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Whiny Little Bitch – The 2012 Revised and Expanded Edition

My original intent for Whiny Little Bitch: The Excuse-Filled Presidency of Barack Obama was a single printing in 2010, and that would be it.

I’ve received a number of requests to bring it back into print, so I have done so. I added a couple of essays to the new edition that I had cut from the original for space reasons. I also did a lengthy new chapter that revisits the various topics in the book with the benefit of two years of hindsight. The additional material makes the revised edition over 25% larger.

It’s available at Amazon.com right now!

Your Conservative Reading List

The Daily Beast’s John Avlon has a list of the 46 anti-Obama books that have been published in the last two years. I am proud to say he mentions “Whiny Little Bitch” as his favorite, even though I know there’s not even a tiny chance that he has read it.

The books, he says, are the latest sign of the hate that is driving this election.

Make up your mind, guys. Is it hate or racism?

The list could actually come in pretty handy for conservatives. Use it for your Christmas shopping.

If Barack Obama is elected, they’ll be building a mosque at Ground Zero

Someone who made these statements during the 2008 presidential campaign would have been labeled a racist, an alarmist, or a nut. Yet all of them have come true.

If Barack Obama is elected president, before we know it they’ll be building a mosque at Ground Zero.
If Barack Obama is elected president, we will have 10% unemployment.
If Barack Obama is elected president, we will have annual deficits over $1 trillion.
If Barack Obama is elected president, the government will take over the car companies.
If Barack Obama is elected president, the government will take over the student loan business.
If Barack Obama is elected president, the government will label the air you exhale as a pollutant.
If Barack Obama is elected president, failure to purchase health insurance will be a finable offense.
If Barack Obama is elected president, the government will purchase thousands of gas-guzzling cars and destroy them.
If Barack Obama is elected president, the Justice Department will refuse to prosecute black defendants, even when their crimes are videotaped.
If Barack Obama is elected president, the Department of Homeland Security will classify U.S. military veterans as potential terrorists.
If Barack Obama is elected president, non-citizen terrorists will be entitled to Miranda warnings.
If Barack Obama is elected president, the government will shut down U.S. oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
If Barack Obama is elected president, the government will loan billions of tax dollars to foreign companies for oil exploration and drilling.
If Barack Obama is elected president, the resources of NASA will be devoted to “Muslim outreach.”
If Barack Obama is elected president, he will blame all of his failures on his predecessor.

Glorious Leader Barack is Looking Out for You

If there’s a stimulus-funded make work project in your area, there’s a good chance that you’ve seen a sign like this one.

In this time of economic hardship, Barack Obama wants you to know that he’s thinking of you – and more importantly, he wants you to be thinking of him. After he divvies out billions in stimulus cash to unions, political cronies and campaign contributors, he wants you to rejoice, for there are still a few crumbs left for you. He’s going to give you a tiny portion of your money back in the form of temporary construction jobs in your neighborhood. And in case you forget who is responsible for your miraculous good fortune, he’s going to give you a sign like the one above. He’s even got his own logo.

There’s a government site that explains the use of the logo. It also informs us that “the emblem is a symbol of President Obama’s commitment to the American People to invest their tax dollars wisely to put Americans back to work.”

Whew! Without that symbol I would be tempted to think the stimulus was just an $800 billion vote buying scheme. But don’t worry, the symbol put me right. Just one look at it convinces me of the righteousness of all things stimulus. It’s got gears, and gears mean science and stuff. There’s a plant with an odd number of leaves. You can’t get more green and mellow than that. And best of all, there’s a bunch of stars in the upper-left part of the symbol, to remind us that we are still, as of this moment, the United States.

If you find the logo “oddly similar to the Obama logo from the 2008 campaign,” you’ll be happy to know that ABC News agrees with you. I also couldn’t blame you if you found the shameless plastering of the president’s symbol oddly similar to the poster propaganda of Stalin, Mao or Kim Jong-il. I prefer to think of it as a dog marking its territory. Every time a new sign appears, that’s just our Glorious Leader lifting his leg on another city or town.

LeBron Gone, But Not Forgotten

This is a picture of LeBron James, formerly of the Cleveland Cavaliers, dunking. It is a wall graphic 6’7″ tall and 3’2″ wide. It comes from a company called Fathead.

