Delusional Democrats

This was my "news"paper's endorsement that addresses the U.S. House of Representatives.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2010/10/24/a_record_of_accomplishment/

I don't want to ruin the punchline so I don't comment here.

Waiting Game

With this post I think I'm ending the longest posting drought since I started this blog over 5 years ago.

The thing is, I still don't have anything fresh to write.

Every day over the last 3 - 4 weeks has seemed like the same exact day from a national political view and it feels like it's going to be that way right up to election day.

I stand by my argument that Democrats are going to take a pounding on election day because Obama lost his rabid base by adopting so many policies of President Bush. Obama is directly responsible for the lack of enthusiasm by those who were foaming at the mouth just two years ago. Sure the rabid liberals show up in chat rooms to spew their usual invective but they are not standing out in the rain holding signs and they're not writing checks and many won't vote to support a man they feel has betrayed their 2008 vote.

I Report; You Decide

The number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan by year:

2001: 12
2002: 49
2003: 48
2004: 52
2005: 99
2006: 98
2007: 117
2008: 155
2009: 317 (President Obama inaugurated January 20, 2009)
2010: 376

President Obama's approval rating among African-Americans based on a poll conducted by WSJ/NBC News September 22 - 26: 96%

Unless Pakistani Targets Don't Have WSJ Subscription

My letter to the Wall Street Journal on Saturday; it needs no introduction or explanation:

Editor,

When you wrote, "The U.S. military is secretly diverting aerial drones and weaponry from the Afghan battlefront to significantly expand the CIA's campaign against militants in their Pakistani havens", you surely meant "was". Today, the U.S. military simply "is diverting" (CIA Escalates in Pakistan, Saturday/Sunday October 2 - 3, 2010, A1).

Additionally on the matter, it will be interesting to see if the Democrats and liberals who demagogued U.S. troops in Afghanistan being "under-resourced" during the Bush years will voice the same demagoguery criticizing the Obama Administration. Or, like so many hypocritical Democrats and liberals have gone quiet on antiseptic and extrajudical use of drones anywhere, Guantanamo, indefinite detention of terrorists, military tribunals, wiretaps, the USA PATRIOT Act, state secrets, renditions, signing statements, releasing certain DOD photographs, the media ban at Dover, Gen. David Petraeus, sanctions on Iran and Burma, and supplementals to fund wars, to name just a few of the qualifying issues, will the same hypocritical Democrats and liberals also go quiet on Obama shorting our troops in Afghanistan? (End of letter.)