Morning Briefing for June 1, 2009
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JUNE 1, 2009
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1. Bush Administration Political Appointees Overrule Career Lawyers in DOJ Civil Rights Division
Well, actually it was the Obama administration, but the only way the media would get exercised by it would be to accuse the Bushies of doing it.
2. The President of the United States is Clueless About His Own Intelligence Agencies
“You mean we don’t just use Google Earth?!” Barry thought to himself in astonishment.
3. Dealergate 5: Chrysler’s Dealer Council Speaks
Citizen, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
4. Bigots Need Representation, Too
Senator Hruska, meet Judge Sotomayor
5. Rhapsody in Green: The Nightmare Continues
An Equal Mixture of Foolishness and Corruption….
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1. Bush Administration Political Appointees Overrule Career Lawyers in DOJ Civil Rights Division
Well, actually it was the Obama administration, but the only way the media would get exercised by it would be to accuse the Bushies of doing it.
Democrats are in an uproar over new revelations that the Bush Administration’s political appointees in the Department of Justice overruled career lawyers in the Civil Rights Division who were in civil litigation against a group of white conservative activists engaged in voter intimidation tactics on Election Day.
More troubling, the Department of Justice had obtained a default judgment against the defendants and the political appointees ordered the career lawyers to go no further, despite having judgment in hand.
Democrat John Lewis (D-GA) is demanding an investigation saying not since civil rights activists were attacked by dogs in the sixties has the government so cavalierly disregarded the basic civil rights of its citizens.
Except that’s not the story at all.
Consequently, there is no outrage by Democrats.
The voter intimidation happened by Black Panthers who supported Barry Obama.
It was Barry Obama’s political appointees who shut down career lawyers going after the Black Panthers for voter intimidation.
And the mainstream media yawns.
You can see a video of these very same Black Panthers telling white voters “You’re going to be ruled by the black man, cracker” by clicking here.
2. The President of the United States is Clueless About His Own Intelligence Agencies
“You mean we don’t just use Google Earth?!” Barry thought to himself in astonishment.
Barry Obama went to Five Guys for a burger this past Friday. There he met a government employee who worked for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency — a spy agency within the Pentagon that, you’d assume, contributes information to the President’s Daily Briefing.
One problem, Barry Obama had never heard of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
Had Obama been President Bush, the national networks would have broken in to normal programming to highlight the fact.
Is Barry Obama even getting real intelligence briefings? Given how he’s handled GTMO, etc. maybe he isn’t. That would certainly explain why the man charged with keeping this country safe has never heard of one of his own spy agencies.
3. Dealergate 5: Chrysler’s Dealer Council Speaks
Citizen, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
It has come to light that the dealerships that dodged (sorry, couldn’t resist) Chrysler’s silver bullet have circled their minivans and are doing their fair share of PR work for the government-controlled reorganization of what was once the country’s third largest automaker.
A group called “Chrysler National Dealer Council”, which is composed of 17 Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge dealers elected by the dealer organization to represent all dealers’ interests, is defending the shut down.
Obama apologists are pointing out that car dealers are overwhelmingly Republican. That begs a question: why does the Chrysler Dealer Council have more than twice as many dealers on it who donated to Democrats than those who gave to GOP candidates?
4. Bigots Need Representation, Too
Senator Hruska, meet Judge Sotomayor
During the 1970 Senate debate over Richard Nixon’s nomination of G. Harold Carswell to the US Supreme Court, Mr. Carswell was characterized by his opponents as a mediocrity. (Now, admittedly, considering who Obama has foisted off on us mediocrity looks pretty good.) Nebraska Senator Roman Hruska took to the floor of the Senate to defend the nominee:
“Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they, and a little chance? We can’t have all Brandeises, Frankfurters and Cardozos.”
What was sort of funny at the time has actually happened, in spades. David Souter and Anthony Kennedy have been valiant and indefatigable champions of mediocrity since joining the court.
At one time, the Supreme Court was divvied up by race and ethnicity. We had a Jewish seat, then a black seat (this seat also served as a representative of the lazy and the mediocre when Thurgood Marshall held it, but it is now vacant because Clarence Thomas is not a liberal), and a woman’s seat. For a short while there was a Catholic seat, but now it is hinted that there are just too many Catholics on the court.
The nomination of Judge Sotomayor represents a natural evolution in parceling out Supreme Court seats. Rather than the so 1970s criteria of race and ethnicity, her role on the court will be to ensure that bigots and racial supremacists have adequate representation.
5. Rhapsody in Green: The Nightmare Continues
An Equal Mixture of Foolishness and Corruption….
You may have heard recent mention of a new report that has come out of Spain, analyzing the outcomes of that country’s big “green energy” drive – a drive that is frequently held up to us as a model for emulation.
The results have been – to say the least – not only disappointing, but very negative. The salient economic highlights are findings that: 1) For every four “green” jobs created, nine other jobs were destroyed; 2) Among those “green” jobs, only 1 in 10 was a real, full-time job. None of this is a surprise; “alternative energy” requires overly-massive use of scarce resources – resources that can only be taken away from better and more productive activities.
But rather than belabor the point, it’s simply easier to point interested readers to the report itself. You can find it here; that link takes you directly to the .pdf file to download. The report is 51 pages long and begins with a good executive summary – and the file size is only 667kB, so it should download in a jiffy.
But when it comes to doing a circuit of the latest goings-on in the world of The Green Nightmare…. we’re just getting started.
The “Green Dream” is rapidly devolving into a “Green Nightmare” of zero-results foolishness, corruption, rent-seeking, and political destabilization. Good intentions do not obviate bad results – as physics has this strange habit of always winning. And those bad results are spilling out in all sorts of directions that go far beyond the mere supplying of energy.
