Monthly Archives: January 2016

Another Example of Stupid

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And another insult to us Americans.

Republican Party Presidential candidate and erstwhile Senator from Pennsylvania is opening 2016 with an attack ad…against fellow Republican Party Presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz (TX). In it, among other things, Santorum ridicules Cruz’ filibuster of a bill concerning Obamacare.

Don’t tell me how bad your fellow Republicans are, Santorum. Tell me how great your programs and policies are and why, and tell me how bad the Democrats’ programs and policies are and why. I, along with most of my fellow Americans, are fully smart enough to discriminate among you candidates based on information like that; don’t suggest, with ads like this, that we’re stupid.

You’re not showing me why I should do anything but ignore you.

Personal Secrecy vs National Security

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The latest batch of 3,105 emails includes 275 documents upgraded to “classified” since they landed in the former Secretary’s personal inbox. That brings the total number of classified docs found in the emails to 1,274. A State Department official told Fox News on Thursday that two of those emails were upgraded to “secret,” while most of the others were upgraded to “confidential.”

Because Democratic Party Presidential candidate and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s desire to keep her doings in our name as a Cabinet Secretary were more important than our national security.

We don’t need four more years of this from within the White House.

Delays

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Iran is already violating the nuclear weapons agreement it has concluded with President Barack Obama (D). Obama is already pushing back against and outright delaying sanctions against those violations. The excuse?

Senior US officials have told lawmakers the sanctions were delayed because of “evolving diplomatic work” between the White House and the Iranian government.

This is especially the time when pressure needs to be maintained and stepped up. But Obama is, and has been all along, loathe to risk offending the Mullahs.

What, Me Sanction?

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The White House has delayed its plan to impose new financial sanctions on Iran for its ballistic missile program, according to US officials, amid growing tensions with Iran over the nuclear deal struck earlier this year.

It gets worse.

US officials offered no definitive timeline for when the sanctions would be imposed after the decision was made Wednesday to delay them.

Never mind that Iran has been violating the nuclear weapons agreement since a very few days after Vienna. Never mind, either, that Iran still hasn’t actually signed the agreement. This administration is putting us and our friends and allies in a very dangerous position over the next year. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders want more of the same, too.

This is Stupid

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As the calendar draws closer to the Iowa and New Hampshire contests, the second tier of GOP candidates [those next behind Republican Party Presidential candidate Donald Trump]—along with the super PACs supporting them—are unloading on each other in a blitz of ads, videos, tweets, stump speeches and interviews. The acrimony is at a level until now unseen….

Trump is increasing his focus on Democratic Party Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Is he really the smartest guy in the room? I’d hate to think so.

The rest of the Republican Party Presidential candidates need to focus their arguments on Clinton and the other (serious) Democratic Party Presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders (D, VT).

Aside from providing the Democrat Progressives with ammunition for the general campaign (a bogus beef, anyway, since their own opposition research would turn this stuff up), the internecine squabbling and backbiting is rather offensive to us voters. We’re fully capable of distinguishing among the candidates based on their policy proposals and their plans for correcting the damage done by eight years of a Progressive White House and six years of a Democrat-controlled Senate. Those policies and plans are what the Republican candidates should be talking about, and how those things are better than any of the nonsense Clinton and Sanders are offering.

In the words of a Colonel with whom I worked once, the focus on how bad the fellow Republicans are is the dumbest thing I ever heard of.