Iraq And the Left’s Denial of Reality

I note with some interest today that Michael Yon has released another one of his columns from Iraq.

America seems to be under a glass dome which allows few hard facts from the field to filter in unless they are attached to a string of false assumptions.

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No one who’s actually been to this area in the last month could honestly claim it was swarming with violence. I’ve been with the Brits here for more than two weeks, during which time there have been only a few trivial attacks that could easily have been the work of an angry farmer with extra time on his hands and a mortar in his backyard. As to serious attacks on British forces, in the last eight weeks, there have been exactly zero. So, any stories that make it sound like Basra is in chaos are shamefully false.

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But it wasn’t until I spent that week back in the States that I realized how bad things have gotten. I believe we are witnessing a conspiracy of coincidences conflating to exert an incomprehensibly destructive force on the free press system that we largely take for granted. The fact that the week in question also happened to be when General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker were delivering their reports to Congress makes me wonder if things are actually worse than I’ve assessed, and I returned to Iraq sadly convinced that General Petraeus now has to deal from a deck clearly stacked against him in both America and Iraq.

Yon seems justifiably concerned about the disconnect between the reality of what’s going on in Iraq and the constant drumbeat of the Democrats about how “Iraq is a total failure.”

Billy Hollis over at Q&O notes Yon’s posting and muses:

He wonders, as do I, how something can be such a total failure when the progress in the last six months or so has been so dramatic. And he apparently thinks it’s possible that the “Iraq=failure” narrative is sufficiently established that no amount of evidence will quash it.

He may be right. Certainly there is a segment of the left that will never, ever let go of an idea that fits their ideological predispositions. (Otherwise, there would be no Communists on the left.)

It was at this point in my cross referencing, that something of a revelation occurred. The light went on. Yon says in his post:

I was at home in the United States just one day before the magnitude hit me like vertigo: America seems to be under a glass dome which allows few hard facts from the field to filter in unless they are attached to a string of false assumptions. Considering that my trip home coincided with General Petraeus’ testimony before the US Congress, when media interest in the war was (I’m told) unusually concentrated, it’s a wonder my eardrums didn’t burst on the trip back to Iraq. In places like Singapore, Indonesia, and Britain people hardly seemed to notice that success is being achieved in Iraq, while in the United States, Britney was competing for airtime with O.J. in one of the saddest sideshows on Earth.

The reference to O.J. Simpson, is so offhanded, I doubt that the effect was what he intended. I think however, he could have not possibly come up with a better example of certain among us not seeing the truth of the matter. Come hell or high water or the governor, that jury was going to find him innocent, in what came to be termed “jury nullification”. It didn’t matter what the truth was, they had their preconceived notions going in, and damn it all, they were going to stick to them, regardless of what facts were brought forward. So strong was their support of a fellow member of their race, they could not bring themselves to convict the man.

Most certainly, this is the description of the events on this side of the drink as regards Iraq. No matter what evidence comes up that our presence there is justified, well received by the majority, and is having a calming effect on the region, Regardless of any of that, or for that matter anything else, those wanting us to capitulate to al-Qaida are never going to be convinced that any other path is possible, much less desirable. The degree of denial in effect here can only be described as O.J. Simpson jury- like.

Hollis thinks this denial will disappear in the face of the fact. It’s one reason I’ve always liked Billy; the boy is eternally optimistic. As an interesting side discussion, Billy worries about the effects of the transition :

This could last indefinitely. But let’s suppose, just for argument, that it does not. And let’s assume that the dramatic drop in violence continues and, at least at the local level, Iraq’s governing entities continue to make progress. (I don’t think any of these are far-fetched assumptions.)

The longer the cone of silence stays in place before the mainstream media confronts such changes, the more the change will be evident. And the closer we will be to an election.

I hate to burst your bubble, Billy… but I doubt it. In all likelihood that transition toward the real facts will never occur. I give you Vietnam an example. The Communists military leaders have since told us that we were three to six weeks away from winning the thing. A point that the left has never admitted, even 30 years later.

Even if by some miracle, the left finally came around and admitted that they were wrong, and the press started actually reporting this stuff, (Again, I doubt it) they’d wind up waiting until after the election… Remember; that one major reason for their taking this position of denial in the first place, is the obtaining of political power . Why would they admit that they were wrong, until such time as that power was achieved?

BBCT: Memeorandum 

Yeah, I went and did it, today.

I prepared the camper for the long winter, which basically means we won’t take it out again until April or May.  All that’s left is to move the thing to the storage area.

