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"The president is comfortable with a technocratic approach because he is an imperious, arrogant, know-it-all left wing technocrat who leaves the details to his congressional Democratic allies, like Congressman Dave Obey with the stimulus bill," Rove adds. "He is content to check the box on his list of achievements and tour the country with his teleprompter giving speeches."

Karl Rove

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"But if you can’t draw the line at being ruled by creeps with a spambot penis, you can’t draw it anywhere."

Mark Steyn

Sad, but true. 

Finishing the ... Job?

I'm scared to death he is going to finish the job and America right along with it.  He's got a way with words, for sure.

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From Andy's Place:

"Aren't you glad you don't have to live in California with Jerry Brown as Gov and no legal marijuana?!?!"

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Oh that Bride of Rove!  She cracks me up!  I'm going to have nightmares now about Rahm jumping out of showers! I was trying to forget that story.

Awhile back the blogs posted that she is a lesbian, but the Whitehouse was pissed because she was not out of the closet on it even though everyone knows so no one is reporting that – and they won’t – because Rahm will strip down to the altogether and pounce the crap out of you in the showers if you say anything about her sexual orientation.

 Really, compared to Rahm, Janet Leigh had nothing to be afraid of, really!  Just kidding.  Heh!

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...is from Doug Ross. Amen.

This rogue Congress and this President have already taken over insurance companies, banks and two car companies. And they've screwed up everything they've touched, from Fannie Mae, to General Motors, to "Cash for Clunkers".

Now Democrats want to touch off another huge economic calamity by nationalizing one-sixth of the U.S. economy and taking control of the student loan business. Not only are these efforts clearly unprecedented in all of American history, they are both antithetical to our founding and completely, utterly unconstitutional.

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It turned out that the country’s problems were not problems of structure but of leadership. Reagan and Clinton had it. Carter didn’t. Under a president with extensive executive experience, good political skills, and an ideological compass in tune with the public’s, the country was indeed governable.

Charles Krauthammer

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Hadn't Abdulmutallab heard that we are closing Gitmo? Hadn't he heard that we're phasing out military-commissions so we can show the world that we give even the worst mass-murderers civilian trials with all the rights of American citizens? Hadn't he heard that President Obama has banned torture (yes, yes, I know, actually Congress banned it 15 years ago — details, details ...)? Hadn't he heard that the president has called for "a new beginning" in America's relationship with the Muslim world? Hadn't he heard that this is our new, smarter strategy to safeguard the nation from man-caused disasters?

I suspect he's heard all those things.

Andy McCarthy

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How dare the attorney general suggest that the firefighters who oppose this trial need to "man up" and let this avowed enemy of America mock their brother firefighters in the country's most magisterial setting, a federal court.

Let me refresh the attorney general on the meaning of courage. Courage was going into those buildings that day, knowing they might not come out alive. Courage was digging for nine months on hands and knees, breathing in toxic smoke, to find the ravaged remains of brother firefighters, police officers, citizen responders and office workers. This courage was not summoned from false bravado; it sprang from an abiding love of their fellow human beings and a sense of obligation to them, their families and their beloved country.

Debra Burlingame
"We Must Rise Up Against the Trial"
New York Daily News

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The problem isn't his personality, it's his policies. His problem isn't what George W. Bush left but what he himself has done. It is a problem of political judgement, of putting forward bills that were deeply flawed or off-point. Bailouts, the stimulus package, cap-and-trade; turning to health care at the exact moment in history when his countrymen were turning their concerns to the economy, joblessness, debt and deficits—all of these reflect a misreading of the political terrain. They are matters of political judgment, not personality.

Peggy Noonan
Wall Street Journal, Octboer 23, 2009
"It's His Rubble Now"

Question of the Day

Less than two months ago — August 17 in front of an audience of veterans — the president declared Afghanistan to be “a war of necessity.” Does anything he says remain operative beyond the fading of the audience applause?

Charles Krauthammer

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In 2008, Americans, says Gingrich, “were voting for the end of Bush. They were voting to have no taxes raised on anybody making under $250,000, and they were voting for a tax cut for 95 percent of the American people. Go back and read what Obama campaigned on. This is a con job on the scale of Madoff.”

From Robert Costa's NRO interview
with Newt Gingrich

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"If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis. It is theoretically possible that Obama could turn the situation around with a strong speech on healthcare to Congress this week, but after a summer of grisly hemorrhaging, too much damage has been done. At this point, Democrats' main hope for the 2012 presidential election is that Republicans nominate another hopelessly feeble candidate. Given the GOP's facility for shooting itself in the foot, that may well happen. "

Camille Paglia
"Too Late for Obama to Turn it Around?"

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"We are in a period now when no man is expected to be the master of his fate and the captain of his soul but...a mere hapless pawn of circumstance. I hope I live long enough to see us come out on the other side of this strange country in which we have been wandering."

Margaret Mitchell
letter to Henry C. Link, 1937
Margaret Mitchell and John Marsh: The Love Story
Behind Gone With The Wind

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"President Obama’s decision to allow the Justice Department to investigate and possibly prosecute CIA personnel, and his decision to remove authority for interrogation from the CIA to the White House, serves as a reminder, if any were needed, of why so many Americans have doubts about this Administration’s ability to be responsible for our nation’s security."

Former Vice-President Dick Cheney
The Weekly Standard

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"Buyer's remorse? Not me. At the North American summit in Guadalajara this week, President Obama resumed the role he is best at -- representing the U.S. with dignity and authority abroad."

From Camille Paglia. Is she kidding? Was this supposed to be satire?

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There is a certain irony in an administration denouncing ordinary Americans who get together to express what they believe and to confront authority, when that administration is led by a man who began his career as a community organizer, whose job, as I understand it, is to take ordinary Americans, get them together to express what they believe, and express demands against the authorities.

So it's unbelievably hypocritical. And, of course, as we just heard, this only happens when you have a conservative protest. It is called a mob. If it’s a liberal protest, it is called grassroots expressing themselves.

Charles Krauthammer

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"At the end of the day if the health care reform bill does not have strong language prohibiting the use of federal funding for abortion, then the bill is really a no-go for me," said Cao, who studied to be a Jesuit priest.

"Being a Jesuit, I very much adhere to the notion of social justice," Cao said. "I do fully understand the need of providing everyone with access to health care, but to me personally, I cannot be privy to a law that will allow the potential of destroying thousands of innocent lives.

"I know that voting against the health care bill will probably be the death of my political career," Cao said, "but I have to live with myself, and I always reflect on the phrase of the New Testament, 'How does it profit a man's life to gain the world but to lose his soul.' "

Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao

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"We currently have a governor who has been widely judged as ineloquent on national TV versus Obama’s unprecedented eloquence. But eloquence isn’t going to change the fact that Obama is a socialist/collectivist teleprompter reader while Jindal is a conservative democracy capitalist. Jindal’s been unbending in the face of financial crisis when it comes to raising taxes. Jindal has stood firm in favor of less government and more personal liberty, Obama has undeniably done the exact opposite. "

John Roberts
Taxpayer's Union of Louisiana

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"Because Obama is a revolutionary who seeks to overturn 50 years of doing business in America both at home and abroad, his shortcomings have the potential not only to diminish his own stature through unmet impossible expectations, but to take all those who signed on to his megalomania down with him."

Victor Davis Hanson
Growing Worries about Our Pied Piper