Monthly Archives: July 2010

UPDATED: 'Brace For Impact!' (Breaking: BHO EXPERT AGREES)

America, Business, Capitalism, Debt

“[A] very successful entrepreneur now living abroad” wrote to John Derbyshire, in response to an article Derb wrote detailing what a “terrible country the US is” if you want “to start an imaginative new enterprise”:

“Capitalism is dead in the US . . . The US was not destroyed by the Russians, the Chinese or even the militant Islamists. They did it to themselves . . . The $104 trillion debt is beyond any possible means of repayment. The only way out will be to monetize the debt by hyperinflation . . . I’m now watching the final days from 8,000 miles away . . . In November 2008, half of the US electorate put a loaded ballot in their mouth and pulled the trigger . . .”

Derb: “There’s a 40-foot tsunami in plain sight on the horizon, and we’re playing beach volleyball. Can Petraeus turn Afghanistan around? How unpopular is the healthcare bill? Will the feds sue the state of Arizona? (What’s that distant rumbling sound?) Is Turkey a friend or an enemy? Should Rahm Emanuel go? Is Elena Kagan gay?” [Or should Bill Kristol resign … Pat Buchanan said something to the effect that Americans are a deeply silly people in serious times.]

Vox Day writes: “The car has already hit the tree and the bumper is already in the process of buckling inward, so there is no time to turn the wheel or fasten seat belts. It is too late to do anything but scream.”

Derb “favor[s] aerodynamic analogies over Vox Day’s merely automotive ones. So: Heads between knees, arms over heads, hold that position. Pray if you’re inclined to. Brace for impact!”

UPDATE (July 12): I’ve searched the Net high-and-low, news outlets, Reuters too, are not reporting what Bill O’Reilly has just announced. A member of BHO’s commission-to-investigate-and-approve-the-levels-of-debt-the-USA-is-carrying has said we are on the road to ruin. Isn’t it curious how left-liberal mainstream media doesn’t even break vital stories any longer? If Bill is right, and I have no reason to believe otherwise, the man is a former Clinton official.

Talker Juan Williams, a simple sort who has long championed Keynesian deficit spending, denying that huge debt is in any way economically deleterious, suddenly got religion on austerity. It is as I said in the post asking the Punditocracy to quit, truth comes into existence in America as soon as someone in the establishment pronounces it, usually a decade or so after we’ve been screaming it from the rooftops.

UPDATE II: The Punditocracy Must Resign (T & A Show)

Ann Coulter, Conservatism, Foreign Policy, Human Accomplishment, Intelligence, Media, Music, Neoconservatism, Republicans, War

If I’ve learned anything about the American Mind it is this: Truth doesn’t exist until someone in the establishment pronounces it, usually a decade or so after it has been in circulation. Better Late than never, you say. Fine, then. Let’s fawn over the celebrated Ann Coulter for finally clashing with neoconservative Bill Kristol. The first part of the Coulter column, however, would make Bill proud. This section is redeemable:

“Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney have demanded that Steele resign as head of the RNC for saying Afghanistan is now Obama’s war – and a badly thought-out one at that. (Didn’t liberals warn us that neoconservatives want permanent war?)

I thought the irreducible requirements of Republicanism were being for life, small government and a strong national defense, but I guess permanent war is on the platter now, too.

Of course, if Kristol is writing the rules for being a Republican, we’re all going to have to get on board for amnesty and a ‘National Greatness Project,’ too – other Kristol ideas for the Republican Party. Also, John McCain. Kristol was an early backer of McCain for president – and look how great that turned out!

Inasmuch as demanding resignations is another new Republican position, here’s mine: Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney must resign immediately.”

[snip]

I wrote “A War He Can Call His Own” two years ago, but who’s counting? Truth doesn’t count; celebrity does. For what it’s worth (read the complete column):

“By promising to broaden the scope of operations in Afghanistan, Obama has found a ‘good’ war to make him look the part. By staking out Afghanistan as his preferred theater of war—and pledging an uptick in operations against the Taliban—Obama achieves two things: He can cleave to the Iraq policy that excited his base. While winding down one war, he can ratchet up another, thereby demonstrating his commander-in-chief credentials. …

But that initial mission mutated miraculously, and now we are doing in Afghanistan what we’re doing in Iraq: nation building. Nations building is Democrat for spreading democracy. Spreading democracy is Republican for nation building. These interchangeable concepts stand for an open-ended military presence with all the pitfalls that attach to Iraq. …”

UPDATED I (July 10): I’ve actually, mercifully, never read this Gerson sort. The class of commentators you all reference are the least obnoxious to me, because they have some facility with the English language, and can cobble together a vaguely coherent column. Hey, a neocon must make a living too. These pests have kids to feed.

