The Patriot Post Chronicle 08-46

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The Patriot Post Chronicle 08-46
From The Federalist Patriot
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THE FOUNDATION

"Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and shew the whole world, that a Freeman contending for Liberty on his own ground is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth." --George Washington

UPRIGHT

"Many of the indices for the GOP are dreadful, especially that they lost the vote of two-thirds of those aged 18 to 29. They lost a generation! If that continues in coming years, it will be a rolling wave of doom." --Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan

"Still, the Republican Party retains a remarkably strong pulse, considering that McCain's often chaotic campaign earned 46 percent of the popular vote while tacking into terrible winds." --Washington Post columnist George Will

"Obama will try to convert those temporary moderate and conservative votes of his into permanent liberal and moderate voters -- just as Reagan did in reverse between 1980 and 1984. If we conservatives can make our case, the election of 2008 will be a blip, just a kick-the-bums-out election. If Obama makes his case, he may have moved the center of political gravity to the left for a generation. Every conservative man and woman, to battle stations." --columnist Tony Blankley

"The substantially enhanced Democratic majorities in Congress stand poised to pass a raft of legislation that ranges from the destructive to the abominable and the tyrannical. It will serve as an early challenge to the judgment of President Obama, and to the efficacy of the loyal opposition." --Claremont Institute Fellow Scott Johnson

"If you believe the left is tolerant, open-minded and democratic, you're in for a rude awakening." --columnist David Limbaugh

"Without a doubt, the most dangerous idea to liberty would be a reincarnation of the Fairness Doctrine in one form or another. Oh, it won't be called 'The Fairness Doctrine' ... It will be called 'The Freedom in Broadcasting Act' or some such Orwellian formulation in order to give the perpetrators a veneer of deniability. This is a favorite game of the left who never tire of redefining basic terms and changing language to suit their political needs of the moment." --columnist Rick Moran

INSIGHT

"History does not entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid." --Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Government price-fixing, once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared." --Calvin Coolidge

"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views." --William F. Buckley Jr.

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

"As Congress gears up to pass another spending 'stimulus' bill, there's one political silver lining: Democrats are being forced to abandon the pretense of fiscal conservatism known as 'pay as you go' budgeting. Late last week the leader of the House Blue Dog Coalition, Tennessee Democrat Jim Cooper, announced that with Barack Obama about to enter the White House, 'I'm not sure the old rules are relevant anymore.' Why not? Because, Mr. Cooper said, 'It would be unfair to the new President to put him in a budget straitjacket.' Democrats ran on 'paygo' in 2006, promising to offset any new spending increases or tax cuts with comparable tax increases or spending cuts. Once in charge on Capitol Hill they quickly made exceptions, waiving paygo no fewer than 12 times to accommodate some $398 billion in new deficit spending -- not that the press corps bothered to notice. That didn't stop Majority Leader Steny Hoyer from announcing in May that 'We're absolutely committed to paygo. Speaker [Nancy Pelosi] is committed to paygo. I'm very committed to paygo. Our caucus is committed to paygo.' Yet now Mr. Cooper is delivering official last rites, as the Washington spending machinery powers up in earnest. Paygo was always a big con designed not to reduce spending but to stop tax cuts. It was invented to stop the GOP Congress and then a Republican President, but it is inconvenient when Democrats run the show. With the recession available as an excuse for just about anything, get ready for the first $1 trillion federal budget deficit. And don't expect any howling from the Blue Dogs." --The Wall Street Journal

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DEZINFORMATSIA

You don't say: "There is a slightly creepy cult of personality about all of this." --Newsweek's Evan Thomas on Obama

For example: "Let me show you a map [of the election]... This may be the best map ever seen! ... That whole sea of blue across the country..." --MSNBC's Chris Matthews ++ "Will the Obamas return to Camelot in the White House?" --CBS's Harry Smith

Give us a break: "Media scholars, including a former top aide to McCain, disagree [that mainstream news organizations routinely gave Obama preferential treatment]. They said campaign coverage often did lean in Obama's favor, though not -- as many conservatives have suggested -- because of a hidden liberal agenda on the part of the media. Instead, academic experts said, Obama benefited largely from the dynamics of the campaign itself and the media's tendency to focus on the 'horse race'..." --Reuters' Steve Gorman

Biased and proud of it: "I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work. ... Yeah, it is my job. My job is to help this country ...[to] make this work successfully, because this country needs a successful presidency more than anything right now." --MSNBC's Chris Matthews

Angry Right?: "We all saw the pictures on election night, people all over the world dancing in the streets but some Americans, particularly conservatives, very different feelings about President-elect Obama. Many of them feeling really, really angry right now ... what can only be called right-wing rage." --CNN's Campbell Brown

Race bait: "But now we have the delicious irony that a white president from a patrician family, whose administration was so negligent about America's poor and black citizens, was so incompetent that he helped elect the first black president." --New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd

Newspulper Headlines:

If They Do Say So Themselves: "Media Bias Largely Unseen in US Presidential Race" --Reuters

'No, We Can't': "Obama Aides Tamp Down Expectations" --The New York Times

Maybe They Should Stop Burning Cash: "Carmakers Report Losses as They Burn Cash" --New York Times Web site

And So Close to Thanksgiving: "Duchess of York Accused of Smearing Turkey's Image" --Reuters

You Only Live Twice: "Skydiver Dies in Second Fatal Jump at Virginia Airport in 2 Months" --FoxNews.com

Everything Seemingly Is Spinning Out of Control: "Monks Brawl at Christian Holy Site in Jerusalem" --Associated Press

