STILL ON PATROL

In re: Elephants v. Asses

A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
 
The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, "You're in a hot air balloon approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude."
 
She rolled her eyes and said, "You must be a Republican."
 
"I am," replied the man. "How did you know?"
 
"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help to me."
 
The man smiled and responded, "You must be a Democrat."
 
"I am," replied the balloonist. "But how did you know?"
 
"Well," said the man, "You don't know where you are or where you're going. You've risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You've made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and now you expect ME to solve your problem. You're in EXACTLY the same position you were in before we met, but somehow, now, it's MY fault.

Republican Scott Brown Elected to Former Kennedy Senate Seat in Massachussetts

Oh the times, they are a' changin'.  A little over one year ago, Barack Obama won the state of Massachussetts by some 26 percentage points.  For over 50 years, one of the state's Senate seats has been held by a liberal Democrat named "Kennedy."  All of that came crashing down Tuesday night as previously unknown and underfunded Republican Scott Brown came from 20 points down in some polls to win the special election to fill Ted Kennedy's Senate seat from State Attorney General Martha Coakley.

Brown said of his election, "They will be challenged again and again across this country. When there's trouble in Massachusetts, there's trouble everywhere -- and now they know it."  Asked in a debate last week if he was willing to sit in Kennedy's seat and block health care reform, Brown replied, "With all due respect, it's not the Kennedys' seat, and it's not the Democrats' seat, it's the people's seat."

Of course, Democrat leadership has been quick this morning to blame the loss on Coakley herself, who, according to them, ran a "lackluster campaign."  OK, so what if both former President Bill Clinton and sitting President Barack Obama campaigned, in person, for Coakley?  And that Brown closed the final gap to win the election AFTER Obama's visit?

One of the major points of Brown's campaign was that he would go to Washington and vote against the current health care bill.  How in the world can the national Democratic party ignore that?  Of course, in their fantasy-driven view of the political world, not only can they do so, they obviously certainly will by dumping the blame for the loss on Coakley.  

Coakley's campaign manager shot back that the loss was part of a larger wave that began with the New Jersey and Virginia Governor's races, both won by Republicans.  Or, as  Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia said,  the Massachusetts election "became a referendum not only on health care reform but also on the openness and integrity of our government process."  Didja hear that, Dingy Harry and Nanner Botox?  Nah, why start listening to the people now?

Brown's win, of course, destroys the Democrats' filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, prompting speculation that Reid, Pelosi, et al, would try to find a way to rush the health-care bill through before Brown could be seated.  Given their tactics to date, including preventing members from having time to read the bill before votes were taken, and planning a conference committee process that excluded both Republicans and any media coverage, there should be no surprise at any further dirty tricks the Democrats deploy.  The health care bill has long since become more about "passing something" as a political matter than it ever was about addressing realistic health care issues that exist in this country.

Sen. John McCain said in a speech Wednesday morning from the Senate floor, "Last night, a shot was fired around this nation ... saying no more business as usual in Washington, D.C.  Stop this unsavory sausage-making process called health care reform, where special favors are dispensed to special people for special reasons in order to purchase votes."

Amen, Senator McCain, amen.  While I will not be surprised at any desperate measures the Democrats may take in the next few weeks, I also know that the American people are watching, and their mis-deeds will not go unpunished.  The 2010 election cycle is looking ver-r-r-r-y interesting, indeed.

More Trampling the Constitution - Obama Brainwashing To Go To The Schools

If you're not more than a little disturbed by this, please go back and read your copy of the Constitution.  If you don't have one, call me and I'll send you one.  Why?  Because nowhere in that document, or in its many amendments, will you find that the Federal government has been assigned the responsibility or power over public education.  That, my friends, is one of the biggies that is left to the states under their original sovereignty.