Because of a few financial problems that came on us unexpectedly, we didn’t get to go out as often as we’d have liked.

Still, we did get out, and we had a great time of it. We made memories worth keeping.

I’ve shown you some of the pics we took, this is my favorite.  This is taken at Lake Erie State Park.. one of our favorite spots to camp..

(Drill for full size… warning… it’s big)

That’s my family down on the shoreline of the lake (yes, the dog, too) taking in one of the best sunsets we’ve ever seen.  These are the moments that we camp for.

As Carly Simon once sang… THESE are the good old days.

And yes, we’re looking forward to next season.

Scott over at PowerLine speaking of the Rush Limbaugh smear letter signed by 41 Democrats in the United States Senate, and the New York Times artcile on the subject

The auction of the letter for the benefit of the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Fund was of course Rush’s ingenious response to the Democrats’ impugning his support for the armed forces. It was his way of embarrassing the senators who, while absurdly attacking him for his lack of support for the armed forces, have not hesitated to undermine our efforts in Iraq, for example, by declaring defeat. The Times is nevertheless happy to let Harry Reid make the auction a sort of joint venture with Rush, quoting Reid on the floor of the Senate yesterday:

“I strongly believe that when we can put our differences aside, even Harry Reid and Rush Limbaugh, we should do that and try to accomplish good things for the American people,” he said.

The Times could have served a useful purpose if it had been able to disclose precisely how Reid put aside his differences with Rush and attempted to accomplish something good for the American people. Did it include seeking to have Rush muzzled? (Rush responded to Reid on his show yesterday: “It wasn’t your letter that raised this money. It was your abuse of power that is responsible for raising this money.”) Did Reid send the Democrats’ letter to Clear Channel as a charitable act? Did the Senate Democrats pitch in with a contribution to the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Fund?Before we leave the subject, I want to revisit a few of the Democrats’ greatest hits expressing support of our armed forces. They provide useful context for the phony “phony soldiers” controversy orchestrated by Hillary Matters and executed by HM’s dutiful Democratic poodles. Here are a few statements previously made by signatories to the letter attacking Rush:

Harry Reid (on “the surge”):

Now I believe, myself, that the secretary of state, the secretary of defense and you have to make your own decision as to what the president knows: that this war is lost, that the surge is not accomplishing anything.

More Harry Reid:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid confirmed Thursday that he told liberal bloggers last week that he thinks outgoing Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Peter Pace is “incompetent.”

He has lots more over their of course.  Go RTWT. At some point there is gonna be a full- on rebellion against the leftist press in this country. Then again, looking at the New York Times,Times, it’s circulation numbers, and its stock prices lately, perhaps that’s already happening.

John Zogby of Zogby International, who has been working awfully hard way to lose credibility of late, has decided to inform us of the most recent poll he’s run, which suggests that over half of America would not vote for Hillary Clinton.

The report says:

The online survey of 9,718 likely voters nationwide showed that 50% said Clinton would never get their presidential vote. This is up from 46% who said they could never vote for Clinton in a Zogby International telephone survey conducted in early March. Older voters are most resistant to Clinton – 59% of those age 65 and older said they would never vote for the New York senator, but she is much more acceptable to younger voters: 42% of those age 18-29 said they would never vote for Clinton for President.

(Shrug)

While mildly interesting, I have to say that this shouldn’t come as a surprise to anybody.  We already knew she’d already teed off at least half the country, with the remaining 50% working realy hard to like her, and not doing it very well at it. This would also be very consistent with the elections of the last several cycles.

Here’s what I mean by that…. and here’s the take -away… The last several cycles have come down to as close to a 50/50 vote as no matter… every single time…

There’s this, too; The Democrats haven’t won the White House with over 50% of the vote, since lBJ…. and that instance only qualifies by a tenth of a point. You have to go back to FDR to find the last time the Democrats won the White House with a real majority.   Are you getting the trend, here, yet?

So why should Hillary Clinton not getting 50% of the vote cause problems, of itself? Granted, it makes the sales job harder, but she knew that going in, if she’s got anything at all on the ball… That statistic has been true since 1965, for pity’s sake, and the trend goes back to the 1930’s.

You’d think Zogby would have at least mentioned the historical context, here, because it puts this poll in a very different perspective.

