HALF-FULL REPORT 01/30/09

The Age of Zero is only ten days old at this writing (1/30), and already this is a failed presidency.  On the eve of Zero’s Immaculation, his approval rating was 83%.  Now Rasmussen reports it’s 63%, a 20% drop in less than two weeks.

The goofball mistakes are piling up, but here’s the top three, a Stupidity Hat Trick.

His first international interview is with a Moslem news outlet, earning him the label: "President al-Arabiya."  He grovels and apologizes to the Moslem world for America being the target of their hatred, as only a liberal embarrassed to be an American can.

In return, Mahmoud Ahmadinutjob spits in his face and demands that Zero beg for forgiveness for America’s sins against Iran, the number one terrorist state on earth.

Zero follows up this demonstration of brilliance by attacking Rush Limbaugh by name, petulantly demanding that Republicans not listen to him.  Did Rush somehow bribe Zero to say this?  Now, everybody is listening to Rush – who immediately takes maximum advantage of his Zero-provided megaphone and offers an extremely clever proposal:

Divide the $1 trillion "Porkulus" Stimulus Bill such that 54% (the percentage of the electorate voting for Zero) of it goes to pork, and 46% (voters for McCain) of it goes to cutting personal income taxes, corporate income taxes, and capital gains taxes.

Rush even challenged Zero to simply mention he was considering this and then watch what happens immediately afterwards to the stock market.  Zero of course ignored it. 

Which brings us to Stupid #3.  He thinks his personal charm and charisma is so overwhelming that by deigning to grace Congressional Republicans with his presence, they’d all fall in line, bend over to grab their ankles, and vote for his Fascist Stimulus.

And after the meeting, they proceed back into the House Chamber and vote 177-0 against the bill.  The greatest act of political courage shown by Republicans in modern memory.  Thanks to Zero. 

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Dangerously compounding Zero’s stupidity was that of his Treasury Secretary, Timothy "I don’t need to pay no stinkin’ taxes" Geithner, who accused – twice – the Chinese of currency manipulation in his written testimony to the Senate.

Treasury is going to float $2 trillion of bonds – that means borrow the money – to pay for Zero’s Porkulus.  The Chinese are the only ones who can finance this.  So Geithner infuriates the Chinese, who really need their $2 trillion in forex to restart their own collapsing economy, not to restart ours. 

What makes Geithner’s stupidity doubly frightening is that it’s combined with the "Buy American" protectionist trade restrictions in the Porkulus Bill.  As anyone with an ounce of historical understanding knows, it was the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 that triggered an international protectionist trade war driving the world into a global depression. 

Zero’s being on the end of labor union puppet strings may precipitate a 1930s replay.

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We’re looking around the HFR Saloon – there’s got to be some good news around here, like under a barstool or something.  Ah, here it is – and of all places, it’s in the Middle East.

Israel’s Last Hope, Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, looks likely to be the next Israeli Prime Minister.  The elections are a scant 11 days from now (2/10), and his Likud Party is pulling away in the polls.

For an indication of what thrilling news this is, here’s how a leftie journalist describes it:

"Polls show Israel choosing a right-wing government totally at odds with the new American administration’s hopes for a renewed push towards a Palestinian-Israeli accord."

"Totally at odds" with Zero.  That is totally cool.  Even cooler was Bibi having the moxie to tell the World Economic Forum at Davos yesterday that Iran having nukes was more dangerous than the global economic crisis.  Come February, Bibi’s going after those nukes, saying lo ichpat li, that he could care less what Zero thinks.

There’s also good news from Israel’s neighbor, Egypt.  Not only did Mubarak not complain about Israel’s attack on Hamas in Gaza, he now sees Hamas as a "national enemy" of Egypt.

That’s because Mubarak’s rule is increasingly fragile – like him, as he’s 81 and in poor health.  Hamas and the homegrown Egyptian Islamists of Iqwan Muslimi or "Al-Ikhwan Al-Moslemoon," the transliteration on the website of the Moslem Brotherhood, are in deadly cooperation to overthrow Mubarak and put themselves in power.

So to save himself, and prevent Egypt from becoming another radical Iran, Mubarak and his government are working with Israel to destroy Hamas. 

If there could be better news than this, it would what will happen in Iraq tomorrow (1/31):  elections, with an outpouring of enthusiasm for democracy, and an outpouring of participation by Sunni Arabs. 

Look for radicals like Mookie (Moqtada al-Sadr) and his terrorist minions, to lose big, for moderates to win.  Tomorrow will be a great victory for the people of Iraq – and a victory for President George W. Bush, to whom the Iraqis owe their freedom.

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Okay, that’s enough for the good news.  We have to close this issue of the HFR with at least one more example of laughable liberal stupidity.  That would be the glowarmers.

Algore’s appearance at a Senate hearing Wednesday (1/28) was so ridiculous even the Washington Post made fun of him, dubbing him "The Goracle."  It was all the more ironic that at the very time he was predicting an end to civilization because the planet is burning up, hundreds of thousands of people in Kentucky were freezing without electricity due to an ice storm.

There are very few Goracle disciples in Kentucky, but plenty in England, who are so batty they’ve gotten the National Health Service (the socialist medical care Zero wants for us) to ban meat from hospital patient meals to cut down on carbon emissions.  It’s not a joke or urban legend, it’s actually true.

The Glowarm Psychosis has now made federal government science agencies fully schizophrenic.  NOAA has announced that global warming will continue to heat the oceans for another 1,000 years – even if all human CO2 emissions stopped today.

NASA, on the other hand, is reporting satellite data showing the oceans are cooling and that Arctic ice levels have returned to those of 1979.

The difference, of course, is that NOAA is using garbage-in/garbage-out computer models, while NASA is using actual empirical satellite measurements.  But when if ever have glowarmers ever cared about real science?