Conned again

Rush Limbaugh says: "Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in my life, I am ashamed of my country."
Why? Polls show high approval for President Obama and people blaming the GOP for the panic Obama manufactured over the sequester.
The sequester would mean precisely this: The federal government would spend more next year than this year. It would merely spend 5 percent less than politicians want to spend.
In other words, the government could do everything it is doing now.
Yet, the president paints a picture of children in the streets with begging bowls, crying for food, if Congress allows his sequester plan to take place.
The GOP-controlled House has passed a plan to avoid sequester. But the Democrat Senate won't pass it and the president would not sign it.
Government by continuing crisis is working, as is the plan to tear down America.
By the time people wake up, if ever, it will be too late.
It is a lot like being a citizen of Rome in 410 A.D., when the city was sacked by barbarians. Within a generation, the empire was dissolved.

Lunacy at the top

President Obama's new line -- we can't cut our way to prosperity -- is meant to be a twist on the conservative staple that you can't tax your way to prosperity.
However, there is a slight difference. One is true and one is not.
Taxing -- taking money from the productive part of the economy and allowing politicians to "spread it around a bit" has not ever produced prosperity and never will.
On the other hand, the $5 trillion in spending added during the past six years Democrats have been in control has done nothing beneficial.
Think about it. None of that money was being spent six years ago and yet we were a healthy, happy, hale and hearty nation. The debt was worrisome but manageable -- if we had just frozen spending, without making cuts.
Obama has abandoned the pose of being a moderate and now is openly pushing to create a welfare state that will dwarf those in socialist countries.
Regardless what we can't do, what we can do is tax and spend our way to bankruptcy.

Looking for Benedict Arnold

The biggest news in America is the story the mealy-mouth media is trying not to report.

A terrorist attack in Benghazi led to the deaths of four Americans.

Information from news stories that have been written -- primarily by Fox News and bloggers -- indicates that it could have been prevented.

Even more importantly, the information available indicates that the Americans, all or some of them, might have been saved while the attack was in progress.

Emails show the White House had information within an hour or two that the consulate attacked by terrorists. Yet, for 17 days afterward, the White House was telling the world that it was a demonstration by people angry over some video, and that the demonstration got out of hand.

This fit the narrative of the Obama re-election campaign. He killed Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda was no longer in business.

The unfolding story to date:

Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, former Navy SEALS attached to the CIA, ran to the fight, not away. They manned a heavy machinegun and fought off the attackers for seven hours, killing 50 or more barbarians.

During that time, they called for help. Aid was available and did not come. They had a laser targeting device that could have pinpointed the mortars being fired at them for an AC-130 gunship that was in the air.

Also in the air was a drone, presumably sending real-time video of the events. A quick-response team was an hour away.

Help did not come. The AC-130 did not fire. The SEALS died in a hail of mortar fire.

One former high-ranking CIA officer said on Fox News that the president had to know what was happening and that not sending aid was "cowardly." The military would not act without his OK, he said.

Barack Obama has said he ordered the military to do everything necessary to save the lives of the Americans in Benghazi and is "trying to find out" what happened. Alledgely, there is an investigation. No one expects it to be concluded until after Nov. 6, when the voters will decide whether Obama remains in office.

Because we know after four years how the Chicago mob in the White House operates, it is reasonable to surmise that the investigation consists of an all-out attempt to find a scapegoat.

What they need is a high-ranking military officer who will falsely claim that he failed to carry out the president's "clear" order to send aid.

Obviously that would be the end of his career. But he likely would have a substantial pension in place, and could be assured of a Soros-funded "supplement" that would enable him to live a Donald Trump lifestyle.

His only problem would be looking into the mirror each morning, knowing he had sold out his country to a man who would let Americans die so that he could retain political power.

Credit where it is due

Barack Hussein wants to take credit for Osama bin Laden's death. Even if it were true it would not make up for the mess he has made with his foreign policy.
But consider this:
Who were the three "worst people in the world"? (Mad hatter Keith Olbermann would not agree, of course.)
How about bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Moammar Khadafy?
These three bums have one thing in common. They are no longer a threat.
But none of them would be dead if it had not been for George W. Bush.
President Bush took action when America was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001.
Compare this to the Democrats, who did almost nothing after the first attack on the World Trade Center.
Bush sent troops to Iraq to remove Saddam, which leading Democrats agreed was a serious threat. Mission accomplished, and with the authorization of Congress and the United Nations.
Bush sent troops to Afghanistan to root out the terrorists hiding there.
Thousands of terrorists have been killed. Saddam, who started two wars that killed more than a million people, was captured and executed.
Obama came into office with the wind at his back. He stood by while the post-war battle with an insurgency in Iraq wound down, and had virtually nothing to do with Khadafy's capture and murder by his own people.
Bin Laden, of course, was killed by Seals and there are allegations that Obama was no leader in that effort, either, that the call was made by Leon Panetta.
Obama has been selective. He took meek action in Libya, but did nothing in Syria and passed up the best chance ever of stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons when he let the rioters in Iran be quelled. He praised the uprising in Egypt, which left the anti-American Muslim Brotherhood in charge.
Bush's aggressive defense of the nation certainly set in motion the chain of events that brought down both Khadafy and bin Laden, after Bush had left office.
That's what Obama "inherited."