BBCT: Memeorandum 

Captain Ed, yesterday:

Twenty-two months have passed since Canadians gave Liberals the heave-ho after Adscam, and apparently, Conservative government suits them well. Before the Sponsorship Programme corruption scandal brought down Paul Martin and his administration, the Liberals painted Stephen Harper as a radical with hidden agendas that would shock Canadians. Now, however, almost two-thirds of them are only shocked to find they like him:

With the political battlefield of Parliament returning and with weapons drawn it would appear the largest number of Canadians (63%) believe that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has the ‘right stuff’ of leadership qualities and skills compared to all other federal party leaders. This compares with NDP Leader Jack Layton at 57% and BQ Leader Gilles Duceppe at 63% in his province of Québec (15% nationally), and Opposition and Liberal leader Stephan Dion with the lowest ratings of all of the Federal leaders at 36%. …Given that the Liberals and Conservatives have the highest levels of support among voters across Canada, respondents were asked who they would choose between if they could only vote for either Stephen Harper or Stephan Dion in an election. The results were similar to the leadership attribute ratings noted above: Mr. Harper fared the best with 56% support versus Mr. Dion at 35%.

The news gets even better for Harper on voter enthusiasm. He garners 60% when voters are asked whether they could vote for him, the only national party leader to gain a majority.

Harper is even scoring well in Ontario, and Atlantic Canada as well, both of which are traditionally strongly leftist.  Which is almost precisely the situation as I described it when Harper was first elected.  Now; do you begin to see what I was talking about with Bobby Jindal, yesterday?

Oh, by the way,  there’s been an awful lot of chatter, lately, as regards the Canadian dollar coming up somewhat higher than the American dollar just recently.  Of course, the usual leftist mantra, pins this on President Bush.  I suppose that’s part of it.  But the part that they don’t seem to want to recognize,  is that the other half of the reason is that there is a real conservative running Canada for the first time in decades.

You would think they would release at least that much info. (Shrug)  No guts, I guess.

Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters, remarking about Neil Gabler showing us a little class:

Here’s the partial transcript of this unbelievable moment in television history from Saturday’s “Fox News Watch” (h/t Hot Air, video available here):

I love so many critics of the press in Iraq, you know, can criticize the press, can criticize Lara Logan, and Richard Engel, and others who actually have their boots on the ground there. But I would like to see some of them like Bill Kristol go there, without a bodyguard, walk down the street. If he does so, I will make him this promise: I will attend his funeral.

Honestly, what is going on in this country?

Heh… Leftist desperation, Noel… I would think that much would be blatantly obvious by now.

World oil production has already peaked and will fall by half as soon as 2030, according to a report which also warns that extreme shortages of fossil fuels will lead to wars and social breakdown. —

This is the headline from The Guardian this morning.

The German-based Energy Watch Group will release its study in London today saying that global oil production peaked in 2006 – much earlier than most experts had expected. The report, which predicts that production will now fall by 7% a year, comes after oil prices set new records almost every day last week, on Friday hitting more than $90 (£44) a barrel.

I call meadow muffins.

You know, this business might actually be scary if we hadn’t been hearing exactly the same thing since the 1950’s. But the bottom line is that it’s no more true now, than it was then. Ya see… the one factor that they keep forgetting to add to the mix is that we keep finding new ways to discover the stuff.

Oh… and even the normally leftist and normally pessimistic about economic growth Guardian says:

The results are in contrast to projections from the International Energy Agency, which says there is little reason to worry about oil supplies at the moment.

Of course, you do have to dig down in the article about ten to twelve paragraphs before the point this out.

Think; If… and I say again, if… the scare were real, wouldn’t we start more domestic drilling and refining? But no, the supply and price of oil is being kept artificially high by enviro-whacko laws which prevent us from being energy independent to the degree we can be. Interestingly, these laws are backed by the very same folks who’ve been trying to scare us about oil crashes for 50 years and more, now.

And to what end? Why would they do that?  Well, the same end as Al Gore and his global warming nonsense…. political power, which can only be obtained when our energy supplies are artificially limited. Think I’m kidding? Look at the patterns involved. As an example, look at Billy, this morning:

“Bob Eye, a former state legislator, said of yesterday’s decision: ‘Is it without precedent? Yes, as far as I know, in this state or any other.’ But he argued that ‘CO{-2} . . . is a pollutant, not just because the Sierra Club says it, but because the Supreme Court said it.'”

The Washington Post, reporting on the unprecedented decision of Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s decision to deny permission to build a coal-fired electricity generation plant because of carbon dioxide emissions.

There you have it: now you know what constitutes science, in the gathering Endarkenment.

