Who is he kidding?

Here’s an example of what the Messiah seems to mean by “post partisanship”:

[O]n Wednesday, Obama exhorted his followers to sabotage the WGN radio show of veteran Chicago host and University of Chicago Professor Milt Rosenberg. Why? Because he invited National Review writer Stanley Kurtz to discuss his investigative findings about Obama’s ties to Ayers and the underwhelming results of their collaboration on a left-wing educational project sponsored by the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. The “Obama Action Wire” supplied Rosenberg’s call-in line and talking points like this:

Tell WGN that by providing Kurtz with airtime, they are legitimizing baseless attacks from a smear-merchant and lowering the standards of political discourse. . . . It is absolutely unacceptable that WGN would give a slimy character assassin like Kurtz time for his divisive, destructive ranting on our public airwaves.

Behind the glowing, peaceful facade lies Barack “The Silencer” Obama and his silent enablers on the Left. While mainstream journalists schmoozed with liberal celebrities in Denver, practiced yoga with left-wing bloggers, and received massages at the Google convention tent near touchy-feely Barackopolis, Team Obama was on an ugly, aggressive warpath sanctioned by Mr. Civility. While compassionate Obama prepared to stand before thousands of worshipers at Invesco Field, purporting to give voice to the voiceless, his Chicago-schooled campaign machine was working overtime to muzzle conservative critics. “We want it to stop,” ordered one pro-Obama caller to WGN.

Welcome to the future: the politics of Hope and Change enforced by the missionaries of Search and Destroy.

See the rest of Michelle Malkin’s column here.

[Update] Just in case you don’t know who Stanley Kurtz is (other than the false attacks by the Obama campaign) the editors of the Wall Street Journal describe him thus:

Stanley Kurtz, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is a Harvard-educated social anthropologist and frequent contributor to National Review, among other publications. He is widely respected for his meticulous research and measured commentary. For months, he has been doing the job the mainstream media refuses to do: examining the background and public record of Barack Obama, the first-term senator Democrats are about to make their nominee for president despite the shallowness of his experience and achievement.

Taxes, taxes and more taxes

Haven’t posted in a while… been too caught up in watching the Olympics!

Anyway, here’s the latest of the Messiah’s “economic plan”:

Obama has proposed increases in every major federal tax. He has proposed to increase individual income taxes, with the top rate to rise to almost 40 percent. He has proposed to increase the top capital-gains tax rate by 33 percent. He has proposed the same for the top tax rate on dividends. He has proposed to increase payroll taxes, with a rate increase of 16 percent to 32 percent for workers earning over $250,000 a year. He has proposed to reinstate the death tax (estate tax), now phasing out under current law, with a top rate of 45 percent. He has proposed several increases in corporate taxes, including a so-called windfall-profits tax on oil.

And he has the stones to criticize McCain’s plan as “more of the same old Washington games”?? What is more characteristic of Washington in the last 30 years than tax and spend (repeat ad infinitum)?

The likely results?

Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Mundell has written that if such tax increases are adopted, the U.S. economy will suffer “a deep recession, a nosedive,” and the dollar will decline further. Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, claims Obama has proposed the exact same policy mix that led to the depression of the 1930s. (See full article here )

Yes, that’s the kind of economic “growth” we need! Back to the Future… the 1930s???  Keep this in mind when trying to cut through the smoke and mirrors at the Dem convention next week.

Getting just a tad full of Himself

Think there might be just a tad of projection going on here?

‘It’s almost as if they take pride in being ignorant,” Barack Obama mused the other day, blasting Republicans for ridiculing his exhortation to the nation to make sure its tires are properly inflated. Ah, behold the open-mindedness and cross-partisan understanding. (See Rich Lowry here)

The Messiah just can’t bring Himself to admit that he was wrong in his patently ridiculous claim about properly inflated tires saving as much gas as we would gain from offshore drilling. He continues to dismiss anyone who dares challenge Himself as “ignorant”. The normal retort would be that it’s the pot calling the kettle black, but in these hypersensitive times that’s sure to be condemned as a racist comment.  Oh well, that’s a chance I’ll just have to take.

Kinda sez it all

Obama Supporters for $10 Gas

At a recent demonstration in Washington, DC, a group of Obama’s supporters let the cat out of the bag. They would be really happy with gas going up to $10 a gallon because it would “encourage conservation”:

Ed Frank, vice president of public affairs for Americans for Prosperity, spoke to Obama supporters during an event organized on Capitol Hill by liberally-leaning MoveOn.org. According to an email MoveOn emailed to supporters the event was designed to “highlight the GOP’s extensive ties to Big Oil.”

There, AFP members handed MoveOn supporters a mock $8 bill and said “this is what Al Gore wants you to pay for gas.”

An older man dressed in an Obama shirt said, “This is too cheap! This is too cheap!” Waving the eight dollar bill he said, “Let’s get it up to ten! Let’s get it up to ten bucks.”

See the rest of the article including video of the event here.

Unintended consequences

Many things in life turn out to have unintended consequences. In the current debate about domestic oil drilling, the Democrats in general and Nancy Pelosi in particular claim to be fighting to “save the planet”. Leaving aside the grandiose arrogance of such statements, there are unintended consequences to their obstinacy in preventing even a vote on drilling.

As Charles Krauthammer point out in his excellent column Dems Against Drilling, by “outsourcing” our drilling to other countries that are far less careful about environmental damage, we are in fact causing much more damage to the environment than would happen in the more controlled atmosphere of the US with far superior technology.

I realize that none of the matters to Pelosi and her ilk because its not really about the environment, its about raw power!

On a related issue:  For the latest in Messiah Obama’s pronouncements from on high, check out: Obama: Take Profits for Rebate Checks