HALF-FULL REPORT 09/09/11

Well, it took folks like Fred Barnes and Charles Krauthammer a while, but they’ve got it.  President Zero is now our current POTUS’s official nickname.  Google the term today (9/09) and you’ll get 400,000 hits (earlier this week it was 80,000 – it’ll be fun to see that number increase).  The New York Times can’t stand it.

TTP, as you know, originated the appellation in June, 2008, in O=Zero – which went so viral that Snopes had to verify it was written by me.  We’ve been selling O=Zero T-shirts ever since.

I was in Dunhuang, China on election day, November 4, 2008, whereupon I wrote The End of the Silk Road and forswore using the name of "the Marxist Hate-America Gangster who was just elected by a majority of American voters to lead them to their doom."

So I called him NMP –  Not My President:

"He is not my president.  I owe neither him nor his government any loyalty.  I do not recognize his authority over me.  I shall obey the laws of his government and shall not advocate anything illegal, not out of any patriotic duty but solely because his government and its goons have the guns to kill me if I do not obey."

I first called him "President Zero" a couple of weeks later (11/20/08) in How You Can Help Stop Global Warming, warning that:

"It’s this hoax (of Warmism) that NMP (aka President Zero) plans to use to gain a chokehold on the American economy and simultaneously raise a trillion or more dollars to dole out to mooching voters who will keep him in power in 2012."

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It’s been President Zero (along with his wife, Mrs. Zero) ever since – and he certainly lived up to his title last night, didn’t he?  As predicted in last week’s HFR, it was a dog.  The London Daily Mail’s headline this morning (9/09) nailed it:  Obama’s $450 Billion Employment Package To Save One Job:  His!

Note that the Daily Mail quotes Michelle Bachmann who also nails it:  that Zero is "politically paralyzed" because he is "philosophically incapable of what needs to be done."

It was an impossibly tiresome rehash of the same drivel he’s always been spouting.  What matters now are Republican calculations on how to use it to their electoral advantage.  They go like this:

Zero’s proposals are only to maintain the status quo, which has miserably failed at job growth and economic growth.  But if we declare them DOA and throw his whole legislative package in the toilet where it belongs, then he gets to blame us for the continued downturn.  If we instead pass some of it, then he gets the blame – which puts us in a better position for 2012 victory at the cost of continued unemployment misery for millions.

Yet there is little or nothing we can do by ourselves to really improve the economy that won’t be blocked by Reid and Zero.  We can’t turn things around until we have the White House and the Senate.  Since that must be our goal, how much, then, of what Zero is demanding do we give him?

Note that this typical Beltway Calculus assumes mass masochistic stupidity on the part of the voting public.  Hundreds of billions in more debt that maintains the status quo is certifiably insane.  What the Pubs were elected for in 2010 was to put an end to it.  If they don’t tell Zero to shove his new-old Jobs Act up his nose, they face revulsion at the polls.  Maybe Perry and Bachmann can slap some sense into them.

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Which brings us to the Pub Debate night before last (9/07).  Why these folks got conned into these debates being hosted by a FM (fascist media) outlet, MSNBC, and moderated by FM propagandists asking red herring questions is a mystery. 

To allow the post-debate "analysis" be conducted by fascist moonbats like Ed Schultz, Chrissie Matthews, Al Sharpton, and Rachel Madcow without a single conservative much less an equal number, is disgraceful.

As for the debate itself, Perry won flat out. It was The Rick Perry Show, also featuring Mitt Romney as a polished articulate wonk.  Rick Santorum wore a pink tie, Ron Paul conformed to his crazy uncle in the attic role, Gingrich pontificated as the elder statesman-advisor he’s morphing into, Bachmann was a wallflower, Huntsman an idiot Warmist, and Herman Cain had a great proposal that the audience cheered:

"I propose my 9-9-9 plan:  a straight 9% corporate tax, 9% personal income tax, and  9% federal sales tax. If 10% is good enough for God, 9% is good enough for the federal government."

Perry came off immensely real and likeable.  His energy and personality dominated.  He didn’t back down, he double-downed on Social Security being a Ponzi scheme, "a monstrous lie" to young people.  He made fun of Warmism, comparing climate realists to Galileo (and thus "consensus science" to geocentrism).  And he drove the audience ecstatic with his response to FM propagandist Brian Williams’ question over the 234 death row executions under his governorship:

Williams:  "Have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent?"

Perry: "No sir, I’ve never struggled with that at all.  In the state of Texas, if you come into our state and you kill one of our children, you kill a police officer, you’re involved with another crime and you kill one of our citizens, you will face the ultimate justice in the state of Texas, and that is you will be executed."

Williams was scandalized, and especially by the audience cheering.  So he asked Perry what he made of it.  Perry shrugged, smiled knowingly, and answered:  "I think Americans understand justice."

 Next debate?  This Monday, September 12, from 8-10pm (eastern) in Tampa, Florida, on CNN.  Will it be The Perry Show again?  Will Michelle blossom?  Will Romney have at least one lock of hair out of place?  America wants to know, and we’ll be watching.

