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Supercommittee Superfail. No Surprise

So our heroes in Congress have failed again. Big surprise.

Here, therefore, a plan to fix the fiscal problems we face.

Democrats Expanding Military Deployments While Cutting DoD Budget

So… the Dems - having walked-away from a Supercommittee GOP offer of $500B of tax increases over the next ten years (they are demanding a trillion), now seem intent on cutting the Defense budget 10%.

I’m fine with cutting the defense budget - just not without re-ordering their mission (i.e. I am tired of paying for the defense of the entire West while these silly little pretend nations can’t even stand-up a military larger than the NYPD and spend all their tax money on unsustainable welfare benefits - meaning, because defense of citizens and borders is the First responsibility of a[…]

Flame ON.. Obama was correct we ARE “too soft”

Yep, you never thought you’d see the day, right?

But - here’s the deal: Holder?

50 years ago when we still had adults running this nation, if MY son had been killed by a gun that had been watched BY MY OWN GOVERNMENT as it was illegally bought and taken to Mexico - not interdicted, WATCHED - then Holder wouldn’t be on a stand lying to Congress. Nor would his boss. And our society would be OK with that.

And - here’s the deal: Paterno?

50 years ago when we still had adults running this nations, if MY 10-yr-old son had been raped by[…]

When Obama said “One-term proposition” did he mean it?

A friend recently asked, “When Obama said that if he hadn’t fixed things in 3 years he would be a one termer…do you think he believed that what he was doing was going to fix things?”

I think it was just hype to play to the Center voters.

Look at his past. He is absolutely incapable of making a decision. Did you see the House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy on Greta this week? He said Obama’s main trait is to say that he’ll think about something or form some committee or get back to you on this - and then NOTHING ever[…]

Barone on not Trusting ‘Experts’

Michael Barone has an interesting column today, the net of which is that today’s populism is fueled by a growing distrust of experts. I am not at all sure I agree with this thesis.

Rather than putting a low value in expertise, which assumes incorrectly that those in office now are expert - and they demonstrably are not (they are just the most-expert in a self-validating cohort of inexpert ideologues) - I think America finds itself at the point in which the best and the brightest - who most certainly are NOT in office of any kind - have decided that[…]

Democrats are Stopping Obama’s anti-Jobs Bill, Not Republicans

The 2012 GOP Field

FWIW, here’s my summary take on the GOP field as it stands, on the nomination, and the ramifications of the next election, should I be correct.

Romney: Say anything to get nominated and then run-away from Conservatism to get elected; we never win with moderates: Ford, GHW Bush on his own (not as Regan-II), Dole, McCain. If the GOP can’t get past the Rockefeller wing, then we’ll keep losing - and should.

Perry: Can’t debate. Arguably shot himself in the foot with the big prayer meeting, shot himself in the thigh with immigration (with the Base, though I agree with him), shot[…]

GOP Debates Raise HRH Obama’s popularity. Fact.

So here’s a scary observation.

I ran the numbers and graphed Rasmussen’s running average of HRH Obama’s popularity among likely voters against the GOP debate schedule. And you know what? The debates most-liked by the GOP base are helping Obama.

After the 8/11 Fox debate, his approval index stayed flat at -22.

After the 9/5 S. Carolina debate, he bumped-up a point, from -20 to -19.

After the 9/7 MSNBC debate, he stayed flat for a day and then dropped two the following day, from -22 to -24.

After the 9/12 CNN Debate, he went up three over the next couple of days, from -20[…]

HRH Obama hates his job, is depressed and likely will quit

Bob Beckel evidently told Stuart Varney today that there’s a possibility that Obama will pull an LBJ and decide not to run again.

I wrote here and here that I think Obama will quit or be tossed under the bus by the DNC. I’m not alone in that prediction… and here … and here .

Now Beckel, the face of the Dems on Fox, thinks Obama will quit.

Evidently NY Times is coming-out with a column that HRH Obama is depressed and doesn’t like being president.  Gawker.com’s already printed a similar column.

(He’d like to be King and keeps telling everyone paying-attention, though).

I can’t imagine how he WOULD like being president.

His far-left base is[…]

The Man who SHOULD be President

Paul Ryan.

Here is a link to a speech given today by Mr Ryan. (via RCP and Ricochet.)

As the columnist publishing it concludes: ”Can you imagine either of the serious contenders for the Republican Presidential nomination giving so thoughtful a speech? ”

Answer? No, I can’t.

Here’s the text:

Thanks very much for your kind introduction. It’s always a pleasure for me to speak to Hillsdale folks. Your mission here at the Kirby Center is a great example of what Hillsdale College is all about – that is, in the words of James Madison, “liberty and learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual[…]