Doesn’t it kinda make you wonder if the numbers behind what we’re being told about oil shortages aren’t equally questionable, particularly given their track record and what’s at stake?

I’m telling you, gang… this is more scaremongering.

Nothing more.

BBCT: Memeorandum

Jake Tapper, ABC News, reports on the opening day of Wabbit season: 

Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., the dean of the New York congressional delegation, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, longtime political booster of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and a member of the steering committee for “Veterans and Military Retirees For Hillary” has joined another co-chair of the Clinton campaign, former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, in attacking the personal life of Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani.

Pejman Yousefzadeh suggest that Charlie just opened the wrong door:

Does Charlie Rangel really want to open the door to various . . . er . . . conversations about the personal lives of certain Presidential candidates? And for that matter, does Tom Vilsack?

You would think that this kind of issue would be the last one that allies of the Clintons would dare touch. A little electoral arrogance that needs a comeuppance, perhaps?

Mrs. Clinton is in words of Rush Limbaugh is “The most cheated on woman in America“, via Hot Air.   This is a bedroom door that Mrs. Clnton’s allies should have never opened.

Yeah, I saw some of it. I didn’t have a chance to go over the transcripts, yet, though. Just a few reactions from here:

I did tune in just in time to see Rudy steal?  a?  BitsBlog line

“I’ve been very critical of her, but I want to tell her I agree with this one. Quote, Hillary Clinton, ‘I have a million ideas; America cannot afford them all.’ I’m not making it up. I am not making it up,” Giuliani said to laughter. “No kidding Hillary — American can’t afford you.”

See, the problem is, I’m too damned lazy to copyright this stuff.

Hey, Rudy, get one of your people to hire me, I’m available as a consultant. Then again, I’m not clear I’d want to work for you. Too much history to erase.

Best soundbite came up as a sidebar to Rudy’s snark, from one of Lutz’s people:

? “She’s got a million ideas, and all of those ideas are something that America is not.”

Clearly, it’s not wabbit season anymore… it’s Hillary Clinton season. It’s a fair enough cop… even if she doesn’t win the nomination, she is emblematic for about half of what is wrong with the left these days. The other half falls to her left, and is even more wrong.

And by the way, I’m sympathetic with Rudy on the homosexual marriage issue, but since when does he have thing one to do with constitutional amendments?

Speaking of history and erasure, there’s always Ron Paul, with his donations from Holocaust deniers. It’s the one topic he won’t say anything about. So much for him being principle driven.?  Though he will prattle on (through loud boos) about how supposedly 70% of the American people want us to cut and run in Iraq. One of the Iowa folks calls Ron Paul insane, showing a firm grip on reality… and predictably, that putz Alan Colmes defends him. Gee, what a shock.

Hunter is the runner up for the Ron Paul award, to say no more. Cuban freedom fighters? How about the welfare state, being the root of the problem, huh? Putz.

Huckabee isn’t worth mentioning. He’s got “Islamic fascism” labeled correctly, and given what the Democarts have been offering…(and Ron Paul) that’s important… but that’s his best line of the night, far as I can tell.

Tancredo was and is too narrowly focused to take seriously.

? John McCain got a zinger or two in, but he’s coming dangerously close to doing a John Kerry ... (you do know he was a POW, right?) Even absent his RINO problems, he’s adding to his ‘damaged goods’ status, here.

Fred sounded stronger to my ears. In fact I thought he was the hands down winner, but then I’ve always liked him anyway. Henke says he was liveblogging over there at Fredfile, but I’ve not had a chance to check that one out yet.

One thought that occurred to me is that the folks on stage were able to better prepare without Brownback around. Never know what position he was gonna come up with and thereby never knew what you’d have to counter with.

Hotair has more.?

Sad news from Dallas, tonight….

Army Spc. John Austin Johnson seemed to have a gift for evading tragedy. During two years in Iraq, the soldier from Fort Bliss, in West Texas, survived five improvised explosive device blasts and several grenade attacks.

“A lot of people go through one IED and don’t survive,” said Army Sgt.  1st Class Eugene Schmidt.

But Spc. Johnson’s luck began to turn with the last IED blast, which left him with a traumatic brain injury. Back in Texas for care at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, he was eagerly awaiting a visit by his wife and three children last weekend.

But the children never arrived.

“I went up to his room and told him there was a problem,” said Sgt. Schmidt, an Army medic who has grown close to the family over the last week. “I told him there was an accident and two of his children were deceased.

Good God.

(Sigh)

I can’t even begin to imagine being put through something like that.  My heart goes out to this soldier and his family.