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If you want to indulge in a little schadenfreude fun, check out this bitter screed in the flagship website of the moonbat left, Daily Kos:  Why Rick Perry Is Likely To Win The Presidency In 2012.  It’s all the usual tripe – he’ll be elected because Americans are sadistic racist morons, blah-blah.  But what’s cool is how depressed and bitter the lefties are.  Doesn’t that give you the warm fuzzies?

Another main leftie site is TNR, The New Republic – and here it is admitting that Perry Is The Embodiment Of Liberals’ Worst Nightmares.  You don’t get more heart-warming than that.

That Perry will win the nomination is not a done deal.  Many a slip twixt and all that.  But there is no doubt who the nominee’s running mate will be:  Marco Rubio.  No matter who the candidate is – Perry, Romney, Bachmann, whoever – they all want Marco.

No one comes close to what he brings to the table:  totally solid conservative, matinee idol handsome, charming, smart, articulate, delivers Florida’s must-have electoral votes on a platter, and will take millions of Hispanic votes away from the Dems they cannot win without.  He’s in-like-Flynn to be the next vice-president.

To see and hear why, here’s his speech at the Reagan Library (8/23).  And I must plead with those who insist that he’s somehow not a "natural born" citizen according to their – not the courts’ – definition.  This is a total non-starter.  He was born here, he’s a non-naturalized citizen, he’s going to be the GOP VP nominee, and if we’re lucky the next vice-president, then president in 2020.  That’s the way it is.

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Heard of Obama’s Enron?  It’s the juicy scandal of Zero giving one of his crony capitalist greenie-fraud companies, Solyndra, $537 million taxpayer dollars, then after it blew the whole wad went bankrupt last week (8/31).

Yesterday (9/08), FBI agents raided Solyndra’s offices and the home of its CEO Brian Harrison.  The company is under federal criminal investigation, and the question is – are they looking for real fraud or to cover-up Zero’s pay-to-play corruption (raise $$ for me and the Dems and I’ll give you $$$$ stolen from taxpayers)?

What should answer the question is that, believe it or not, the Zero Energy Dept. has now announced it will provide $852 million to another solar greenie boondoggle, the Genesis Solar Project. 

This is madness – but even more madness is the House Pubs not doing anything about it, like shutting off DOE funding.  Every dime the DOE has must first be authorized by the House.  Where are these guys?  They should be shutting the DOE down, and looking into Articles of Impeachment.  Not likely.

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This Sunday is the 10^th anniversary of the Moslem Terrorist Attack on America.  I’d like to suggest that this would be an appropriate time to read The Myth of Mecca, written a few days after 9/11.  It discusses the historical research by a number of the world’s top scholars showing that the story of Mohammed and the creation of the Koran is a myth, a "baseless fiction."

Perhaps you saw news stories this week about a caravan of Gadaffi’s people escaping Libya through the Saharan country of Niger.  I am familiar with their route for I have driven it.  In early 2003, I led a 3,000-kilometer overland Trans-Sahara Expedition that traversed Niger through the center of the Sahara called the Téneré.

That’s the route Gaddafi’s people took, from the Libyan border to an oasis called Seguedine, to the salt mines of Fachi and Bilma, crossing the Téneré to Agadez, then on to the capital of Niamey.  I know it well.

It was upon the expedition’s conclusion that I launched To The Point in March of 2003.  One of the earliest articles was Elephants In The Sahara.  It begins with a picture of my son Jackson next to a pictograph of an elephant carved into a rock in the center of the Sahara thousands of years ago.

Back then, the Sahara wasn’t a desert.  It was teeming with life like the Serengeti of East Africa today.  Climates change, and so do those of history.  Islam was founded by bandits raiding caravans in the deserts of Arabia.  As I said back in 2003:

"The climate of history once allowed this behavior to flourish. That climate is no longer. Islamic religious banditry is headed towards extinction. I believe that the entire phenomenon of Moslem Terrorism — Al Qaeda murderers, Salafi bandits, Palestinian suicide bombers, Wahhabi imams and Iranian mullahs spewing hate, and all the rest — is the last gasp of religious desperadoes doomed to extinction just like prehistoric elephants in a drying-up Sahara."

Moslem terrorists can perpetrate deadly isolated incidents of slaughter, like the Ft. Hood massacre by Nidal Hassan in 2009, but, I concluded, "not anything remotely like a systematic campaign of strategic terror. That is over."

That conclusion remains true today.  Islamists are trying other tactics, such as creeping sharia, but their tactic of terrorism has failed.  We are defeating them, not them us.  The question now is, will we defeat ourselves?

That is, we have allowed the police power of government to be enormously expanded to deal with the Moslem Terrorist threat.  With its diminishment, so should these police powers be reduced.  But they are not, for that’s the way government works, always expanding its control, never relinquishing it.

The challenge of 9/11 today is to reduce and drastically those emergency powers to control our lives.  The goal of the Islamic terrorists was to take away our freedom.  And sure enough, we reduced our freedom in response to them.  The time has come to regain it.