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Shooting The Messenger

Dems declare war on Rasmussen?

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Damage Control In 5 Easy Steps! [Weekly Standard]

Politico's Carol E. Lee has an interesting story today on President Obama's "by-now familiar pattern...for dealing with unexpected problems." As best we can figure, the Obama damage control strategy consists of these 5 easy steps:

Step 1: Deny seriousness of issue.
Step 2: Deny any admin responibility/failure.
Step 3: Have spokespeople convey O’s feelings to public.
Step 4: Blame Bush admin.
Step 5: Concede the issue days later.

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Again

Liberals in Congress introduced legislation that would provide amnesty to all illegal immigrants in the United States as of December 15th, 2009, yesterday.
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President Hoax and Change Gives Economic Speech Full of Lies, Blames Bush 
Amazingly, Obama is still blaming Bush for the economy. Almost every line in this breathtaking speech was a lie. It's too bad it wasn't delivered in prime time. 
Heritage: TARP: Will This Crony Capitalist Slush Fund Ever Die?

 
"Obama has absolutely no credibility. He can give speeches all day long, but this isn't a campaign. He's not running against anybody anymore. He's running against his own lousy record.  And the blame game does not wash." -- Rush
 
The Reverend Jackson Slams Obama
Trouble in paradise. Jesse Jackson is not happy with his president.


 
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How Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac Sank In The Subprime Quicksand

In 2002, the George W. Bush administration urged Congress to pass the American Dream Downpayment Act, which subsidized the down payments of prospective homebuyers whose incomes were below a certain level. After passage of that act, the president also urged Congress to pass legislation permitting ... More »
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The War On Terror On Trial

Attorney General Holder's testimony on Wednesday provided no credible rationale for sending the 9/11 conspirators into the civilian federal court system. This is 100% ... More »
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The New Swine Flu?

Bogus Porkulus numbers epidemic hits Wisconsin, too

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A Death Penalty Red Herring - Part 1 & Part 2

The Holy Grail of death penalty opponents is to prove actual execution of an innocent person. But those who demand perfection for murder convicts make no similar demand to protect the law-abiding public. Part 1 of 2. (Read)

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Gore Vidal, Charmer

Gore Vidal, vile as ever
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A Lesson For The Media, Not Obama

What if Bush had done it?

Perhaps the American media has begun to awaken from their self-imposed trance over the election of Barack Obama.  Politico’s Josh Gerstein figures that moment cannot come too soon, although he also notes that they have a great deal of self-interest in staying asleep.  He asks whether a series of actions by George Bush would have received the collective yawn they got from the media when Obama took them, or a feeding frenzy by journalists instead

Some of these we can answer.  When the Bush administration — specifically VP [Richard] Cheney — met with energy producers in confidential advisory groups to promulgate their energy policy, both the media and the Democrats went ballistic.  In fact, the latter sued to get the names of the attendees made public despite the fact that the administration is ultimately responsible for their policies.

Some of them require more speculation.  For instance, George Bush never tried freezing out a network or publicly labeling it as an illegitimate news organization.  Had he done so, perhaps with MS-NBC, the rest of the media industry would have risen in righteous indignation to demand an end to it.  In the present case, the broadcast nets did finally push back against the White House, but only in one specific instance, and for the most part have focused on whether Obama and his team are right about their assessment of Fox than in the chilling impact of having a President demand that other journalists ignore Fox.

Had Bush snubbed the Dalai Lama, the media would have ripped him for deprioritizing human rights and ignoring a man of peace.  That would have been an overreaction; the media probably got it more right than not with Obama’s postponement of their meeting, but it’s doubtful they would have given Bush that benefit of the doubt.

In other words, the press has a story line that they have to defend.  If Obama gets exposed as a flop, and worse as a typical Chicago pol, then it makes their failure to properly vet Obama during the primaries that much more clear.  In a sense, they created Obama, and his collapse would be their collapse as well.



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South Carolina: A Central Front In Battle For GOP Soul

Shocker: DeMint, Graham disagree on GOP direction

The national debate among Republicans over their party's future is nowhere sharper than in South Carolina, where Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint pursue distinctly different visions for restoring GOP primacy at the polls.

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Why Bullying Wall Street Won't Solve Anything

Rise of the mob economy
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On the Swine Flu Outbreak

. . . from CBS News, story by Sharyl Attkisson: "'Swine Flu Cases Overestimated?' CBS News Exclusive: Study Of State Results Finds H1N1 Not As Prevalent As Feared. If you've been diagnosed 'probable' or 'presumed' 2009 H1N1 or 'swine flu' in recent months, you may be surprised to know this: odds are you didn’t have H1N1 flu.  In fact, you probably didn’t have flu at all. That's according to state-by-state test results obtained in a three-month-long CBS News investigation.  The ramifications of this finding are important. According to the Center for Disease Control, CDC, and Britain's National Health Service, once you have H1N1 flu, you're immune from future outbreaks of the same virus. Those who think they've had H1N1 flu -- but haven't -- might mistakenly presume they're immune. As a result, they might skip taking a vaccine that could help them, and expose themselves to others with H1N1 flu under the mistaken belief they won't catch it. Parents might not keep sick children home from school, mistakenly believing they've already had H1N1 flu. Why the uncertainty about who has and who hasn't had H1N1 flu?" Because the governments in charge of tabulating all these kinds of statistics.  Swine flu cases overestimated -- why would that be? 

Why would swine flu cases be overestimated?  There are no coincidences in politics.  "But, Rush, but, Rush, this is a disease, what do you mean, politics?"  It's political!  The whole thing is political.  It's being used as a tool to persuade people to support Obama's health care reform initiative.  It is a tool whereby government officials get to tell citizens what they must do.  And now we find out that they've overestimated the number of swine flu cases out there and that's on the heels of a story, "Oh, my God the vaccine, we don't have enough vaccine, oh, we're all going to die! Waaaah! What are we going to do?  Qhat are we going to do?"  It's incredible to watch this. 

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