The Conservative Soldier

Do you ever find yourself wondering what it is that smells and why it won’t go away? It is like walking the halls of a frat house, wishing for a gas mask. I think I’ve figured it out.

The source of the odors hanging over our land is rotting leftovers, spilling out of the Left’s ideological Frigidaire. The liberals in this nation were emboldened by the mistaken election of Barack Hussein Obama nearly one (very long) year ago.  They rolled out a feast of old ideas veiled by hope and change. But Socialism is a flimsy premise for legislating. The core ingredients are highly perishable. Now that the party is over, we find that some of the guests are still wandering the banquet area (like Civil War soldiers in the battlefields after the surrender), desperately looking for morsels of left wing nutrition in a moldy, abandoned wasteland.

Some of these lost souls are even employed, as pundits and journalists.  Earlier today, I wrote to two of these intellectually malnourished scribes. Hopefully I got to them before the food poisoning set in.

Thomas Frank, a University of Chicago PhD who loathes Capitalism and the Constitution, writes a weekly column for the Wall Street Journal called The Tilting Yard (the venue for jousting in Medieval times, which seems fitting for a Dark Ages pundit). This a guy who has to call his doctor because his physical reaction to almost any Obama speech lasts “more than four hours”.

In Thursday’s Journal (where he is routinely overshadowed by an all-star team of credible, lucid columnists), Frank took up the cause of Team Obama’s frivolous vilification of Fox News. He concludes that the network exists merely to promote “conspiracy theories” even though he actually took exception to the childish approach by the Obama White House.

Frank writes: “Simply feeding Fox a slice of raw denunciation was like dumping gasoline into a fire. It did nothing but furnish the network with a real-world validation of its long-running conspiracy theories—and a nice bump in its ratings.”

In a firmly worded email, I replied: Your column is an absurd patchwork of historic references lacking context and evading the actual reasons why the frauds occupying the White House went on a public rampage against Fox News.

These always offended left wing radicals were ticked off that Fox exposed the backgrounds and questionable character of the many Obama czars, these people wholly unaccountable to the voting public. They were enraged that their buddy Van Jones was forced to resign. And, most of all, they were perplexed by the thorough outing of ACORN by the independent investigative journalists to whom Fox provided a forum to air their reporting.

Little wonder Fox is in (White House) cross-hairs. This is what radicals do. They attack without regard for the consequences. As you point out in your concluding paragraphs, the consequence is a President that fights fire with … gasoline, just like his mentors Alinsky and Ayers. #

Joseph White is a Journal editor who was inexplicably given a forum in the newspaper today to explain why he sold his car and resides on Capitol Hill in Washington. The premise was that he is joining the ranks of those goaded by environmentalists and tormented by the so-called climate change threat. He demonstrates this by living like a Stalin-era worker haunted by his carbon footprint and in deference to the wishes of his Great Leader, Barack Hussein Obama.

White claims he shed the car and a house for “sensible” reasons, but how then to explain the giddiness oozing from this passage? “My new life evidently makes me part of a trend. I am a New Urbanist, a Third Life Boomer or, to the green movement, an exemplar of the new sustainable lifestyle who leaves a lighter, smaller carbon footprint on our planet by driving less, walking more and forgoing the energy-intensive life that goes with owning an edge-city McMansion and two sport-utility vehicles.”

In a firmly worded email, I replied: This notion that we’re all pigs because we have cars and homes and choose to live in secure neighborhoods is such a tired one. Climate change is a myth perpetuated by power thirsty radical politicians who seek control of every aspect of American life. Look at how they’ve rushed to discredit the common sense solutions in the new book, Super Freakonomics.#

What a day it has been. Can somebody get me a can of Lysol?

Liberal Florida Congressman Alan Grayson is an ideological terrorist. He is now using the deceased as pawns in his quest to impose government monopolized health care reform on our citizens.

His pathetic web initiative, Names of the Dead, exploits people who have died. He claims they are deceased because we — the collective “we” — did not pay for their health care. What a load of unsubstantiated crap. Where were the family members of these people? Friends? Fellow churchgoers? Did we all let them down? Or were they neglected by their own? Grayson’s site can not back up its claims. It is a joke.

Acclaimed columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin agrees. She writes that Names of the Dead is based on a flawed, out of date study by single payer health care advocates that concludes around 44,000 people die every year solely due to lack of access to care.

“(The study) attributed deaths to lack of health insurance for all the participants who initially self-reported that they had no insurance and then died for any reason over the 12-year tracking period,” Malkin writes. “At no time did the original researchers or the single-payer activists who piggy-backed off their data ever verify whether the supposed casualties of America’s callous health care system had insurance or not.”

I pledge to launch a new site in 2010, Names of the Politically Brain Dead. Grayson will be its poster boy. But he will be among a sea of discredited names.