Nevertheless, Comrade Obama is planning to beam into our public schools, on September 8, to all grades and all schools that receive public funding, a speech of content that is yet to be determined, but is pretty obvious.  There is little doubt in my mind that, his "Town Hall" campaign having gone down in flames, Comrade Obama intends to push his government healthcare agenda by scaring the wits out of our kids, so they will go home and cry, "Mommy, Daddy, why don't you support the President's plan?"  No doubt he will also try to convince the kids that he, and he alone, is the savior of  America, and they need to listen to him about what to do to ensure their future

A study guide has been distributed for teachers' use, which includes some of the following statements:

• Why is it important that we listen to the President and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important? 
• As students listen to the speech, they could think about the following:  What is the President trying to tell me? What is the President asking me to do? What new ideas and actions is the President challenging me to think about?
• Students can record important parts of the speech where the President is asking them to do something. Students might think about: What specific job is he asking me to do?  Is he asking anything of anyone else? Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people?

Come to think of it, not only is Comrade Obama unconstitutionally projecting his Federal office into the public schools, he is interposing himself between our children and their parents, who should have the primary role in forming the beliefs and value systems of young people as they grow.  But see, this is how liberals work.  They believe the rest of us are just plain too stupid to take care of ourselves and our children, and believe it is their role and place in society to tell us what we should do down to the nth detail of our lives.  And then tax us to death to run the bureaucracies that will be in charge of telling us what to do.

I have heard several people say they are going to pull their children out of school September 8.  If sufficient numbers do so, it will jeopardize school funding in the fractional increment represented by that day.  On the other hand, I suspect that if schools choose to not run the speech, it could jeopardize some amount of Federal funding - the usual gun to the head approach our Federal government uses.

If this thing is going to happen, it is the responsibility of all Americans to become infinitely aware not only of the content of Comrade Obama's speech, but of the in-class discussions held in conjunction with the speech.  The subjects and content should be discussed with our children, and they must be disabused ofany erroneous notions the Comrade dares to push on them.  Best of all, our children need a strong lesson on the Constitution, and their duty as a member of a free society to not swallow whole what the government tells them, but to question authority with their minds, their mouths, their pens, and ultimately their money and their vote.

In the meantime, we have less than a week to register our protest at this blatant end-run of state educational authority, and more particularly, parental authority by an Administration that is moving more rapidly toward socialism than any of us could have imagined.

 

Partisan Politics As Usual in Massachussetts

Despite his fight with brain cancer, Sen. Ted Kennedy is still trying to pull partisan political strings in Massachussetts.  The people of that state have long since proven they could care less about Kennedy's antics, given that he should have been in prison years ago for negilgent homicide in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.  But I bring this to your attention, dear reader, as but another illustration of the lengths to which prominent Democrats will go to play the political game and try to maintain their advantage.

The Wall Street Journal reports:

"Senator Ted Kennedy, who is gravely ill with brain cancer, has sent a letter to Massachusetts lawmakers requesting a change in the state law that determines how his Senate seat would be filled if it became vacant before his eighth full term ends in 2012. Current law mandates that a special election be held at least 145 days after the seat becomes available. Mr. Kennedy is concerned that such a delay could leave his fellow Democrats in the Senate one vote short of a filibuster-proof majority for months while a special election takes place.

"I therefore am writing to urge you to work together to amend the law through the normal legislative process to provide for a temporary gubernatorial appointment until the special election occurs," writes the Senator.

What Mr. Kennedy doesn't volunteer is that he orchestrated the 2004 succession law revision that now requires a special election, and for similarly partisan reasons. John Kerry, the other Senator from the state, was running for President in 2004, and Mr. Kennedy wanted the law changed so the Republican Governor at the time, Mitt Romney, could not name Mr. Kerry's replacement. "Prodded by a personal appeal from Senator Edward M. Kennedy," reported the Boston Globe in 2004, "Democratic legislative leaders have agreed to take up a stalled bill creating a special election process to replace U.S. Senator John F. Kerry if he wins the presidency." Now that the state has a Democratic Governor, Mr. Kennedy wants to revert to gubernatorial appointments.

Beacon Hill has long sported heavy Democratic majorities, so the state legislature has the votes to grant Mr. Kennedy's wish. But does it have the chutzpah? An election is the more democratic option. After witnessing recent attempts by incompetent Governors in Illinois and New York to fill Senate vacancies, Massachusetts voters may have soured on such appointments. Especially when Mr. Kennedy's motivation for changing the law is so obviously born of partisan interest, not principle."

