It’s amazing how willing even intelligent people are to accept as truth conspiracy-tinged nonsense when it comes to gas prices, especially when so much of it is being peddled by those with their own agendas. The latest reminder was the launch of the website StopOilSpeculationNow.com, a project by the airlines to get Congress to crack down on the evil speculators who supposedly are fueling (no pun intended) high oil prices. Two smart friends mentioned this campaign to me, one of whom was the recipient of the email blast send to frequent fliers. This sort of cynical exercise is really pathetic. Does anyone seriously believe that if the airlines could get Congress to pass a law declaring a national emergency requiring every able-bodied adult to work as a volunteer baggage handler for 10 hours a week, they wouldn’t do it in a heartbeat? And what better way for politicians, especially, but not exclusively, democrat politicians, who are always looking for someone to blame for their own failures, to distract the voters from their ideologically-driven obstructionist refusal to allow domestic oil drilling offshore and in ANWR than to blame futures markets, which almost no one understands?

The activities of speculators have as much effect on the underlying price of oil as the bettors have on the outcome of the Super Bowl. If democrats really want to punish them–and let’s face it, other than raising taxes, is there anything democrats like more than punishing capitalists?–they should immediately support drilling anywhere and everywhere. With the announcement that we are finished unilaterally surrendering to the sheiks and Hugo Chavez, the price of oil would fall and the bubble will burst faster than Pat Leahy, Chuckie Schumer or Dick “Eddie Haskell” Durbin or any other demagogue can say “windfall profits tax.”

I am truly sick of corporate weasels who are all for free markets until their industries are buffeted by their inevitable vicissitudes, at which time they whine to the government to rescue them. When they do, they always find willing accomplices in Congress, who hope to make political hay out of the latest “crisis.” Man up, boys, take your skirts off, put on your big boy pants, and deal with reality. It is not optional. Instead of wasting time putting up stupid websites and lobbying Congress, maybe you guys should invest a little effort trying to make sure my bag and I get to the same destination at the same time.

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I’m sure that as we all wait for the latest profundities from the Titan of the TelePrompTer, His Majesty of the Metaphor, the Sultan of Speechifyin’, democrat messiah Barack Hussein Obama, in the Iraq speech he’s giving later today, we’re hoping that in addition to the brilliant foreign policy insights he’ll share, he’ll also do some of that great standup that he did last week. You remember–when he told us that we had to make sure our kids all learn Spanish. What a knee slapper that was, especially when the punch line was in French. In case you missed it, here’s what the man-god said:

“I agree that immigrants should learn English,” Obama said. “But instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English — they’ll learn English — you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish. You should be thinking about how can your child become bilingual. We should have every child speaking more than one language.”

Which the AP said isn’t what he said, proving yet again that whatever he says, he says what he says he said, even if its different from what he actually said. Yes, the devil’s greatest trick was convincing humanity he didn’t exist. I’m not saying that He Who Walks on Water is the devil, of course, but when he does the stand up routine, I say, Barack, Babe, don’t quit your day job. If you feel the need to try out your latest schtick, you could always fall back on “the devil made me do it.” After all, it worked for the late great Flip Wilson.

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If BHO and his socialism-at-home, surrender-abroad agenda weren’t so scary, he would be an unintentional laugh riot. I mean seriously, “I’ve now been in 57 states?” It makes Dan Qualye’s “potatoe” look erudite. Maybe there was something to that Miss Teen South Carolina’s suggestion that we U.S. Americans are map-deprived after all. Or maybe that’s just people who went to Harvard, who can be forgiven for forgetting that there are any places in this country other than Cambridge, Manhattan, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco.

