Got The Ebb, Got The Flow

Sadly Indeed
Senator Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat and Senate majority leader, also said he expected that the talks would resume at a higher level, though he provided no timetable. “With what Kyl and Cantor’s done, I think it’s in the hands of the speaker and the president and, sadly, probably me,” he told reporters. (NYT, 6/24/2011)


A great nation weeps.


Hazy Crazy
Part of that cult of personality is the myth that he is the World's Greatest Orator, a myth the (New York) Times evokes with its hazy recollections of times when he was "highly persuasive." When was he highly persuasive? When he sold the public on the so-called stimulus and ObamaCare? When he campaigned for Democrats in 2010? When he rallied public support for his last change in Afghan policy, an increase in the U.S. troop presence? (James Taranto, WSJ, 6/24/2011)


Good one from Taranto.  Notwithstanding the endless gaffes and the instantly forgettable speeches, the Left clings to the "Obama the Orator" script.


Posit This
“It is time to focus on nation-building here at home,” Obama says, in a line that would be trite and cynical at a campaign rally. In a wartime presidential address, it is beyond precedent and belief. A president provides for the common defense and promotes the general welfare, instead of positing a dangerous choice between the two. (Michael Gerson, Washington Post, 6/24/2011)


Our emphasis....because it is such an incredibly good point.


Ways and Means
Over the last decade, we have spent a trillion dollars on war, at a time of rising debt and hard economic times.  Now, we must invest in America’s greatest resource –- our people.  We must unleash innovation that creates new jobs and industries, while living within our means.  We must rebuild our infrastructure and find new and clean sources of energy. (President Obama, Address to the Nation on Afghanistan, 6/22/2011)


Time to get out of Afghanistan so that we can focus on those green jobs. By the way, it seems we have been waiting , like forever, for that solar-powered car.


Super Duper
The contributors to House Majority PAC, the new Democratic Super PAC, reads like a Glenn Beck fever dream. The list includes George Soros, a hedge fund billionaire and long-time backer of political efforts to elect Democrats, and a collection of unions, including the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and Associated Federal, State, County, Municipal Employees (AFSCME). (Huffington Post, 6/24/2011)

Karl Rove and the Koch Brothers will now accept Democrat apologies.