No Rapprochement Possible

The mullahs who run Iran could not even tolerate the first ray of the sunshine of freedom, and they no doubt manipulated the outcome to facilitate the election victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over "reformist" candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi. From a public relations and world opinion standpoint, Mousavi's election would have been preferable as nuclear enrichment could have continued apace with the theocrats still controlling the populace, but a more modernist, moderate face cloaking the evil intentions of the real powers. The amazing aspect of the Iranian plebiscite did not take place in Iran at all, what happened there was utterly predictable, but in Washington, where Barack Hussein Obama rushed out to herald his own triumph at altering the course of history with a single speech, his outreach to the Muslim world in Cairo. The President of the US is so taken with himself that he believes his own magnetism, that no doubt had some suasion with some gullible American voters, can change the world. Obama displayed terminal naivete about the way power works. Obama showed himself, particularly in light of the outcome of a huge victory for the end time fanatic Ahmadinejad, to be the most idiocentric egoist to ever occupy the White House. Being able to read a speech seamlessly may dazzle a voter in Sheboygan but will have no effect on the realpolitik bad actors in Tehran or Pyongyang. Obama sparks danger with his unmerited self-opinion that permits release of Gitmo terrorists, blithe and facile suppositions that if you just talk to the globe's evildoers, your great gifts that elevate you over all previous Presidents will pacify the violent, and by force of personal charisma, you, Obama will have saved the planet. Ahmadinejad's blunt answer has belied all efforts by Obama to sweet talk the Iranians who have one great national goal-the liquidation of the Zionist enterprise.

Wide Net Cast

After a disturbed individual attacked the US Holocaust Museum, ABC, a leftist propaganda organ, attacked conservatives in a broad brush broadside against the right, echoing the report leaked from Homeland Security early in this administration. The network's assault conflated gun rights advocates with Nazis, pro-life supporters of limits on abortion on demand with the Tiller killer, and talk radio hosts and listeners with the labyrinth of rats suggesting white supremacy race violence, mostly on the Web. On the Second Amendment, the Shoah Museum shooter had already forfeited his legal claim to guns when he was convicted as a felon after trying to abduct the Federal Reserve Board in the 1980s. He was a felon in possession of a firearm in a city where gun possession is still virtually forbidden, even to the law-abiding. He was breaking numerous gun laws just by having the .22 caliber rifle in DC. He was once again demonstrating the absolute futility of gun control laws. Criminals are not concerned with statutes. The late-term abortionist's murder certainly did not represent the pro-life mainstream anymore than John Hinckley reflected the American left. The First Amendment's speech protection is threatened by ABC attempting to link exhortation to murder by a bizarre fringe, with dissent against Obama's agenda. Soon to come, a national hate speech code, so we will be just like our free speech free college campus. Perhaps, they will reserve a speaker's corner somewhere where patriots who wish to protest Obama overturning our way of life, can go to be mocked and face hurled tomatoes. ABC even brought up a violent misanthrope who had raped a minority woman and killed two other people in an effort to suggest a creeping right wing putsch. The report was ridiculous, inflammatory crap meant to turn the nation against anyone who dares speak out against Obama.