Fizzle factor

The Morning Mistake -- as longtime politico Daughtry Towers used to call it -- has to be embarrassed over the audit of Florida State College operations.
After trying for months to get President Steve Wallace ousted, the paper thought it had him in the crosshairs.
Talk in the newsroom was that he would be "gone by October." I'm sure they were preparing the Pulitzer entry forms.
Then came the audit.
It was stupefyingly mild. Any audit will note a few glitches in any operation. This was no different.
But the big finding was a recommendation to redraw the organizational chart. This is what bureaucrats do when they tire of playing Angry Birds. It rarely accomplishes anything substantive.
Oh, yes, and some people in a survey didn't like Wallace's "management style." Golly, gee whiz.
The paper went on this witch-hunt at the behest of the union crowd at the college, I'm certain, and with constant input and attaboys from the agitators. Unionists live for the purpose of be-deviling and when possible beheading college presidents and administrators. Then they can say to prospective members, "See how powerful we are?"
All they need are gullible editors to make their jobs easier.
One unionist tried to take a victory lap via a letter to the editor. But it was as soggy as the stories were.
This story never amounted to much and was way oversold.
If Wallace does decide to move on to a more appreciative venue it would not be surprising. But it would be Jacksonville's loss.

How to ruin a nation

It is easy to understand why union bosses, environmental wackos, residents of other nations who are in America illegally and communists would vote for Barack Obama, but they are far from a majority and why any other American would vote for him is beyond me.
He has done more to tear down America in four years than any president I remember and every indication is that he will be even worse if kept in office.
At present, our descendants are in hock to the tune of $16 trillion as a result of his policies and the only reason it isn't more is that he used accounting tricks to delay the impact of his health care takeover.
So many jobs have been lost that a record number of people have quit seeking employment. Obama's plan is to keep doing what is causing the problem.
Almost as bad as his economic polices are the way he conducts foreign policy.
He was to bring peace and harmony to the world. Instead, the Mideast is in flames.
The attack on the consulate in Libya was a prime example.
Obama doesn't bother with his intelligence briefings. If he had, he might have noticed that 48 hours before the attack there were credible reports of an attack, according to news stories.
The Marines on guard were unarmed -- another Obama administration policy, so as not to offend the barbarians who want to murder as many Jews and Americans as they can.
The Libyan guards entrusted to protect our diplomats apparently were in on the plot, and ran when the shooting started.
It was also clear that the barbarians knew the location of a safe house for our diplomats.
All of it was timed for Sept. 11.
The cover story was supposed outrage over some goofy movie. That just doesn't fit the facts.
The mobs burned and looted the building, taking secret documents that may expose Libyans who have helped America, and other vital information, to our enemies.
Afterward, a confused Obama, trying to bluster his way through, said Egypt was not our ally, which his own State Department had to "clarify." They are.
This Keystone Kops performance would be funny if it were not for the lives lost.
That makes it kind of like the "Fast and Furious" scandal, another fatal blunder by this administration.
The attorney general still is stonewalling the investigation into that case.
I'm not sure what else Obama could do to convince voters that he was completely unprepared and unqualified to be president.
The Libyan episode only lends further credence to the book and movie asserting that Obama is now and has been all his life devoted to the cause of anti-colonialism, which sees Europe and America as the cause of the world's woes.
We've had the "historic" moment of electing someone with dark skin. Now maybe it is time to elect someone who loves and respects America and will work to make it prosperous and peaceful.

Flexible definitions

Politicfact is a Web site that purports to evaluate the truth about statements politicians make.
In fact, it more often is a liberal remolding of the truth.
Often, it evaluates opinions, rather than facts. Opinions cannot be true or false.
Recently, it found to be "false" a statement by Mitt Romney that Obamacare would slash $500 billion from Medicare.
Politifact said:
"Medicare spending is still set to increase, just not at as high a rate as originally anticipated. The difference, about $500 billion, is being used to help fund other provisions in the new health care law."
This is laughable because liberals ALWAYS call any reduction in planned spending increases as "cuts." But they are not cuts, it seems, when applied to something Obama claims he will do.
In fact, the cuts are phony because they are double-counted; in effect, spent twice, as various authorities have reported.