Bernie Gets Burned! Now Forced to Say "Black Lives Matter" Every Day

Poor Babes
Prisoners say they were brutally interrogated after two inmates escaped from a New York prison (New York Times headline, 8/11/2015)

Oh no! The murderers and rapists were treated harshly!


Hamburger Hell
...(Wendy's Company) CFO Todd Penegor talked about the pressure to pay higher wages and said that “we continue to look at initiatives and how we work to offset any impacts of future wage inflation through technology initiatives, whether that’s customer self-order kiosks, whether that’s automating more in the back of the house in the restaurant. (Wall Street Journal, 8/11/2015)

Liberals somehow are congenitally unable to comprehend the results of their harebrained ideas. Let's raise the minimum wage to $15! Result: more automation and fewer workers.


Stooge
Apparently, the president figures that the politics work better when he projects Olympian confidence about his diplomacy than when he acknowledges some measure of uncertainty. Apparently, he thinks it’s wiser to tar opponents of the deal as partisans or idiots or paid stooges than to engage them as sincere, thoughtful people who came to their own conclusions. (Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal, 8/11/2015)

Harvard lawyer and constitutional scholar Obama never - ever - thinks to make the case for his deal; i.e. here are the pros and cons and here is why I choose the approach that I did. Instead, his tactic is to disparage those who disagree. This is the president who Liberals extol as brilliant. 

Leverage

Dealer
“You have a large country, with a significant military, that has proclaimed that Israel shouldn’t exist, that has denied the Holocaust, that has financed Hezbollah,” Mr. Obama said, speaking of Iran. “There are very good reasons why Israelis are nervous about Iran’s position in the world, generally.” (New York Times, 7/16/2015)

And then Obama said to himself: 'But I am doing the deal anyway.'


Dealt
With a better deal impossible, Mr. Obama said that the only viable alternative to the negotiated settlement his administration had presented was war. And he challenged critics of the deal to acknowledge that what they really wanted was a military solution. (New York Times, 7/16/2015)

This is Obama's most gratuitous argument. It has been effectively rebutted numerous times and yet he still uses it. The alternative is not war with Iran. The alternative - the status quo - is that sanctions remain in place and Iran is eventually suffocated. The mullahs relent or they are overthrown.


Ill Repute
Valerie Jarett, reputed to be Obama’s closest adviser, remembers Shiraz, the Iranian cultural capital and the Florence of the East, where she was born and grew up....Secretary of State John Kerry admires Iran because he knows it through his Iranian son-in-law, who hails from a pre-revolution middle-class family. (NYPost.com, 7/19/2015)

So does this explain why the Obama administration did the deal?

Colonel Bernie Sanders: I am not a Liberal

Focused
“I’m not a liberal. Never have been. I’m a progressive who mostly focuses on the working and middle class.” (Bernie Sanders, quoted by Nate Cohn, New York Times, 7/13/2015)

We are guessing that Liberals and Progressives agree on raising taxes, cutting military spending, immigration policy, gay marriage, abortion, legalizing marijuana, climate change, voter ID (or lack thereof), campaign finance, etc. What don't they agree on? In fact, you could not shine a photon between the two. They are one and the same.


The Gambler
Mr. Obama will be long out of office before any reasonable assessment can be made as to whether that roll of the dice paid off. The best guess today, even among the most passionate supporters of the president’s Iran project, is that the judgment will be mixed. Nothing in the deal announced Tuesday eliminates Iran’s ability to eventually become a nuclear threshold power — it just delays the day. To Mr. Obama’s many critics, including Henry A. Kissinger, the architect of the China opening, that is a fatal flaw. It does nothing, Mr. Kissinger wrote recently with another former secretary of state, George P. Shultz, to change “three and a half decades of militant hostility to the West.” (New York Times, 7/15/2015)

So the question is, if it all goes south, will the New York Times write the story ten or fifteen years from now about how Obama's deal with Iran led to a Middle East nuclear arms race?

