The Incredible Shrinking Man On The Way Up

He grows smaller the longer he speaks.

Two Crooks Dishing

First is this repost from June 28:

Chris Dodd and Barney Frank are crooks. Being elected officials they get the ultimate area where they can swipe money and spend it. They've thus authored a financial "reform" bill that's about spending money and forcing someone else to pay for it. But they may have sealed their bill's doom.

UPDATE: The Dodd-Frank monstrosity passed, but got somewhat neutered, and the caving of a few weak Republicans helped a bill that otherwise was doomed.

Do Nothing Is A Policy That Works

It shows in housing.

Doctor Obama, Economic Quack

Interesting comparison of The Man On The Way Up's sham "stimulus" with atrocious care for George Washington at the end of his life.

Dirty Little Car Secrets

Electric cars failed in the first quarter of the 20th century.

Obama's Ego And Cashing The Reality Check

The reality check that Obama's ego has been writing is being cashed thanks to running out of ammo and ramming through twin legislative boondoggles of health care and financial "reform" that (particularly in the case of The Two Crooks Dishing "Reform" Law) don't stand a chance in the real world.

Democrats Beginning Real Change?

An interesting piece is presented indicating Democrats may now be getting it about the insanity of entitlements.

CNN Fires Terrorist Sympathizer

Give CNN credit for firing its MidEast editor for supporting a terrorist.

Fannie Mae's PR Move

Fannie Mae works to avoid making real decisions.

Counterinsurgency

General Petraeus is offered some solid advice about counterinsurgency. Given that Petraeus is about winning, chances are he'll listen.

Obama Hits Reset And Nothing Happens

Check this piece on how The Man On The Way Up avoids responsibility for foreign policy failures by turning the counter-accuser.

Ted Kennedy, Official Traitor

Ted Kennedy was lionized upon his death and also upon release of over 2,000 pages of Teddy's FBI file. The MSM, though, wil continue to ignore what Soviet archives show of Teddy's illegal overtures to Soviet Russia.

General McChrystal

With the release of General Stanley McChrystal and installation of General David Petraeus in Afghantistan in the wake of the Rolling Stone piece, some pieces about General McChrystal - why he should have been released (seconded here with both published before the change) and why he should have stayed. The most delicious aspect of the situation is this - McChrystal managed to genuinely anger the infamously stuck-up Obama. Obama deserved to get treated like this because he's a jerk and as such not qualified to lead - and the only way he can begin to earn real trust is to change his policy and go for victory in the Middle East.

Worth noting is that what McChrystal did was not insubordination and in fact reflects poorly on the pundit class.

Wither Islamic Turkey?

Interesting that Turks are turning against their Islamic government and picking fights with Israel.

Steyn On Islamo-Arab Imperialism

Though it centers on Israel, it's broader than that.

The JFK Junior Syndrome

Presented is an interesting comparison of The Man On The Way Up to John Kennedy Junior, a political failure like Barack who was nonetheless canonized.

Barack To Axis: "We Surrender"

It is impossible to think The Man On The Way Up would have actually worked to defeat the Axis in the Second World War. This is because The Man On The Way Up lacks the good sense that Franklin Roosevelt fortunately had when it came time to call off his own war against business.

It's the biggest difference between Roosevelt and Obama - Roosevelt was a deeply flawed President but he was an adult, and as such was able to straighten his policy out - Obama is not an adult but a selfish man-child who rules as a immature pouter would - with "Mine" and "No" his operative words as opposed to mature, operative thought.

The Incumbent Protection Racket

Check this look at how the longstanding campaign finance system has long stymied real electoral change.

Freddie And Fannie Get Spanked

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae get spanked for wasting some $1 trillion.

ACORN Works To ACCE Corruption

First is this repost from January 23:

One of Barack Obama's primary allies got caught last year. Now it's trying to adapt, as seen in California. There's a Massachusetts connection here in the wake of Scott Brown's election, as Luther Scott Harshbarger, Mass' former AG, is in on the ACORN scam.

March 3 UPDATE: ACORN goes merrily along in rebranding itself so it can keep swiping funds.

June 16 UPDATE: The title of this piece says it all.