by Tom Sears
So keep it up, Israel, until the animals are no longer a threat to your peace- seeking citizens. Egypt, I’d be very careful who you associate with, allowing arms and fighters to get into Gaza from your borders.
And you Palestinians, innocent or not, try to stay out of tunnels for the foreseeable future.
Israel Need Not Give In To Hamas
I’m trying very hard to give Obama a 30-day honeymoon period, but it’s getting harder and harder to do so. He sure is giving me plenty to write about in future columns, but first, one more column on Israel and Hamas.
Let me see if I have this right. Israel accomplished most of its goals during its self-defense actions.
They destroyed Hamas’ infrastructure and greatly reduced its military capabilities, eliminated 1,000-plus terrorists, destroyed over two-thirds of the smuggling tunnels and caused Hamas’ brave leaders to scurry like cockroaches.
The Israelis declared a unilateral cease-fire and pulled back, applying their own time frame. So what did the cowards do?
Hamas crawled back out of their Saddam-like spider holes, peeked warily out from behind the women and children, nervously looked around to make sure it was safe, and then, and only then, did these brave warriors stick out their chests and declare victory!
I’m sure Israel would love to have more losses like this in the future. These terrorists pound their chests and celebrate every rocket launched, hoping to kill Israelis. Any Israeli will do.
Yet they declare to be victims when fire is returned. They sure do know how to play the victim part, don’t they? It’s amazing how they can cry, producing real tears on cue. Even a lot of Hollywood actors can’t do that.
Then the world, seeing Israel respond with force in self-defense, claims Israel has reacted disproportionately. How is it supposed to respond when their very survival is at stake? They should respond until the threat has been removed.
When you walk back and forth to your garden and are harassed daily by wasps or hornets, being stung once in awhile, what do you do? You buy a can of wasp-killing spray and seek out the nest. Once you find the nest, do you wait and try to identify the wasps that stung, eliminating only those, or do you wipe out the whole nest? Most of us know the right answer. And what makes the wasps smarter than Hamas is that the wasps know enough to leave the area and seek out a new home.
Only those of the anti-Israel crowd would answer differently. If it were your home or your town constantly bombed, you living in constant fear, you would be reacting exactly the same way.
Now, what about negotiations? There is really nothing to negotiate. As an article in The Daily Star pointed out, “Israel has only four main demands: an end to Gaza rocket fire, a halt to Palestinian attacks, international supervision of a truce, and an agreement to stop Hamas from rearming.”
I would add a fifth. Israel simply wants to live in peace with its neighbors. Aren’t these truly fair requests? Israel has already given more than enough. Gaza was created from land seized from Egypt, and the West Bank was land taken from Jordan as a result of the six-day, 1967 war.
At the same time, Jerusalem’s old city was recaptured from Jordan. Israel has already given Gaza and The West Bank to the Palestinians. There is nothing more to give.
Also, how can you possibly negotiate with people who want your elimination and have shown no flexibility in that regard?
Israel obviously wants none of its people eliminated. Is the U.N., the European Union, or some other world body supposed to assume that in negotiations an acceptable percent is to be agreed upon? Can you see the negotiations going back and forth with Israel eventually accepting 30 percent as an allowable percentage of its citizens eliminated? Get real.
The fate of Jerusalem? It should remain, undivided, in Israeli hands. Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital for more than 3,300 years. It has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. It is mentioned hundreds of times in the Bible and not even once in the Koran. All Muslims and other Arabs are welcome to visit peacefully, but not stay.
Yet, all of these peace initiatives are probably a waste of time. Peace will never be achieved when one country wants the other wiped off the face of the Earth and will accept nothing less as satisfactory.
Our objective should be simply to arm Israel sufficiently to defend itself from terrorism and hostile nations.
The Israelis have proven able to protect themselves time and time again. They also seem more capable than we are at solving the growing Syrian and Iranian threats. I say let them.
The Palestinian homeland issue? It’s already been settled. When the state of Israel was created, an Arab state was also created with substantially more land. It already is more than 70 percent Palestinian. It’s called Jordan.
Obama Well on His Way To Ignominy
Move over, Jimmy Carter. You’ve got someone on the fast track to replace you as the worst president in the history of our nation. And he’s done all this in only 28 days!
First of all, he’s arrogant. Going around, still in a campaign mode, blaming Republicans for blocking progress, while, depending on the poll taken, 56 to 60 percent of Americans see the “stimulus” package as a bad solution to our present economic woes.
Then you chide Republicans by saying on one of your campaign stops, “What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending. That’s the whole point!” This of course earned him a few chuckles from his “Kool-Aid crowd. But as Lindsey Graham pointed out on a Sunday news show, of the massive $787 billion bill, only $3 billion is going to small business.
Sorry Barack, it’s you who doesn’t know what a stimulus package is supposed to be. It’s not about welfare and pork spending. It’s about job creation and economic growth. I wonder if he really knows that jobs come from small businesses.
