Conservative Donnybrook

“Somewhere along the line, the White House lost its way,” said Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo.

No, Rep. Skelton, the White House did not lose its way; its way, as carefully guarded by Rahm Emanuel and the rest of the crew, was on full display during President Obama’s speech. You see, the White House ran a campaign to accomplish only a few things. Primarily, they ran to keep the powers in the Federal Reserve and globalist banking interests untouched: and yesterday’s Senate confirmation of Bernanke, along with steadfast support of Tim Geithner and his policies, accomplished that. Secondarily, they ran to keep the moneyed interests in the defense industries flush with cash and fresh battlegrounds: the ramp-up in Afghanistan and the sabre-rattling about their next war in Iran accomplished just that. Thirdly, they ran to hand off the responsibility for fomenting a leftist revolution to Democrat-controlled Congressional Houses: President Obama slapped them in the face and subsequently cajoled them into trying harder to do just that with his call “To Democrats, I would remind you that we still have the largest majority in decades, and the people expect us to solve problems, not run for the hills.” He said, “Don’t walk away from reform. Not now. Not when we are so close. Let us find a way to come together and finish the job for the American people. Let’s get it done. Let’s get it done.” You must understand that the President is a short-term law professor who made his bones in that bastion of honesty and good-government, Chicago politics. His king-maker was Teddy Kennedy. Need I say more? If Kennedy hadn’t put his considerable political weight behind Obama, he would be facing a tough reelection battle as the junior Senator from Illinois begging President Hillary Clinton to campaign for him when the time came. That Hillary Clinton is both meaner and perhaps slightly more in control of her temper than the loathsome John McCain is not seriously in question; what is is whether McCain would have folded up the tent and joined her ticket as the VP. But I digress.

No, Ike, the White House did not lose its way at all. They still have you to blame. They are counting on you and the caucus to come through. They have no intentions of leaving the radicalism of “health care” “reform” aside. They have no inclination to make banking and finance more “transparent.” They have no desire to end the wars. They have made that plain; besides, peace is not in their revolutionary make-up. Marxism, whether overtly Leninist or the covertly Alinskyite variety (which merely deceptively masks its nature by denying it), depends upon struggle, upheaval, tension, division, and conflict. It is only natural that they would pretend to appeal to the masses of us who clamored for an end to war. It is only natural that they are disappointing us. I point only to Robert Gates, that unctious holdover from the odious wing of the last administration, as proof. The White House has its dupes making “gaffes” which fill up news cycles (Chris Matthews’ “I forgot he was black”) and distract from their strategic retreats (“rethinking” the location and venue of the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial), but they are going about their business unabated.

You’ll see, Ike. Why, the Orlando Sentinel just reported a few days ago that Obama made NASA scrap the Constellation program and the Ares rockets so as to refocus the agency’s attention on “climate change.” Guess who stand to make billions (trillions? Dare I say it in this day when superlatively large descriptors fail to come to mind? I do.) from the “climate change” scam? That’s right, Ike. All those “lobbyists” from K Street that the President “really let have it.” Uh huh. Sure. I believe he meant that about as much as I believe he meant “more nuclear power” and “drill here, drill now” and “we need tax cuts” and a “three year freeze” on spending. The President had them on speed dial to invite them to a “not-for-the-press” conference call literally the morning after purportedly taking them to task. And as for calling on Republicans to “work together with us” or whatever phraseology the Dear Leader used, he knows very well that Snowe, Graham, and McCain (the “deficit hawk,” ha ha) are already in line for “health care reform,” “immigration reform,” and “deficit reduction” (in that order, and then some). God only knows what other deals they have already lined up for a year or two down the road. The White House, contrary to the so-called “conservative” media, wasn’t surprised by Coakley’s loss. Nor was that an actual set-back. No, “there will be a bill,” as Nancy said. It will have a “public option” (I can hear it now: a “public partnership run for us by private insurance companies”) and it will force exorbitant costs onto the businesses Obama said he wants to stimulate. (A rather disquieting analogy springs to mind at that word, but it is apropos.)

Oh, Ike. What saps they took us for! Took you for! Unless, of course, you’re also doing a little sap-taking, there, Ike.

Our secretary of state apparently doesn’t find her job challenging enough, because she’s gone and decided to create a big new diplomatic headache for the United States by dishing out some combative rhetoric (and much sanctimonious lecturing) on China’s Internet policy.

Now, it’s perfectly reasonable for Clinton to protest China’s hacking of American companies’ networks, using them to spy on Chinese users’ communications, and the theft of their intellectual property. But it’s another thing altogether to invoke cold-war rhetoric in an explicit call to undermine foreign governments:

Some countries have erected electronic barriers that prevent their people from accessing portions of the world’s networks. They’ve expunged words, names, and phrases from search engine results. They have violated the privacy of citizens who engage in non-violent political speech. These actions contravene the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, which tells us that all people have the right “to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” With the spread of these restrictive practices, a new information curtain is descending across much of the world. And beyond this partition, viral videos and blog posts are becoming the samizdat of our day.

While it’s unclear what this speech signifies beyond escalating rhetoric, it seems that Hillary is trying to enlist American companies to protest or undermine foreign governments’ Internet policies, á la Google’s stand in China. Continue Reading »