Indeed.  I have long since given up on the Massachussetts legislature "doing the right thing", so it will not be the least bit surprising if they re-jigger the Senatorial vacancy legislation.  In fact, why don't they just build in a toggle switch so that there is an appointment with Democrat governors and a special election with Republican governors?  Wouldn't that be the more honest approach?  But then, I'm speaking of politicians, aren't I ?

As for Ted Kennedy, I am repeatedly sickened at the various forms of homage being paid to the man after it was announced  he has brain cancer.  Given the number of sexual scandals that have brought down politicians in intervening years, it still is impossible to logically comprehend how Kennedy was not buried by his actions in 1969 in relation to Mary Jo Kopechne.  Maybe he got a free pass because of the deaths of his brothers, but what about the young lady he left in the water to die?

Setting aside any allegations of sexual involvement, which were never proven although there was almost two hours' time between their leaving the party and the accident, Kennedy not only drove on dark island roads after being at a party, but he drove off the "Dike Bridge" into a tidal pond.  Kennedy escaped the car, but Kopechne did not.  Kennedy claims to have dived several times to help Mary Jo, but there is no proof he did so other than his statement.

So far, it is just a bad accident.  But Kennedy's response is where the crime was committed.  First, he did not seek help at a home 150 yards from the bridge, where a light was left on.  He walked back to the party, passing at least three other homes at which he could have called for help.  Once back at the party, he got two other friends to go back to the Dike Bridge with him, and they took turns diving to the car.  Never during all this time did Kennedy or anyone else call police and seek help. 

After giving up, Kennedy told the other men he would report the accident.  He did not.  Rather, he swam across a channel to another island, went to his hotel room, changed clothes, and went to sleep.  As a result, an accident that happened between 12:45 and 1:00 a.m. was not reported to authorities until two fisherman spotted the overturned car at about 8:20 a.m.  By then, Kennedy was arguing with his advisors about what to do, and still had not reported the accident.

Kennedy ultimately plead guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and received a suspended sentence.  There were findings that Kennedy was driving too fast and was negligent in his handling of his big Oldsmobile, but no charges were ever filed by local prosecutors.  Evidence developed in the investigation further established that there was an air bubble in the car, and that Ms. Kopechne was in the bubble breathing for some extended period of time.  In other words, a prompt response had a chance to save her before she eventually drowned.  Again, no charges were filed, and Ted Kennedy was re-elected to the Senate the following year with 62% of the vote.  He has remained in office since then.

This incident probably did de-rail any shot Kennedy had to run for the Presidency, but to me it says much about the level of partisan Democrat politics in Massachussetts that a man who, by all rights, should have done prison time for his negligent operation of a motor vehicle, and his failure to report an accident in a timely fashion that may well have saved Mary Jo Kopechne's life.  I recently heard another Democrat say, "we need to pass health care reform while Ted's still alive to see it."  Why?  In my opinion, Kennedy was extremely lucky to have walked away from Kopechne's death virtually scot-free; he should accept that and simply go quietly into that good night, rather than indulging in one last political manipulation or any political hurrahs.

A Tactic As Old As the Hills

If the subject matter were not so serious, the recent tactics of the liberal Democrats regarding the rising outcry against their health care proposals would be laughable.  As you have no doubt heard, the Dems have declared that the uprising of conservatives at town hall meetings, to loudly and vocally object to the pending health care legislation, is a contrivance of the GOP, an "AstroTurf Movement" (i.e., an ersatz "grass roots" movement), and therefore not "real" opposition to their plan.

In response, let me make several points:

