The president also asserted that “after two years of recession, the economy is growing again.”
Just 35% of voters believe that statement is true, while 50% say it is false."
The Justice Department acted not just unilaterally but unaccountably. Obama's own DNI said that Abdulmutallab should have been interrogated by the HIG, the administration's new High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group.
Perhaps you hadn't heard the term.
Well, in the very first week of his presidency, Obama abolished by executive order the Bush-Cheney interrogation procedures and pledged to study a substitute mechanism.
In August, the administration announced the establishment of the HIG, housed in the FBI but overseen by the National Security Council.
Where was it during the Abdulmutallab case?
Not available, admitted National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair, because it had been conceived for use only abroad.
Had not one person in this vast administration of highly nuanced sophisticates considered the possibility of a terror attack on American soil?"
I guess not as Sec Napolitano admitted a few days later. See our post and video!
What happens when you combine Political Correctness with incompetence?You get this administration.
You put the American people at risk.
Who made the decision to hold the trial in NY City and to read a terrorist his Miranda rights?
The answer is AG Holder.....and it's time for him to go back to private practice where he can live out his "overseas contingency operation" fantasies and not put us at risk!
Harry Mitchell, a second-term Congressman from Arizona, wrote President Obama last week to urge him to extend the 15% tax rate on capital gains and dividends that will revert to 20% and 39.6%, respectively, next year.
He also doesn't want the 55% confiscatory rate on estates restored, as it also would be in 2011.
"Given the unique economic difficulties we face as a nation, this is the wrong time to raise these taxes.
We need to retain these tax cuts that encourage investment that stimulates growth and job creation," Mr. Mitchell wrote."
OK.....what is the left going to say about this one?
“Your decision to prosecute enemy combatants captured on foreign battlefields like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is without precedent in our nation’s history,” the senators wrote.
“Given the risks and costs, it is far more logical, cost-effective, and strategically wise to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in the military commissions.”
The letter “shows that there is growing support, especially on the Democratic side, against this decision." (Politico)
Check out the latest from Pres BO's so-called "responsibility tax" on the banks.Today's descent was initially shallow but became steeper as the day went on. In the final hour of trading, the Dow and S&P were off more than 1.5 percent, while the Nasdaq was off more than 2 percent." (CNBC)
Furthermore, irresponsible presidential statements scare people, specially those who actually create jobs and start companies:
"U.S. investors overwhelmingly see President Barack Obama as anti-business and question his ability to manage a financial crisis, according to a Bloomberg survey.The global quarterly poll of investors and analysts who are Bloomberg subscribers finds that 77 percent of U.S. respondents believe Obama is too anti-business and four-out-of-five are only somewhat confident or not confident of his ability to handle a financial emergency.
The poll also finds a decline in Obama’s overall favorability rating one year after taking office.
He is viewed favorably by 27 percent of U.S. investors.
In an October poll, 32 percent in the U.S. held a positive impression." (Bloomberg)
What happens when a president goes out and makes outrageous attacks on the banking industry?
You scare investors and make the stock market drop! (Wall Street has its worst week in a year)
Jobs? Just ask Mayor Bloomberg of NY City:
"President Barack Obama’s demand Thursday that Congress clamp down on the size of banks and their investments got major blowback from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who said it could cause layoffs and hurt the city." (ED)
It is now clear that the administration did not give serious thought to anything but Door No. 1. This was myopic, irresponsible and potentially dangerous.
Whether to charge terrorism suspects or hold and interrogate them is a judgment call.
We originally supported the administration's decision in the Abdulmutallab case, assuming that it had been made after due consideration.
But the decision to try Mr. Abdulmutallab turns out to have resulted not from a deliberative process but as a knee-jerk default to a crime-and-punishment model." (WP)
Unfortunately, this administration is stocked with too many people who are at war with the Bush-Cheney anti-terror policies rather than terrorists.
"Underwear bombers" do not have rights, such as getting their Miranda reading or a public lawyer.
Scott Brown's in Massachusetts victory was about a lot more than health care.
There was also a "national security' angle to his victory, specially when he attacked the decision to treat the "underwear bomber" like some kid who stole a car in Detroit.
P.S. Check out my conversation with Bill Katz on Thursday. Bill discussed the growing concerns that the Obama administration is putting the nation in danger:
Having created a myth, they must now live with its unmasking." (PW)
Jay Cost got it right too:
"To put it bluntly, the Obama White House has been politically inept in the last year.
It has made serious miscalculations, and today it is paying a price.
Ultimately, the reason for these errors goes back to the greenness of the Commander-in-Chief himself, who lacked executive experience and had little first-hand knowledge of the way Washington functions.
He put together a team too full of Chicago strongmen, campaign hacks, and sympathetic "Friends of Barack."
Accordingly, he and his executive staff were ill prepared for managing the government." (RCP)
Here is the good news: Year 1 is over!
Here is the bad news: Year 2 will be worse.
Unemployment will recover but not enough to justify the stimulus hype.
Iran, and the world's bad guys, are not on board for the "hope and change" express. (Russia says to start Iran nuclear plant in 2010...)
Worst of all, Pres BO has betrayed his base, the "yes we can" screamers who saw him as something unique. (Why didn't they show up in Virginia, NJ and Mass)
He is not unique at all. Reality has unmasked BO!
In fact, he is quite ordinary! He is just another politician from Chicago!
And year 2 will be ordinarily very difficult for all of those who invested their hopes in Obama-mania!
