The Weekly Beatoff (4/21/09)

A few helpings from Jillian Bandes' table....

***Hundreds of thousands of Americans nationwide rallied for lower taxes and limited government during the April 15 tax day tea parties, organized by conservative grassroots activists with little or no funding. Americans for Tax Reform estimated attendance at well over 360,000, despite bad weather across the East Coast and the fact that it's harder to get a conservative to a protest than it is to get Levi Johnston to stop hitting on Tyra Banks. The protests elicited widespread criticism in the [Oba]media, with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow labeling tea party protestors "tea baggers," and David Axelrod, a top adviser to President Obama, calling the protests "bewildering."

But of course - libs think that they own the protesting gimmick.  It's of a piece with the rest of their moral supremacism that sees anything they do - even if it's the very thing they've been smearing the Right with for years (e.g. earmarks, profligate spending, their own brand of military adventurism, secret databases and other spying on American citizens, etc.) - as being not just innocuous or permissible but actively noble and patriotic based on nothing more than their inherent genetic virtue.  But let conservatives exercise their constitutional right to peaceably assemble to redress grievances - did I say that's specifically in the United States Constitution? - and the Left flies into a palsey of growling, condescending indignance that labels the T.E.A. parties like they were some kind of decentralized twenty-first century Nuremberg rally.

Maybe Axelrod's "bewilderment" stems from the assurances he was given that after the Ascension of The One there wouldn't BE any such thing anymore as conservatives, not unlike the climax of Childhood's End.

Boy, did HE get his metaphors mixed up.

***The U.N. is holding a conference on racism this week during which Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has already come out with anti-Israel rhetoric, prompting the walk-out of over forty delegates who presumably attended the conference on the pretext that Ahmadinejad wasn't actually planning on saying these things. "Regretfully," according to the White House, Obama wasn't there.

Oh, my, yes.  It's so regrettable that the Li'l President will not be present to nod his head approvingly as Adolph The Nuclear rants on about the "most cruel and racist regime," created only "on the pretext of Jewish suffering," while his regime soldiers on toward finishing the job Adolph The Original started.

Damned scheduling conflicts.  Looks like the Geico Caveman doppelganger will have to mail Barry his own autographed tome.  Maybe the latter will put it in a place of honor in the Oval Office right next to Georgetown University's betitted crucifix.

***An FBI computer database that contains a billion documents containing personal information - some pertaining to American citizens - will not be opened to public scrutiny as requested by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The EFF had sued under the Freedom of Information Act to try and open up the lockbox, but the Obama administration quietly denied the group's request, keeping with the policies of his predecessor. Many criticized Obama for talking the big talk about increased government transparency, and then singing a different tune when it was time for action.

They need not worry.  President Bush did what was necessary, while still excruciatingly constitutional, to protect Americans from any sequels to 9/11 (or worse).  President Hussein doubtless has different plans for such secret databases.

And we know which application the Donks consider to be "criminal".

***Obama decided to cut .002% of federal spending by trimming the fat from various federal agencies to the tune of 100 million. This compares to an overall $2.5 trillion spending package that he pushed through Congress. The cuts will be accomplished by combining offices, switching training programs from in-person instruction to online instruction, buying office supplies in bulk, and halting the production of new logos. Thank goodness.

"Awright, THERE!  I GAVE you your !#$%ing cuts, you *&^%$#! rightwing skinflints!  Now PISS OFF!!  I've gotta go give Fidel his afternoon pedicure!  He said if I do a good enough job, he'll sign my pecs!"