Of course, BHO and his effete elitist embrace of all things European (confiscatory taxation, rationed health care, and the related delights of socialism, government officials riding in limos deciding when and where the citizens who pay their salaries will be able to travel in cramped subways because they can no longer afford their cars, the appeasement of head chopping lunatics), is scary. Anyone who is even considering voting for this character either isn’t paying attention or should have his head examined. Surrender is surrender, whether it’s to some bearded lunatic with a filthy rag on his head, ranting about his determination to murder every American on earth, or whether it’s to some bearded sheik with a tablecloth on his head, or something that looks like a tablecloth to me, demanding that we pay $100 a barrel for oil because of liberals’ maniacal devotion to 1970’s era restrictions on exploiting our considerable domestic oil resources. I know that liberal democrats’ idea of a “new” idea is the New Deal, which when you think about it was new when you consider its origin in 19th century Marxism, and that they want to return to Carter-era policies, but just because Obama and his party are living in a time warp doesn’t mean the rest of us should have to suffer. Oil exploration has come a long way since that first Earth Day, but the democrats want to hold all of us hostage to their silly, outdated notions of “environmentalism.” Barack Obama admitted that he isn’t troubled by $4/gallon gas. Of course he’s not. He doesn’t believe in American exceptionalism. That’s why he’s “embarrassed” by Americans who, unlike the Europeans he admires, don’t speak more than one language. He doesn’t get that the reason that they speak English isn’t because they want to. It’s because they have to because English is the language of international business, of air traffic control and of entertainment worldwide. Why? Because we are the shining city on the hill, as Ronald Reagan reminded us. America is the place where freedom makes anything possible. Barack Obama doesn’t get that. He doesn’t share my belief that being an American means being able to shoot your gun, say what you want and to drive, and drive fast, where you want when you want. That’s why he has the audacity of dope to say that “we can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times …and then just expect that every other countries will say ok. Hey, Obama, you know what I say? To borrow a phrase from your campaign, yes we can.

Connect the dots, people, before its too late.

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This morning while I was thinking about the latest snark I am going to post here about He Who Walks on Water I learned that Tony Snow died. Even though I had not talked to him lately, I will always remember Tony because of his kindness to me and my family back in 2004 when our radio shows were aired on Chicago’s Big 89, WLS. The station had an event at the Chicago Theater to celebrate its 80th birthday, called “Stars on Stage.” I was thrilled to be a part of it. Tony and Rush Limbaugh were the actual stars, of course. Imagine my delight when I learned that Tony’s dressing room was right next to mine! We spent a lot of time hanging out, talking about our respective shows, but also about our families. Like me, Tony and his wife Jill are dog lovers, and I commiserated with him about a recent incident involving a huge vet bill, which he seemed more than happy to pay because the dog involved was ok. Late in the day, my sister-in-law and her husband, who were in audience, told me that they were huge Tony fans and wondered if they could meet him. When I asked Tony, a tad tentatively because I figured he must get sick of people bugging him for autographs and other attention, he smiled that wonderful smile and said “Of course! Bring them up!” So they came up to Tony’s dressing room and spent a few minutes talking to him. It meant the world to them, and to me. He was exceptional in many ways: his intelligence, his wit, his command of the language, but most of all because he was a genuine human being who treated everyone the way he would like to be treated. A good test of a person’s character is how he treats those who can’t possibly do anything to benefit him, just because. Just because we’re all bozos on this bus. Tony understood that.

He, Jill, the children, and of course, the dogs, will be in my prayers, and I hope to see him again.

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I am one happy bitter clinger today, although I must admit that my glee over the Supreme Court’s gun decision today is restrained by my mystification over the persistence of some Americans to refuse to face reality about their messiah, Barack Hussein Obama. Hey Kool-Aid drinkers, denial is not just a river in Egypt, and you all have a case of denial that makes Dennis Kucinich look like he has a stranglehold on reality.

Barack Hussein Obama is now and always has been a dyed-in-the-wool extreme, crypto-Marxist liberal. On every important public policy issue, he marches in absolute lockstep with the orthodox left.

His ideas are as fresh and new as FDR’s cigarette holder, and like that cigarette holder, they also reek. The issue of gun control is no exception. Whether it’s supporting local gun bans, opposing right to carry laws or voting to allow frivolous lawsuits designed to destroy legitimate businesses that sell firearms, he’s there, 100% behind these wrong-headed, anti-freedom policies. There’s more. It’s all here, including the footnotes. There is absolutely no doubt about it, and no way that anyone with more a single digit IQ could be confused about where the man-god stands and has always stood on this issue. As recently as last November, he told the Chicago Tribune that he thought the DC gun ban law was constitutional. Now suddenly the Obama campaign claims that his previous statement was “inartful” because he supports the 2nd amendment, but also supports “common sense gun control.” For definition of what he means by “common sense gun control,” see the link above. This character believes in the 2nd amendment the way Kristie Alley believes in portion control, or the way I believe in the designated hitter, that is, not at all.

