As fellow contributor Warner Todd Huston has demonstrated several times, the Associated Press is hardly the textbook example of an unbiased media source. Today the AP again showed their Obama-slanted bias with an article titled “Obama breaks from Bush, avoids divisive stands”. But unsurprisingly, in the AP’s alternate universe, “divisive stands” is defined as “conservative positions”.

The AP piece begins:

Barack Obama opened his presidency by breaking sharply from George W. Bush’s unpopular administration, but he mostly avoided divisive partisan and ideological stands. He focused instead on fixing the economy, repairing a battered world image and cleaning up government.

Certainly Obama made some statements on the economy, but can we consider signing executive orders to close Gitmo, restore overseas abortion funding and updating the whitehouse.gov web site to slam President Bush and shill for pro-abortion causes as “avoid(ing) divisive partisan and ideological stands”? I think not.

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Today we receive some helpful hints and tips from the Weekly World News on recognizing aliens in the workplace.  As we ponder some of the nominees that President Obama has put forth for his cabinet and some of the folks that they will no doubt bring with them to the White House as aids and assistants, it is imperative that we be on the lookout for aliens.

I became particularly concerned about this issue when I discovered that the number one symptom of “alien workplace syndrome” was

1. Weird or mismatched clothes. “Often aliens don’t fully understand the different styles, so they wear combinations that are in bad taste, such as checked pants with a striped shirt or a tuxedo jacket with blue jeans or sneakers,” noted Brad Steiger, a renowned UFO investigator and author.

Considering President Obama’s inauguration-night attire faux pas, we must strongly consider whether or not our President is, indeed, an illegal alien.

Enjoy your weekend and let’s be careful out there.

BREAKING NEWS: I just received word that there is even more evidence of an Obamian alien connection. More news as it happens…

If you weren’t convinced that the Dems weren’t really serious about re-instituting the “Fairness Doctrine,” then take a gander at The O’s latest:

“You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done,” he told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to the White House to discuss his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.

One White House official confirmed the comment but said he was simply trying to make a larger point about bipartisan efforts.

“There are big things that unify Republicans and Democrats,” the official said. “We shouldn’t let partisan politics derail what are very important things that need to get done.”

“You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.” What does that even mean? I suppose we have another case of Obama trying to communicate without his friend, the teleprompter. Does Limbaugh bother him SO much that he can’t handle others’ listening to him?

This week has been a steady stream of leftist supporter payback. O and his buds have been the textbook examples of “sore winners”. Any hopes of adulthood in the White House and on Capitol Hill have been squashed.

This Limbaugh slam goes back to my old theory – if you’re ticking off the bad guys, you must be doing something right. Keep it up, Rush.

There are so many metaphors to use to frame the discussion of the treatment of Barack Obama’s pre- and post-inauguration performance. To a parent, everything their kids do is cute, creative, or beautiful. In the case of President Obama, to the mainstream media everything he does is beautiful. How else can we explain the reaction to a decidedly mundane inauguration speech, not to mention the rest of his campaign. His lofty rhetoric sounds impressive, but – is it?

In a particularly insightful piece, Juan Williams describes how Americans should “judge Obama on Performance Alone”. What a concept, eh? Too often during the last year or so the press has displayed a collective man-crush on Obama, seemingly oblivious to the oft-lackluster nature of his performance. Those of us on the right who have taken the “red pill” have seen that he has hardly received an unbiased assessment of his performance.

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I was going to title this diary “Let’s Get Together, Yeah Yeah Yeah” but I figured the allusion to “The Parent Trap” would a) date me, and b) be a little lame. So I went with something a little more macho – Benjamin Franklin’s political cartoon from 1754. The cartoon is much more appropriate for a serious topic – how do we “join” (or “get together”) to pursue the purpose of rebuilding our party and rebuild our conservative base?

“Politics is compromise” is a truism about how we must operate in the political realm. Ironically, this quote has been attributed to Paddy Ashdown, who led the Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom for a decade. Despite Mr. Ashdown’s political proclivities, he was right. One cannot survive in politics without the ability to compromise. Blogger “thudfactor” (where I got the idea to use the Franklin cartoon) writes:

Of course our candidates are going to be compromises. Anyone electable is going to be an imperfect match. Whoever becomes president will have to appeal to a broad range of people, and that means her or she will have to compromise on issues you think are important, even those you think are of surpassing and critical importance. That’s just life in a country of 300 million people and nearly four million square miles.