No, it’s the tits-and-ass idiots that offend me. These are the barely literate females who get lucrative book deals for their here-today-gone-tomorrow epistolary vomit, purely because of a combination of ass-ets, pushy self-promotion (which might include heroic action over and above grinding out grating gerunds), and a knack for not threatening Big Cable Egos.

One of the bad things about the rise to fame of a cretin such as SE Cupp, or the deeply silly Margaret Hoover, for example, is that this program for fem affirmative action has made these dumb dodos believe that O’Reilly and Hannity have them on as side kicks because they are so smart.

The ditzes don’t get that they are on TV weighing in on weighty matters—having never uttered an original thought in their lives—because, however hard they try, they simply cannot make their hosts look bad. Impossible.

I do respect SE Cupp’s training as a professional ballet dancer. That requires incredible skill and dedication, a determination IT has applied to the craft of political circus animal. (Ballet dancer: that’s the one aspect of White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel that I respect too. Ditto Kip Winger.)

How we got from trash to gold, I don’t know, but I’m glad my mind works in mysterious ways. Feast on this embodiment of American manhood. (The hard work that goes into learning to play as tightly as this and move like this is manly.)

UPDATE II: How could I forget this moron among the Fox News menagerie: Imogen Lloyd Webber is an imported liberal airhead who came up with this shopworn shibboleth on The Factor: “we must build bridges with Islam.” “I’m not particularly bright and I put myself under a lot of pressure to do well,” she said of herself. At least she possesses a modicum of self-knowledge, unlike her American bimbette competitors.

UPDATE IV: Open-Borders Obama Vs. America (The 'Eff-You-America' President)

Federalism, IMMIGRATION, Labor, Law, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, States' Rights

The United States of America (Plaintiff) V. The State of Arizona and Janice K. Brewer (Defendants): From the president’s vividly described fears of being asked by Sheriff Joe Arpaio for his birth certificate while out and about in Arizona buying fat-free ice cream for the first daughters—I got the impression that the purpose of bringing the might of the federal government down on the state of Arizona was to forestall foreseeable racial profiling. Yet not a words does the filed Complaint say of that stated objective. Clearly the fear was without legal foundation.

And if the preservation of the long-since sundered constitutional scheme is the goal of the suit, as stated, why have the federales not pursued sanctuary cities which have taken it upon themselves to defy federal immigration authority, and are thus “preempt[ing] federal law and therefore [in] violation of the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution”?

An undeterred Michelle Malkin (read the hate mail) has dug up the explanatory DOJ dirt.

UPDATE I (July 9): “The DOJ suit is obviously designed to frighten other budget strapped states into not proceeding with similar legislation,” writes VDARE’s Donald A. Collins, a Democrat.

The “‘preemption’ argument” is being used “to quash rational consideration of [the federal government’s] own errant conduct. Folks, we are in a desperate place when the monopoly of government power can turn us into serfs on the Federal estate! [That’s been accomplished already.]

Some 50 million immigrants since the ill fated 1965 immigration legislation have come here with the powerful encouragement of the cheap labor, ethnic, and religious lobbies. They can now, with the recent Citizens United decision, overwhelm our elective process with unlimited campaign spending.

Peter Brimelow, as always, cuts to the chase:

“An American state is forced to defend itself against a federal government that will not honor its constitutional obligation to defend the states against invasion—which must ultimately raise the secessionist question: what good is the American Union at all?

And a elemental political question is being punted to the judiciary—which must ultimately draw the judiciary into politics and waken the sleeping dragon of the constitutional check/balance, the impeachment of judges.

I’ve said before that all this is beginning to remind me of the last years before the outbreak of the Civil War.

What William H. Seward called an ‘irrepressible conflict’ is shaping up—between the historic American nation and the radicals who must overwhelm it if they are to maintain power.”

UPDATE II (July 10): AID TO ARIZONA. We can all help the freedom fighters of Arizona in their secessionist fight against the federales. Donation options are at the KeepAZSafe website. I will be opting for the cheque option. In this way, the data one needs to attach to the payment will appear on a sheet of paper. This is less likely to be committed to a database than data you enter online. Just a personal preference.