What’s good though, is the way local people are coming together about this:

As word of the family’s loss spread, support from the military, businesses and strangers poured in. One anonymous donor provided five burial plots in the veterans’ section of Pinecrest Memorial Park in Alexander, Ark., where Spc. Johnson’s grandfather is buried. Another purchased markers for Logan and Ashley.

American Airlines provided seven roundtrip tickets to the funeral, set for Tuesday in Alexander, Ark., and groups such as Soldiers’ Angels, Warrior & Family Support Center and Operation Provide Comfort took care of hotel accommodations, food and travel expenses between West Texas and Dallas.

“It’s been a pleasure and an honor to help them,” Mrs. White-Brunner said.

The Johnsons have been amazed by the flood of support.

Michelle Malkin is also running this story, and she notes:

Donations to help the family cover expenses can be made to the John A. and Monalisa Johnson Fund at any Bank of America

Also blogging: The Jawa Report

BCCT: Memeorandum

Sherman Fredrick in the Las Vegas Review Journal:

The political headline of last week, “Reid’s popularity falls among Nevadans,” wasn’t all that surprising. Nevada‘s never been particularly wild about Harry Reid. But he’s always managed to cobble enough of a constituency to ward off opponents, even if by the narrowest of margins.

The surprise was in the degree of voter disenchantment. The poll commissioned by the Las Vegas Review-Journal showed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s unfavorable rating had moved past the 50 percent mark — 51 percent, to be precise. His favorable rating was 32 percent, 2 points lower than embattled, lame duck President George W. Bush.

As bad as the ratings were, you could see it coming.

In fact, I did. In a column published May 21, 2006, I wrote that if Sen. Reid continued to kowtow the liberal wing of his party, “Nevada voters will march to the polls and replace (him), thus ending one of the longer, more powerful political runs in state history.”

(An aside… once again the voice of David Obey echoes loudly)

Let me spell out Harry’s problem. No one can win a statewide race in Nevada on a platform that appears anti-military, anti-family, anti-marriage, anti-religion, anti-free speech, pro-illegal immigration, pro-abortion, and pro-taxation. While Harry isn’t all of that personally, he clearly projects elements of them all when he’s doing the bidding of his party on the national stage.

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The good news for Reid is there’s about three years before he’s up for re-election. That’s still a lot of time for this lion in the winter. Nevertheless, you’d have to be the dumbest of all asses to close your eyes and pretend this is a sampling or methodology error. I promise you that’s not how Reid’s inner circle views it. They take it seriously because they know nobody carries a high unfavorable number into an election and reasonably expects to survive.

So I look for Harry to tone down the liberal rhetoric, shut up about Limbaugh, and do all he can locally to turn these negative numbers around. The Las Vegas Sun will do its part by providing glowing coverage of his exploits. Then, in about 12 to 18 months, he’ll perform an internal re-election reality check.

If his numbers are as bad then as they are today, he’ll retire. Maybe take a cushy job with President Hillary Clinton’s administration.

Well, I’ll add a prediction to that one; if it comes to that, you can pretty much figure that the Democrats are a dead letter in Nevada for at least a couple of decades.

But you know, there is an interesting wrinkle to all of this, in the Chris Dodd debacles.  That little run in with Chris Dodd cost him in Liberal circles, too.  Whereas before that happening, the Democrats would have been quite willing to pour a large amounts of cash into any reelection campaign Mr. Reid might care to mount.  with the Dodd thing… and a number of other internal squabbles happening, of late, I’m not so sure.

The best situation that Mr. Reid can hope for, is to be balanced on the head of the pin.  He can’t possibly go too far to the right to satisfy the voters at home and retain Democratic party leadership, and Democratic party funding for his campaigns.  On the other hand, he can’t go too far to the left to satisfy the Democratic party, without alienating his voters at home.  In the end, I think this is going to be far too complex a balancing act for Peter O’Toole…. err….Harry Reid….  to handle.

BBCT: Memeorandum 

Also blogging:  Blue Crab Boulevard, Betsy’s Page

Gee… sounds like a movie title, huh?

Just a quick note; Chris Muir’s Day by Day should be back online tommrow.. a week early as I gather it. Nice to have him back in the mix.

Mark Steyn today:

Last Thursday, Nancy Pelosi, as is the fashion, used the phrase “the children” like some twitchy verbal tic, a kind of Democrat Tourette’s syndrome: “This is a discussion about America’s children … We could establish ourselves as the children’s Congress … Come forward on behalf of the children … I tried to do that when I was sworn in as speaker surrounded by children. It was a spontaneous moment, but it was one that was clear in its message: we are gaveling this House to order on behalf of the children.”