How about his dishonesty? Even his biggest fan, The New York Times, is starting to get a little antsy with the guy.
On his first day in office, he solemnly pledged to impose the toughest ethics rules of any modern-day president. It was a huge campaign promise and it took about a week for him to break it.
Bill Richardson, commerce secretary nominee, was the first casualty. Then came William Lynn, nominated for the No. 2 position in the Defense Department.
Somehow, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner slipped through with all his tax cheating, but Nancy Killefer’s and Tom Daschle’s tax cheating didn’t.
Finally (so far) there was Hilda Solis and her husband’s problems. It was ver inconvenient for her that she filed a joint return with him.
Remember how he promised transparency in government and the opportunity to allow the public to view any passed proposals for five days before he signed the bill into law? Oops, there goes another promise broken. The Senate had the final bill, 1,073 pages full of vagueness, given to them only hours before the vote was to be taken.
The Republican senators were also, as were the House Republicans, shut completely out of the process. No input, no give-and-take, no negotiations and no consideration of any Republican suggestions.
So much for bipartisanship. Fortunately for Obama, he was able to buy three make-believe Republicans, - Spector, Collins and Snowe - to get his bill passed. Spector was bought for $6.5 billion for “medical research.” No details, again, just vagueness.
Now for Obama’s radicalism. He is now responsible for the largest pork and welfare spending act in history. This is the largest welfare bill ever.
It will cause the size of government to expand hugely and permanently. Future generations, from both liberal and conservative families, will be hit with a massive federal debt to be paid back with very, very high taxes. People shouldn’t forget that he was the most liberal, partisan member of Congress. Did you really expect to get the “change” that was promised?
You 53 percent who voted for him are now responsible for him. You got a youthful, radical, naïve, inexperienced liberal who has no idea how to run a country. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and their radical ilk will be leading him by the no
se repeatedly in the future.
As columnist Rich Lowry points out, Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich tried to limit the size of government and partially succeeded. From 1983 to 2000 government spending went from 23.5 percent of GDP to 18.4 percent. Newsweek pointed out the percent was 20.9 percent last year and will probably go to 28 percent this year. It also says “In 2010, total U.S. government spending will be 39.9 percent of GDP, only about 8 percent less than the average in the socialistic eurozone countries.”
So conservatives, there is a silver lining. With Obama leading the country, our party can only gain in strength. As columnist David Limbaugh rightly says, “President
Barack Obama has done more in the first three weeks of his presidency to validate the
suspicions of his critics than I thought possible.”
Republicans had a chance to control spending, and let everyone down when they failed to illustrate the differences between themselves and the Democrats. They dropped the ball that time, but we will have one more chance to lead in the near future. Fortunately, Obama is helping us tremendously in pointing out the distinctions between the parties. Let’s just sit back and enjoy the show.
Soon, I want to bring to the fore all the ridiculous spending features of the bill. It might take more than one column to point out all the wasteful spending, and you never know how soon Barack will screw something up again.
Obama Can Offer Words, Little Else
Talk about having a love affair with himself. Obama couldn’t even wait 11 months to give his first State of the Union-speech. So to massage his overwhelming ego, he decided to give it last Tuesday.
It was certainly full of rhetoric, with lots of efforts for hopefully historically memorable quotes - as if enough attempts were made, some would stick. But was there any substance? Absolutely none.
He is slick, I’ll give him that. And he is a skilled orator. Give him a good speech writer and a teleprompter and he’s ready to go. A little advice Barack. It takes more than speech-making and glorious promises to be an effective leader. It takes a person who is willing to roll up his sleeves and help manage the process.
So what does he do? Weeks before his speech, he simply tells Congress (actually only half of Congress) to come up with a stimulus bill that he can sign.
He then ducks out of sight and lets the two most radical, irresponsible members take over the process – Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi. The result is the worst possible, pork-filled, non-stimulus bill that could have been created.
This person is going to single-handedly ruin this country, and the press and
Obama’s cultists are letting it happen.
George Bush’s largest deficit, according to the Congressional Budget Office, was $454.8 billion, and that occurred in fiscal year 2008. Obama’s antics, to date only, will result in a $1.3 TRILLION deficit for fiscal year 2009.
Therefore, his promise to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term in office means we will be saddled with more than a $533 billion deficit for fiscal years 2013 and beyond.
Great job Barack. Your deficit will still be nearly $100 billion larger than Bush’s total deficit in 8 years. The problem is he is lying to us once again. He has very optimistic economic projections and he has only begun to spend! You can expect much, much worse to come.
One positive result of this should be that all those over-the-hill lefty hippie
wannabes might finally have to be quiet about the “obscene’ Bush deficits.
This might be too much to hope for. They are still obsessed with their hatred for George Bush and will never change. The sad part is that they will continue to use the same old, unoriginal mantras, even when they have no idea what they are talking about. There is a slight sliver of hope that this out-of-control leftist liberal can be checked. There is a fiscally conservative coalition of 49 Democrats in the House who
claim to be committed to seriously shrinking the federal deficit.
