Fantasy Island

The Middle East

Democrat Senator Menendez has been extremely critical of this president’s Iran “negotiating” policy.  As with all his other “negotiations,” the other side comes out ahead – they just get more time to shorten the breakout time for nuclear capability.  Now Congress is going forward with a bill to ratchet up sanctions against Iran if yet another "deadline" slips -- kicking the can down the road is what Obama does best. Obama says the bill will be harmful to negotiations, and he'll veto it.  There may be enough non-Kool-Aid-drinking Democrats to override his veto.

Krauthammer on Iran’s growing dominance of the Arab world:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-irans-emerging-empire/2015/01/22/c3098336-a269-11e4-903f-9f2faf7cd9fe_story.html?wprss=rss_charles-krauthammer

And here’s an even bleaker picture of the Arab world, painted by a Lebanese intellectual:  http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/charlie-hebdo-the-time-of-the-assassins-114115.html#.VMHtlyvF98H

Polls show that in France, some 69% of Muslims support ISIS, and in many other countries it’s as high as 40%.

The State of dis-Union

 I had no intention of enduring another Obama SOTU harangue, but couldn’t seem to avoid it on the radio on my drive home from work, or on TV when I arrived.  I expected, and heard, the same soaring, hollow, hypocritical rhetoric that is totally disconnected from reality and what he ever achieves. I heard Prager & Levin rip it apart.  I liked the GOP response. 

Obama claimed that the “shadow of crisis is past” – one fantasy, with the coup in Yemen the other day, where just months ago Obama was citing Yemen as his premier success in the war on terror. 

He gloats over getting us out of 2 wars, but the aftermath of his politically-motivated, premature withdrawals is hard to stomach, as Daniel Henninger says in the Wall Street Journal -- https://www.facebook.com/WSJOpinion/posts/377368489110298.    Daniel says especially so after seeing “American Sniper,” and being reminded of all the hard-won victories and sacrifices that were thrown away, only to let ISIS walk in.  He said that Obama is in his own “fantasy island” of delusions in his speech.

Obama said the state of the union is strong – in what way?  More have given up on employment & are on food stamps than ever before.  The military is weaker.  Race relations are worse.  He’s doubled our debt.  Medical care costs have risen and choices narrowed.  Businesses have fled abroad. 

He promises all kinds of new freebies, with no way to pay for them but even more wealth redistribution.

Obama decried constant fundraising, but he is the one who is constantly in L.A. shaking down the Hollywood elites. 

For all his speaking of one people & unity, he has divided us by races & classes and genders and parties like no other president before.  The state of race relations has deteriorated for no logical reason, but for his and the race-peddlers’ personal, political gain. 

He was quick to gloat over his personal electoral victories, but can’t bring himself to acknowledge the GOP’s huge majorities in the House & Senate, or adjust to a new political reality.  Prager has commented before Obama’s election and multiple times since that he had never seen a person with the self-confidence Obama has – he called it preternatural. 

Now, after he’s done running for office, and the GOP has won control over Congress, he can afford to (or needs to) lecture on civil politics, after all the Dems have done to set the tone.  Of course, with the GOP holding the House & Senate, it’s to the Democrats’ advantage to insist the GOP play nice.  After the years of the shoe on the other foot and no playing nice. 

We need someone as president who can govern, not just talk.  A governor is a natural choice, with executive experience, and the GOP has a wealth of excellent ones.  The Dems have nothing – Hillary & Biden.

When my grandparents immigrated to America, they had to certify that they renounced all allegiance to the crowns of England and Denmark, to be permitted to stay.  I have copies of those certificates.  Muslims, as all others, who come here must do the same.  This includes renouncing all loyalties to ISIS, Al Qaeda, etc.  If found actively supporting those foreign and subversive powers, any citizenship (or pending) should be revoked, and they need to be deported so they can live under the system of their choice – not ours.