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________________________________________ The Patriot Post Chronicle 12-12-2012 From The Federalist Patriot Free Email Subscription ________________________________________
Dezinformatsia
Talk about the fiscal bluff: "What [Republicans have] actually put on the table is almost nothing. All of the rest is just big talk. So how is the president supposed to negotiate with people who say, 'Here's my demands. By the way, I can't give you any specifics. Just make me happy'?" --New York Times columnist Paul Krugman
Civility: "The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys. ... Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count." --New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd
Remedial economics: "Why don't these companies making big profits just pay people better than $14 an hour? It's kind of simple. When you're making record profits, why not? I don't get it." --MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski
Blaming guns: "Guns escalate anger and escalate situations. They are the most efficient killing machines we have. Yes, there are other things that we use to kill, but Bob Costas and for once Jason Whitlock was absolutely right to say that allowing this gun culture is problematic for all of us. When you have a gun, you are more likely to get shot. You're not more likely to shoot an intruder." --MSNBC's Touré
Newspulper Headlines:
Answers to Questions Nobody Is Asking: "What to Expect When Kate Middleton and Prince William Are Expecting a Royal Baby" --Washington Post website
Longest Books Ever Written: "Why Liberalism Doesn't Work" --Bill Murchison syndicated column
We Blame George W. Bush: "UN Chief Blames Rich for Global Warming Problem" --Associated Press
Breaking News From 1876: "Telegraph Phone System Operating" --Telegraph website (Alton, IL)
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Clause: "Obama Takes Tax Fight With GOP to Virginia" --TheHill.com
Bottom Story of the Day: "Ex-Fla. Gov. Crist Tweets He's Joining Democrats" --Associated Press
(Thanks to The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto4)
Insight
"A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead." --former British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin (1881-1951)
"Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with." --American humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935)
Essential Liberty
"'It is an outrage.' The source of Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta's anger? The fact that the United States has yet to approve a treaty known as the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, which often goes by the acronym LOST. ... His ire about LOST's status suggests that the Obama administration may well make this a second-term priority. ... According to its supporters, we need LOST for a variety of reasons. The main one concerns the oil and gas resources in the outer limits of our extended continental shelf. The treaty's proponents say we can obtain legal title to it only by signing on to the treaty. ... It sounds dire and, at a time of fluctuating prices for gasoline and other forms of energy, alarming. Fortunately, these predictions aren't true. Under international law and long-standing U.S. policy, we already have access to these areas. ... No one has challenged them. Perhaps LOST's proponents would like this to change. They tend to be fans of superfluous international agreements, and they frequently back policies that would tie the hands of the United States and prevent us from acting in our own interests. ... President Reagan was right to reject LOST 30 years ago. The U.S. Senate should do the same thing today." --Heritage Foundation president Ed Feulner
Village Idiots
Cherry-picking facts to avoid blame: "When this president was sworn into office, he was handed a deficit of over a trillion dollars. Republicans were in control of Congress for much of the time that President George W. Bush was in office, and they didn't do a great job of controlling spending." --White House Press Secretary Jay Carney
Model government? "Really, the one thing that actually works -- you know, state-run communism may not be your cup of tea, but [China's] government works." --Obama's Jobs Council head and GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt
Handouts: "I hope and understand that people are getting a better recognition that [food stamps] is a program that really helps America, helps families in need. It's not a government handout. If anything, it's a safety net that helps people through difficult times and bridges them towards stability." --Newark Mayor Cory Booker
That's racist: "I got a movie coming out, 'Django,' check it out. ... And in the movie I had to wear chains. How whack is that? But don't be worried about it because I get out the chains, I get free, I save my wife, and I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that?" --actor Jamie Foxx
Sexism: "I so admire the president for standing up for Ambassador Rice. ... I'm happy with where the president has gone; I'm positive that he's going to have a lot of women in his cabinet. Clearly, it should be 50 percent." --NOW president Terry O'Neill
Short Cuts
"President Obama met with leaders of the American Indian tribes and they honored the president by giving him his own Indian name: Running Deficits." --comedian Jay Leno
"When did Republicans start insisting on approving only competent, honest people, especially with regard to the Obama administration? Is it just me, or did that come completely out of left field? ... Really, looking at the administration as a whole, Obama did better than we could have expected by appointing only one czar who was a Communist truther. So, to be fair to [Susan] Rice, Republicans should at least grade her on a curve. Is she really that awful ... for an Obama appointee? ... As long as Rice is reasonably loyal to the United States (i.e., identifies it as one of her five favorite countries) and probably won't accidentally start any wars (or, given recent history, not more than one), we can declare her as 'good enough.' And what more can we expect from government?" --humorist Frank J. Fleming
"U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz accused Republicans of trying to make it a crime to be an illegal alien. Democrats see a conspiracy plot. First Republicans want to say that illegal aliens are illegal, next they're going to want to take away their voting rights." --comedian Argus Hamilton
"It's so cold outside I just saw a Democrat with his hands in his own pockets." --blogger Casey Kelley
Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis! Nate Jackson for The Patriot Post Editorial Team
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