I sit here in my comfy chair and ponder the direction my country is headed. I can not decide if it is Stalinist socialism or Hitler's Nation Socialist hell that we are careening towards. Either way I do not like it. We are being led by our noses by our president and his gang of thugs in both houses of congress and their water carriers in Hollywierd and the drive-by media. Our so-called leaders are masters of the spin game and agitprop, and are using these skills to remake our country into a new Workers' Paradise. Let me put it in no uncertain terms: I DO NOT WANT IT!!!During the election I was deeply concerned with what a leftist victory would mean to this country. After the election, I did not like the one that my fellow citizens had chosen to lead us., but decided to give Dear Leader a chance. I considered myself part of the loyal opposition, and as such, would support my president but keep a close eye on what he and his band of merry men were doing. I was saddened when I later found all my worse fears, the ones I never mentioned, coming true.There are those who doubted that Dear Leader was born in America, and at first I doubted. I thought it the height of craziness that this man had not been vetted. My father, as stolid and un-excitable, in regards to politics, a man as ever lived. I told him that being a smarmy bastard didn't not make him born elsewhere. I offer as proof the legions of smarmy bastards that are beyond a doubt born here. Yes they are among us, and the vote Democrat. Now we are nearing the eighth month of his rein, and all we have seen as proof of citizenship is a document that is missing characteristics that would make it legal, and redacted information. The administration has spent huge sums of money, on the close order of a million dollars, to suppress records, including the birth certificate, from coming to light. This started to concern me.Over lunch one day, I suggested to him that what we needed was a soldier to refuse orders based on The Chosen One's ineligibility to issue them. To be honest, he scoffed at the notion, and heaped derision upon it. .The only other reason to hide his personal documents, is to hide something embarrassing. Besides where he was born, I can not imagine what The Chosen One might wish to hide on his birth certificate, or what other documentation he is suppressing. I am not sure where the president was born. I am skeptical of those who claim he was born in Kenya, but I am equally skeptical of someone who goes to such great lengths to suppress the truth, no matter what that truth is. As I said, the neo-libs are masters of spin and propaganda. It is the first instinct of these cowards to lie, like a reflex. When their people show up to a town hall they are righteously indignant conscientious grass-roots objectors. When conservatives show up they are AstroTurf, Brownshirts and puppets of military-industrial complex. This is a LIE! These are angry people who are fed up with the left, and their communist political agenda. We do not want CommieCare. We want REAL health care reform. We want tort reform, an end to government mandates and we want CHOICE. We do not want the left's lies and platitudes.I have news for you leftists, unless the protesters are paid to be there, it is grass roots. Your side buses people in to protest everything from election results, to the cutting down of trees. When an organization gathers its followers to attend a protest, the one who got them together is a community organizer. When the right does the same, it is fake and a conspiracy. GOD BLESS AMERICA AND DEATH TO HER ENEMIES!

Hurry Up And Wait

back in january - in fact barely two days after his inaugration as president of the united states of america - bho signed an executive order requiring that the guantanamo bay facility be closed within 12 months. at the time of his signing the order, the president said he was issuing the order to close the facility in order to "restore the standards of due process and the core constitutional values that have made this country great even in the midst of war, even in dealing with terrorism."
and all the world rejoiced.
um, yeah, not so much.
you see, obama and the other leftists around the world did not take into consideration that no one wants the detainees from gitmo. not here in the united states and certainly not in europe.
initially, obamah's decision to close the gitmo facility received a speedy backing from obama's presidential election opponent, john mccain (clueless arizona) when he made a joint statement with senator lindsey graham (rino, sc) saying they supported obama's move to "reaffirm America's adherence to the Geneva Conventions, and begin a process that will, we hope, lead to the resolution of all cases of Guantanamo detainees."
then "larry king live," john-boy said he thought that perhaps the new president may have been a tad bit hasty in his decision to close gitmo. that maybe he should have taken a little more time to consider everything associated with closing the camp before laying out a timetable for adherence.
specifically, mclame said he thought bho needed to consider what would need to be done with enemy combatants held at G=guantanamo before ordering the facility to be closed. saying, "So, the easy part, in all due respect, is to say we're going to close Guantanamo," McCain said. "Then I think I would have said where they were going to be taken. Because you're going to run into a NIMBY [not in my backyard] problem here in the United States of America."
ya think? so johnny supported obama's closing of the gitmo facility before he warned him against the closing of the facility. all seems a little too much like the dems after the start of the iraq war, doesn't it?
so, now, fast forward five months and today - this evening, really - obama's white house has drafted an order that would "reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely, according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White House deliberations."
according to dafna linzer and peter finn of the washington post, the order was drafted because of fears of a battle-royal with congress that would stall plans to close gitmo.
so let me get this straight. it was so important to close the guantanamo bay facility that it couldn't even wait two full days after the one's coronation, but it's not important enough that he's willing to fight congress on it? hmmm, i smell a rat (well actually more than one, but we'll reserve the others for another day).
his advisors appear to be worried that embracing another legacy of gwb's will put him on weaker footing with the courts and key supporters. uh-huh. of the two groups, whom do you think the advisors are more concerned about. yep, me too.
from the wapo article:
White House spokesman Ben LaBolt said that there is no executive order and that the administration has not decided whether to issue one. But one administration official suggested that the White House is already trying to build support for an order.
"Civil liberties groups have encouraged the administration, that if a prolonged detention system were to be sought, to do it through executive order," the official said. Such an order could be rescinded and would not block later efforts to write legislation, but civil liberties groups generally oppose long-term detention, arguing that detainees should be prosecuted or released.
why does anyone care what civil liberties groups think about long-term detention? if they feel so strongly about this, why don't they invite them to live in their homes?
in reality, the people who have been to gitmo all seem agree that life at guantanamo is pretty good. in fact, the patriot post digest from today had this to say about the whole thing:
The Guantanamo detainee merry-go-round continues to turn and churn. On the detainee transfer front, the European Union, a harsh critic of detainee treatment, allegedly made its most explicit promise to date on accepting some Gitmo detainees... well, kind of, maybe. In a rather foggy, diplo-speak statement, the EU pledged to cooperate with the U.S. on legal strategies that will "help the U.S. turn the page" on past detention policies. Naturally, the statement did not specify how many detainees would be sent to Europe or which countries would accept them, although apparently Italy has agreed to accept three detainees. So much for the "explicit" promise.
Speaking of transferred detainees, the four Chinese Muslim Uighurs released from Gitmo and sent to Bermuda last week were found by the swimming pool outside of their pink bungalow. Questioned by a Fox News reporter, the well-tanned detainees said that living in China is worse than life at Guantanamo, saying there is no guarantee of human rights in China. We're shocked -- shocked -- to find that this is the case.