Byron York of the Washington Examiner has been out front on Obama’s strong-armed tactics against the Inspector General of AmeriCorps. Today, Rep. Dan Issa sent a letter to WH Counsel Gregory Craig:

4. A full and complete explanation of why the White House decided to effectuate Mr. Walpin’s removal through an ultimatum delivered over the phone.

With GOP pols from both houses of Congress speaking out, it signals that Democrats are not going to be able to sit on their hands. As York asks today, will this be stonewalled? The obvious comparrison is Travelgate. Yet that Clinton debacle did not involve clear congressional oversite and a statute that was sponsored by the President himself. Clear legal issues are at hand.

Another larger issue is at work and that is the use of AmeriCorps workers by Democrats for party building. Its clear that this is what Kevin Johnson was doing in Sacremento, and its something the Obama administration quietly wants to do anyhow by getting the American taxpayer to pay for Democrat Party infrastructure. They’d love be able to hire college kids under the umbrella of AmeriCorps and put them to work for Democrat Party affiliates much like is already being done with ACORN.

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Wow. I admit to reading World Net Daily, but usually do not source them in my blogging. And while I generally agree for the most part in the socio-political philosophy of the site, it sometimes slants in a more harsh manner than I am comfotable with. In the current climate, however, it is a useful tool for an attempt at counterweighting against the obviously more vicious than what’s on the dem-left side.

Still, today’s post does address what should have been a story. American knew nothing of this man and little was asked by a MSM that’s been a PR wing for the Democrat Party for decades now. Any inquiry into the President’s past were trivialized, demonized or squashed outright.

While the hero worship by some in the MSM continues – he was actually asked by a NYT reporter during a presser what enthralled him now about the presidency – his action’s are now completely public, and he can no longer live behind spin. It’s likely to be catching up with him. Hence today’s WND column.

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But beyond Obama’s political ideology, many Americans are troubled also by his strange personality attributes: He greatly exaggerates his achievements, expects constant praise and admiration, believes he’s special, doesn’t appear to concern himself with other people’s feelings, expresses disdain for those he feels are inferior, sets unrealistic goals, appears as tough-minded and unemotional, and other qualities – all of which are textbook symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder

If there is a parallel, one only need to take a brief look back at the constant character assasinations of President Bush advanced by Democrarts and their media flacks. Narcissism cuts deep though and is applied differently than any other perceived failing of Bush. Listen to what these observers say:

Indeed, the word “narcissist” is increasingly being applied to America’s 44th president. Pulitzer prize-winning columnist and former psychiatrist Charles Krauthammer asks, “Does the narcissism of this man know no bounds?” Jack Kelly, journalist and former high-ranking Reagan administration Pentagon official, says: “The most dangerous thing about having a narcissist in a position of power is his unwillingness – perhaps his inability – to ever admit error. … Obama acknowledged the troop surge in Iraq has produced dramatic improvements, but said he still would oppose it.” Radio giant Rush Limbaugh said of Obama recently: “He’s supremely narcissistic … This is all about him. This has nothing to do with the country. It has nothing to do with our way of life. Every aspect of his presidency is about building him up, making him appear to be savior, messiah …”

While the quote is easily cast aside by democrats with Limbaugh’s inclusion, Kelly and Kraughthammer are seasoned respected journalists. With Obama’s term providing nothing that coincides with his hope and change mantra and his actions only providing fuel for partisanship, a crisis will test a narcissist. The conditions are perfect for an over reach one way or the other that potentially crush his presidency and harm the nation.

Americans of any persuassion do not want this to happen. Even though Democrats seemed to be rooting against the American armed services in Iraq, Republicans will not doing anything similar. So if Obama fails a test that comes from overseas by over reaching it will give support to the label.

And what blame will American put on the Democrat Party at that point as it was they whom anointed him, enabled him and kept his failings behind the curtain? Will the democrat’s MSM pay a price? Or will they throw him overboard?

We must wait and hope none of this comes to pass. Heaven help us if it does.

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You make the judgement from this Rahm Emanuel quote to AIPAC:

“[t]hwarting Iran’s nuclear program is conditional on progress in peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians

Its hard not to see otherwise. But it makes me wonder whether or not America’s jews actually care about Israel. This article in the Jerusalem Post indicates that 79% of Jews support Obama’s job so far.

Obama’s cold shoulder to Israel that’s opposite of the platform he ran on is becoming clear. Is is that we are seeing that the affection America’s jews have for Israel is both fleeting and rare? Do democrats know this and its one of those best kept secrets?

Nevermind the question of whether of not throwing Israel under the bus is in our best interests. With the loss of Sen. Norm Coleman and the defection of Arlen Specter, the only jewish GOP member of congress is Rep. Eric Cantor of Maryland. Its easy to assume that the majority of jewish voters favor the Democrat party for ideological reasons and that Israel’s fate has little or no weight.

