Executive Issues
« Previous EntriesThe Audacity of Debt: Obama’s Plan to Bankrupt the U.S. for Generations
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009What is bigger than the New Deal? Larger than the Apollo program? And more sizeable than the Manhattan Project? Answer: Barack Hussein Obama Jr.’s proposed deficit spending plan.
The president-elect has the audacity to think that massive government debt — about $1 trillion dollars — equates with hope. He’s utterly wrong, and his arrogance will bankrupt our [...]
Krauthammer: Panetta pick surprising, shocking
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009Columnist Charles Krauthammer, speaking on the nomination of Leon Panetta to be CIA director, opines, ”This is somewhere between surprising and shocking. Choosing someone with no experience in intelligence to head CIA at a time of two wars, what we saw in India just a few weeks ago, bad guys out there trying to do collect weapons [...]
Is the Obama White House going to re-institute the military draft?
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009Media commentary today and in recent days indicates that there is the possibility that the Obama White House will reinstitute the draft as part of its “stimulus plan” to “create” several million new jobs in the U.S.
One wonders how the idealistic, youthful, leftist Obama voters — most of whom don’t even know the names of [...]
Democrats Deny Burris Seat in Senate
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
“Dirty” Harry Reid, the Democratic, Senate majority leader, and his leftist cronies, have prohibited Senator-Designate Roland Burris from taking his oath of office as a U.S. Senator. “There’s nothing wrong with Roland Burris and there’s nothing wrong with this appointment,” said Burris. “Governor Blagojevich is still the governor. He signed the papers for the special [...]
Leon Panetta Pick Signals Obama Will Relent on War on Terror to ‘Civil Rights’ Concerns of Al-Qaeda
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009The pick of Leon Panetta as the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency signals just one thing — Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., the president-elect, is ready to capitulate to terrorists. For weeks, there have been rumors in the military and intelligence world that Obama was having difficulty finding a new CIA director because no [...]
Life Underground: Since Blago scandal broke, Rahm Emanuel has disappeared
Monday, January 5th, 2009Rahm Emanuel is now on the political equivalent of the missing person’s list. Since his name emerged as one of the players in the “pay to play” corruption allegations against Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.) last month, Emanuel has rarely been seen, and hasn’t been heard from at all, except to perfunctorily submit a letter to Speaker [...]
Obama refashioning office of the president — in a decidedly downscale way
Monday, January 5th, 2009
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., the President-elect, apparently is poised to refashion the office of the President in a decidedly downscale fashion. The media tells us Obama represents a return of “Camelot style and high fashion” to the White House. This is high fashion? This is not dignified dress for a president or president-elect. Last week, [...]
Professor Alan Dershowitz: Israel’s bombing of Gaza completely justified, legal
Monday, January 5th, 2009We don’t generally agree with Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard Law School professor, but we do concur with this recent posting on the Jerusalem Post: “Israel’s military actions in Gaza are entirely justified under international law, and Israel should be commended for its act of self-defense against international terrorism. Article 51 of the United Nations Charter [...]
Federal corruption probe leads to ouster of Richardson from Obama’s cabinet
Sunday, January 4th, 2009Just two weeks before he is set to take office, Barack Hussein Obama Jr., the president-elect, has suffered yet another embarrassing blow, as his nomineee for Commerce Secretary has “withdrawn” his name from consideration due to an ongoing federal grand jury probe of his alleged corruption. New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, a Democrat, today withdrew [...]
Carville predicts scandals to overshadow Democrats, Obama
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009Democratic political guru James Carville predicts the Democratic Party — currently disgraced by the venal behavior of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich — will suffer a series of embarrassing scandals in 2009.
Carville, who ran Bill Clinton’s successful presidential campaign in 1992, said the reason is based on simple math: More Democrats in elected office increases the likelihood of scandal.
“I firmly believe that [...]