A Concerted Effort

Two transcendent issues confront the Republican party. First the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the US. This is a position demanding objectivity-the law must be interpreted free of bias and judges can not be permitted to legislate from the bench. Judge Sotomayor fails on both counts. Trent Lott, from Mississippi, was disqualified from leadership in the US Senate because he made a remark flattering colleague Strom Thurmond on his hundredth birthday. Lott said he wished Thurmond, who had run as a segregationist for President a couple of generations before, had won. That intemperate boosting of a very old friend was enough to have Lott banished from an inherently partisan, innately subjective position of leadership. A judge is supposed to be non-partisan and is called on to leave subjective considerations at the door. Judge Sotomayor has said on the appellate court that her job was to make policy, to use her position not to interpret law but to make it. This is abuse by judicial fiat. Then her statements about a "wise Hispanic woman making decisions better than a white man" are an absolute abomination. The Drudge Report has chronicled multiple uses of this same racist phrase by Sotomayor going back until at least 1994. This was no slip of the tongue and along with her membership in La Raza, a brown separatist group that demands the return of the US southwest to Mexico, should disqualify Sotomayor from any promotion on the bench. Just imagine a white jurist inverting the remark and see if he would ever be nominated to a higher court. It is not enough for the Republicans in the Senate during the advice and consent hearings to ask a few questions or give Sotomayor a quizzical glance, they must muster real opposition and try to peal off the few Democrats it would take to thwart her lifetime appointment to our highest court. But they are, by in large, worthless political cowards who chase microphones and cameras and they won't. They would rather make Rush Limbaugh, who helped put many of them in office, a bugbear, than stop an activist racist from perverting our Constitution. The second issue of great moment is the national health care regime the Democrats are about to impose. If the Republicans can not thwart this ultimate socialist overreach, they deserve to be finished as a national party. This measure will ration care and shorten lives. Your most personal family decisions will be taken from you and your doctor and placed in the hands of bureaucrats. There is a scandal now in the Veterans' Affairs medical system including in the VA in my home state of Tennessee where colonoscopy equipment was not sterilized between patients and this not properly cleaned device spread hepatitis and HIV with at least five(5) AIDS cases attributed to this horrible negligence. This is Federal medical care, cold, impersonal, at times, dangerous, and intrusive when on a magnified scope into the general populace where your obesity, your decision to smoke, your end of life care decisions with elderly or chronically ill family members will be taken away from you and your family physician and placed in the hands of a bean counter who cares not a wit for you or your family. They will not know you and your kin, and you will be nothing more than a number, a statistic. Do you remember Terri Schiavo? If you become inconvenient, expensive, unable to speak in your own defense, without an advocate, do you want a Federal cost-benefit analysis to determine whether your life support is turned off and you are forced to starve and dehydrate to death? National health care, socialized medicine is not a buttress to the welfare of a family but a chain around your necks. Go ask a Brit or a Canadian-those with resources often come here to escape the prison of their government heath plan and use their own money to travel here and pay for fee for service medical care. If we impose a similar system, where will the rich go to find care, particularly if there are civil or criminal sanctions against people who attempt to opt out of their government health plan? This is a national nightmare about to happen and I don't believe the Republicans will squawk too much in an effort to stop it. The GOP, if it allows farcical judicial appointments and tolerates if not actually advances socialism, especially with medical care supplanting family decision making with bureaucratic interference, has outlived its usefulness. If Republicans can not block Obamaism, it is time for a third party, one that brings conservatism back into the American political mainstream, as the right and center right comprise most of the voters in the country, and they deserve a party that advances their values.

The World Implodes

The Supreme Court of the US approved Fiat's rescue of Chrysler, ignoring secured creditors' petition and bringing the value of all US corporate bonds into question. If holding secured debt in a company is meaningless, bond holders no longer have a valuable asset, nor a junk bond, regardless of the supposed yield, American corporate bond holders now own only toilet paper. Pension funds, such as Indiana's which took the court action to forestall the Federal machinations which could hasten our collapse, are left in the lurch with one company rescued but so many nest eggs devalued. Obama's administration is going to inject more stimulus immediately to revive the moribund economy, what's a few trillion between friends? The administration is pushing the national health care agenda, projecting a one and a half trillion dollar cost to the taxpayer, which is of course, a low ball estimate. The socialized medicine bill will be named to honor liberal icon and failed amphibious driver Ted Kennedy. The Federal government is printing money like Wiemar or Zimbabwe, and this will generate inflation the likes of which America has never seen. A Slim Jim plant blows up in North Carolina after receiving a threat, recruits just out of basic training were gunned down in Arkansas on a visit to the recruiting office, urban governments try to keep the law abiding from guns while murders continue apace, government workers are surly as they no longer feel like employees but are our masters, and the police use capricious aggression that our founding fathers would never have tolerated to rapidly gain control of situations in accordance with their training which turns the citizen into an enemy and forces people into sheep-like compliance. Two commercial airliners made forced landings due to mechanical problems, and the cause of the Air France plane crash near Brazil remains a mystery (though there is speculation a faulty pitot tube may be implicated). People seem willing to endure an anal probe to fly when necessary but may be reluctant to board a death lottery. So as your grandmother is taken behind a partition for her invasive search, while Abdul who is a Pakistani "student" (wait, doesn't Taliban mean religious student?) is waived through security with his wild beard and traditional East Asian garb that could hide all manner of explosives because we can't profile anyone, is your life insurance paid up? Do you have a wheelbarrow ready for your trip to the grocery to carry your soon to be virtually worthless dollars in, when you are asked to put full faith and credit in government that at all levels, merits neither.