Etc. So what is the best thing America could do “for the children”? Well, it could try not to make the same mistake as most of the rest of the Western world and avoid bequeathing the next generation a system of unsustainable entitlements that turns the entire nation into a giant Ponzi scheme…

…I’m in favor of tax credits for child health care, and Health Savings Accounts for adults, and any other reform that emphasizes the citizen’s responsibility to himself and his dependants. But middle-class entitlement creep would be wrong even if was affordable, even if Bill Gates wrote a check to cover it every month: it turns free-born citizens into enervated wards of the Nanny State. As Gerald Ford likes to say when trying to ingratiate himself with conservative audiences, “A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have.” But there’s an intermediate stage: A government big enough to give you everything you want isn’t big enough to get you to give any of it back. As I point out in my book, nothing makes a citizen more selfish than socially equitable communitarianism: Once a fellow’s enjoying the fruits of Euro-style entitlements, he couldn’t give a hoot about the general societal interest; he’s got his, and who cares if it’s going to bankrupt the state a generation hence?

That’s the real “war on children”: in Europe, it’s killing their future. Don’t make the same mistake here.

That’s all this has ever come down to.  What Mark is warning about here, is precisely what the Democrats, particularly Hillary Clinton, want to inflict on us.

The big question at this point, is why Republicans are going along with this nonsense?  Why do they not argue from the standpoint of government takeover of health care is a complete disaster, to the exact agree which government takes over health care, (I suppose Medicare and Medicaid to be examples of this, to say nothing of the failures of socialist heath care in the UK and Canada ) .  Every time you seem Republicans arguing about this stuff, recently, they seem to be accepting the idea that government needs to be involved with this process.  It’s about time the Republicans started arguing that government needs to be removed from the process.

The real problem here as Steyn points out, is the illusion on the part of many of the American people about all this:

The Frosts are not emblematic of the health care needs of America so much as they are of the delusion of the broader Western world. They expect to be able to work “part-time” and “intermittently” but own two properties and three premium vehicles and have the state pick up health care costs. Who do you stick with the bill? Four-car owners? Much of France already lives that way: A healthy, wealthy, well-educated populace works a mandatory maximum 35-hour week with six weeks of paid vacation and retirement at 55 and with the government funding all the core responsibilities of adult life.

Certainly, in France, as in Boston and San Francisco, and apparently Washington DC, “rich” is defined as “Anyone making dollar one more than I do”.  The problem is, that the system in France is about ready to implode on itself, given the overwhelming costs involved. Costs which even massive tax increases could not cover.  Thus do we have Sarkozy running things over there these days, and trying to rein in the governmental intrusion into private concerns, such as health care. The Swiss, similarly, are swinging right... but possibly too late to matter much. Our beloved press isn’t giving us the truth about this, and so the argument continues to originate from fantasyland, where everything is free, nobody ever has to work for anything, nobody ever has to make hard decisions, and whatever hard decisions and up being made, are paid for by the magical mystical government for whom money grows on trees.

Europe is starting to realize that it has dug its own grave with this stuff. They’re currently fighting for their lives, as they try to get out from underneath the huge debt mountain they’ve buried themselves under.  We haven’t found out about that yet, apparently.  Yes, our leftist press. However, if we let the Democrats anywhere near the White House, I suspect we’re going to get a rapid and painful education in the matter.

And think about this, for just a moment; The explosive costs involved with the kind of programs that the Democrats are proposing are going to be imposed on our children in the form of interest payments. Our children will be forced to figure out how to unravel the socialistic nonsense we’ve saddled them with…. just as the French are doing just now.

Tell me again, if you will, Mrs Clinton, whom it is that has declared war on children.

(BBCT: Michelle Malkin , Memeorandum)

This is Molly, enjoying the morning sunshine streaming through the window, the other morning.  On sunny mornings this is her favorite spot to sit. I just missed catching her with all four feet in the air… her usual position.

That’s the camper in the driveway, behind her.

The Jawa report:

  Exposed as the quote-mining, lying little wingnuts that they are, the site monitors have resorted to stiffling dissent. Just a little too much dissent going on over there – only those echoing the leftwing mantras and who aren’t pointing out their lies are permitted.

Apparently, being called out on their lies as regards  Stark Raving Looney, yesterday, wasn’t enough.

They’re now two for two.