Watching the members of the Obama campaign, both those officially on the payroll, and those who aren’t, the members of his fawning fan club in the dino-media, I get the impression that we’re all supposed to pretend that there’s some mystery about where he stands, breathlessly waiting for He Who Walks on Water to utter that perfectly articulate explanation of his “nuanced” position that will reconcile the irreconcilable inconsistency between being in favor of the right of individuals to keep and bear arms while also being in favor of gun bans, endless lawsuits against gun manufacturers and permitting criminal prosecution of law-abiding citizens who use guns in self defense. This head scratching act (When we he tell us where he stands on the 2nd amendment? We can’t wait for him to “clarify” his position!) is cynical and insulting. I’m sure that Hal DeMar isn’t confused about where Obama stands, and you shouldn’t be either.

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Sorry, Senator, but I have to sit this one out. Feel free, though, to once again do your patented two-step with your zombified supporters. Your latest involves yesterday’s Supreme Court decision, Kennedy v. Louisiana, in which the Court invalidated a Louisiana statute imposing the death penalty for rape of a child under 12. In his opinion, Justice Kennedy wrote “I checked with my peeps in Europe and they said this statute was horrific, barbaric, and typical of what you’d expect from mouth-breathing right-wing Christians in the southern part of the United States. Plus how can I let them execute my cousin?” OK, he didn’t say that. At least I don’t think he did. I haven’t read the opinion, but will I be surprised if I find references to European laws, the obscure writings of some philosopher in Madagascar, or anything else other than our Constitution? Not bloody likely.

But back to He Who Walks on Water. After the decision yesterday, he rushed to the mic to denounce the decision, telling us how he disagrees with it, how heinous the crime is, blah blah blah; that is, to use his phrase the usual okey-doke. Once again, the masquerade is on. The question isn’t whether the senator agrees or disagrees with the result. The question is whether he agrees or disagrees with the reasoning that facilitated the result. That reasoning says that the Imperial Supreme Court can come in, and regardless of what the legislature in Louisiana decided, substitute its opinion and flush the laws the people’s representatives enacted down the toilet. The arguments made in favor of overturning this statute might have merit. That’s not the point. The point is that it should be up to state legislature to decide, not a passel of black-robed, Ivy league elitists who couldn’t be more out of touch with American values if they were Mars.

The opinion was 5-4. The dissenters were Justices Roberts, Scalia, Thomas and Alito, the latter of which Obama said he would filibuster to keep off the Court. Here’s what he said last year about what factors he would consider when selecting nominees to the Court:

“We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom,” Obama told a Planned Parenthood conference in Washington, D.C., in 2007 “The empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that’s the criteria by which I’m going to be selecting my judges.”

And no doubt the empathy to understand what it’s like to be a low-life scumbag who rapes his 8 year-old step-daughter.

So there you have the Obama two-step again: denounce the very action that you can’t wait to get into office to encourage.

We are awaiting the DC gun ban decision later, which you will probably recall was another notable example of the man-god’s tap dancing. Stay tuned.

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One of my best friends, a devout Roman Catholic, reminded me recently that you should always watch out for the guy who is first in line for communion, or who has the longest rosary. I never really understood the whole rosary thing, and I say that with no disrespect, but I do understand his point: beware of the person who wears his superior morality on his sleeve. I say that goes a thousand times for a politician who claims to be above politics. If it wasn’t already obvious that this empty suit the dems have put up to lead the free world, a product of the Chicago political machine denying that he is a politician is the equivalent of the long rosary guy, it should be now. As you no doubt have heard, the man-god, Barack Hussein Obama (D-Big Bucks) announced that he will be the first presidential candidate since Richard Nixon to forego public financing in the general election. This decision despite saying last November “If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election.” I guess we can expect that if elected he will be equally aggressive in protecting us from our enemies.

And by the way, this is where a shout out to the Republican nominee is due. Hey, Senator McCain, nice job getting the money out of politics with your idiotic , anti-free speech campaign financing law. You and Rich Feingold can stamp your feet all you want, while He Who Walks on Water spends your campaign into the ground and our country into Jimmy Carter’s second term.

Senator McCain is not the only one expressing disappointment over Barack’s latest flip flop (see Jerusalem, NAFTA). It has been called “hypocrisy at its worst,” and “insincere” by the do-gooder group Public Citizen. The WaPo called “his effort to cloak his broken promise in the smug mantle of selfless dedication to the public good is a little hard to take,” and said “politicians do what politicians need to do. But they ought to spare us the self-congratulatory back-patting while they’re doing it.

Even Associated Press pointed out that Obama “chose winning over his word.”

So what? Does anyone thing Obama almost cares about any of these critics? To him, they are a minor and very ephemeral nuisance. They are right, of course, but all Obama cares about is winning. That’s all he’s ever cared about. What part of Chicago pol do people not understand? David Brooks had it right on Friday: “Just try to imagine Mister Rogers playing the agent Ari in “Entourage” and it all falls into place.”