Fathead.com wasn’t around when I was a kid. That’s probably a good thing, since the suggested retail price of this sort of thing is $99.99, and would certainly have drained me of every dime of lawn mowing money I earned.

Earlier this week, LeBron famously left his longtime Cleveland home and signed a six-year deal with the Miami Heat (for those not inclined to follow sports, that is a professional basketball team, not a public utility). When players switch teams, their old merchandise goes on sale, so LeBron’s Fathead wall graphic has been marked down to $17.41.

There’s at least one coincidence in this case, and that is this: The owner of Fathead.com is Dan Gilbert and the owner of the bereaved Cleveland Cavaliers is that very same man, Dan Gilbert.

The markdown price of $17.41 is interesting because 1741 was the birth year of another famous traitor – Benedict Arnold. That might be a second coincidence. Or maybe not.

Oh Boy! Another Professor

Today Obama appointed Harvard professor Donald Berwick to run Medicare and Medicaid. Since it’s a recess appointment, Berwick will be allowed to serve in the post through next year.

The bedwetters at Media Matters have enjoyed comparing this appointment to Bush’s recess appointment of Ambassador John Bolton. There’s a slight problem with the comparison. Bolton received a multi-day hearing, was filibustered by Democrats, and never received an up or down vote. Berwick has never even had a hearing scheduled.

While recess appointments are made by most, if not all, presidents, Obama has managed to add his own brand of Chicago sliminess to what is already a dubious undertaking. Rather than using a recess appointment to circumvent a vote on his candidate, Obama is using it to avoid even the briefest discussion of the man on the Senate floor. Berwick is so toxic that Obama can’t risk a hearing. That’s the only explanation for this. It isn’t a matter of confirmation, because the Dems have a 59-41 majority, and Lindsey Graham can usually be trusted to bend over if you need a 60.

As usual, Obama blamed Republicans for his own misbehavior. “It’s unfortunate that at a time when our nation is facing enormous challenges, many in Congress have decided to delay critical nominations for political purposes,” he said. With this president, and with this media, the Republicans get more blame now than when they ran the joint.

And in a tangential piece of Obama scumbaggery, Craig Becker is under investigation. Who is Craig Becker? He’s a union lawyer that Obama tried to get onto the National Labor Relations Board, but even the Democrat-run Senate found him unpalatable, and they shot down the appointment. That’s okay. In March of this year, Obama installed Becker in the post using – wait for it – a recess appointment.

You Need Solutions, We Send in the Clown

Odd story from Reuters. At the end of Joe Biden’s trip to Iraq, they actually seem a bit puzzled that a visit from The Administration Clown failed to improve the Iraqi post-election deadlock.

Vice President Joe Biden ended a visit to Iraq on Monday without presenting any plan to nudge the country’s leaders toward forming a government.

Did they expect him to present some sort of plan? That sounds a whole lot like problem solving, which everyone should know is not a part of the current administration’s skill set.

How about some assignment of blame? Biden could have told them whose ass to kick.

A senior U.S. official traveling with Biden might have misspoken the truth:

“There was no discussion of an American plan for Iraq because there isn’t one.”

I Burned Crosses, But I Didn’t Inhale

I was willing to let it go. I was willing to let the Democrats bury their favorite Ku Klux Klansman in relative peace. That was before Bill Clinton got involved. I guess it should be no surprise that Clinton, a man utterly lacking any device resembling a moral compass, should be the one to inform us that Robert Byrd was a “good person.” Said Clinton:

“There are a lot of people who wrote these eulogies for Senator Byrd in the newspapers, and I read a bunch of them, and they mentioned that he once had a fleeting association with the Ku Klux Klan, and what does that mean? I’ll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and hollers of West Virginia, he was trying to get elected.”

Ohhhhh, he was trying to get elected. Why didn’t he just say so? I’m pretty sure it’s okay to lay the beatdown on them coloreds as long as it’ll get you some votes. Clinton continued:

“And maybe he did something he shouldn’t have done…”

Maybe? You see, Bill really isn’t sure. Perjurers don’t make the most convincing rehabilitators of character.

“and he spent the rest of his life making it up.”

