Obama Die Maus

The Germans call Obama "Die Maus." (The Mouse.)



Do you think Germany is the only one that noticed?

Obama's reflections

Well, I watched Obamie this morning announcing that after deep reflections he had decided to nominate a racist for the SC.

You know, this guy is always reflecting. I mean he has the exact angle of holding his head so that the reflection will let him reach that exact spot that's hard to shave... I mention this to be sure you don't think that I think you think that I think reflecting isn't serious business.... But based on the results, I sure wish he would shoot from the hip...

And it will be interesting to see who in the Repub world has guts enough to condemn this person who obviously doesn't believe in the Constitution. I hope I'm wrong but after watching them roll over for the past three months I am not encouraged. Of course I am sure the Repub who voted for Obamie, aka Powell, will in the lead position telling us we should be more inclusive....

Now that is an interesting word... "inclusive." I have a question, dear chums. If I was a Repub and had to change for you to come to my party... Why in the hell would I want you???

And just in case the Repub Party leadership happens to read this... (Fat chance you say, but with Google you never know!)...... Reagan didn't win by being "inclusive." He won by offering a different vision, a different future, a different strategy...

Grow a set dear Repub leaders.... You might even win with'em... And you damn sure will lose without them!

GOP contributors targeted in Chrysler shutdown.

UPDATE - The claim now is that since most of those shut down contributed to Repubs, then the majority of those shut down contributed to Repubs. (If we had some ham we would have some ham and eggs if we had some eggs.)

This was brought to my attention by the Dark Avenger and a host of other sources...

Maybe someone will take the list of all dealers and compare the shut down list to the total of all dealers, with their contributions... and then we will have something. Or maybe no one will, or maybe they have...



Why am I not surprised?

A tipster alerted me to an interesting assertion. A cursory review by that person showed that many of the Chrysler dealers on the closing list were heavy Republican donors.

To quickly review the situation, I took all dealer owners whose names appeared more than once in the list. And, of those who contributed to political campaigns, every single one had donated almost exclusively to GOP candidates. While this isn't an exhaustive review, it does have some ominous implications if it can be verified.

Click here for the details.

This is just standard Chicago politics. Who did you think you elected?

Hat tip to Buffy!

This is torture

Over the past weeks we have been involved in a debate as to what Lyin' Nancy Pelosi knew about the EIT of captured terrorists. That she did and lied like a trooper is amusing but in all fairness what she knew about wasn't torture.

This is torture.

The leader of Moslems, some perfect example of a Moslem named Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and his worshipers took almost a minute using a dull knife to saw off the head of Nick while he screamed and they shouted that God is Great! His screams bubbled through blood squirting from his carotid arteries. He managed to scream for his life 9 times in about 30 seconds before they destroyed his vocal cords with the dull knife. This great leader of Moslems took delight in it. No Moslems in America demonstrated in front of the White House or anywhere else or made threats to retaliate against the perps who did this and that makes me think they approve of it.

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Obama's Birth Certificate

Bump and up date.... The Dark Avenger has thoughtfully played secretary, again... He is as dependable as Pavlov's Dog on such yet his logic is so poor that I have decided to follow some sage advice that says don't argue with an idiot because others may not be able to tell the difference.

I will leave by noting that if he could squash his enemies by proving them wrong Obamie would do so in a heart beat!


One of our many West Coast correspondents, the original Dark Avenger (or maybe it's Weeder Gander) has graced us with the following in regards to the lack of information available about The One's proof of US citizenship. (We know he is not fit to be Prez so this is merely a formality.)

The following from the Washington Monthly is DA's learned comment. I am struck by his originality.

The electoral system has failed to satisfy lingering questions about Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as president.

The press has failed to satisfy those questions. The courts have failed to satisfy those questions. The Congress has failed to satisfy those questions.

But the people are still asking.

That's how Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer of WND, explains the petition he initiated several months ago that has collected nearly 400,000 names of Americans demanding answers as to Obama's elidibility [sic] as well as the outpouring of financial support for his new campaign to erect billboards around the country asking the simple question: "Where's the birth certificate?"

In just five days, the billboard campaign has been backed by about $45,000 in donations.

Obviously, the Birthers' argument is nuts. But the fact that they're still at it, seven months after the election, is extraordinary.

For Democrats, it's extraordinarily helpful, in large part because it makes the president's detractors appear insane. Former Clinton White House press secretary Jake Siewert said a few months ago, "At some level, they're not that bad to have around because it reminds people that under the mainstream conservative press there's this bubbling up of really irrational hatred for the guy."

But that's just among those who hear about this. As DougJ noted, there's the inconvenient fact that most Americans will see a billboard that reads, "Where's the birth certificate?" and won't have the foggiest idea what that means.

That the right-wing website claims to have raised "about $45,000 in donations" is especially great for Democrats, since that means $45,000 from far-right donors that won't go to something that might actually matter.