The story behind the story is that if the public campaign financing system is “broken” as Obama says, why are he and the other democrats contributing to the continuing hobbling of the FEC by refusing to confirm President Bush’s nominees? And here’s the best part–why did the man-god oppose Hans von Spakosky? Mr. Ethics in Government and Count Every Vote opposed this nominee to the FEC because when he was a Justice Dept. lawyer, Mr. Von Spakovsky had a role in approving a Georgia law that requires voters to present a photo ID at the polling place. Even democrats are having a tough time using that shriveled fig leaf of an argument that the photo ID requirement “discriminates” against the poor, the elderly, or whatever mascot of the week they decide to use because everyone knows that if you are concerned about the integrity of the vote, you don’t want illegal aliens and felons voting in demagogues who will give them government handouts. Even Jimmy Carter isn’t buying it, for crying out loud. Everyone that is except people who believe that a Chicago politician is the savior who can rescue our country from corruption.

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Barack Hussein Obama will not save the world all on his own. He will have the able assistance of his impressive brain trust of foreign policy advisers. Here’s one:

That’s right: former Clintonista and occasional party girl for the world’s dictators Madeleine Albright. Here’s a list of the rest.

Warren Christopher? Greg Craig–the guy who helped deliver an innocent child to Castro? Clintonista Richard “Winnie the Pooh” Danzig? Are you kidding me?

Speaking of Mr. Hope and Change, there was an interesting article in yesterday’s WaPo, entitled “Why We’re Gloomier Than the Economy.”
On one level, it as unintentionally hilarious to see another MSM propaganda outlet engage in head scratching over why many Americans have a distorted impression of our economy–Gee, why could that be? Could it be the incessant drumbeat (or do you say dumb beat?) from the likes of the WaPo and friends over “the end of the American dream,” ” an economy as bad as the great depression,” and similar drivel? We’re talking about change here, though, not more of the same, which is why I found the following passage quite interesting:

“But so far, the economy is holding up better than it did during the last two recessions in 1990 and 2001. Employers haven’t shed as many jobs, the unemployment rate is still relatively low, and gross domestic product has kept rising. Things are nowhere near as bad as they were in the Great Depression, or even during the severe recession of 1982-83. The last time consumers were this miserable, in May 1980, the jobless rate was 7.5 percent and inflation was 14.4 percent. Now those numbers are 5.5 percent and 4.2 percent respectively.”

MMM …who was president in May, 1980? Ask any Obama Kool-Aid drinkers that you know, particularly the wet behind the ears ones, if they know.

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I just saw Joy Behar on “Larry King” say that Hitler could soften his image by coming on “The View” the way Malignant Michelle did today. This “hilarious” comment came in response to Larry’s reference to the article in the Liberal Death Star (the New York Times for you new readers) detailing the strategy by the Obama campaign to give Michelle “someone give us something” Obama an image makeover. I guess they don’t think that the angry poster girl for affirmative action with all the distasteful baggage–you know, the sense of entitlement, the rage, the condescension–that goes along with it won’t play in Peoria. Better she should keep wearing the Wilma Flintstone big pearls than that chip on her shoulder the size of the Sears Tower she’s been toting around for at least as long as the 20 years she and the her old man have been in Jeremiah Wright’s “God d–m America” amen chorus.

This “View” appearance by the woman that National Review very accurately called “Mrs. Greivance,” was not for the faint-hearted. If you decide to watch this trainwreck, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

“What is your answer to all these attacks?” asked pathetic Castro-loving fossil Barbara Walters, referring to Mrs. Obama’s remark that she’s finally proud of her country. The late Tim Russert has been lauded as a hero for almost a week for confronting politicians with their previous statements, but he was an exception to the rule that says when you confront liberals with their actual statements or voting records it is a “vicious, mean-spirited attack.” “Of course I’m proud of my country. No where but in America could my story be possible,” mouthed the Malignant one. Where have I heard that before? Wasn’t it in the man-god’s speech in at the Dem convention in 2004? You remember, the one that had the MSM wetting their pants. This line was definitely familiar. Repeat after me: Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.

We also learned that Michelle never wanted her husband to go into politics because it is a “mean” business. Of course it is Michelle because this is a “mean country,” right? Just how stupid does this lippy broad think we are? She used to work for Mayor Daley for crying out loud, and we’re supposed to believe she and the former “community organizer” (government paid troublemaker) weren’t interested in politics?