It is de facto evidence of the ongoing influence of inbreeding in West Virginia that Robert Byrd spent 60+ years in the U.S. Senate, where he lived a life of almost incomprehensible privilege. If this is how one “makes up” for one’s vilest acts, then atonement is about to become our most popular participation sport.

As to the matter of Byrd’s “fleeting association” with the Klan, his membership is difficult to quantify. We know that he was named the top officer in his local chapter. We know that he was adept in spreading hatred, because they made him a recruiter (known as a Kleagle). We don’t know how many Americans he terrorized because of their skin color. We don’t know how many crosses he burned. We don’t know how many lynchings he organized. Thanks to the wardrobe.

We do have this lovely missive, penned by Byrd to then-Senator Theodore Bilbo:

“I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”

That doesn’t really sound like a fella who was dabbling in the Klan business. For you liberals who love to toss around the term “hate speech,” keep this quote handy, and maybe take a moment to think about how ridiculous you sound.

The Running of the Bulls… for Liberals

Three times a year we are treated to a meeting of the G-20 – a convention of the financial leaders from largest, most prosperous economies in the world, along with South Africa and Argentina (who, best as I can figure, are present as mascots). The purpose of these get togethers is to allow the Ben Bernankes of Brazil and South Korea to exchange ideas with the Timothy Geithners of Turkey and Germany and figure out a way to central plan the economies of Slovenia and Chile.

These exercises in cluster fornication have been occurring regularly since 2008, and anyone silly enough to be waiting for them to produce even a single brilliant economic idea is still waiting. Not that anyone cares. The real entertainment takes place in the streets, many blocks away from the politicians and finance ministers. It’s The Running of the Bulls – for Liberals.

The parallels to the event in Pamplona are many.

Both events feature mindless, ill-tempered brutes rampaging through public streets. In Pamplona, they are bulls. In Pittsburgh, London, and most recently, Toronto, they are the predictable lefty melange of peace activists, anti-capitalists, environmentalists, gay rights activists, labor unions and people who just enjoy breaking things. In both cases, bulls and leftists, many of them have not bathed in quite a while.

In both events, people run around provoking creatures that are larger and stronger than themselves. In Pamplona, again it is bulls. At the G-20, it is officers of the law.

The bulls are provoked by screaming and arm-waving. The officers of the law are provoked by hurling rocks, eggs and flaming debris, or by shouting incoherently about social justice. Considering the high level of stupidity, in both the activities and the participants, not nearly enough people are injured.

If property is damaged in Pamplona it is blamed on bad luck. When property is destroyed at a G-20 conference it is blamed on “anarchists.”

If you want to attend The Running of the Bulls, it’s right around the corner. It takes place every year from July 7 – 14.

If you want to attend the next G-20 riot, you’ll have to wait until November 11 – 12 in Seoul. If you think South Korean riot police are going to tolerate as much of your BS as the nice folks in Canada did, then go ahead. Try them.

Somebody Must Have Been Confused by his Name

As I began to read this AP story, I figured it would follow a familiar template.

There’s this guy named Jay Nixon. He’s the governor of Missouri. He frequently flies from place to place in the not-small state of Missouri. As the story progresses it is clear that the writer thinks that Nixon flies too often and too expensively. So I get myself ready for a big, excessive government corruption story. You know, weekend trips to Vegas. Million dollar lap dances from Katy Perry. Something big and sordid.

But that story doesn’t really arrive. The total cost of the guy’s first 17 months of air travel was $260,000. That’s it. I looked at the number again. Was it 260 million? Because that would be a lot of money. No, it was 260K. That’s not even enough to hire Michelle Obama for a make work job. So what was this story about?

The writer opines that the 260K was “an amount equal to the annual salary and benefits of about five state employees.” And then I understand. It’s a hit piece. “Republican Governor Flies in Luxury while the Little People are Laid Off.” I did a quick skim, searching for Jay Nixon’s political affiliation. And I was foiled again. The guy is a Democrat. In just a few seconds on his website, I see a reference to “the failed economic policies of President Bush,” so it’s clear that he’s drinking the Kool-Aid.

Hmm. An AP hit piece against a Democrat. First time for everything, I guess.