Or is this an overreach by the leftist’s soul of Obama? He’s certainly made no secret his intentions to stock his administration with anti-Israel influence. Will we see potential naysayers among jewish democrats in congress? Or will it only be Joe Lieberman?

If the current Obama/democrat policy toward Israel continues, the conclusion that America’s jews are turning their head to potential persecution of their brethren is a fair one.

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Pick the target. Freeze it. Personlize it. Polarize it.

One of many memorable Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals that Americans should find as common place since the Clinton years. The legendary communist still influences they way Democrats make political hay. Alinsky Rules are still at work with another true believer in Barack Obama. But no where do we see this frightening tactic at its zenith but in the continuous Democrat party attacks on Sarah Palin.

If one looks closely its easy to see this Democrat technique is easily transportable and is currently being used on other conservatives and GOP pols whom they consider dangerous. What better explanation is there for the demonization that occurred to George Bush? Or the never-ending assault on Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Have you ever seen an appearance on college campuses by David Horowitz or Ann Coulter?

It works to a large extent as even strong conservatives often find themselves referring to any and all of these communicators of principles as “devisive” or “polarizing” or “controversial”. Said often enough the propoganda works and even conservatives are seeing themselves this way.

They target the one’s with ideas whom communicate like Limbaugh, Hannity and Horowitz. Or the one’s they fear as a potential leader like they do Palin. We should never forget the never ending comparisons to Hitler and snide remarks about George Bush’s intelligence.

If the vast political middle can finally realize that this is the way the Democrat Party rolls, it could help stall the abrupt slide to socialism and its one-party rule they want.

UPDATE: A must read from John Hawkins of Right Wing News on this post in Pajamas Media Here’s some:

Even if it isn’t, it may at least convince them that such tactics ought to be off limits on both sides. We can say, “Gee, what if Bush had done this” or “That’s a cheap shot” all day long, but until our political opponents feel the brunt of the same savage incivility that it dishes out on a regular basis, nothing is going

Recall that a revolution that put the GOP in charge of both Houses took place when the electorate learned the truth about the criminal behavior of Bill Clinton and his wife. It might also be that it is the evidence of the same helped bring down Hillary Clinton’s White House bid.

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Two seperate op-eds appeared in the conservative outlet, Canadia Free Press minced no words in their headline: “Tyranny Watch: Obama Begins Process to Remove US Citizens Rights” and “The Birth of American Socialism.” Penned by Sher Zieve and Timothy Birdnow respectively, the two essays signal that the world sees what Americans refuses to come to grips with.

The American media, in their partisan zeal to defeat George Bush and elect a Democrat refused to do their job in telling America about Barack Obama. They were able to make the 2008 presidential election into an American Idol vote, thus giving an uininformed country a man subversive to its own ideals and empowering a Democrat Party who’s primary agenda has always been about placing its own interests first.

The conservative media and its like-minded colleagues in the blogosphere did indeed report on Obama and detailed the concerns that voters should have bee made aware of. While John McCain had to deal with a hit piece by the NY Times over an improper relationship with a lobbyist (the Times is facing a suit on this) and Sarah Palin endured the kind of scrutiny that came in the form of attacks, Obama was fawned over in ways that are an embarrassment to journalist.

The headlines in the Canadian publication shows just how accuarte the concerns the right had for Obama were. The frankness of the headlines also are indications that its even worse than we thought.

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Powerlines John Hinderaker shares a conversation he had with a dinner with someone naive to the myth that green jobs can be both created and sustained.

At dinner on Friday night I was talking with an intelligent young woman who seemed shocked at my suggestion that it is a bad idea for the government to subsidize the creation of “green jobs.” Given that it was a dinner conversation, I couldn’t get much farther than the observation that “you cannot create wealth by subsidizing the inefficient production of energy.” I’m afraid that her dismay would be shared by many relatively well-informed people.

Hinderaker then linked to a timely collumn by Dominic Lawson in the London Times whom astutely compares the green jobs myth to sub prime loans.

Electoral bribes apart, there is a more serious misconception behind the idea that ploughing subsidies into the “green economy” is a sure-fire way of boosting domestic employment. At best it will move people from one economic activity to another..

Lawson details how our friends across the pond are dealing with much the same issues prompted by the hysterical advancement of junk science. With the opposite being true about scientific concensus as to man made climate change, its comforting to see that the public is starting to take note. A Rasmussen Report poll reveals now that only one in three Americans believe global warming is caused by man made activity.

The shift is certainly not as a result of any assistance from MSM or Democrat party sources. The environmental lobby buffet is one in which they feed. Nor from former President Bush or GOP candidate Sen. John McCain who both freely talked of global warming – the term now comveniently changed to climate change – as if it were part of public consciousness.

So why the change in awareness? Maybe those scientists who refused to go along with the cabal started making their voices heard. Often ridiculed and ostrasized by colleagues they often became outcasts, but they refused to go against clear factual evidence to the contrary. These are brave people of whom we should be thankful for.

