By now you’ve heard that Democrat candidates in key races don’t want the president campaigning for them. But Bill and Hillary Clinton are okay.
I don’t know about you, but I’ll never forget how Bill Clinton sullied the White House, our house, while carrying on an affair with Monica Lewinsky.
As the media gave its obligatory “ho hum” after Lewinsky’s reappearance last week, “Good ole Bill” is out speaking for candidates, where the president is persona non grata.… read more
When you think she couldn’t dig a deeper hole for herself as someone who desperately wants to be president, Hillary Clinton just keeps on digging and giving.
“And don’t let anybody, don’t let anybody tell you, that, you know, it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs,” she told her liberal followers at a campaign rally for Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley last week.… read more
I found it interesting that John Harwood, appearing on CNBC’s Squawk Box, declared ObamaCare a non-issue in the up-coming mid-term elections.
From past poll coverage given by the NBC units – NBC News, MS/NBC and CNBC– the record shows that when polling doesn’t favor the Obama administration, NBC chooses to ignore the results.… read more
“He (Panetta) is a guy who has had a long and storied career in Washington and has really served his country well. And it is kind of sad that in its twilight he’s done such a dishonorable thing by – at a time – by going after the president that he served at a time of a lot of different instabilities around the world.”
Former Obama spokesman Bill Burton was called upon to put down Leon Panetta. (Reuters.com)
One would think the Obama administration could have provided someone with a bit of gravitas to appear on CNN to support the president amidst the latest attacks in Leon Panetta’s new book. The quote above, however, comes from Bill Burton, a former Obama spokesman, who left the West Wing more than three years ago. Some say he left because he wasn’t picked to replaced former Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
While I am certainly not an admirer of Burton and his usual “shoot from the hip” remarks about Republicans, I must admit I agree with the first part of his statement about Panetta’s service. As I have previously written, however, I believe cabinet members, staffers and military officers, who disagree with their commander-in-chief’s positions, should do the honorable thing and resign.
The individual need not hang out all the dirty laundry in his resignation statement, but it shouldn’t be an “I’m retiring to spend more time with my family” cop-out either. It should be a clear statement that he/she opposes the president’s position on – subject – and, as a matter of integrity, I believe the president deserves to fill my position with someone who fully supports him.
I’ve been following the political scene long enough to realize that most administration appointees simply hold down their desks until the next administration, hoping they’ll be selected for the next plum position. And, there are those generals in the Pentagon looking for that next star, next chief-of-staff job, or joint chief slot. Continue reading
Okay, okay, okay …. I understand what you’re saying. The Republican Party needs to say what it’s for; what it would do to return the government to the people.
With all of the reading and research I do, a close friend of mine continues to advise me – ME – as to what the GOP needs to do. His latest push was to bring to my attention Peggy Noonan’s column, Republicans Need a Direction.
In effect, Noonan seems to foresee another 2012 election, when few people thought President Obama, with his lousy record, had a chance of winning. Mitt Romney won the initial debate hands down, but he listened to establishment advisors, who told him not to attack and present a “nice guy” image. That bad advice, a poor turnout of Republican voters, and another masterful get-out-the-vote by “team Obama” sunk the GOP.
Columnist Peggy Noonan’s pieces appear in the Wall Street Journal. (lonelyconservative.com)
“In a year when Republicans are operating in such an enviable political environment, why aren’t their U. S. Senate candidates holding big and impressive leads? Why does it look close? Why are party professionals getting worried?
The Democrat president is unpopular (again). What progress can be claimed in the economy is tentative, uneven, feels temporary. True, unemployment is bad and people who have jobs feel stressed and hammered by costs. Americans are less optimistic than they’ve ever been in the modern era, with right-track/wrong-track numbers upside down. Scandals, war, uncertain (no) leadership – all this has yielded a sense the whole enterprise of the past six years just did not work.”