I would like to see the law defended by Kris W. Kobach, a University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law professor, and an author of the Arizona law. Kobach has a first-rate mind to match his patriotism:

Kobach has determined that “state police, exercising state law authority only” may make arrests for violations of federal law”—a right Kobach anchors in a state’s status as a sovereign entity.
States are sovereign governments possessing all residual powers not abridged or superseded by the U.S. Constitution. The source of the state governments’ power is entirely independent of the U.S. Constitution. … the states possess what are known as ‘police powers,’ which need not be specifically enumerated. Police powers are ‘an exercise of the sovereign right of the government to protect the lives, health, morals, comfort, and general welfare of the people.
Arizona’s is not an exercise of “delegated federal power.” “Rather, such arrest authority inheres in the States’ status as sovereign entities.”

UPDATE III: “No Concern For U.S. Unemployed In President’s Big Amnesty Speech.” An excellent analysis of the elites’ “eff-you” attitude from NumbersUSA:

“His renewed call for massive numbers of work permits for foreign workers is an incredible slap in the face to the 25 million Americans who want a full-time job but cannot find one. …

“PRES. OBAMA DOESN’T KNOW THAT AMERICAN COLLEGE GRADS ARE HAVING ONE OF WORST YEARS EVER FOR FINDING A JOB.”

“Everywhere I turn this summer I talk to college students, recent college grads and their parents who lament the difficulty — sometimes the impossibility — of finding a job in their professions. …

“JOBLESS AMERICANS ARE A SPECIAL INTEREST WHO MUST BE OPPOSED, ACCORDING TO SPEECH”

“Folks, just who are the ‘special interests’ who are blocking ‘comprehensive immigration reform?'”

“It looked like nearly every special interest in the nation was in that university auditorium applauding the President’s appeal for more work permits for foreign workers. You had Big Business, Big Labor, Big Academe, Big Religion, Big Ethnic Grievance Groups, Big City Mayors, Big City Police Chiefs.” …

“PROF. OBAMA DOES NOT UNDERSTAND IMMIGRATION HISTORY”

Obama conveniently left out that in the past, America greatly reduced immigration during times of “economic upheaval.” Instead during this time of massive unemployment, he stood there and made a speech for increases in foreign workers.
He further unscored [sic] his lack of historical knowledge by using the Statue of Liberty as if it were dedicated to immigration. In fact, “Liberty Enlightening the World” was intended to celebrate the U.S. as a model for the rule of law and individual freedom for other nations to emulate so their own citizens wouldn’t need to think about moving somewhere else.

Read this simply superb, patriotic analysis.

UPDATE IV: Here kOBACH points out that pending are five lawsuits against Arizona based on the supremacy clause. There is no need for the government to launch its own suit. The pile-on makes plain that the government’s is a politically motivated law-suit; the aim is to send a message to the errant state.

Moreover, Arizona-style immigration laws are extant in Missouri and Rhode Island, yet no action has been taken against these states. This treacherous government (Bush’s was no different) is targeting the state through which half of all the illegal aliens entering the US pass because they want to make sure these stellar trespassers keep coming.

TREASON.

UPDATE IV: Open-Borders Obama Vs. America (The ‘Eff-You-America’ President)

Federalism, IMMIGRATION, Labor, Law, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, States' Rights

The United States of America (Plaintiff) V. The State of Arizona and Janice K. Brewer (Defendants): From the president’s vividly described fears of being asked by Sheriff Joe Arpaio for his birth certificate while out and about in Arizona buying fat-free ice cream for the first daughters—I got the impression that the purpose of bringing the might of the federal government down on the state of Arizona was to forestall foreseeable racial profiling. Yet not a words does the filed Complaint say of that stated objective. Clearly the fear was without legal foundation.

And if the preservation of the long-since sundered constitutional scheme is the goal of the suit, as stated, why have the federales not pursued sanctuary cities which have taken it upon themselves to defy federal immigration authority, and are thus “preempt[ing] federal law and therefore [in] violation of the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution”?

An undeterred Michelle Malkin (read the hate mail) has dug up the explanatory DOJ dirt.

UPDATE I (July 9): “The DOJ suit is obviously designed to frighten other budget strapped states into not proceeding with similar legislation,” writes VDARE’s Donald A. Collins, a Democrat.