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From Bill O’Reilly who does a marvelous job of connecting the dots. But this message left by the Times reporter, Stephanie Strom, to he source is damning to the Times:

“Hi, Anita, it’s Stephanie. I’ve just been asked by my bosses to stand down. … They want me to hold off on coming to Washington. Sorry, I take my orders from higher up.”

During the election , it was quite clear that the Times was a PR arm of thre Obama campaign, also engaing in a smear story about an affair between John McCain and a lobbyist. The lobbyist, Vicki Iseman has filed a defamation suit against the Times.
Still its curious to see such a partrisan as Jon Conyers to advance the idea of further hearings against ACORN, an organization he is certain to know well. It will be interesting to see it play out and equally interesting to see how congressional GOP members treat the upcoming role of ACORN in census taking.

For the NY Times, though, it is very sad to see such an esteemed newspaper fall from relevancy and even trust for that matter. It news pages can no longer be seen as anything more an operative arm of the Democrat Party

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Few ideas are likely to have have the potential for world wide disaster as does the theory of anthrpogenic global warming. It’s political implications are already affecting the lives of freedom loving people on every continent. One man, Al Gore, has received a Noble Prize in what history will demonstrate as the biggest fraud ever perpetuated in modern times.

The Heartland Institute’s 2nd Annual International Conference on Climate Change was held last Sunday in New York City and attended by 800 scientists , economists and public servants for around the world. They continue to advance the following postion statement with clarity and resolve:

“There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.” — from the Oregon Petition, signed by over 31,000 scientists

Although the MSM, the Democrat Party and certainly not the Obama administration will tell you about this faltering false sham as it threatens their base of power. But as MIT professor Richard Lindzen state in the following, a myth will eventually be defeated:

“we will eventually win against anthropogenic global warming alarm simply because we are right and they are wrong

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Here’s just a partial list of Sen. Tom Coburn’s list of faulty nonsense. Hat tip to Amanda Carpenter of Townhall.

$39 billion slush fund for “state fiscal stabilization” bailout
$5.5 billion for making federal buildings “green” (including $448 million for DHS HQ) $275 million for flood prevention
$65 million for watershed rehabilitation
$200 million for public computer centers at community colleges and libraries
$650 million for the DTV transition coupon program
$307 million for constructing NIST office buildings
$1 billion for administrative costs and construction of NOAA office buildings
$100 million for constructing U.S. Marshalls office buildings
$300 million for constructing FBI office buildings
$800 million for constructing Federal Prison System buildings and facilities
$10 million to fight Mexican gunrunners
$1.3 billion for NASA (including $450 million for “science” at NASA)
$100 million to clean up sites used in early U.S. atomic energy program
$10 million for urban canals
$2 billion for manufacturing advanced batteries for hybrid cars
$1.5 billion for carbon capture projects under sec. 703 of P.L. 110-140 (though section only authorizes $1 billion for five years)
$300 million for hybrid and electric cars for federal employees
$198 million to design and furnish the DHS headquarters
$255 million for “priority procurements” at Coast Guard (polar ice breaker)
$500 million for State and local fire stations
$180 million for construction of Bureau of Land Management facilities
$500 million for wildland fire management
$110 million for construction for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
$522 million for construction for the Bureau of Indian Affairs
$650 million for abandoned mine sites
$75 million for the Smithsonian Institution
$1.2 billion for summer jobs for youth
$412 million for CDC headquarters
$500 million earmark for NIH facilities in Bethesda, MD
$160 million for “volunteers” at the Corp. for National and Community Service
$750 earmark for the National Computer Center in MD
$224 million for International Boundary and Water Commission – U.S. and Mexico
$850 million for Amtrak
$100 million for lead paint hazard reduction

I wonder how many American families – when faced with trying financial times – borrow money from their kids and their grandkids and their grandkids and buy a big screen TV or a swimming pool or a vacation to Vegas or hire an interior decorator.

The Pelosi – Obama package seems like pay for play. Just kind of without the taped conversations, the f-bombs and the strongarm tactics.

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From a column in today’s NRO by Andy McCarthy

Holder’s testimony was rambling and often incredible. But he was consistent on the subject of his own ignorance. Indeed, a House investigation concluded that Holder’s “sum total of knowledge about Rich came from a page of talking points provided to him by Jack Quinn in 2000”—talking points that failed to address important aspects of Rich’s background and conduct.

But Holder’s protestations of ignorance do not stand scrutiny. When Quinn first came to him in 1999, he knew exactly who Marc Rich was. For back in 1995, when Holder was the Clinton-appointed U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, he had sued a company precisely because it was substantially controlled by Rich—a fact the company concealed in order to obtain lucrative government contracts.

Many people have remarkable levels of public service and impressive resumes. Holder among them. But Holder’s record in public service reveals actions of a highly partisan nature – actions which brushed the law aside to bring unethical advantage to his Democrat party. His nomination should be rejected.

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