• Most, if not all, of the loud outbursts, at least in the first round of meetings, occurred when the Congress-person in question displayed a startling ignorance about the health care proposal, in many cases making it obvious that they had not read the legislation, much less a White House-generated "talking points" memo;
• Liberals need to realize that most Conservatives are not automatically GOP'ers.  Rather, most Conservatives I know, including myself, are not the least bit happy with the GOP, who not only plowed the ground to allow the Dems to have their present dominance of the Federal government, but are presently offering no viable alternatives, cementing their image as the party of "No." 
• In other words, the Conservative opposition to what is in reality another Liberal effort to exercise control over our lives while taxing us to pay for it is rooted in sound Conservative principles, not political partisanship.
• Liberal Democrats have produced not one single shred of evidence that the opposition is contrived.  "Evidence?  We don't need no stinkin' evidence."
• If there is any tactic that should be criticized in this whole process, it is the thuggery being employed by the White House and its operatives.  "Flagging" conservatives to a White House-sponsored database smacks of McCarthyism in its worst form.  Purposely screening attendees to Town Hall meetings to assure a sympathetic crowd.  Recruiting Democratic Union members to attend and intimidate opposition, such as the SEIU people in Missouri who beat up an African-American conservative who was passing out small Gadsden flags (coiled rattlesnake with motto "Don't Tread On Me").  SEIU members threatening to come to Conservatives' homes in telephone calls.  And so on.
• President Obama's direct threats are appalling.  He has told opposition that he will bring down the full weight of the White House Press Corps upon them.  This past weekend, he used a quote from "The Untouchables":  "They bring a knife, we bring a gun. It's the Chicago way."  It was a great line in the movie, in context, but in this context, it is a ham-handed threat which has no place in the political process.
• Now, of course, we see why President Obama was in such a hurry to pass this bill - to not allow his opponents the time to read and digest it.  Now that he has been told "No" to rushing the bill through, and Cap & Trade is on hold in the Senate, he is showing impatience and petulance over the first times he has not gotten his way.

Let me suggest to you what is really happening.  The great mass of moderates in America, joined with Conservatives, is frightened by what the Obama Administration has turned out to be.  I would not be surprised if thousands, of not millions of moderates who voted for Obama are now wondering, "what have I done?"  The GOP presently in office are toothless and devoid of any decent alternative proposals that might address the real healthcare issues that do exist, namely reducing the overall cost and inefficiencies of healthcare in this country.  So to whom do we turn? 

These citizens have realized that their best course is to exercise democracy in its purest form, as delivered from their own mouths.  They cannot trust their elected representatives to deliver the message, as illustrated most recently by Ben Chandler's sell-out of Kentucky's energy industry on Cap & Trade.  The elected officials running these town hall meetings are either ignorant of the content of the legislation, or are categorically unable to explain it, or are simply lying to the people to get the thing passed.  Who can blame citizens for being concerned, or downright angry?

The key here is blindingly simple.  Set aside the rhetoric and emotional appeals.  Set aside the thuggery.  Read the legislation, and as I said in this space last week, see if you can find practical solutions to the real problems.  They are simply not there.  This legislation does not solve problems, it makes new ones.  Big, scary new ones.  It needs to be stopped.

What Exactly Was / Is Sarah Palin Thinking?

I am still shaking my head over soon-to-be-former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's resignation from the governorship of Alaska this past weekend.  What, if anything, was she thinking?  Maybe we will come to know this in the near future, and maybe it will even make some modicum of sense.  Maybe.

Coming at a time when the GOP is beaten down, disorganized, and increasingly politically marginalized in the face of the Democratic juggernaut in Washington, but yet also at a time when there is significant opportunity for an opposition party to make hay, the recent performances of GOP "leaders" leave much to be desired.  Mark Sanford sacrificed his political career to a Latin lover.  Nevada Senator John Ensign has likewise fallen to the wayside in the aftermath of a public admission of an affair.

Newt Gingrich, who in his wildest dreams will not be a viable candidate, is nonetheless seen by many as the political leader of the GOP.  When, of course, they are not listening to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck.  Newt was effective during his stint in Congress until the very end, but his time is well past.  The GOP needs to do better, and soon.

And now, Palin is simply quitting as Alaska governor.  At first, I thought maybe she was going to admit that it was actually she who had been with Sanford in Buenos Aires, but her reasons were not even that clear, nor that interesting.  She thinks she can do more for the country if she is not bogged down with being a lame-duck Governor?  What about all those Alaskans who voted her into office?  Don't they deserve that she fulfill her commitment made when she was asking for their votes in the first place?

