It isn’t Warren Buffet’s hypocrisy that’s troubling

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Sanely Insane

It’s his stupidity.  Sure, he advocates higher taxes for some while vigorously engaging the Internal Revenue Service to limit his exposure. He’s a liberal, hence a hypocrite. But, as a lionized investor, one wonders how did he succeed? Clearly, as explained here, Mr. Buffett who proposed that his approach would help dent the federal budget deficiencies, doesn’t do tax policy well.

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Our President Thinks We Are . . .

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Sanely Insane

STUPID!  Our President, Mr. Obama, is many things to many people. To most Black Americans he is a hero of immense importance; to a majority of White Americans, a heel of immense impotence; and to others, like Joe Biden and Harry Reid, a “clean and articulate” Black Man, able to turn on his Negro dialect at will.

He is also supremely cynical and assumes we, the voters and taxpayers are disengaged, ignorant and stupid. So, away he goes, aided by a fast wilting mainstream media, to celebrate uneconomic solar cities; oil fields older than he; and the headwaters of an oil pipeline to nowhere. WaPo reporters in “Obama tried to reclaim advantage on gas prices, healthcare” describe his gadding about the country at our expense, unaware that there is a media not state controlled, not fawning, and not sympathetic. Most telling is their observation that the public blames him less for high gas prices than it did Mr. Bush in 2006. Of course, they fail to mention their relentless intonation of Bush/Cheney/Haliburton/Petroleum Polluter Pals . . . with which they beat the former President about the eyes and ears.

They are simply corrupt.

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The Speed of Light

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Sanely Insane

At two levels, Professor Michio Kaku comforts us (No, You Still Can’t Go Faster Than Light) that our world will not be turned upside down.  First, the possibility that Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity was irrelevant, while a fascinating prospect, would have fostered incredible chaos in the scientific community and beyond, much like the Democrat Party Convention coming this summer from Charlotte.

And, he inadvertently condemns “Progressives” and their response to the Three Mile Island “meltdown.”  For want of a cheap valve, their action was “no” [nuclear] reaction in the industry for the past 30 years . . . and they profess scientific enlightenment!

Oh, the second level of comfort is that we know Satchel Paige was the only thing to travel faster than light. It was said that he was so quick he could turn off the bedroom lights and be under the covers before the room was dark.

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Obama Lied: the Debt Deal Died

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Sanely Insane

Occasionally mainstream reporters commit random acts of journalism, and give us hope. Three of the better scriveners at The Washington Post have collaborated to tell the story of a feckless president, unfaithful to principle, unsure of himself, and unfamiliar with the machinations of political Washington, much as he was in political Illinois. Mr. Obama has been described as and “empty Suit,” an “empty vessel,” just plain empty. That may be complimentary.

Remember as you read Obama’s Evolution that it is crafted by three “reporters” in the mainstream who know of Republicans, even if they don’t know any personally; who believe Mr. Obama is messianic although they are irreligious; and who desperately want to celebrate his reelection.  Why?, you ask, would they write a condemnation of our President.  To warn Senate President Reid and his fellow travelers and former Speaker Pelosi and her acolytes to save themselves, they will get no help and much harm from the President, a truly fickle ‘friend.’

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In like a Lamb, out like a Lion!

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Sanely Insane

We celebrate celebrity as though it is accomplishment.  We celebrate accomplishment as if it is flawless. Neither are true.  But, occasionally, along comes someone who deserves fame for his accomplishments, nearly flawless, yet he enjoys virtually no celebrity. Except among political junkies, that is.

Brian Lamb (C-Span Founder, Brian Lamb to Step Down as Chief Executive) has had a more profound impact on politics and America than anyone in the last 33 years and for the foreseeable future.

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Oh, to please the left…

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Sanely Insane

In a typical disconnect between the “progressive” left and real people, Robert Barnes of the once prestigious Washington Post yearns for an Obamacare victory when the Supremes hear the challenge to federalism and The United States of America, as it was conceived.

He argues (How the Robert’s court could save Obama’s health care-reform) that Chief Justice Roberts or Justice Alito or even, Justice Scalia may decide that the federal government can, by fiat, order you to buy a product you don’t want, may not need and in any event reject because someone else is paying for it – the principled opposition, if you will.  There is no doubt that he supports an end to limits on what the federal government can do, allegedly, for your own good.

Sadly, it would never occur to a modern “journalist” that he’s conveying a kind of profound and ugly trait among the enlightened left. He argues that, in his unhumble opinion, the  great thinkers on the bench, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor are incontrovertibly committed to Obamacare, arguments against, be damned. Facts, logic, reality? Be damned. The Constitution? Damn it too! Our open-minded “liberal” friends are simply totalitarians, unyielding, unwilling to learn, and mad for power. Conservatives are only worthy when they sacrifice their principles and see the light.

Robert Barnes is employed as an “objective” reporter, opining on the arguments before the courts and the rationale behind their decisions. Sadly, he can’t be trusted.