And then there is this:
Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, made a brief statement, saying that the Iranian people’s “prayers have come true.” (New York Times, 7/14/2015)

Yes, sadly for the world it's true.


Harms Way
The Pentagon is moving to allow transgender people to serve openly in the military by early next year and end an “outdated” regulation that harms the armed forces, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said on Monday. (New York Times, 7/15/2015)

Quick show of hands. How many out there feel more secure knowing that America is protected by transgenders? We thought so. The military long ago caved in to the political correctness of Liberal politicians.

Thank You Veterans!

Liberal Logic
Liberals want restrictions on guns, but not on abortion.


Skirt Chasers
Republican Rivals Skirt Specifics on Plans to Fight ISIS, Read Down to Paragraph Twenty to Find Out What Hillary Clinton Would Do (New York Times headline, 5/24/2015)

OK, we added that last part.


What Did Hillary Know and When Did She Know It?
Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received emails from her top aides warning about dangerous security conditions in Benghazi, Libya, in the run-up to the terrorist attack that killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans there in 2012, documents disclosed on Friday show. (Wall Street Journal, 5/24/2015)

A Liberal friend recently said that George Bush could have prevented 9/11 because he received national security briefings that said: Bin Laden determined to attack U.S. Apparently Bush did not make the obvious connection that this meant that nineteen Islamic fascists would hijack planes and fly them into buildings and kill over three thousand Americans. 

Anyway, here we have news that Hillary Clinton received warnings from her own people at the State Department about a very specific danger at a very specific place. She did nothing. And so when the Benghazi attack happened - the date was again 9/11 - she immediately blamed a video. 

Anyone listening?


The Dangler
But this “opportunity” didn’t just emerge organically — which is actually where “opportunities” are supposed to come from. It did not result from changing conditions that opened a new possibility of finding common ground. Iran’s behavior didn’t change, and its pursuit of nuclear weapons didn’t change. Obama manufactured what (deputy national security adviser Ben) Rhodes called an opportunity by pursuing a deal with Iran and dangling all kinds of carrots in front of the mullahs. And why? Because he wants a foreign-policy legacy to match the size and scope of his key legacy in domestic policy. (John Podhoretz, New York Post, 5/25/2015)

The single greatest threat to U.S. national security is.....Barack Obama.


Wrongly
“They’ve got the wrong guy,” said Robin Ficker, a lawyer who has represented Mr. Wint in the past and said he may again in this case. “It’s not in his nature. The police were under pressure to make an arrest, and they’re really straining here, overreaching.”
...
Mr. Wint has a record of criminal and violent behavior going back at least a decade. He was convicted of assaulting his girlfriend and pleaded guilty to malicious destruction of property. A woman who lived with Mr. Wint, as well as his father, each obtained a protective order against him, claiming he had threatened them with violence. (New York Times, 5/23/2015)

We officially nominate Robin Ficker as Lawyer of the Year!

Flight of the Arrow

Influence
But it is also true that Mr. Cotton and other Republicans benefited from millions in campaign spending in 2014 by several pro-Israel Republican billionaires and other influential American donors who helped them topple Democratic opponents. (New York Times, 4/5/2015)

The New York Times breaks the bombshell story that Republicans accept campaign contributions from people who share their views on issues such as Israel. No word yet as to whether Democrats do the same.


Fearful
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a possible Republican presidential candidate, said it was “probably the best deal that Barack Obama could get with the Iranians because the Iranians don’t fear” him. (New York Times, 4/6/2015)

This is exactly the point: America's adversaries do not fear Obama. America, and the world, are weaker as a result. Liberals derided Ronald Reagan and George Bush as "cowboys" but you better believe that the world's bad actors took notice.


Showered
The White House says that now that it has the specific outlines of a deal, it will have an easier time allaying lawmakers’ concerns. It plans to shower them with technical detail and essentially argue that the accord is the only alternative to war. (New York Times, 4/6/2015)

Obama is notorious for his use of straw men and false comparisons to make whatever idiotic point he is trying to make. A bad deal or war? That is ridiculous. Here's another idea: How about no deal with the Iranians and a tightening of sanctions?