The “‘preemption’ argument” is being used “to quash rational consideration of [the federal government’s] own errant conduct. Folks, we are in a desperate place when the monopoly of government power can turn us into serfs on the Federal estate! [That’s been accomplished already.]

Some 50 million immigrants since the ill fated 1965 immigration legislation have come here with the powerful encouragement of the cheap labor, ethnic, and religious lobbies. They can now, with the recent Citizens United decision, overwhelm our elective process with unlimited campaign spending.

Peter Brimelow, as always, cuts to the chase:

“An American state is forced to defend itself against a federal government that will not honor its constitutional obligation to defend the states against invasion—which must ultimately raise the secessionist question: what good is the American Union at all?

And a elemental political question is being punted to the judiciary—which must ultimately draw the judiciary into politics and waken the sleeping dragon of the constitutional check/balance, the impeachment of judges.

I’ve said before that all this is beginning to remind me of the last years before the outbreak of the Civil War.

What William H. Seward called an ‘irrepressible conflict’ is shaping up—between the historic American nation and the radicals who must overwhelm it if they are to maintain power.”

UPDATE II (July 10): AID TO ARIZONA. We can all help the freedom fighters of Arizona in their secessionist fight against the federales. Donation options are at the KeepAZSafe website. I will be opting for the cheque option. In this way, the data one needs to attach to the payment will appear on a sheet of paper. This is less likely to be committed to a database than data you enter online. Just a personal preference.

I would like to see the law defended by Kris W. Kobach, a University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law professor, and an author of the Arizona law. Kobach has a first-rate mind to match his patriotism:

Kobach has determined that “state police, exercising state law authority only” may make arrests for violations of federal law”—a right Kobach anchors in a state’s status as a sovereign entity.
States are sovereign governments possessing all residual powers not abridged or superseded by the U.S. Constitution. The source of the state governments’ power is entirely independent of the U.S. Constitution. … the states possess what are known as ‘police powers,’ which need not be specifically enumerated. Police powers are ‘an exercise of the sovereign right of the government to protect the lives, health, morals, comfort, and general welfare of the people.
Arizona’s is not an exercise of “delegated federal power.” “Rather, such arrest authority inheres in the States’ status as sovereign entities.”

UPDATE III: “No Concern For U.S. Unemployed In President’s Big Amnesty Speech.” An excellent analysis of the elites’ “eff-you” attitude from NumbersUSA:

“His renewed call for massive numbers of work permits for foreign workers is an incredible slap in the face to the 25 million Americans who want a full-time job but cannot find one. …

“PRES. OBAMA DOESN’T KNOW THAT AMERICAN COLLEGE GRADS ARE HAVING ONE OF WORST YEARS EVER FOR FINDING A JOB.”

“Everywhere I turn this summer I talk to college students, recent college grads and their parents who lament the difficulty — sometimes the impossibility — of finding a job in their professions. …

“JOBLESS AMERICANS ARE A SPECIAL INTEREST WHO MUST BE OPPOSED, ACCORDING TO SPEECH”

“Folks, just who are the ‘special interests’ who are blocking ‘comprehensive immigration reform?'”

“It looked like nearly every special interest in the nation was in that university auditorium applauding the President’s appeal for more work permits for foreign workers. You had Big Business, Big Labor, Big Academe, Big Religion, Big Ethnic Grievance Groups, Big City Mayors, Big City Police Chiefs.” …

“PROF. OBAMA DOES NOT UNDERSTAND IMMIGRATION HISTORY”

Obama conveniently left out that in the past, America greatly reduced immigration during times of “economic upheaval.” Instead during this time of massive unemployment, he stood there and made a speech for increases in foreign workers.
He further unscored [sic] his lack of historical knowledge by using the Statue of Liberty as if it were dedicated to immigration. In fact, “Liberty Enlightening the World” was intended to celebrate the U.S. as a model for the rule of law and individual freedom for other nations to emulate so their own citizens wouldn’t need to think about moving somewhere else.

Read this simply superb, patriotic analysis.

UPDATE IV: Here kOBACH points out that pending are five lawsuits against Arizona based on the supremacy clause. There is no need for the government to launch its own suit. The pile-on makes plain that the government’s is a politically motivated law-suit; the aim is to send a message to the errant state.

Moreover, Arizona-style immigration laws are extant in Missouri and Rhode Island, yet no action has been taken against these states. This treacherous government (Bush’s was no different) is targeting the state through which half of all the illegal aliens entering the US pass because they want to make sure these stellar trespassers keep coming.

TREASON.