The Nukes Arrive

North Korea, the world's last Stalinist regime, predicated on murder, proliferation, counterfeiting, threat, and theft, has today threatened nuclear reprisal. This is not mere bluster, a nation that gladly starves and kills her own innocent citizens is apt to do anything. This is a country that brought down a commercial airline with an on board bomb, that kidnapped Japanese from their homeland to advance espionage, that routinely starves or shoots her hapless people. Two American reporters have fallen into North Korea's evil clutches. They face twelve years at hard labor after a sham trial. They are actually extremely lucky that the mad regime thinks it can use them as bargaining chips, if they were not of some value alive, the North Koreans would have no compunction about killing them. When a tyrannical, unscrupulous dictator threatens, the world would be wise to listen and prevent the action which is likely to follow whether it is the dwarf madman in Pyongyang or the one in Tehran doing the threatening.

The Iranian Elections

Much of the world is breathlessly awaiting the outcome of the Iranian elections. There is hope in the West that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be unseated and Iran will move back from the brink in the nuclear confrontation. First, no matter who wins the election, the mullahs who actually control Iran will not abandon the nascent atomic project as it has become a matter of pride for the Iranian nation (and many of the clerics share Ahmadinejad's belief in ushering in the Mehdi by creating the chaos of the end times). Second, Ahmadinejad will almost surely win as educated, cosmopolitan Iranians who oppose him are widely outnumbered by Ahmadinejad's ill-educated, fanatic supporters. War between Israel, which can not afford to risk their survival on the wishy-washy West and now on America's leader who has suddenly pulled the carpet out from under the Jewish state, which has been left to Iran's devices by her erstwhile allies and whose very existence is at risk, is all but inevitable.

So Much Damage

The speed with which Barack Hussein Obama is overturning the old order is breathtaking. Obama promised change in his campaign and is delivering almost without opposition from the Republican party who seem content to watch their nation crumble and party disintegrate, preferring to criticize radio titan Rush Limbaugh and former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, an effective and combative Republican rightist, rather than thwart Obama. Today's crop of Republican and Michael Steele would rather engage in thrust and parry with the best and brightest conservative opinion shapers than stand against the "great leveler" or offer alternative proposals. The only Obama initiative that has been blocked so far is his effort to close the Guantanamo detention facility where some of the world's most dangerous men are being held. Democrats fearing some of these terrorists might end up in their districts, voted to withhold funds to shut the prison as a not in my backyard issue and weak as water Republicans who either do not know how to peel off any Democrats or are too lazy to make the effort on any other overreach to socialism, simply went along for the ride. If Republicans are so politically neutered as to usher in the racist, leftist Sotomayor without too much carping, if they sit quietly while Obama socializes medicine, if they allow industry after industry to be nationalized, what good are they as a political party? Perhaps, it is time for the few true conservatives in Republican ranks, tired of being slapped down by their numerous Republican in name only mates, to venture out and form a true down the line conservative party.