Palin was attacked last go-round for lack of experience.  Now, she has jettisoned her opportunity to gain more experience in governing.  Regardless of her course over the next few years, this is an opportunity lost to demonstrate the ability to be a political leader.  I cannot imagine anything she could do privately over the next few years that would better suit her for the Oval Office.  Not to mention that the label of "quitter" will be affixed by such as Dem attack dog James Carville.

If, of course, there is some pending investigation or some charges that wll be made, which Palin's lawyer denies, is this some sort of informal "plea bargain" under which Palin resigns in exchange for the charges going away quietly?  Possibly.  But the likelihood of ever keeping anything totally quiet in this media age is, in my opinion, slim and illusory.  Plus, if she gets caught in a cover-up, it is always worse than the original offense - just ask Nixon, Clinton, Sanford, et al.

While I hope we have not seen the last of Sarah Palin on the political stage, today her stock is not looking too good from this perspective.  Somewhere, Mitt Romney is smiling.

Healthcare Reform...Be Very Afraid

I've been trying to keep an open mind about Barack Obama's healthcare reform proposals.  Really, I have.  Then, I read the text of his speech to the AMA, and it sounded like he was back on the campaign trail, pandering to everyone and making promises he simply cannot keep.  He had to have every appendage crossed behind his back when he spoke to the doctors.  Last night, a few tidbits from his so-called "town meeting" about his proposal last night on sell-out  ABC were highly revealing about the approach BHO and his cohorts will be taking.

At one point, BHO said, "I'm going to allow you to keep your doctor."  That, my friends, says it all.  Where exactly does BHO get off thinking it is in his power, or even should be in his power, to "allow" us to go to the physician of our choosing, even if that choice is made within the scope of our employer's group health insurance plan?  This one statement betrays so much of BHO's disdain for the Constitution and the Constitutionally-prescribed limits on Federal power.  To BHO and his radical-liberal-socialist friends, it is their right to tell us how to live our lives in every material respect, and the Constitution be damned.

In a nutshell, the BHO plan is little more than a re-packaged Cinton health plan that this country so soundly rejected about 15 years ago.  BHO, however, believes he can surf the wave of Federal dominance spawned by the economic bailouts he has engineered to push socialized medicine upon us while our guard is down.  He is also banking on his cult of personality to gain our trust, where formerly a hard-edged Hillary Clinton turned off everyone from so-called healthcare "reform", apparently even Bill.

My sister lived under socialized medicine for over ten years in Australia and England, and she has no shortage of nightmare stories from that experience.  One I can remember is when her daughter had a severe sinus/ear infection, and was in a great deal of pain.  Due to their having private health insurance, they got to go to the head of the line for a doctor's appointment, only to be told that while, yes, she had an infection, they would not prescribe her antibiotics because only so many doses had been allocated for the year and someone else down the road might need them worse.  My niece suffered on for another week, when the family was serendipitously due to travel to the States.  A North Carolina physician prescribed antibiotics, and within a few days she was fine.  Is this sort of system what we want?  Why do we think people from Canada still come to the U.S. in droves for medical care?

Healthcare reform is truly a dangerous topic with the Democrats in power.  Why?  Not only the above issues, but the simple fact that once a socialized system such as BHO is proposing is put in place, it will be virtually impossible to restore anything such as a free enterprise system.  In fact, it is likely to destroy any free market healthcare system by using government-subsidized plans, to the tune of several trillion dollars, to drive for-profit healthcare systems completely out of business.  BHO's plan is more anti-competitive than anything he has yet done in the financial sector, and the inevitable end result is socialized medicine.

Another reason to fear and distrust the BHO plan is the haste with which they are pushing this thing to a Congressional vote.  Why?  Because they do not want to allow the time for anyone to truly study the plan and project its likely effects.  Any more, Senators and Congressmen and women often do not even read what they vote on, instead relying on leadership to tell them what to do.  This is magnified by smooth operators such as BHO that do all they can to prevent private sector and un-elected political opposition from mounting any effective counter-analyses.  Later, when the problems do arise, we are left with our representatives whining, "I didn't realize that was going to happen."  This is too big, too momentous, and affects too many of us, to be hustled through a no-nothing Congress.