So wrote Noonan, adding, “If Republicans can’t make, catch and ride a wave in an environment like this, they’ve gone from being the stupid party to the stupid loser party.” Continue reading
You may be shocked by the current revelations of security screw ups by the Secret Service, but you shouldn’t be surprised, because it can easily be traced back to the culture in the White House.
Evidence of a culture of “whatever” in the Obama White House continues to mount. (abcnews.go.com)
We have a president who regularly flouts the rule-of-law. He has made changes and waivers to existing law; he was found guilty by the Supreme Court for making illegal recess appointments; he traded five Guantanamo prisoners for Sergeant Bergdahl without Congressional approval; and he’s set to implement a broad amnesty on his own following the mid-terms.
On the morally unethical side, President Obama flew to a fundraiser in Las Vegas after our ambassador and three other Americans were killed in the Benghazi attack and, he was on the golf course just minutes after “grieving” with the parents of James Foley, who was beheaded by ISIS.
What kind of respect can government employees in our various departments and agencies have for a president who laughs off inefficiencies and in some cases criminal activities, as “phony scandals.” Continue reading
I have generally avoided television and big screen depictions of political Washington D.C. in the past like “West Wing” and the recent addition, “Scandal,” but tease footage of an attack on our embassy in Yemen promoting the last segment of “Madame Secretary,” piqued my curiosity. I confess. I watched it.
Tea Leoni does a credible job as secretary of state in the new CBS series, Madame Secretary. She’s shown here with Zeljko Ivanek, who is perfectly cast as the President’s chief of staff. (zp2it.com)
I have been reading how it was part of Hollywood’s plan to pump up Hillary Clinton’s role as secretary of state, but the Wall Street Journal’s Dorothy Rabinowitz gave it a pretty good review.
The show’s Executive Producer Lori McCreary said the inspiration for the show came from Morgan Freeman, who after watching Hillary Clinton during the Benghazi hearings, called McCreary saying, “What does she (Hillary) go home to, what does she talk about?”
I would have suggested that he might want to read Edward Klein’s book, Blood Fued, to get a pretty accurate picture. Continue reading
“Militant Islam’s ambition to dominate the world seems mad, but so too did the global ambitions of another fanatic ideology that swept into power eight decades ago. The Nazi’s believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith. They just disagree who among them will be the master of the master faith.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “It’s one thing to confront militant Islamists on pickup trucks with Kalashnikov rifles. It’s another thing to confront militant Islamists armed with weapons of mass destruction.” (AP photo/Seth Wenig)
So said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking to an audience of less than half of the UN representation this morning. I’m highlighting it here because I’m sure many of you didn’t hear it.
“There is one place where that could happen,” he said, “the Islamic State of Iran. For 35 years, Iran has relentlessly pursued the global mission which was set forth by its founding ruler, Ayatollah Khomeini, in these words. ‘We will export our revolution to the entire world until the cry –there is no god but Allah – will echo throughout the world over.’ “
Netanyahu also reminded the audience that it was Gen. Mohammed Ali Jafari of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard who said, “Our imam did not limit the Islamic revolution to this country; our duty is to prepare the way for an Islamic world government. “ Continue reading
On Jan. 2, 2012, my op-ed piece, It’s time for AG Holder to go, appeared on the editorial pages of the San Antonio Express-News. And this week, we finally learned that Attorney General Eric Holder has decided to resign.
Finally, Attorney General Eric Holder decided to resign. (csmonitor.com)
Clearly, it was good news, but oh my, the damage he has done to the rule of law in our country. Holder’s outrageous actions make the oft-criticized decisions of John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, and even Janet Reno, seem so insignificant.
While most Americans likely believe the disapproval of Holder is centered in the Republican Party, not so. Just 15 percent of Americans have a positive or very positive view (6 percent) of Holder, according to a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Thirty-two percent have a negative view of Holder while four times as may have a very negative view (22 percent). Continue reading
