Cinderella's Bloody Glass Slipper

Since I had to carry a gun for my work, I needed to qualify every six months. Missing the target was not an option. It never is.

This morning I went downstairs for breakfast. I turned on the radio. And there it was: The obligatory jabs at both Trump and Palin – and all this by a New York local radio host who’s considered ‘conservative’. It seems we’ve all been down this road before. We just never learn. Back then, our fav piñata was Bush. What we wouldn’t give to have him back again!

Obama remains untouched. Every word of his is routinely afforded the gravitas it no longer deserves. We try so hard to fit this wicked stepsister’s foot into Cinderella’s glass slipper. It must be the slipper’s fault. And yet, midnight is fast approaching when everything turns to pumpkins.

The Left has no compunction in slicing off toes. In fact, they have the surgeons constantly standing at the ready. Never mind the spectacle of blood, smear and dishonesty which disgusts and, at the same time, fascinates. They work in tandem with the media, like a well oiled machine. Slice here and dice there, and the shoe is made to fit despite the corns.

There, on the front page of the WSJ, the headline reads, “Karzai Told to Dump U.S” – by Pakistan no less. Inside, there’s a story about the trial and conviction of ‘Big Fish’ Lee Farkas, former chairman of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage. Only, it turns out, that Farkas wasn’t such a ‘Big Fish’ after all; that our government was behind it all (in the form of Fannie and Freddie Mac).

It’s just that the government has now assumed the status of ‘sacred cow’ and can never be touched. Instead we send up thousands to atone for the government’s sins. As Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. – author of “A Mortgage ‘Big Fish’ Disappoints” – laments, the whole thing “fails to confirm the media intuition that the housing boom and bust were brought on by the criminality by mortgage CEOs.”

Same with the spike in gas prices at the pump. It couldn’t possibly be due to Obama’s policies (even though he explicitly told us that he wants us to pay more for gas). It couldn’t possibly be due to the collapse of the dollar due to the government policy of printing images on paper and pretending it’s real money.

Overseas hangs the giant Libyan question mark – and Egypt, Iran, Syria and the entire Middle East. Then, there’s Russia and China; South America. What is it this president believes?

Bolton says there’s no rhyme or reason to Obama’s foreign policy. Really? Everywhere we look we lose. Sounds suspiciously like a plan.

At the very least, Kaddafi knows what he wants and he’s willing to go for it, even if it kills him. Anyone who can articulate what he wants, short of sh*t-canning their own nation has a leg up on Obama at this point. I’m not saying that Obama isn’t smart or doesn’t have goals. …and isn’t it remarkable how Obama just managed to get us to sh*t-can our own just by the ruse of releasing his birth certificate?

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A Condo For Hillary (in Brasilia)

The difference between Republicans and conservatives is that conservatives know that present policies will not bring the economy back. As present policies are in control, the jobs picture will not improve. What’s left, is to determine who gets the blame.

POTUS will blame Republicans for obstructing. Republicans will blame POTUS and Democrats for policies already in place. Stalemate, so far. Enter the press. This tips the balance in favor of the Dems.

I’m telling you, Obama has it sewed up unless we get serious; meaning, starting immediately with impeachment proceedings.

Bolton is my guy as well. He is smart, serious and articulate. He knows his stuff. He is a patriot. He is practical. He is not a politician. He’s everything that I would want an American leader to be. As such, he is unelectable. America no longer elects competent leaders. America elects only show horses. The ideologues among us know this.

Where would you say Hillary Clinton is right now as we speak? Nobody knows. But I know. She’s down in Brazil, hobnobbing with the likes of Hugo Chavez and Dilma Rousseff, a Chavez client. Rousseff is taking office today. Hillary is there to make a down payment on a condo in Brasilia just in case things don’t work out here.

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The Panic Room

Everything Obama has touched during his first two years in office has gotten demonstrably worse. Sure, he’s been successful in passing significant legislation - perhaps more so than any other president in U.S. history. But where has it led? I challenge anybody to tell me how any policy thrust of Obama’s has led the nation (as a whole) to a better place?

Then there’s the way it was done. Some would even call it illegal. Certainly, it was done against the will of the people. Certainly, every underhanded trick was used to pass Obama’s legislative agenda. In every case, bills were rushed through Congress without members knowing what they were voting on. There is even evidence to suggest that the president himself didn’t know (or care).

Bolton makes a good point. If Obama’s goal in all this is to marginalize Congress (and, by extension, the people’s input to governance overall) he is succeeding. It is a point not to be overlooked. It usually ends in tyranny.

Now we stand on a precipice once again; and this time it actually does involve our national security. Bolton makes any number of cogent arguments against passing START. He is in a position to know, having served as UN ambassador under Bush. His caution should at the very least be considered in open debate.

Bolton’s larger point is equally compelling. Who in their right mind would keep going to the same plumber over and over again once he has proven himself to be dangerously inept?

In India, self-styled sidewalk dentists sit on straw mats with their box of unwashed implements. They provide basic service to the poorest of the poor for scant compensation. But would anyone of the middle class avail themselves of their services? America is at the very least ‘middle class’ I should hope.

Then, one might also consider why Obama would risk once again being accused of operating with a total lack of transparency? Perhaps the deal does not bear scrutiny. Perhaps, after all is said and done, it is bad for America. Perhaps that’s the point. (Oops! I have just inadvertently entered a room into which few would venture.)

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