Hidden
Warning “you can’t just hide” from the problem of workplace sexism, Ellen Pao says Silicon Valley must continue to work on the issues brought up in her loss to venture capital-firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in a much-watched gender-bias trial.

“You need to work through these issues,” Ms. Pao said in her first interview since the March 27 verdict, “because they are here and they’re not going to go away.” (Wall Street Journal, 4/6/2015)

What issues, exactly? Pao lost. On every count! Kleiner Perkins was found not guilty and Pao's allegation were deemed baseless. What issues do we need to work through? Perhaps the ones that involve baseless charges of discrimination by radical feminists. Let's "work through" that issue.


Memory Loss
“Civil-rights laws are turned upside down when used to harass small businesses with minority viewpoints,” says Mr. Epstein. “These viewpoints need constitutional space between them and the relentless ambitions of an ascendant gay rights movement that seems to have quickly forgotten that its members were once on the receiving end of the unthinking and abusive exercise of state criminal law.” (New York University law professor Richard Epstein, quoted in the Wall Street Journal, 4/7/2015)

Echoing our favorite comment from a brave gay man who said: "We used to be bullied. Now we are the bullies."

All Together Now

Longing
Warren is considered a long shot to challenge Hillary for the Democratic nomination in 2016. Hillary Clinton is not only older and richer than Warren; she has also published more memoirs. (freebeacon.com, 12/2/2014)

Now that is funny!


RedStateVT Dissects MSNBC's Analysis of Hillary Clinton's Appearance At Georgetown 
It was the right topic at the right venue for Hillary Clinton Wednesday morning at Georgetown University, but the timing was off. Poor weather and impending finals kept students from filling up the ornate Gaston Hall, and her wonky foreign policy remarks left many disappointed who are hungry for something more from the likely presidential candidate. (MSNBC.com, 12/3/2014)

Liberal Georgetown students were unwilling to brave the rain to see the Democrat party's presumptive presidential nominee. Students - who could normally be enticed to do almost anything else instead of studying - decided to study. 

Questions from students were submitted ahead of time and reviewed by a committee of faculty and students before being read by Verveer. At the start of the program, an announcer declared that interruptions to the program “will not be permitted.”

Her Majesty will not suffer any surprises. 

Approved questions:
How is Bill doing?
How is Chelsea doing?
How is the baby doing?
How does it feel to be a grandmother?

Questions not approved:
What exactly did you accomplish when you traveled one million miles as Secretary of State?
What exactly did you mean when you said of Benghazi: what difference does it make?
What exactly did you mean when you said that corporations do not create jobs?

Meanwhile, as she speaking, an entirely different theme was being pushed by Republicans operatives, who filled reporters’ inboxes and Twitter feeds with pictures showing empty rows of seats in the hall.

The vast right wing conspiracy lives!

The university said the hall seats over 700 people, but that only 400 turned out. The entire balcony was empty, save reporters, while there were several empty seats downstairs.

It is likely that high ticket prices - in addition to the confounded weather - also depressed attendance. 

Tickets were offered free to every student.

Scratch that.

The university and students sympathetic to Clinton pointed out that many students were busy studying for upcoming finals. The rainy weather also may have kept some students indoors...

Just to reiterate, it was the weather and finals. It has nothing to do whatsoever with the plummeting appeal of the prickly Hill. 


Truly Deeply
Randi Weingarten, the affluent, fancypants president of the American Federation of Teachers, issued a statement on Wednesday expressing her deep concern about the salaries of American teachers....Certainly, Weingarten is not feeling squeezed. The teachers union honcho’s salary of $360,000 per year puts her squarely in the top one percent of all Americans. It is 641 percent higher than the $56,130 annual income of an average elementary school teacher. (dailycaller.com, 12/3/2014)

Good timing, we have been thinking about this exact point. So when Liberal redistributionists decry the purported "income inequality" in America, are they also talking about the union bosses who make 641% more than their constituents? We doubt it. With the characteristic hypocrisy of Liberals, it is only corporate CEOs that are greedy.


