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Sotomayor

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, May 28, 2009 1:55:55 PM

Video: Chuck Schumer, call your office!

Top Senate aides: GOP ready to roll over for Sotomayor

The opportunity on Sotomayor

Release the Sotomayor memos

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Those Who Gave Their Last Full Measure Of Devotion To Our Nation

Posted by Always To The Right on Monday, May 25, 2009 1:35:31 PM

Memorial Day

Today we honor those men and women who went into our nation’s service and never returned.  It originally began as Decoration Day shortly after the Civil War.  Its specific origins have been disputed; some say it started in Waterloo, New York, while others credit freed slaves in Charleston, South Carolina.  Both traditions combined into a national day of remembrance within a generation, but oddly did not become a federal holiday until almost a century later.  In 1968, Congress finally recognized Memorial Day as a federal holiday in its present form as the last Monday in May.

You can read more about the men and women who received our nation’s highest honor for their sacrifice at the US Army’s MOH archive.  Keep all of them, and all who have given their lives in war and peace to protect this nation, in your prayers and thoughts today.

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Supermax: No, We’re Not Ready, President Obama

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, May 23, 2009 5:23:08 PM
Michelle Malkin  •  May 22, 2009 11:05 AM

President Obama left the impression yesterday that Supermax prisons are ready, willing, and able to house Gitmo detainees.

Supermax officials in Colorado say otherwise

Not to mention that jihadi virus problem.
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Deja Vu

Posted by Always To The Right on Friday, May 22, 2009 5:05:57 PM

New RNC ad on Gitmo: “Daisy”

. . . The real worry, in my opinion, isn’t that someone dangerous will go loose but (a) that defendants will use their courtroom access to the media in the U.S. to grandstand and propagandize for jihadism and (b) that closing Gitmo will represent a concession to demagogues who’ve labored in bad faith for years to paint it as some sort of gulag, the better to smear Bush as a quasi-Stalin. Bob Gates acknowledged just this morning that it’s “one of the finest prisons in the world,” before quickly adding that we have to close it anyway to erase the “taint” on America’s reputation.

If Obama was the international superhero the media tells us he is, you’d think he’d use some of his powers of persuasion to remove the “taint” by defending Gitmo and explaining why it’s necessary. That wouldn’t be very Change-y, though, would it? Exit question: Isn’t the real problem here that he’s unwilling to order the building of a new prison in the United States lest the state where it’s located turn on him in the next election?



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“Legal, Essential, Justified, Successful, And The Right Thing To Do.”

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, May 21, 2009 6:20:17 PM

Cheney: “In the fight against terrorism, there is no middle ground”

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Pretenders

Posted by Always To The Right on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:02:00 PM

Democrats close national security gap, follow evil Bush policies; Update: Obama schedules speech to upstage Cheney?

Diplomacy does take time, but Obama has little to show for his efforts to date. On issues as diverse as the global recession, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Europe and NATO have almost entirely rejected Obama?s agenda. Israel is at loggerheads with the current administration. Obama?s call for a world without nukes was met with a North Korean missile test. His outstretched hand to the mullahs running Iran has been met with another missile test. And unstable Pakistan is rapidly adding to its nuclear arsenal.

So what is there for voters to like about Obama and the Democrats on national security and the war, if not diplomacy?

How about the fact that — as Jack Goldsmith points out at The New Republic — with a few minor exceptions, Obama has embraced eleven essential elements of fmr. Pres. Bush’s approach to counterterrorism policy? Internet sock-puppeteer and ideologue Glenn Greenwald sums it up from a lefty perspective
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The Way Forward

Posted by Always To The Right on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 4:39:15 PM

Conservatives, Republicans, and the Man of Steele

Conservatives have a rocky relationship with the Republican Party. America has many groups with different priorities, but we live in a two-party system. Those two parties are the Republicans and Democrats, and this is not likely to change any time soon. The price of gutting and replacing one party is decades of political oblivion, and conservatives cannot afford the time it would take to haul the old GOP jalopy into the chop shop, strip out the useful parts, and assemble that sweet turbocharged Conservative Party muscle car they’ve been dreaming of.