I couldn’t have said it better myself. Every political choice is a compromise. We must always sacrifice something to move closer to the goal. Even our old friend Fred D. Thompson would have been a compromise in some ways, if he had gone on to win the Presidency. I’ll leave it at that, for fear of taking the focus off of the matter at hand.

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That’s how fast Ronald Reagan was spinning in his grave yesterday as The One delivered his speech on the economy. When President Reagan entered office in 1981, he was faced with an economic problem brought on by four years of Carter ineptitude. Did he call for massive government intervention? No. Let me refresh your memory, in case you need it:

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we’ve been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price.

Compare and contrast with yesterday’s message from on high:

It is true that we cannot depend on government alone to create jobs or long-term growth. But at this particular moment, only government can provide the short-term boost necessary to lift us from a recession this deep and severe. Only government can break the cycle that is crippling our economy, where a lack of spending leads to lost jobs, which leads to even less spending, where an inability to lend and borrow stops growth and leads to even less credit.

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Exit polls from the 2008 Presidential election showed that Obama received around 77% of the Jewish vote. I’m at a loss to understand why. Guys like this claim that Obama “represents the values of (their) community” but fail to describe what those “values” are.

And now we see that support for Israel’s action against Hamas is coming largely from the GOP side. Per Rasmussen:

Sixty-two percent (62%) of Republicans back Israel’s decision to take military action against the Palestinians, but only half as many Democrats (31%) agree. A majority of Democrats (55%) say Israel should have tried to find a diplomatic solution first, a view shared by just 27% of Republicans.

While 75% of Republicans say Israel is an ally of the United States, just 55% of Democrats agree. Seven percent (7%) of Democrats say Israel is an enemy of America, but only one percent (1%) of Republicans say the same. For 21% of Republicans, Israel is somewhere in between, and 28% of Democrats agree.

And the guy that 77% of Jewish Americans supported in the election has exactly nada to say about the situation.

Now I know that the Jewish population in the US has pretty much always voted overwhelmingly for the Dem candidate, and there’s more to the vote than Israel. But it really doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. If the percentages more mirrored the general popular vote, I could see it. But the overwhelming skew of the exit polls, coupled with the apparent Dem ambivalence (at best) towards Israel’s interests just baffles me. I know – I’m naive.

On Tuesday, James Bopp Jr., RNC vice-chairman, submitted a resolution to the RNC that labels the recent “bailouts” of the finance industry and the Big 3 as “socialism”. This is a bit different for the RNC, as the organization normally does not involve itself in policy-oriented activity (past establishing the party platform). Fox news reports:

The statement says the rescue packages are “moving our free-market based economy another dangerous step closer toward socialism.”

“What was needed, and is still needed, to fix the banking industry is not a bailout, but rather a commitment to fiscal responsibility,” the resolution says. “Members of the Republican National Committee call for all members of Congress to oppose any and all future bailouts that might come before the Congress, including President-elect Obama’s public works program.”

Unfortunately, only a small percentage of the RNC members (24 out of 168) have signed off on this resolution so far, most likely because of the somewhat incendiary nature of it…after all, it basically calls out the sitting GOP president. Now that President Bush has less than a month in office, it seems that Republicans are holding back less and less on calling him out for some of his recent actions, including this resolution. The dynamics are interesting, as RNC chair candidate Ken Blackwell also spoke out on this topic this week. In an article published Wednesday, Blackwell refers to the President’s Big-3 bailout as a “Big Government Gambit” and “Bush’s most significant mistake.” Blackwell says:

Out of all the options available to President Bush, he took the worst-possible course.

His actions may not even be legal. Congress considered this bailout and rejected it, while Mr. Bush’s treasury secretary publicly said that using the original bailout funds for automakers would be unlawful without congressional action. The legality of these actions cannot be challenged unless the right party brings a lawsuit, but the fact that ordinary taxpayers cannot bring a lawsuit against federal spending does not change the fact that everyone agreed the first bailout could not be extended to automakers. President Bush therefore usurped the legislative function, doing something Congress refused to do.

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