Watch it if you can

And listen to the rhythmic poem of despair.

The latest in a growing list of Gingrich attacks

Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal joins the growing list of those setting their sights on Newt Gingrich. It is a well thought out and well written piece, but it raises some interesting questions. by all means follow the link and read the entire article.

Gingrich Is Inspiring—and Disturbing

I had a friend once who amused herself thinking up bumper stickers for states. The one she made up for California was brilliant. "California: It's All True." It is so vast and sprawling a place, so rich and various, that whatever you've heard about its wildness, weirdness and wonders, it's true.

That's the problem with Newt Gingrich: It's all true. It's part of the reason so many of those who know him are anxious about the thought of his becoming president. It's also why people are looking at him, thinking about him, considering him as president.

Ethically dubious? True. Intelligent and accomplished? True. Has he known breathtaking success and contributed to real reforms in government? Yes. Presided over disasters? Absolutely. Can he lead? Yes. Is he erratic and unreliable as a leader? Yes. Egomaniacal? True. Original and focused, harebrained and impulsive—all true.

Having read Noonan's article, the first thought that comes to my mind is: "what is is about Newt Gingrich that scares people?" As it concerns liberals, that is a relatively easy question to answer. Gingrich represents the antithesis of everything a liberal holds sacred. But what is it about Gingrich that scares conservatives?

We know that the liberals and by default the liberal media don't like him, but when it comes to those in his own party now joining the band wagon of political and personal attack, one has to stop and reflect on why. The simple answer is that he is a non conformist to party boiler room tactics. His policies, politics and commentaries aren't first vetted through the approved filters of the party elite; therefore, they don't like it. Newt says things that they don't like a lot apparently. In other words, when the GOP machine is trying to court the supposed 'moderates' (which they have been attempting and failing at for decades now), it bothers them when a staunch hard line conservative spoils their effort by being shown as one of their party and not in step with their own moderate and progressive party line.

Newt may be a lot of things but he isn't stupid. The man is a genius when it comes to politics and history and what it takes to motivate people. those are qualities the party could have tapped into in the last decade or more since Newt has been out of office. But they chose not to. The party would rather listen to the likes of a Karl Rove than listen to an astute and well read observer and participant of both history and politics.

Newt Gingrich has a hard road ahead. Now that he is the bona fide front runner and the media and the GOP cannot deny it, they are both turning their most savvy operators loose to move in and begin slinging the mud. The pundits have already begun the assault and the media have been at it for weeks now, but the true assault on the Gingrich beach head has not begun yet. I say it begins now and follows him into the primaries like hyenas circling a hopefully soon to be wounded animal.

Will it work? That remains to be seen. I am reminded of that closing scene in The Green Mile when Paul Edgecomb asks: "But one thought more than any other......keeps me awake most nights: if he could make a mouse live so long......how much longer do I have?"

If America could elect a Jimmy Carter.....and then a generation later elect a Barack Obama? Then how much longer before this nation will finally rise and elect someone based upon something other than the media hype and the faux popularity generated by these campaigns. I guess we will have to wait and see.

They believed......in all that hope and change....

Chris Christie addresses some of the radical loons of occupy land who tried to disrupt his appearance at a Mitt Romney event. He also gives Obama a scathing and warranted critique.

Obama celebrates Hanukkah two weeks early

A truly great story. Make sure and visit the link to read all about it.

Obama celebrates Hanukkah at White House 



The man is literally a joke........

War may be just around the corner

You haven't seen any mention of this in American media that I am aware of. Other than some lip service and playing down of any real danger. Just the Chinese bloviating according to American sources. Perhaps it's time to start paying attention to more than the economy and the GOP primaries and whether or not the president is going on vacation in Hawaii for the holidays.. The European Union Times

A grim Ministry of Defense bulletin issued to Prime Minister Putin and President Medvedev today states that President Hu has “agreed in principal” that the only way to stop the West’s aggression led by the United States is through “direct and immediate military action” and that the Chinese leader has ordered his Naval Forces to “prepare for warfare.” Hu’s call for war joins Chinese Rear Admiral and prominent military commentator Zhang Zhaozhong who, likewise, warned this past week that: “China will not hesitate to protect Iran even with a Third World War,” and Russian General Nikolai Makarov who grimly stated last week: “I do not rule out local and regional armed conflicts developing into a large-scale war, including using nuclear weapons.” A new US intelligence report has also stated that China has up to 3000 nuclear weapons compared with general estimates of between 80 and 400. To further pour more gasoline on the fire, the Washington Times has just reported that North Korea is making missile able to hit the US. The raising of global tensions between the East and West was exploded this past fortnight when Russian Ambassador Vladimir Titorenko and two of his aides retuning from Syria were brutally assaulted and put in hospital by Qatar security forces allegedly aided by CIA and British MI6 agents attempting to gain access to diplomatic pouches containing information from Syrian intelligence that the United States was flooding Syria and Iran with the same US-backed al Qaida mercenaries who toppled the Libyan government.

Ask Osama bin Ladin about appeasement diplomacy

The arrogance of this man is palpable.

A sate of mind.....doesn't mean requisite intent...apparently

According to Attorney General Eric holder? Lying isn't lying if you don't know you are lying. Lying is a 'state of mind' according to holder.





I am curious. I wonder what Eric Holder's requisite intent is and was concerning the revelations surrounding the Fast and Furious gun walking debacle.
 
Confronted about this by Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis.,

Holder defended the DOJ."Nobody at the Justice Department has lied," Holder insisted.

When Sensenbrenner pressed Holder on the distinction between lying and misleading Congress, Holder said it was a matter of a person's "state of mind."
Holder said that when DOJ officials provided inaccurate information to Congress, they didn't know at the time that it was inaccurate.

 So let's recap. If you can foist some weak minded level of plausible deny-ability? Then of course you cannot be held culpable for criminal contempt of congress.