pathetic...

So Democrats attacked Bush endlessly for the past eight years, using the War on Terror against the White House while simultaneously (and with the tacit acceptance of the Media) belittling those who would dare "make politics from war". Of course, this sort of cognitive dissonance has been on public display for the past decade.
Hypocrisy is bad enough, but now we have the White House, with a President who couldn't be bothered to respond to a terrorist attack that failed only because of the actions of those on the plane for three days, attacking those who criticize its pathetic performance as "making politics out of war".
Pot, kettle: introductions settled.
Here's a clue that the White House could stand to learn, and admittedly most of us learn it when we're children: criticism is often-times accurate, whether we want to admit it or not. Flailing at the messengers won't change the facts. Calling people childish, as Mr. Gibbs has done in your name, Mr. President, for doing nothing more than standing up for their own principles, is itself the definition of "childish"... and many other choice words that could be used.
It's like Nancy Pelosi's attacking the citizen-driven tea Party protests this summer as "catering to violence". So, Nancy, let's think this through. There were, for all the millions involved, zero Tea Partiers arrested for violence (though they did have a nasty tendency to actually clean up their own litter, a unique thing in American politics totally absent from the Left-wing protests of the past decade). There were arrests of people who ATTACKED the tea partiers, most notably the SEIU thugs who attacked Mr. Gladstone for doing nothing more than trying to hand out buttons and signs... or the Democrat-party employees who were caught red-handed defacing their own building and trying to lay out "evidence" to frame the Tea Partiers. Hm, let's see. Reality says that the violence, then, is directed AT the Tea Partiers, not FROM them. Paging Ms. Pelosi, if you actually were concerned with violence, you'd condemn those who were ACTUALLY guilty of violence, not those on the receiving end who committed no such acts. then again, it was never about being honest or fair... just like the administration's pathetic name-calling and attempts to distract away from their poor response to things, like this latest terrorist attack, is not about addressing honestly their faults. That would require the most narcissistic president in our history to actually admit that, like every other human being, he and his ideology could be (and are) wrong on many things.

RINOs at work... or, how Republicans helped pass a travesty of a health bill

So, now Olympia Snowe, otherwise known as "Republican in Name Only" since she is willing to give away literally anything in order to achieve "consensus", even when principle and common sense should lead her away... so now, this Democrat-in-Republican-clothing is going to vote for the Baucus Healthcare Bill.

Let's just hit a few quick points as to why that's bad:

1) the bill purports to cost $800 billion over 10 years ... but counts five years BEFORE the bill's requirements go into play. In other words, the $800 billion is the estimated cost for 5 actual years of its effect. Think of it this way: an accurate estimate of a 10-year cost, then, is actually 1.6 TRILLION.
2) Government estimates of cost are always off by literally hundreds (and often thousands) of percents. If we assume this bill will cost a scant twice the estimate, that's $3.2 TRILLION. Think about it.

3) the bill sets the IRS and the new bureacracy against the American people -- it literally says "do as we say, even if you can't afford it, or go to jail." So, if you have to choose between paying the government mandate or putting food on the table -- you can either pay the government mandate or go to jail. Democrats in action.

No Republican of any sort should vote for something as terrible, as tragic, and as pathetic as this bill is. heck, no Democrat should either -- and kudos to Joseph Leiberman for being the LAST PRINCIPLED DEMOCRAT in Washington.

In the meantime, the GOP needs to disavow Ms. Snowe and let her go where she already votes -- since she clearly has no principles that are Republican (or republic-an) in nature.

Violence and Demonstration, Pelosi-style

So this week we were treated to Nancy Pelosi decrying the tea Party rallies and Joe wilson's "you lie" shout as somehow inevitably leading to violence. Since she claims now to be concerned with decorum and thinks that something as relatively harmless as "you lie" can incite violence, and that we should avoid speech that might incite violence, let's use her own standard and look back over the past few months and years, shall we? Let's see if Ms. Pelosi is proceeding from a genuine concern -- or flailing for political advantage as everyone in the country expresses their disgust at her and her policies.
In 2006, the same Nancy Pelosi stood in front of protesters (who were among other things guilty of invading Churches, trespassing, destroying private property, shouting at people during funerals, and assaulting, among others, an elderly couple in California whose only crime was walking across the street near a Left-wing protest) and said that she was "a fan of disruptors" (her word, disruptors, folks) and that such behavior was "very American" (again, her words, describing acts of violence, theft, destruction, and rude shouting in Churches as "american" and something she's a "fan" of).
Um, Nancy? Whereas police reports and video over the past eight years show Leftist protests doing all the things I've already mentioned, and looking up police reports and arrests during Leftist protests has literally thousands more examples for the intrepid reporter to slog through -- the tea Party rallies? They clean up after themselves, for God's sake, whereas the Leftists leave behind trash on the streets wherever they go (among the broken streetlights and such) -- all on video. They clamor and argue, but most of their arguments are about SUBSTANCE, actual DETAILS... and there have been ZERO arrests or acts of violence committed by one of the Tea Party ralliers. On the other hand, we've already seen that there were arrests for assault and violence and such -- exhibit A, Ken Gladstone, whose crime was making signs for a rally, who was beaten so badly he had to be admitted to the hospital through the emergency room. Who was he beaten by, Ms. Pelosi? SEIU thugs, bussed there at Democrat Party expense. You're concerned that the people who have now had a year of actions and done NOTHING violent will turn violent -- while you turn a blind eye and in your own words encourage violence from the Left, directed at the Right.
I would call Nancy a hypocrite, but that would probably lead to her name-calling me as "sexist" or some other bizarre and unrelated catchword. Besides, the fact that she spent the Bush years telling people who did commit acts of violence on their fellow Americans, often for such high-minded reasons as being in their path or walking near them, that she was "their fan" makes her far, far worse than simply a hypocrite.
This is a woman who clearly has a double-standard at play and whose only purpose is to regain political advantage -- for herself and her party. Any actual worries about violence would lead her to actually condemn those who are acting violently -- all of them, on the record, on video, from the Left. So spare us the crocodile tears, Ms. Pelosi, and try acting like you actually have a principle or two somewhere in that hypocritical, overwrought, overacting body of yours.