Wolf Howling: impeachment

Sunday, January 6, 2008

Interesting News - 6 January 2008

Why is this allegation that a high-ranking State Dept. official who sold American nuclear secrets to elements in the Middle East not playing in American newspapers? The whistle blower is Sibil Edmonds. More on this here. The State Dept. official is former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Marc Grossman.

One would think that discussions at the highest levels of our government about expanding aggressive COVERT action inside Pakistan to attack al Qaeda and the Taliban would be CLASSIFIED. So why are we reading about it in the NYT within days of the event? Will anyone stop the leaks, or is our executive branch so cowed that they just roll over and accept this as one leak in what has been a criminal string of leaks damaging to our national security.

At the debates, Obama makes the outrageous claim that the Anbar Awakening occurred in response to the Democratic election victory in November, 2006 . . . the Anbar Awakening started in February, 2006.

Fred Barnes fact checks the Democrats on the surge. And via Gateway Pundit, watch the Democrats dance at the debate when ABC Anchor Gibson lays out the accomplishments of the surge.

Is there anyone more of an irrelevant walking train-wreck of a Democrat than Jimmy Carter? If you answered George McGovern, you’re right. McGovern is arguing for impeachment of Bush and Cheney for, among other high crimes and misdemeanors, that "their barbaric policies have reduced our beloved country to a historic low in the eyes of people around the world." You can’t make this stuff up.

"Foreign policy and national security are a president's top responsibilities, especially in time of war. Obama is devoid of experience in either field. His gaffes – threatening to invade Pakistan, offering prompt negotiations with anti-American despots – bespeak his amateur standing on matters vital to the safety and security of the American people." And as to bringing people together, its happy talk. Obama’s voting record is straight liberal.

Shall we save Willie or save America? Evidently that was not a tough choice for Judge Florence-Marie Cooper who has issued rules that will prevent the U.S. Navy from conducting all of its necessary training in the Pacific in order to protect marine mammals. Any guesses on who appointed her to the federal bench?

"Climate science isn't a religion, and those who dispute its leading theory are not heretics. Much remains to be learned about how and why climate changes, and there is neither virtue nor wisdom in an emotional rush to counter global warming - especially if what's coming is a global Big Chill."

Interesting News From Around the Web

The far left are still pushing hard for an impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Good luck with that.

So is al-P photographer Bilal Hussein the completely innocent victim of a plot hatched by our evil U.S. military . . . or perhaps not? It all seems to have shaken Instapundit’s belief in the veracity of our press.

According to the Asia Times, the very existence of Israel “embodies the last, best chance for the Islamic world to come to terms with the modern world. . . . The premise of Western policy is to tread lightly upon Muslim sensibilities. That is an error of first magnitude, for Muslim sensibilities are what prevents the Islamic world from creating modern states. Islam cannot produce the preconditions for democracy in the Western sense out of its own resources.” Read it all here. I concur and for the reasons stated therein. (h/t Jules Crittenden)

Lenin's corpse has a rare reason to smile. A new workers' paradise is sprouting in Venezuela, under the direction of the sometimes clownish but always cunning President Hugo Chavez.

The Weekly Standard is running a story on the newly invigorated Tories under the leadership of the boy wonder, David Cameron. I have my doubts about the Tories. Their refusal to promise a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty is very bad indeed. The Tories seem more concerned with the UKIP than with the transfer of Britain’s sovereignty to the EU.

In multicultural Britain, to proclaim one’s faith in God is to be called a “nutter” according to Tony Blair.

Classical Values has a fascinating post on fuel costs and energy R&D, comparing the EU and America.

Even as fatalities have dropped and the security situation measurably improved, Democrats continue to push for a full withdrawal of all police from NYC.

Biased BBC is reporting that the publicly funded BBC is squealing like a pig over their rivals, SKY news, whose reporting is generally recognized to be faster, more accurate, and sufficiently less biased “that during the Iraq War, the crew of HMS Ark Royal chose Sky News over BBC News because "The BBC always takes the Iraqis' side. It reports what they say as gospel but when it comes to us it questions and doubts everything the British and Americans are reporting".

From the Rightwing Nuthouse - its official. America has lost its collective grip on 9-11 reality. Dennis Kucinich must be putting something in the water. But Cheatseeking Missles thinks that it may just be that the pollsters were looking for specific results.