car companies or banks (while taking over two of the three US car manufacturers and most of the large banks). After that howler, not a single reporter confronted Obama on this issue. Why didn't someone ask about the government's refusal to let the banks pay back the tarp funds? Why didn't someone ask how Chrysler or GM will survive making cars that the government wants rather than cars that the American people want?

Arlen Specter loses it

Yesterday, Senator Arlen Specter tried to prove his bone fides as a Democrat by announcing the late Jack Kemp might be alive today but for the Republicans. Even for Specter, this is a real howler. For many years Specter was lauded as one of the sharpest of all senators. Apparently he has lost his ability to reason. To say the least, it is nonsense to blame Kemp's death from cancer on the health policies of the GOP. This is particularly true if one looks at Specter's own proposals for changing the health care system. There are exactly none of these proposals that would affect cancer research in any way. Arlen surely knows this, and yet, he feels compelled to join in the loony group that blames everything on the political parties. My guess is that he is trying to appeal to the Democrat base in Pennsylvania. I doubt if there is anything he can do to win them over. For forty years, Specter has been the face of the GOP in Pa (at least in part), and it is too late to erase those memories now.

Torture by waterboarding

Maybe I missed it but my understanding is that the so-called torture carried out by waterboarding was only done on three Al Qeada high ranking prisoners including Khalid Sheik Muhammed, the mastermind of the 9-11 attacks. Can it really be that the Democrats are upset at tough interrogation of this criminal who is responsible for killing 3000 Americans? If it is true, nothing could be more telling about the lack of seriousness that the Democrats have with regard to the safety of the American people.

The interesting thing is that Muhammed resisted giving any information to US forces until he was waterboarded. After that he became a fount of information and gave up information that led to the thwarting of over 10 separate terrorist plots, including the massive followup to the 9-11 attacks that Al Qeada was planning for Los Angeles. Who knows? Maybe Sean Penn owes his life to the waterboarding.