We’re stuck with the Republicans as a political vehicle, like it or not. Several groups with profound disagreements are crammed into that vehicle, and everyone wants to be driving it when it makes its big comeback. The preferred tactic for gaining control of the party involves trying to kick all your rivals out, while loudly accusing them of trying to kick you out. Steele is correct to talk about finding common ground that unites the various bickering factions and personalities, although his performance so far makes me wonder if he’s the guy to do it. He’s also right to insist that his party doesn’t ?narrowly speak to one segment of the population.? The trick is to speak to all of the population, without trying to agree with all of them. Leadership is based on persuasion. You can only make that fabled ?big tent? so big… then you’ve got to start inviting people inside.

. . . one thing, Mr. Steele, Colin Powell kicked himself out. Our children are being bankrupted by the reckless spending of the man Colin Powell helped to elect. He owes Republicans, and Americans, an apology for his betrayal of his ?dear old friend? John McCain, and until he makes it, he’s irrelevant, and a Democrat. For another thing, the composition of the Republican Party leadership has absolutely nothing to do with hungry children. The number of hungry children will remain precisely the same if Colin Powell, Rush Limbaugh, Olympia Snowe, or Michael Steele leaves the Republican Party. . . .

The second important step for Republicans is highlighting the fantastic corruption of the Democrat party. This obviously needs to be accompanied by a rigorous cleaning up of their own act, . . .

Steele should work to reconcile the differences between fiscal and social conservatives, because they are both important to the Republican Party. Social conservatives are crucial to achieving victory, because they have the passion and energy to make the moral case against socialism. Socialists don’t try to make their case to voters on the grounds of pure efficiency - they’d look like fools, given the history of liberal social programs since the Great Society . . .

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America Is Now On A Collision Course With Israel

Posted by Always To The Right on Monday, May 18, 2009 1:12:37 PM
Obama’s U.N. Mistake
In advance of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the U.S. on Monday, Pres. Obama unveiled a new strategy for throwing Israel to the wolves.

In advance of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the United States on Monday, President Obama unveiled a new strategy for throwing Israel to the wolves. It takes the form of enthusiasm for the United Nations and international interlopers of all kinds. Instead of ensuring strong American control over the course of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations or the Arab-Israeli peace process, the Obama administration is busy inserting an international mob between the U.S. and Israel. The thinking goes: If Israel doesn’t fall into an American line, Obama will step out of the way, claim his hands are tied, and let the U.N. and other international gangsters have at their prey.

It began this past Monday with the adoption of a so-called presidential statement by the U.N. Security Council. Such statements are not law, but they must be adopted unanimously — meaning that U.S. approval was essential and at any time Obama could have stopped its adoption. Instead, he agreed to this: “The Security Council supports the proposal of the Russian Federation to convene, in consultation with the Quartet and the parties, an international conference on the Middle East peace process in Moscow in 2009.”

Apparently Obama prefers a playing field with 57 members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, 22 members of the Arab League — most of whom don’t recognize the right of Israel to exist — and one Jewish state. A great idea — if the purpose is to ensure Israel comes begging for American protection.
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Climbdown

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, May 16, 2009 2:45:26 PM

Pathetic: Pelosi plays down CIA criticism, blames Bush instead

After a week of increasingly desperate, cowardly excuses, she saved the best for last. Mind-boggling.

