Daily Commentary – Thursday, August 5th, 2010 – Oh, is This Thing On?

August 5th, 2010 Daily Commentary

* Katie Couric joins the “Oops, open mic!” club.

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Sarah Palin Says that AZ Gov Brewer has Something Obama Lacks, ‘Cojones’!

When it comes to border security, Sarah Palin says that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has something that President Barack Hussein Obama lacks …“cojones”. Ouch, that’s going to leave a mark.

“Jan Brewer has the cojones that our President does not have to look out for all Americans, not just Arizonians, but all Americans in this desire of ours to secure our borders and allow legal immigration  to help build this country as was the purpose of immigration law …”

H/T: Michelle Malkin … The money quote hits at about 3:35

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Sunday praised Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer for defending her state’s immigration law in court against the Justice Department’s lawsuit, saying she has the “cojones” that President Obama is lacking on border security.

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House Appropriations Committee Chairman Democrat David Obey Will Not Seek Reelection

The writing could well be on the wall for Democrats in 2010 … House will fall.

David Obey (D-WI) House Appropriations Committee Chairman has announced that he will not seek reelection in this Novembers midterm elections, this ending a 41 year House career. This marks real trouble for Democrats in the 2010 midterms.

“I am ready to turn the page, and frankly, I think that my district is ready for someone new to make a fresh start,” Obey said in an afternoon press conference in his committee’s meeting room.

Despite poor poll numbers at home, he insisted that he could win reelection in November but admitted he feared another reapportionment fight in the next Congress and a shift in the public mood against the aggressive public investments which have been his trademark.

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John McCain, “I Was a Maverick Before I was Against it and now a Partisan”

I was a Maverick before I was against it …

From Maverick to Partisan … Guess the Arizona Republican primary with J.D. Hayworth is getting too close for McCain’s comfort. At the heart of the Republican primary is now whether John McCain was ever a Maverick. McCain now seems to be running form the label he so embraced in 2008 and prior.

” If you want real reform and if you want change, send a team of mavericks. And what maverick really means, what this team of maverick really means, is we understand who we work for.

Wow, it appears that both candidates for the 2008 Presidential election have something in common … they can’t tell the truth as to what they are. Then candidate Obama claimed to be a middle of the road, reach across the aisle, moderate Democrat and candidate McCain claimed to be “Mavericky”.

Well, we all know what Obama turned out to be, the most partisan first year President in history; however, John McCain now says that he was not a maverick, but instead a Partisan.  Today on FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace McCain said the following:

“Look, when I was fighting against my own president, whether we needed more troops in Iraq, or … spending was completely out of control, then I was a maverick. Now that I’m fighting against this spending administration and this out-of-control and reckless health care plan, then I’m a partisan.”

The FOX News VIDEO can be seen at Think Progress.

To be or not to be a Maverick, that is the question.

McCain’s “maverick” reputation and his past willingness to work with Democrats on issues like the environment, campaign finance reform and immigration before his run for President in 2008 often frustrated or angered fellow Republicans and he has lately made it appear like it’s a moniker he’d like people to forget.

Has McCain forgot that he approved the campaign ad below?

McCain startled many political observers when he told Newsweek magazine “I never considered myself a maverick” — even as Sarah Palin was describing him that way in a campaign appearance late last month in Arizona for her old running mate.

What is rather comical and ironic is that McCain could cite Obama’s camapign ads in 2008 stating that McCain was not a Maverick to make his case.

Is it possible after all that Sarah Palin really did help the “consistent conservative” J. D. Hayworth in the end? People on the right ripped Palin for simply repaying the favor to campaign for McCain in 2010. However, how soon some on the right forget, had it not been for McCain … there would be no Republican sensation known as Sarah Palin.

That being said … ultimately, did Palin actually provide Hayworth with a political advantage in the Republican primary by “urging her fans four times in 15 minutes to send McCain the Maverick back to Washington.” It is that very label “Maverick” that long time Senator John McCain seems to be running from.

Why run from being a Maverick or as some call it the death of a Maverick? Because McCain being “mavericky” means that he sided with Democrats on such issues like immigration reform with Ted Kennedy or campaign-finance reform with Russ Feingold and his cap & trade position. In today’s political climate where Democrats have lost the favor with the American people on several of the top issues including immigration … McCain can’t run fast enough away from his past beliefs on immigration and shamnesty.

In any event, one would think that the LEFT would want to support a McCain re-election to the US Senate rather than J.D. Hayworth, a true conservative.  A recent Rasmussen poll shows that either McCain or Hayworth would defeat Democrat Rodney Glassman in a general election.

Potential bad news for the Democrat is the finding that 57% of the state’s voters believe the health care reform bill signed into law by President Obama will be bad for the country. Thirty-two percent (32%) say it will be good for the country.

Sixty-three percent (63%) of voters in Arizona favor a repeal of the law, including 53% who strongly favor repeal. That’s higher than support for repeal nationally. Thirty-three percent (33%) oppose repeal, including 28% who strongly oppose it.

Looks like McCain’s chickens are coming home to roost.

Sarah Palin Shreds Barack “the Community Organizer” Obama on his Vast Nuclear Experience

When will Barack Obama ever learn …

Sarah Palin fired back at President Barack Obama’s criticism of her nuclear experience during her speech at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. The novice and thin skinned President fell for her bait, hook, line and sinker.

Palin went on to say regarding Obama’s nuclear strategy … “with all the vast nuclear experience he acquired as a community organizer, a part time Senator and a full time candidate, all that experience and still no accomplishment to date with North Korea and Iran.”

Dear Mr. Presient here’s the thing … a majority of Americans feel the same as Sarah Palin.

Sarah Palin owned The One. Obama cannot compete with the common sense Conservative approach that Palin is espousing. John Q. Public may not be experienced in nuclear technology either; however, they know that limiting the US nuclear arsenal and phony paper treaties pale in comparison to the nuclear threats from Iran and North Korea.

Obama’s response to Palin is a losing battle in more ways than one.  Why, because when Obama criticized Palin, he not only did not defend his change in nuclear strategy but instead just attacked the criticism … Obama also attacked a majority of the American people who completely disagree that the nuclear threat should be taken off the table. 55% of the American voters oppose Obama on limits of nuclear force. Only 25% agreed with Obama’s pacifist and telegraphed approach of telling our enemies what we would and would not respond with nuclear force.

Palin also went on to question Obama’s policies on the WH’s treatment of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Israel, our closest ally in the Middle East. Israel’s Netanyahu will now be skipping Obama’s nuclear summit.  Obama has the same effect in uniting allies as he does Republicans.  As reorted in the UK Telegraph, Poison swirls around Hamid Karzai and Barack Obama. That’s ok Karzi, many in the US do not know what to make of Obama either.

The Afghan president fears an apparent media campaign to discredit him is a prelude to America abandoning his country

From the start Karzai has not known what to make of Obama but he believes the US president did not want him to win re-election last August. He reacted to a recent White House snub by inviting to Kabul President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, who gave a fiery anti-American speech.

Karzai has seen himself described as “mad” and “paranoid” in the US media, which have also carried reports that America wants to put his brother Ahmed Wali Karzai, an alleged drug dealer, on a death list.

However, as Newt Gingrich stated, Obama is the most radical President in the history of the United States.