Misc. Musings IV

Written November 9, 2009

1. Election, 2009. Rumors of the demise of the Republican Party are clearly premature. As noted by Charles Krauthammer, the Republican wins were not a surprise. Rather, the surprise was the 2008 election, which he refers to as a historical anomaly. Per Krauthammer: "A uniquely charismatic candidate was running at a time of deep war weariness, with an intensely unpopular Republican President, against a politically incompetent opponent, amid the greatest financial collapse since the Great Depression." (From Krauthammer article in the 11/06/09 Investors Business Daily.)

And even so, Obama only won by 7 points. Obama carried Virginia by 6 points. The republican nominee for governor there just won by 17 points - a swing of 23 percentage points! Obama won New Jersey by 15 points. My home state has regrettably been reliably democratic of late. The republican nominee for governor just won by 4 points - a swing of 19 percentage points! (From Krauthammer article.)

One of the key factors in determining the outcomes was the vote of the independents. They went about 2 to 1 for the republican candidate in both states. A recent Gallup poll had 40% of the respondents describing themselves as conservative, 36% as moderate, and only 20% as liberal. (Again, from the Krauthammer article.)

No wonder why Obama and the democrats want to push their health care "reform" now. The people do not want it. The people do not want a federal government deeper in debt. The people do not want higher taxes. And the people will probably take away their overwhelming majorities in one or both houses of Congress come next November's elections. So, the "elites," who know what is best for us, need to ram it down our throats while they still have the power to do so.

2. Fox News. On a related note, the network that the President and his people refer to as a not legitimate news organization did extremely well in the ratings on election night. While CNN was down 12%, and MSNBC was up 18%, Fox News was up an astounding 84% in viewership! O'Reilly, with the highest rated show on cable news, was up 1 million viewers. Hannity was up 1.7 million (from 2.5 to 4.2 million). Greta was also up 1.7 million (from 2.0 million to 3.7 million). (Data from the NYTimes online, citing the Nielsen ratings.) So Obama and the dems not only lost 2 key governorships, they must have been stewing over the phenomenal success of the dreaded Fox News. Eat your hearts out!

3. Terror at Fort Hood. One Major Hasan decided to kill and maim as many of his fellow soldiers as he could. The Army is quick to say that he acted alone. They are not calling it terrorism. While he was supposed to be counseling his patients, he would go off on religious rants. He described the "war on terror" as a war against Islam. His fellow classmates complained about his "anti-American propaganda." Apparently, several of his classmates felt that "a fear of appearing discriminatory against a muslim student kept officers from filing a formal written complaint." (From Verizon News online, 11/07/09.)

According to the Investor's Business Daily, he also said that "muslims should stand up and fight the aggressor." (11/09/09 edition.) It has also been widely reported that he viewed web sites related to "suicide bombings." And he apparently yelled "Allah Akbar" at the onset of his killing spree.

Our President tells us that we should not rush to any conclusions before all the facts are in. That is rather ironic, as it was he who referred to the Cambridge police officer as having acted "stupidly" against Professor Gates, after admitting he (Obama) did not have all the facts. So, we have a President who goes out of his way to defend a black man and now a muslim. But "rushing" to a conclusion is hardly the problem. The problem is the exact opposite: political correctness impeding society's ability to take action against those who would do us harm.

The Army did not "rush" to take action against Hasan for any of his actions (as referenced above). In fact, they did NOTHING! This man should have been kicked out of the military long ago - but he is a muslim, so they did nothing. Well, not nothing. They allowed him access to all sorts of weapons, facilitating his mass murder. From this writer's viewpoint, all those in the chain of command who knew about his proclivities should, at a minimum, be kicked out of the army themselves. Political correctness has permeated every aspect of our society and we have got to put an end to it - NOW! As I have said numerous times before, we in the West will let them destroy us. We buy into their propaganda and then adopt it as our own in the form of "political correctness." And the results are deadly.

And please don't tell me he was just a peaceful man who broke from being under tremendous stress and even taunting from his fellow soldiers. SOMEWHERE he picked up a radical islamist agenda. They need to investigate where - his mosque? Online? Where?