The Patriot Post Chronicle 11-10-2010

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The Patriot Post Chronicle 11-10-2010
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"Amplification is the vice of modern oratory." --Thomas Jefferson

The Demo-gogues

Blaming voters for not getting the message: "I think that, over the course of two years we were so busy and so focused on getting a bunch of stuff done that, we stopped paying attention to the fact that leadership isn't just legislation. That it's a matter of persuading people. And giving them confidence and bringing them together. And setting a tone. And making an argument that people can understand. And I think that we haven't always been successful at that. And I take personal responsibility for that. And it's something that I've got to examine closely as I go forward." --Barack Obama

Editor's Note: Obama gave 42 news conferences during his first year in office, which is twice as many as George W. Bush did in the same period. On top of that, he visited 58 cities in 30 states, held 21 town hall meetings and read 52 speeches off the teleprompter telling us the virtues of ObamaCare. The problem is not a failure to communicate -- the problem is that he did communicate.

The BIG Fake: "This is a great opportunity to show everyone that we got the message and that we're willing, in this post-election season, to come together and do what's best for the country we all love." --Barack Obama

She has some 'splainin to do: "Because I'm effective. It's why they had to do it. They had to put a stop to me because we were effective in passing health-care reform, which the health insurance industry wanted to stop; Wall Street reform, which Wall Street wanted to stop; [reforms of] students loans for taking the money out of the banks and giving it back to the taxpayer and to families. ... I'm one of the most effective fundraisers that the Congress has had ... because I believe in something." --soon-to-be-former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on why the Republicans attacked her

Whose money is it? "At a time when we are going to ask folks across the board to make such difficult sacrifices, I don't see how we can afford to borrow an additional $700 billion from other countries to make all the Bush tax cuts permanent, even for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. We'd be digging ourselves into an even deeper fiscal hole and passing the burden on to our children." --Barack Obama with nothing to offer but class warfare and lies about "cost"

PC on Islam: "The phrase jihad has a lot of meaning within Islam and is subject to a lot of different interpretations, but I will say that first Islam is one of the world's great religions. More than a billion people practice Islam and an overwhelming majority view their obligations to a religion that reaffirms peace, fairness, tolerance. I think all of us recognize that this great religion in the hands of a few extremists has been distorted by violence." --Barack Obama

Pot and kettle: "No one nation has a monopoly on wisdom, and no nation should ever try to impose its values on another." --Barack Obama, who despite his rhetoric is always keen to impose his "values" on everybody else, no matter what

Upright

"No matter how many ways they try to analyze last week's election, the American left will forever reject the most obvious explanation of all: for the first time since Jimmy Carter, Americans got a long, hard look at progressivism. Not the progressivism cloaked in the mainstream media- and Democrat-concocted facade of high-minded reasonableness. The haughty, elitist arrogance of those who truly believe they are the only lights shining across a darkened landscape populated by misguided misfits -- misguided misfits who thoroughly rejected their enlightened benevolence." --columnist Arnold Ahlert

"Here's Barack Obama's problem when it comes to dealing with newly elected Republican members of Congress. They are convinced they won because voters rejected Obama's agenda of national health care, spending and bailouts. But Obama cannot admit that his agenda -- his legacy -- is fundamentally flawed and that voters repudiated it. The result will be irreconcilable conflict." --columnist Byron York

"Unlike the Democrats today, [John F.] Kennedy never pretended he was poor or even middle class; he let us know he was upper crust. And if you doubted it for a second, he'd put Jackie on display with her very expensive designer fashions. Today, kazillionaire politicians like Boxer, Feinstein, Bloomberg, Kerry, Clinton, and even a schmuck named Rockefeller, want us to believe they're just a bunch of regular folks who carry their lunch in a paper bag and shop at Walmart." --columnist Burt Prelutsky

"Whenever the party that controls the White House does not also control Capitol Hill, political pundits worry that there will be 'gridlock' in Washington, so that the government cannot solve the nation's problems. Almost never is that fear based on what actually happens when there is divided government, compared to what happens when one party has a monopoly of both legislative and executive branches. The last time the federal government had a budget surplus, instead of its usual deficits, there was divided government. ... By the same token, some of the worst laws ever passed were passed when one party had overwhelming majorities in both houses of Congress, as well as being led by their own President of the United States." --columnist Thomas Sowell

"As to whether the president 'gets it' about the midterms, it doesn't matter. As Bill Kristol has observed, Obama is not in the same position as President Clinton was in 1994. Hillarycare was defeated. President Clinton was thus free to let voters know that he had gotten the message and would never try anything like that again. And he didn't." --columnist Mona Charen

Editorial Exegesis

"An unlikely assortment of people ranging from Sarah Palin and Paul Volcker to Rep. Paul Ryan and World Bank head Robert Zoellick all believe quantitative easing is a big mistake. So do we. The discontent has also gone global. The governments of China, Brazil, Japan, Germany and Russia continue to express concern that the Fed's money printing will distort the world economy and lead to a trade war. Will it? Since the first round of quantitative easing that ended in March -- during which the Fed printed $1.7 trillion in new money -- there's no question new economic stresses have emerged between the U.S. and its key trading partners. Domestically, economic growth has slowed, and we've actually killed more jobs than we've created. Even so, oil has doubled to nearly $90 a barrel, key commodities have soared to record highs and gold has surged past $1,400 -- all bad inflation omens. Now, the Fed is embarking on a second round, dubbed QE2, in which it will spend another $600 billion and maybe more. But don't expect it to be any more effective than the first round. ... The Fed has taken a page from the Obama administration's failed hyper-Keynesianism, believing it can refloat the flagging U.S. economy on a sea of newly-printed money. It can't. Economists have agreed for years that no nation can devalue its way to prosperity. ... QE2 will not only saddle us with higher debts, it will lead to more market volatility, higher inflation and, eventually, slower economic growth and lower standards of living for all. Thanks to the midterm elections, the worst excesses of Congress' tax-and-spend fiscal policies will likely end soon. Unfortunately, we may have to wait until early next year to stop the Fed from making things worse." --Investor's Business Daily6