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On Potty-Mouths

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Sanely Insane

OK, we can all agree, the casual demeaning of women has spun out of control. But, casual demeaning is not all equal except for scolds like Kathleen Parker who is allegedly a conservative voice at The Washington Post. In her column, The silence of the lions, she offers the usual laments about coarse language employed in public commentary. But, Rush Limbaugh who called Sandra Fluke a “slut,” abused a rhetorical device in response her plain lies before a Congressional committee in which she asked that others pay for her recreational sex security and grossly exaggerated birth control costs to intentionally mislead the public. Mr. Limbaugh apologized for his excesses. But, Mr. Limbaugh’s excesses are not equal to David Letterman’s or Bill Maher’s, or Louis C.K.’s jokes aimed not at Sarah Palin, but at her children.

Ms. Palin is a public figure with a megaphone and able to defend herself. Ms Fluke too is a public personality – by choice – and also has a megaphone at her disposal – President Obama. In contrast, Ms. Palin’s children have no megaphone, nor do they have a desire play in prime time. Just as the mainstream media declares the Obama girls off-limits from crude attacks or even casual scrutiny, all of the children of public personalities should be exempt. But, they aren’t because of intellectual bankruptcy in the mainstream, and timidity among supposed conservative voices who reside there and fear being uninvited from all the best events.  Pathetic.

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Democrats against “Workers”

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Sanely Insane

Set aside those creepy feelings you get from being called a “worker.” Instead, unless you’re a member of the 1%, focus on what prominent “progressive” politicians are aiming to do to you, without the jelly or even a kiss. Maryland governor Martin O’Malley, who has ambitions to play on the national stage, proposed yesterday (O’Malley tries to rally support for gas tax increase) to burden Marylanders with the state’s regressive 6% sales tax on gasoline sales . . . Yes, it’s true. As gasoline soars past $4 a gallon, and President Obama plugs wells in the Gulf of Mexico, directs Canadian shale oil to China, and panders to rich environmentalists – the 1%ers – Mr. O’Malley chooses to drill elsewhere.

Characteristically, we are asked to grin and grab our ankles “for the children.” Yes, the governor argued in his testimony that we will have to face our children in the years ahead and apologize when they’re stuck in traffic, or a bridge falls down, or, horrors, we didn’t build another taxpayer fueled Metro line.  Never mind that Mr. O’Malley has siphoned nearly $1,000,000,000 from the state’s transportation budget funded by gasoline taxes already paid to fund any number of “progressive” schemes, especially an education system that doesn’t . . .

That Mr. O’Malley doesn’t understand economics was evident when he channeled former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who famously claimed that the most valuable spur to our national economy is unemployment insurance!  The governor averred that the new funds extracted from the “workers’ would lead to a boom in construction jobs – union jobs of course – and dismissed the notion that businesses that employ people – as opposed to “workers” – would suffer from the transfer to big labor bosses.

It is a challenge to feel to much for Marylanders though. They re-elected the governor in 2010 with nearly 55% of the vote.  In his first term he had only raised taxes on the 1% and the rest thought they were immune. Not!

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Rip Van Winkle Wakes at WaPo

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Sanely Insane

In a stunning display of psychological detachment the editors at The Washington Post have discovered President Obama’s “Troubled Handing” of the fiasco we endure in Afghanistan.  WaPo editors acknowledge that after apologizing for the massacre of Afghan non-combatants “Mr. Obama’s follow-up comments, on his strategy in Afghanistan, were troubling.”  Mr. Obama said that he was “confident that we can continue the work of meeting our objectives,” but his goal was to “responsibly wind down this war” and “bring our troops home.” The editors conclude that, “There are many reasons why both Afghans and Americans are souring on their alliance, including a few over which this White House has no control. But Mr. Obama and his aides have done much to damage the relationship between the two countries and public morale on both sides. Tuesday’s comments were but one more example.”

They go on: “The president came to office pledging a revitalized campaign in Afghanistan. But he began by terminating President Bush’s practice of regular personal communications with President Hamid Karzai. Several of his envoys treated Mr. Karzai roughly and disparaged him in public. The U.S. official most able to work with the Afghan leadership, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, was abruptly pushed out of his post because of a hyped magazine article. Mr. Karzai is an erratic personality — but is it any wonder that he has grown increasingly resistant to the Obama administration?”

Unsurprisingly the WaPo editors lack the courage to simply say, “We were wrong; wrong about his management in Afghanistan, which we previously applauded; wrong in some of our dismissals of President Bush, and wrong about the quality of his leadership which has fostered similar domestic rifts, alienating friends and foes alike.”

Mr. Obama continues to boldly “lead from behind.”

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The President who leads from behind…

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Sanely Insane

Davis Guggenheim, an able film-maker, has inadvertently aided the cause for those who aim to retire Barack Hussein Obama. His “documentary” is a slavish and silly tribute to the man who “leads from behind.”  In this trailer (Following others) we learn that the President polled all of the national security apparatus not on what was wrong about his choice to extract Osama bin Laden, but, about what they would do! Presumably, had the majority voted “no,” Mr. bin Laden would be thriving in his compound today.

Of course true leaders have a vision of where they want to go, chart a course to get there, and the best ask their confidants to warn them of hubris, imprudence, and intemperance.

Not our President….

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