Speak up, my friends, and do it now, before it is too late and we are all beholding to the government for our health care.  The Federal government cannot even now run any program it has efficiently and effectively.  Why should we delude ourselves into thinking health care would be any better?  Don't drink BHO's Kool-Aid on this one.

BHO to Grant Same-Sex Benefits to Federal Workers

In what many media observers are calling "a political nod to a reliably Democratic voting bloc that in recent weeks has grown frustrated with the White House's slow movement on their priorities", President Obama is said to be ready to announce today that he is extending health-care benefits to the same-sex partners of Federal workers.  

This comes on the heels of several pro-gay Democrats withdrawing their financial support for an upcoming DNC meeting, as well as increased whining by the LGBT lobby that BHO has not followed through on their agenda quickly enough.  It also comes after BHO has refused to amend the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, and his Justice Department has taken the position that the Defense of Marriage Act is valid and enforceable, including that any state that does not recognize same-sex marriage is not required to recognize such a union from a state that does.

Of course, the LGBT bunch isn't at all convinced that BHO has been a little busy dealing with a tanked economy, growing unrest in the Middle East fueled by Iran's crooked election, North Korea playing with fire next to a nuclear fuse, and the dozens of other issues that cross the Oval Office desk every day.  Not that I'm supporting BHO's policies, mind you, but I suspect that the LGBT folks are not even on his Top Ten list these days.  The LGBT, however, like many other groups in the liberal coalition, have expected they will get theirs pretty quickly in the aftermath of BHO's election, and when it has not been forthcoming, they resort to their favorite tactic, withholding contribution money, and their second-favorite tactic, public whining.

So, even though he has publicly expressed his opposition to same-sex marriage, BHO is going to grant benefits to same-sex partners.  I can safely predict this will be an administrative nightmare, beginning with defining at what point in a relationship two individuals become qualifying "partners."  The next hurdle will come when Billy Joe and Bobby Sue, a straight couple, one of whom is a Federal employee, file a discrimination suit because they are denied health coverage even though they have been shacking up for three years.

Meanwhile, we hear the Federal bureaucracy is going to expand even further with the institution of a new Federal agency to regulate credit practices.  We are awash with Czars who answer to no one but BHO, and new agencies are sprouting like weeds.  The Federal government grows like an amoebic monolith, swallowing everything in sight in its regulatory net, and ignoring the Constitutional restrictions on Federal power as if they are meaningless political theory.  And now all of those Federal workers in same-sex relationships are being granted a benefit that even their straight co-workers don't get.  Not even one year into a BHO Administration, and it's already a runaway train of big government and intrusion into our lives.  Glory, glory, hallelujah.....

Conservatives Feeling "Alienated"?

I rarely pass along internet funnies, but this one brightened an otherwise ragged Friday so I thought I'd share it:

Many of you will recall that on July 8, 1947, a little over 60 years ago, witnesses claim that an unidentified flying object (UFO) with  five aliens aboard, crashed onto a sheep and cattle ranch just outside Roswell , New Mexico.  This is a well known incident that many say has long been covered up by the U.S. Air Force and other federal agencies and organizations.
     
However, what you may NOT know is that in the month of April 1948, nine  months after that historic day, the following people were born:      
       
        Albert A. Gore, Jr.      
        Hillary Rodham      
        John F. Kerry      
        William J. Clinton      
        Howard Dean      
        Nancy Pelosi
        Dianne Feinstein    
        Charles E. Schumer
        Barbara Boxer 
      
    
    I certainly hope this bit of information clears up a lot of things for you. It did for me.

UPDATE:  For those who didn't get that this is a joke (notice I prefaced this with the phrase "internet funnies"), and the ridiculous coincidence this would really be, please see Bill's comments below, where he corrects my dates and directs me to check my jokes in the future at snopes.com.

The Economic Blame Game - Some More Ammo

I was sent this link from a friend.  It is a Fox News report putting together a timeline of warnings by the Bush Administration about the financial mess in which we find ourselves going back to 2001.  Included in there are warnings that mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were getting too large and their collapse might have major ramifications for financial markets, to which Congressman Barney Frank responded at one point that both entities were just fine, and could stand to be bigger.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM&NR=1

Next time an Obamaphile tries to lay blame on his predecessor, ask 'em about these.