Then this embarrassing hen party turned into a love fest/”let me explain what I really meant” party for Mrs. O. Of course, the “conservative” airheaded Elisabeth Hasselbeck didn’t disappoint, joining the slobbering along with the liberal hags.

Speaking of race, Whoppi asked Michelle about BHO’s speech on Father’s Day “one of the greatest Father’s Day speeches ever,” about fathers not taking responsibility, acting like boys, blah blah–you know, all the stuff that Bill Cosby got hammered for saying 4 or 5 years ago. Not once did any of this clueless bunch address the obvious point: the very policies that socialists like Barack and Michelle Obama advocate are the ones that helped destroy the black family.

A new low: Whoppi G suggesting that it was “time for the country to have a little diversity training.” She also thanked her for appearing on television frequently because “anytime you see black folks on tv particularly women they have no teeth and the teeth that they have have gold around them and they can’t put a sentence together.” I’m so glad that BHO’s candidacy has nothing to do with race, aren’t you?

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“I was coming to support him, and I felt like I was discriminated against.
The message that I thought was delivered to us was that they do not want him associated with Muslims or Muslim supporters.”
Hebba Aref, headscarf clad Detroit lawyer barred from camera shot at Obama event where Al Gore endorsed Mr. Not Ready for Prime Time

The jokes on you, Hebba. For once the Rev. Wrong was right: He Who Walks on Water is nothing more than a politician, and also a flaming liberal, which means that nothing makes him angrier than when someone tells the truth about him, as in saying that he is nothing more than a politician. Mr. Hope and Change is really Mr. Been There Done That, as in “why would I want to vote for George McGovern or Jimmy Carter when I (a) had more sense than to do it the first time or (b) did it once and have regretted it ever since? Is it just me, or do you find it hilarious that his campaign spokesman is saying that the banning of these Muslim women from Obama’s photo op is an outrageous violation of campaign policy? Yeah right. Far better to ban certain attendees from being in a camera shot and risk their being offended than to have any photographic evidence of Barack Hussein Obama being supported by anyone who might remind observers that he’s the candidate that Hamas thinks is the bee’s knees. You can always come back and say you are shocked, shocked á la Louie in “Casablanca” that someone was discriminated against.

As for the disillusioned Obama Kool-Aid drinker Hebba, she reminds me of Dave Stoller in “Breaking Away” after the Italian cyclists, who Dave idolized, exhibited their true colors by attacking their talented young admirer because that was the only way these rotten cheaters could win. It’s got to hurt to discover that your messiah is nothing more than a backstabbing, two-faced phony who will do anything to win, but better to find out now than later. As bad as it is to face the painful truth about your hero, it’s far worse when your starry-eyed stupidity takes the country down the sewer.

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“These are the same guys who helped to engineer the distraction of the war in Iraq at a time when we could’ve pinned down the people who actually committed 9/11. In part because of their failed strategies, we’ve got bin Laden still sending out audio tapes and so I don’t think they have much standing to suggest that they’ve learned a lot of lessons from 9/11.”
Barack Obama, 6/17/08
I guess what we should all ask ourselves is would we prefer bin Laden sending out audio tapes, as he allegedly is today (I say “allegedly” because for all I know it’s the jihadist version of Darryl Hammond on those tapes–why no video? MMM?), or sending Mohammed Atta and friends to slam a jetliners into American skyscrapers?

Once again, Mr. Not Ready for Prime Time proves how dangerous his naive, Ivy League view of the world really is. Last night on “Nightline” he told ABC’s Jake Tapper that he supports the Clinton-Kerry way to fight the millions of headchopping fanatics who want to murder as many Americans as possible. You remember that idea: terrorism is a law enforcement matter to be handled by prosecutors, not soldiers. That’s great when you’re dealing with the perp who stuck up the 7/11, but we’re dealing with 9/11, not 7/11. BHO thinks that we should deal with guys like bin Laden and Atta the way we dealt with the guys who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993 because that worked out so well. The only problem is dealing with these terrorists the way that Bill Clinton handled it in 1993 led directly to 9/11. The terrorists were not “incapacitated” after 1993, as Barack Hussein told Jake Tapper they were last night on “Nightline.” They were at war with us for 8 years, plotting in their terrorist staging area, and eventually killing 2974 innocent people.
Let me say it again.This blithering idiot is very dangerous, even more dangerous than his ideological predecessor, the King of the Useful Idiots, Jimmy Carter.

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