If they are true to their word, Obama’s plan for ruining this country can be stopped dead in its tracks. This would make the House count of 178 Republicans and 49 “Blue Dog” Democrats” a majority of 227 to 208.
Also, do you think the 66 million Americans who voted for Obama would have still done so had they known what his real agenda was? I’m guessing at least 20 or more million would not have.
Look up the definition of the word “narcissism.” It is defined as “excessive self admiration and self-centeredness. It is a personality disorder characterized by the patient’s overestimation of his or her own appearance and abilities and an excessive need for attention and admiration.”
You might as well put a picture of Obama there as an example. A conservative friend recently sent me an article by a Sam Vaknin, PhD., who has written many articles about narcissism and is the author of the book “Malignant Self Love.”
The article is lengthy but very well supported. To summarize, he says, “Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist.” Send me an e-mail and I can forward it to you.
Lastly, another friend sent me a video clip of a news report done by a very reputable television station that lays out the historical time line. It shows who is responsible for the present mess we are in and those who repeatedly tried to warn Congress about it as far back as 2002.
If anyone wants me to forward a copy, again, just send me a quick e-mail and I will attach it and zip it right back. I know how you lefty libs don’t like to be frustrated with facts, but I’ll send you a copy too, for as long as it stays online.
It looks like Barack is going to give me plenty to write about, for much longer than I had anticipated. I know that has some of you jumping for joy and others looking for the nearest cliff to jump from. Sorry about that.
Obama Can’t Take Criticism
I guess it should have been predictable. Disagree with Barack about anything and he sics his attack dogs on you. How presidential. First it was the Republicans in Congress, the party of “no” as he described them. All because they voted their consciences not to spend the country into bankruptcy. They simply thought the bill should have been debated first, let alone read, before it was voted on. How dare they.
Maybe it was because they didn’t fall for his repeated doom-and- gloom message he loves to preach to convince everyone we are on the brink of something catastrophic and then use his “Trust me, we’ll work out the details later” explanation.
So what has he accomplished so far? After the trillion dollar “stimulus” bill filled with pork, which isn’t going to stimulate anything except for the special-interest groups that were being paid back, he has moved on a $410 billion (loaded with pork again) spending bill and is proposing a $3.6 trillion budget.
This final little item, by itself, spends more as a percent of gross domestic product than any period since World War II. As Tony Blankley, a columnist, points out, “it’s higher than any year during the Bush administration, despite the full costs of 9/11, the Iraq and Afghan wars and the rebuilding of New Orleans after Katrina.”
However, Obama is just getting warmed up. He is now using his “Chicken Little, The Sky is Falling” speech to propose disastrous changes in health care, education, energy and tax policy.
I forgot to mention the abolishing of the secret vote process in unionization elections. It’s the same old, “if we don’t act now it will be the end of the world as we know it.
Maybe he didn’t have the child fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” read to him as
he was growing up. Maybe someone should read it to him now.
Anyway, I think members of his own party are getting a little tired of his worn- out mantra. We can only hope there are some sane members of his party on the other side of the aisle.
Most recently we have the most ridiculous action yet. We have the most powerful person on the face of the Earth worried about a talk-show host. Here is a guy who allows his ego to be bruised so easily and we let him have his hands on the nuclear suitcase. That’s a comforting p
icture.
What Rush Limbaugh did was simply state that he wanted Barack to fail and listed is reasons.
Sure enough, Barack and his minions heard (or wanted to hear) only the first part and then pretended to get all indignant. I guess it makes for some good prime-time viewing, but all it did was make Barack look foolish and Rush’s popularity grow even more.
Congratulations, Barack. You have done more to generate excitement and hope among the Republicans’ conservative base than George Bush and John McCain could ever hope to achieve.
But I too want to see you fail, Barack. You’re taking this country down a Big- Brother, big-government, socialistic path that will lead to the destruction of this great country.
You lie about so many things, I don’t think you realize you are doing it any longer. Or you do, but think you are simply above all the rules set for us normal people.
You promised the highest level of ethics in your administration and then appoint criminal after criminal to key positions. You say you don’t believe in big government but then go on the biggest spending spree in history. You say you will not sign bills that have any pork in them and then go right ahead and do so. Has anyone said “Mental health check,” yet?
The most deceitful one, however, is one taken from the Bill Clinton “How to Lie Convincingly” handbook.
You said in your major speech to the American people how you were going line-by-line through the federal budget to eliminate wasteful and ineffective programs.
You stated, “We have already identified $2 trillion in savings over the next decade.” One of your senior officials had to back off that lie on your behalf when confronted by a reporter.
The aide said that rather than there being $2 trillion in spending cuts, the figure actually was Obama’s efforts at deficit reduction. One trillion of that total represented future tax increases.