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The Patriot Post Brief 9-24-2012
From The Federalist Patriot
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The Movie Made Them Do It
September 24, 2012
The Foundation
"There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation." --George Washington
Re: The Left
"Ever since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2012, the Obama White House has sought to lay blame for deadly and destructive anti-American attacks in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Lebanon, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan and more than two dozen other countries on someone else. The O-Team -- and the perpetrators -- have had a lot of help from the 'useful idiots' in the mainstream media. ... From the perspective of many 'covering this story,' the global jihad we're witnessing is mostly the fault of an incompetent 'filmmaker,' and the 'spontaneous outrage' is over a 'provocative video.' ... The Obama administration continues to tell us that the Muslim Brotherhood and a host of other Islamic radical groups in 30 countries just happened to come across the 'offensive videos' on the 11th anniversary of the devastating 9/11 al-Qaida attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 of our countrymen. That alone requires a willful suspension of disbelief by anyone at all familiar with reality. ... Yet major networks and print outlets continue to parrot the administration's propaganda. If a Republican were in the Oval Office, the press would be calling it a cover-up. ... We were told that the Arab Spring was going to make things better. The Obama Nobel Prize said as much. But for all of what has transpired since Sept. 11, 2012, there is one overriding question that needs to be asked and answered: How could this happen? Even useful idiots should want to know." --columnist Oliver North1
Opinion in Brief
"One of the more piquant details in the tale of Mitt Romney's damning '47 percent' video is that it was unearthed online by James Earl Carter IV, a grandson and namesake of the 39th president. ... According to NBC, he wanted to retaliate against Romney's 'frequent attacks on the presidency of his grandfather' -- particularly the suggestion that Barack Obama's faltering foreign policy is Carteresque in its irresolution. ... Is it fair to compare Obama's foreign policy to Carter's? The similarities were especially vivid after the murder of four US diplomats at the American consulate in Benghazi. Even more so when the administration insisted that the outbreak of anti-American violence by rampaging Islamists in nearly 30 countries was due solely to a YouTube video mocking Islam -- a video the White House bent over backward to condemn. ... Obama was still a presidential hopeful when liberal historian Sean Wilentz observed in 2008 that he 'resembles Jimmy Carter more than he does any other Democratic president in living memory.' Within weeks of Obama's inauguration, troubling parallels could already be detected. In January 2010, Foreign Policy magazine's cover story, 'The Carter Syndrome,' wondered whether the 44th president's foreign policy was beginning to collapse 'into the incoherence and reversals' that had characterized No. 39's. The Carter years are a warning of what can happen when the 'Leader of the Free World' won't lead. It may irk his grandson to hear it, but Jimmy Carter's legacy is still too timely to ignore." --columnist Jeff Jacoby2
The Gipper
"Every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face -- that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight and surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand -- the ultimatum. And what then?" --Ronald Reagan3
Political Futures
"'The most important lesson I've learned is that you can't change Washington from the inside,' Barack Obama said in an interview Thursday on the Spanish-language Univision network. 'You can only change it from the outside.' A better way to put it is that Barack Obama has proved he can't change Washington from the inside. ... Obama has spent about half of his career in public office running for other office. A couple of years after his election to the state Senate, he ran for Congress. He lost, and a couple of years later ran for the U.S. Senate. Two years after taking office, he started running for president. And he's spent a lot of time this last two years -- all those fundraisers! -- running again. In the meantime, he has skipped more than half of his daily intelligence briefings, including those several days before the attacks on our embassies and consulates that started on Sept. 11, 2012. ... What we see in all this is a president who is much more comfortable campaigning than governing. What we also see is disarray -- an economy that is foundering, a world where America is on the defensive and under attack. A president who can't change Washington and whose election did not magically change the world." --political analyst Michael Barone4
For the Record
"On Wednesday, the Congressional Budget Office confirmed what we've been saying for years now: President Obama has broken his pledge not to raise taxes on the middle class. During his 2008 campaign, Obama promised Americans that he wouldn't raise taxes on anybody making less than $250,000 a year. ... The CBO has released updated estimates showing that Obamacare's insurance mandate -- which the Supreme Court ruled to be a tax -- will hit millions of middle-class Americans. In its report, the CBO determined the mandate tax would cost 6 million Americans a total of $7 billion in 2016, with a minimum payment of $695 apiece. The annual cost will then average about $8 billion from 2017 through 2022. ... Among those who will have to pay a mandate penalty, 4.7 million will have incomes below 500 percent of the federal poverty level, according to the CBO, which is projected to be $60,000 for individuals and $123,000 for families of four by 2016. ... Lest some of his defenders argue that Obama's campaign pledge merely pertained to income tax rates, here's what he actually said as a candidate in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12, 2008: 'I can make a firm pledge: Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase -- not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.' As with many of Obama's 'firm pledges,' this one was a bit flimsy." --The Washington Examiner5
Government
"At 47.4 percent of federal revenue, the federal income tax is by far the single largest source of revenue for the federal government. ... The individual income tax funds the bulk of operations of the federal government, including such core things as national defense, homeland security, and the judicial system. Shouldn't all Americans have some stake, even if just a nominal one, in funding these government programs? Should nearly 50 percent of Americans really be exempt from funding the most basic constitutional functions of government -- along with education, food stamps, energy, welfare, foreign aid, veterans' benefits, housing, and so forth? ... Nearly half of all taxpayers pay no income tax, while nearly half of all Americans receive direct government support for income, food, housing, medical care, school lunches, etc. This makes strong incentives for those who pay no income taxes to press for more and higher benefits. But government programs are rife with poor outcomes. ... Government should be smaller. Taxes should be flatter and should not penalize ordinary and low-income Americans for saving -- whether for a car, a condo, or retirement. Federal dependency programs should be redesigned to not just assist low-income individuals, but also move them out of dependency. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid should be overhauled. The goal is to strengthen the safety net, not destroy it." --Heritage Foundation's Alison Acosta Fraser6 |