Dead Letter
While the United States and Iran are traditional rivals, if they can reach a deal over Iran’s nuclear program, more normal relations could follow, including close cooperation against the Islamic State. That was the point Mr. Obama made in a letter to the ayatollah last month urging him to sign off on the nuclear deal.

But the letter, as well as an earlier one wishing the Iranian leader a speedy recovery from surgery, may have backfired, one analyst said, projecting a weakness that only encouraged Iran to display its power more openly.

“When Obama sends letters to our leader wishing him a speedy recovery, to us that is a sign of weakness,” said one Iranian journalist closely connected to the conservative Revolutionary Guards. “During meetings the letter is discussed and we conclude: ‘Obama needs a deal. He needs us.’ We would never write him such a letter.” (New York Times, 12/4/2014)

The Bush Doctrine broadly holds that America will pre-emptively deal with threats to our national security. The Obama Doctrine holds that America will make any deal (Russia, China, Iran), no matter how lopsided, in an attempt to get our enemies to like us. Under Bush, our enemies feared us. Under Obama they laugh at us. This will be Obama's legacy. 

E. J. Dionne Jr.: Liar at the Washington Post

Dainty Boy
There is no reason to be dainty or evasive in saying that racism and racial resentment are part of the equation, and it’s not just that Obama is our first African American president. Racial politics has been helping Republicans since the 1960s when much of the white South realigned toward the GOP in reaction to the Democrats’ embrace of civil rights. (E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post, 10/19/2014)

Dionne thinks that no one knows how Democrats and Republicans voted on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Wrong, E.J. This from Wikipedia:

The Senate version:
Democratic Party: 46–21   (69–31%)
Republican Party: 27–6   (82–18%)

The Senate version, voted on by the House:
Democratic Party: 153–91   (63–37%)
Republican Party: 136–35   (80–20%)

So, Dainty Boy, turns out that Republican supported civil rights by A HIGHER PERCENTAGE than Democrats. We will await your apology. Our guess is that - as with all things Democrat - it will come AFTER the election. 


Instability
A newly created database of New Yorkers deemed too mentally unstable to carry firearms has grown to roughly 34,500 names, a previously undisclosed figure that has raised concerns among some mental health advocates that too many people have been categorized as dangerous. (New York Times, 10/19/2014)

Of course, when one of these crazies goes on a killing spree Liberals will bemoan the country's lax firearm laws.


Wonderful
One of the wonders of this political moment is feminist contentment about the infantilization of women in the name of progressive politics. Government, encouraging academic administrations to micromanage campus sexual interactions, now assumes that, absent a script, women cannot cope. And the Democrats’ trope about the Republicans’ “war on women” clearly assumes that women are civic illiterates.

Access to contraception has been a constitutional right for 49 years (Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965). The judiciary has controlled abortion policy for 41 years (Roe v. Wade, 1973). Yet the Democratic Party thinks women can be panicked into voting about mythical menaces to these things. (George Will, Washington Post, 10/17/2014)

Great column by Will reminding us (yet again) that Democrats are the Party of Grievances, Real or Imagined. 


Little Man
Bernie’s annual average growth rate in net worth 2004-2012 was 29%.  The average American’s growth rate for the same period?  -0.94%.  So when Bernie’s telling you he’s working for the little guy, remember that in Berniespeak, little guy means “Bernie Sanders”. (Chris Campion, ethanallen.org, 10/13/2014)

Colonel Bernie Sanders: Vermont's Millionaire Socialist. 


Strike Out
No one knows if the Obama administration will manage in the next five weeks to strike what many in the White House consider the most important foreign policy deal of his presidency: an accord with Iran that would forestall its ability to make a nuclear weapon. But the White House has made one significant decision: If agreement is reached, President Obama will do everything in his power to avoid letting Congress vote on it. (New York Times, 10/20/2014)

Choose your response:

-Gwyneth Paltrow will be just so pleased.

-Democracy in action.

-What Imperial Presidency?