For the left in general, it's a win-win: unhinged conservatives waste their time on a silly exercise, devoting time and money to a campaign that only makes the right look even more wacky. The DNC ought to send WND a thank-you note.

I have always regarded the Obamie administration as watching "The Beverly Hillbillies" without the saving grace of Jeb and Granny's calm wisdom and the eye candy of Ellie Mae. The buffoonish antics of Jeffro serve to remind us that we have a President who has given away trillions and then announces sadly that we are "out of money."

As the kids say... "Well, duhhhhhhh."

Yet through all of this a few simple facts shine through.

Obamie is as partisan as any President in the history of the country. He cannot stand criticism, as he just demonstrated time and again. The far Right has pushed the birth certificate issue to the center of the stage and kept it there.

All he has to do to make them look foolish and shut them up is have Hawaii release the original...........That he does not says more than anyone else can say.

Pelosi Stonewalls Press

The press supposedly was poised to flay Lyin' Nancy alive in her weekly news conference today. But after she informed them that she would not answer questions about what she knew and when she knew it regarding her claim that he CIA lied they collectively tucked their tails and jumped back into the Democrat tank... At the very least they could have turned and walked out. No politic an can stand being ignored..

So it is obvious her strategy is to allow her minions to reframe the story with a series of "I don't remember..." and arguments over dates, all the time ignoring that it is Obamie and his CIA main man who they are insulting. Outside of a snap back from Panetta it appears that Obamie is going along and will try and let the story die. In the end he needs Pelosi more than she needs him.

But the problem is that there is too much out there. And the press, if they cared enough to get off their collective rear ends have the story in Pelosi's own words. Follow me on this.

ABC News broke this story on 12/10/2007. That's 17 months and 11 days ago. Now. Remember that date.

A leader of the CIA team that captured the first major al Qaeda figure, Abu Zubaydah, says subjecting him to waterboarding was torture but necessary.

In the first public comment by any CIA officer involved in handling high-value al Qaeda targets, John Kiriakou, now retired, said the technique broke Zubaydah in less than 35 seconds.

ABC News Link

Pelosi herself acknowledged in a December 2007 statement that she was aware that Harman had learned of the waterboarding and had objected in a letter to the CIA's top counsel.

"It was my understanding at that time that Congresswoman Harman filed a letter in early 2003 to the CIA to protest the use of such techniques, a protest with which I concurred," Pelosi said in the Dec. 9, 2007, statement.

Washington Post Link

Major investigative reports, such as ABC's above, are completed days in advance. So there is no doubt that Pelosi would have been asked about it. So what did they do?? They issued a mea culpa one day in advance of the ABC story. By doing so they could say, "See our press release yesterday." This is a standard "get out in front" move.

And in it she admits that she was aware that Harman had learned of EIT and had written a letter to the CIA, "...a protest with which I concurred." That is past tense. So she admits she knew because how else could she have "concurred?"

"I didn't know but I concurred?" I repeat. You cannot concur (agree) with something you don't know. It isn't possible. (Excuse me while I giggle.)

Now, what further evidence do we have, besides her own words, that she knew?

In December 2007 the Washington Post reported that leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees had been briefed in the fall of 2002 about waterboarding -- which simulates drowning -- and other techniques, and that no congressional leaders protested its use.

Washington Post Link

In fact, she didn't deny she knew. She admitted she was aware that Harman had written a letter re EIT use and concurred with Harman's letter.

Now, let's dig a little deeper into this and see how she would have known, and why she had no choice but to admit it, at that time.

But there’s no dispute that on Feb. 4, 2003 — five months after Pelosi’s September meeting — CIA officials briefed Pelosi aide Michael Sheehy and Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), then the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, on the specific techniques that had been used on Zubaydah — including waterboarding.

Politico Link

So now we have followed the cat home, and as my Mom always told me, no matter how long the "tail" it always follows the cat home.

In December 2007 it was a major story but no one connected the dots, if indeed they even knew that Harman and a Pelosi aid was briefed almost five years before. It wasn't until Pelosi and her Leftie friends decided to attack the lawyers who did the legal work on EIT that interest was rekindled. And when Obamie, at first, wouldn't definitively say his justice department wouldn't prosecute all concerned, the story got big and suddenly dates, times and lies became important.

Pelosi has done what so many politicians do. She has made the rope, she has tied the knot and she has hung herself. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving person.

Now she stonewalls. That got her by today. I don't think it will in the future. Taking down Nixon was great fun. Baiting Bush was almost as much. Speakers of the House aren't in the same group, but they'll do for a warm up.

(I wrote a portion of this in a Tennessean comment.)

Obama's Speech

Obamie gave a speech to day that ran for at least 20,000 words. If nothing else I think it is plain that the man loves the sound of his own voice.

But if you missed it you may have some questions. Let me summarize what Obamie said.

"Trust me."