I don’t know what she could possibly mean by this after yesterday’s “the CIA misleads us all the time” sandbagging unless she’s now accusing Team Bush of pulling aside the agents in charge of briefings and ordering them to lie. Which is insane given that (a) by her own admission, agents did brief Congress about waterboarding Abu Zubaydah by early 2003; (b) in the political climate of the time, with Democrats gung ho to prove their “toughness” on terrorism, Bush had less to fear that they’d be squeamish about waterboarding if he told them than that they’d be enraged if he didn’t tell them because he thought they might be squeamish; and (c) according to Pelosi’s logic here, if this is all just another of the Bushitler’s conspiracies, then her failure to mention it until now means she’s been essentially covering for George Bush.

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“A Lack Of Coherence And Credibility…”

Posted by Always To The Right on Friday, May 15, 2009 12:49:11 PM

Video: Kit Bond says CIA doesn’t brief on rejected techniques

Time has this moment of clarity from Senator Kit Bond, who must wonder where the media’s common sense went yesterday. Why would the CIA call a briefing to discuss waterboarding to say they weren’t going to use it? Since Time blocks embedding, I’ll use MS-NBC’s embed of the entire video, but the money quote comes at the 6:45 mark, but you’ll be plenty entertained by then.

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Full Retreat, But Still Dishonesty

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, May 14, 2009 1:15:59 PM

DHS report withdrawn

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano finally acknowledged defeat publicly on her department’s report on right-wing extremism.  In a hearing yesterday held by the House Homeland Security Committee, Napolitano acknowledged that the report should never have been issued, that it replaced specific threats with generalities, and that the new report would focus on actual threats.  The person who released the report faces “personnel action”

It was actually neither.  Unlike its counterpart report on the left wing, it mentioned no actual threats nor reviewed any specific groups with histories of violent action.  Those groups exist, and they do try to recruit people, including but not limited to military veterans.  Instead of focusing on the groups, though, the DHS report instead chose to associate broad policy positions with violence as well as describe returning veterans as a potential national-security threat in and of themselves.

Napolitano then told the committee that no process for vetting reports existed, and that DHS is now working to fix that.  However, that’s not true either.  We already know that civil-liberties lawyers at DHS saw the report before it went out and objected to it.  DHS released it over their objections.  Obviously, a vetting process does exist; it just got overruled.  Who made the decision to send out the report over their objections?  Why didn’t the vetting process that apparently took place get taken seriously by senior DHS leadership?  Is it because they themselves believe what the report said about conservative positions on federalism and abortion?



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“They Told Me We Had This Much Left!”

Posted by Always To The Right on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 7:49:56 PM

Social Security already running red; Update: Going bad faster than trustees admit

The big story for the day will probably be the new report that Social Security will start running in the red in 2016.  The stories will include talk of a “trust fund” as well, as does the Washington Post

There is no trust fund.  Social Security surpluses have always been used by the federal government for general-fund allotments, replaced essentially by IOUs.  This became an issue in the 2000 presidential election, when Al Gore talked about a “lockbox” to keep Congress out of the surpluses.  The “trust fund” consists of bonds, not cash, and they have to be redeemed by the US government, which already runs massive deficits.

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News

Posted by Always To The Right on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 5:34:28 PM
If Rush and Cheney hurt the GOP, why try to shut them up, libs?
 
"After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do?  He endorsed Obama! So according to the MSM and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party."
Obama Meetings Fix Health Care! 
Your employer (controlled by Obama) will force you to stay healthy, and that will reduce costs, right? Wrong. The way to reduce costs is to put the consumer back in the loop of paying for it.
New York Times:  Campaign Myth of Prevention and "Wellness Programs" as Cure-Alls

"The federal government is out of money!  They can't take over or 'fix' anything without printing the money to do it. Deficits totaling $10 trillion have been run up, and a lot of people think this is just temporary until Obama fixes it.  No.  We've never been here before."
 
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Confidence Game

Posted by Always To The Right on Monday, May 11, 2009 12:14:16 PM

Great news: Gaffemaster acting as Obama’s Supreme Court sherpa

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Don't Blame Israel

Posted by Always To The Right on Sunday, May 10, 2009 2:53:55 PM
Why Obama has the Iran problem backwards
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