Bottom Stories of the Day: "Marijuana Aroma Detected at Obama's Hollywood Celebration Rally" --Breitbart.tv ++ "Obama Picks an Ally as Chief of Staff" --Austin American-Statesman

(Thanks to The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto)

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THE DEMO-GOGUES

Rewriting history: "I have spoken to all of [the former presidents], that are living, obviously, President Clinton -- I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any séances." --Barack Obama on getting ready to be president **Nancy Reagan consulted with an astrologer about Ronald Reagan's schedule after he was shot. It was actually Hillary Clinton who was reported to have engaged in séance-like sessions in which she communed with the spirit of Eleanor Roosevelt." --Fox News' Jim Angle

Yeah, right: "There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president, and we know that government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you [unless you are a conservative], especially when we disagree." --Barack Obama, with a little Patriot clarification

Marxism 101: "For the last seven years we have had the highest corporate profit ever in American history. ... But it hasn't been shared, and that's the problem, because we have been guided by a Republican administration who believes in the simplistic notion that people who have wealth are entitled to keep it. They have an antipathy toward the means of redistributing wealth. And they may be able to sustain that for a while, but it doesn't work in the long run." --Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA)

Not defending America: "We don't need all these fancy new weapons." --Rep. Barney Frank (S-MA), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, aligning himself with Obama's plan to cut the military budget by 25 percent

Kick the metaphor: "We have postponed dealing with an energy crisis since 1974. We had a crisis; we kicked it down the can. ... We had a health care crisis. ... These are, just taking those two examples, these are crises you can no longer afford to kick down the can. The crisis we have here, the American people know we have one. ... You cannot afford now to kick those down the can any longer." --Rep. Rahm Emanuel, Obama's pick for chief of staff, making no sense whatsoever

VILLAGE IDIOTS

Commencing tyranny?: "[G]iven the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that President-elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule [on] day one." --Valerie Jarrett, co-chair of Obama's transition team

Here we go again: "The inspiring and transformative choice by the American people to elect Barack Obama as our 44th president lays the foundation for another fateful choice that he -- and we -- must make this January to begin an emergency rescue of human civilization from the imminent and rapidly growing threat posed by the climate crisis." --Al Gore, populist potentate of eco-theology

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Non Compos Mentis:

"Many of the voters that voted for Senator McCain were older Americans, and most reside below the Mason-Dixon line where racial attitudes and traditions die hard. We can change laws, but it's difficult to change attitudes. ... I'm sure that many of our people have unfortunately lost their lives because of the absolute hatred that is manifested now that one of our own has risen to such a high office." --Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan at Mosque Maryam on Chicago's South Side on Sunday

A fool opens his mouth...: "For nine months, I kept quiet because I saw that the good words that I spoke about this beautiful young man at our Saviors' Day convention and the way they were misused. I decided it would be better for me to just be quiet rather than be drawn into the controversy..." --Louis Farrakhan, who probably should have stuck with that policy

From the Glitterati: "The election is over and I'm unleashed. I'm telling you, if this were not the outcome, I would be doing this show from Northwestern Hospital with a drip today." --Oprah Winfrey

The Big Lie: "November 5th ... what a day ... a new day ... finally Dr. King's words ring true that one day we will live in a nation where people 'will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character'." --singer Barbra Streisand

SHORT CUTS

"Pollster Frank Luntz, CNN's Soledad O'Brien or some other enabler would gush over how fascinating it was to talk to 'real people.' Indeed, so exotic are these creatures, most of the journalists actually observed them from the other side of a two-way mirror, like visitors to the 'Earthling Exhibit' on some alien planet in that old episode of 'The Twilight Zone'." --National Review editor Jonah Goldberg

"It wasn't that limited-government conservatism was a bad product; it was that Bush and congressional Republicans operated it wrong. A Rolls Royce is, obviously, a great product. But if you're driving down the highway at 70 miles per house and suddenly shift from 'Drive' to 'Park,' you're in for a world of hurt. Of course, it wouldn't be because the product was bad; it would be because you tried to get it to do something it wasn't intended to do. That, ladies and gentlemen, is exactly the problem with 'big government conservatism'." --political consultant Chuck Muth

"Joe Biden was assigned the code name Celtic by the White House Secret Service detail Monday. It's critically important that he's protected. God gave America Joe Biden so that comedians would have something to do for the next [four] years." --comedian Argus Hamilton

"Of course, lots of sour news about the economy. The federal government has announced that due to the bad economy, it is going to have to lay off 40,000 postal workers. Yeah, 40,000 disgruntled postal workers. What could possibly go wrong?" --comedian Conan O'Brien

Jay Leno: President Bush and Barack Obama had their big meeting [Monday] at the White House. And they found that with all their differences, they have one thing in common: Neither trusts the Clintons.

There's a new rumor that Hillary Clinton may end up being secretary of state. Which means she would have to spend the next four years traveling all around the world. To which Bill said, "Yes!"

In the Senate, 90-year-old Robert Byrd will step down as Appropriations Committee chair. He'll be replaced by Hawaiian Sen. Daniel Inouye, who is 84. Finally, we're getting some young blood in there.

As you know, President-elect Obama promised his daughters a puppy if they moved to the White House. He's already getting advice on what the best breed of dog to get. For example, Bill Clinton told him that the Oval Office is a great place for a husky female.

Only a few days past the election, and both parties are already gearing up for 2012. Unbelievable. How's Barack Obama going to come up with a campaign slogan for 2012? "Don't Change -- Everything's Fine!"

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Veritas vos Liberabit -- Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for The Patriot's editors and staff.

(Please pray for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world, and for their families -- especially families of those fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who granted their lives in defense of American liberty.)