This disgusting excuse for a public servant needs to be returned to the rock from under which he crawled, and the people who voted for him should be institutionalized. That would be true health care “reform”. Put the mentally deranged away for good. Start with Pelosi, Reid and “Swamp Thing” (Grayson). And their supporters.

I heard a Chicago television reporter this week refer to U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama as an “international rock star”. This was not overheard at a Starbuck’s. She said it live, on the air.

Her gushing characterization came during a segment explaining why leaders of Chicago’s bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games are hanging on a thread of hope. They are said to be hoping Obama, for whom Chicago is an adopted hometown, will travel to Copenhagen ahead of the International Olympic Committee’s decisive 2016 vote on Oct. 2. So far, he hasn’t decided what to do. The IOC must choose between four cities — Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janiero and Tokyo — then sit back and pray they’ve done the right thing seven years from now.

Chicago’s campaign team and, by extension, the public continue to view Obama as an earthly God who can enter a room and change the course of history by reading scripted words. Essentially, they are employing the logic of a crack cocaine addict. Just one more fix, man, and we can make the world right. If Obama shows up in Denmark, it’s game, set, match for Mayor Richard Daley’s All-Star Team. Never mind that Chicago’s bid is technically sound — in some areas superior — and is led by a widely regarded business icon, Patrick Ryan, and a famous mayor (Daley).

This Obama obsession prevails even though the former junior Senator from Illinois has not managed to end Washington gridlock or turn a massive U.S. economic tanker clear of jagged shores. He keeps reading the scripted words and rolling out his transformational agendas but the only tangible result is that more than 50% of the nation disapproves of his job performance.

The accidental President (by virtue of being an accidental Illinois Senator) is emerging, not as a Great Messiah, but as the reckless force behind an economic tsunami that threatens the influence and reputation of the United States. That’s why I am dumbfounded by those who insist Obama is Chicago’s trump card in its pursuit of the 2016 Games.

To believe he can be a game changer just by showing up is to demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding of the IOC’s membership, and there has been precious little reporting by Chicago mainstream media that answers the question, “Who are these guys?”

The membership of the IOC is more than 54 percent European, along with roughly 22 percent North and Latin Americans (including just two U.S. members) and 19 percent Asians.

The people who decide where the Olympic Games go are a conflicted lot, to say the least. Many are U.S.-educated professionals who returned to Socialist, even Communist, homelands, using their intellect, family names and political savvy to secure lives of wealth and influence. The most powerful patriarch within the global Olympic movement is Spain’s Juan Antonio Samaranch, IOC Honorary President for Life. He once was an operative in the brutal monarchy of Gen. Francisco Franco (and son Juan Jr. is now an IOC member/voter).  The current President of the IOC, Jacques Rogge, is a surgeon from Belgium, a heavily unionized nation under a constitutional monarchy.

Additionally, more than a few IOC voters from Africa, Asia and Latin America have risen through the ranks of deeply rooted, tyrannical/dictatorial political systems, enriching themselves in societies where the world’s material and monetary spoils are not accessible to the masses, and where sports administrators wield great power.

Loyalties among IOC members are wildly fractured, which often causes balloting for Olympic host cities to be skewed by block voting and side deals having nothing to do with the merits of the candidates, or their elected political celebrities. If you don’t believe it, research the circumstances under which Lillehammer (Norway) won host city rights to the 1994 Olympic Winter Games, or Sochi (Russia) the 2014 Winter Games.

While the American Entitlement Class remains drunk on Obama Kool-Aid, cheering as Newsweek declares we’re “all Socialists now”, do not be too sure that IOC members will be enamored of a United States flirting with hope and transformational change.

The dirty little secret among IOC voters is that the privately financed, Capitalism fueled 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games saved the Olympic movement from financial collapse. Does anyone think IOC members voted to put the 1996 Games in Atlanta (right) because they were turned on by the Coca-Cola museum, CNN Center or obsolete Fulton County Stadium? The Games were here in 1996 for the same reason they were in Salt Lake City in 2002. Free market capitalism and multinational U.S. corporations with deep pockets (not to mention General Electric’s National Broadcasting Company and the hundreds of million of dollars it has paid for U.S. broadcast rights) work wonders on the IOC’s bottom line. Plus, when the Games are here, IOC members have an excuse to squeeze in a visit to the Mayo Clinic, or Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, or Cedars Sinai Medical Center, or any number of other beacons of America’s envied private health care system.

So, then, can anyone truly articulate the upside to a live Barack Obama pitch in Copenhagen? By 2016, this nation might well be a severely diminished Obamerica. Will it still be the go-to venue for the Olympic Games? Will these United States that IOC members rely on to prop up their increasingly irrelevant global sports event still be an economic superpower with world-class military and security personnel to protect the athletes and visiting dignitaries?

If Chicago really believes it needs an international rock star to prevail in next month’s voting maybe it should think about finding one that has memorized the words and sings from the heart.