More on NY-23 [UPDATED]
Absentee ballots have Hoffman closing, though it's moot since he conceded, however:
[M]y source points out, the fact that Democrat Bill Owens was sworn in -- and voted for ObamaCare -- before the official result was certified by New York election officials, demonstrates the fundamental lawlessness of Nancy Pelosi's regime in Washington.
Not that it's any surprise, or that it's particulary well related, but Andrew Sullivan has outdone himself in sucking up to Obama, speaking of his rejection of the options presented to him with regards to Afghanistan as a sign of strength, since it opens him to criticism of dithering. He also says that this is the sort of matter that ought to be worked out in meticulous detail in the public arena, yadda yadda.
The fact is, Obama and his advisers ought to have had their Afghanistan strategy completely mapped out by the time that he arrived in Washington. The repeated leaks and obvious discord do nothing to project the image of an administration that has the slightest idea what it is doing.
One would think that the massive Porkulousity foisted on all of us by the administration might have taken more time, especially since Obama promised to go through it line by line and excise all the pork. The jobs created or saved numbers are a terrible fraud. He also promised to post legislation online and to hold health care hearings on C-SPAN, neither of which promises materialized. Skipping the matter of his promises with regard to lobbyists, then, and his obomises not to raise taxes on 95% of Americans, we can go directly to the manner in which he has managed the health care fiasco, turning over the crafting to a multiplicity of committees, and asking them to fudge the data to bring in a CBO estimate in the range of 900 billion dollars. All of this, as well as the economy-crippling cap-and-trade legislation needs to be rammed through without public deliberation, because it's all an emergency, even as the military situation in the country he deemed most important to our security continues to deteriorate.
They say that this is because they wish to eliminate corruption and graft in the Afghani government, though investigations into graft and corruption in our own are stalled, and Obama will meet with tyrants and dictators anywhere less strongly associated with US interests. Burma's a good example, and he'll be going there this coming week.
UPDATE: On the other hand, kudos to Obama for letting this go through.
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November 12th, 2009 - 16:09
I’m not sure his concession is relevant. Gore conceded and then reneged. The question in my mind is whether it is legal to swear in a Member of the House whose election to the House has not been certified by the Secretary of State of NY or whoever is responsible for certification. Otherwise, they could seat anyone who walked off the street, just because.
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November 12th, 2009 - 16:23
Agreed that that is the issue, Sara.
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November 12th, 2009 - 16:47
The days of sending our troops into the hot sands of hostile combat armed with treasure hunting metal detectors and sun screen so they can search for non-existent WMDs are over.
Our military needs a clear mission and a clear exit strategy once their mission is accomplished. This shit about sending every General who wants more troops more troops is what happened in Nam and in the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.
The NYT had a good article about this very subject! Lots of good quotes from ordinary Afghans that explain their varying attitudes.
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November 12th, 2009 - 17:19
No, what happened in Vietnam was our stupid Congress cut off funds, leaving our winning forces high and dry and up a creek without a paddle.
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November 12th, 2009 - 17:53
I see that much like “Fightin’ Joe” Biden, you too are an eleventy star general with absolutely no experience, nor idea, of how to conduct a successful campaign.
You see, what you gloss over yet again in you vain attameot at equivalence, or fairy tale like visions of superiority, of Russian military forces over US. Moreover, you also fail to acknowldge the vast difference in the missions; the Soviets were there bent on the conquest and annexation of territory they coveted, we instead are there to crush the forces that would keep the Afghanis in a medieval societal arrangement and provide the security for them to both train their own military forces and establish a modern democratic government.
In society, one doesn’t begin a job thinking about their coming resignation a priori. So to, in a military operation you plan a campaign to achieve victory, and plan for contingencies that may force the alteration of the original plan. The bottom line is, with a few exception, the primary consideration is winning, and not so much “punching a clock” or worrying about “overtime”…
You, like Obama, are trying to score cheap political points, instead of worrying about the the effects of such games on our nation’s foreign policy and image. Get serious man!
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November 12th, 2009 - 22:18
How many successful military campaigns have you conducted, Rocket Bob?
Hey wow, you’ve conducted just as many as I have.
You wouldn’t know a modern democracy was if it raped ya.
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November 12th, 2009 - 22:47
I’ve led combat missions, and been involved in important campaigns…
How about you?
Admit the difference between the US and Soviet missions in Afghanistan…ADMIT IT!
Leave the fairy tales to children and the brothers Grimm…
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November 12th, 2009 - 22:51
We’re talking General-level strategy, Bob.
Stand down, private!
HAhahaha.
The Russians didn’t want to annex Afghanistan. Quit wallowing in the pig pile of propaganda, Sir!
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November 12th, 2009 - 23:02
Sure…Just like the soviets didn’t want to occupy and de-facto control eastern Europe either…
Sorry, we have a track record of liberating and leaving; not effectively subjugating territories and peoples that we once fought…
ADMIT IT! eleventy
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November 12th, 2009 - 23:17
The Russians didn’t want to annex Afghanistan, balloon head.
Did the Russians stay in Georgia? No.
Juvenile level of propaganda, Sir, please resist.
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November 12th, 2009 - 23:45
Uh, the Russians are still in Georgia…
Just like the Soviets stayed in all those countries they “didn’t want to annex” during the cold war.
No, no, no, they didn’t essentially control those nations; they didn’t militarily crush upsrisings in Hungary and Czechoslovakia…
Face it, that’s vastly different than how the US operates.
Why can’t you just admit it..?
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November 12th, 2009 - 23:50
Like I said, that cold war bullshit clings to you like a hemorrhoid.
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November 12th, 2009 - 23:58
Stubborn facts and inconvenient truths, playah…
Things your insults will neither change nor modulate…
Just like my flad pin…
Any more wry observations?
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November 12th, 2009 - 16:49
Healthcare townhall meetings were shown on C-Span, BTW.
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November 12th, 2009 - 16:58
Not sure the vote count is moot. My understanding is that if Hoffman is found to have won, Owens will have to be removed. And there’s still a whole bunch of absentee ballots that haven’t been counted…
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November 12th, 2009 - 17:01
Health Care town halls are not health care negotiations. The only acceptable end point for Afghanistan is to win in such a way that the Af-Pak borders cannot be used as a safe haven and staging ground for operations against the US at home and abroad.
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November 12th, 2009 - 17:17
“The only important lesson from the Vietnam War is this: Democrats lose warsâ€
-Ann Coulter
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November 12th, 2009 - 20:12
DC,
You’re giving BHO kudos for doing his job on the mosques?
The act of doing his job is seen as remarkable.
Wow.
Chris
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November 13th, 2009 - 07:43
Smitty, my expectations are low.
But yeah, given the mollycoddling of terrorist and fascist states (of which Venezuela is increasingly one), and given the timing, and the sucking up of Bloomberg to Islamist assholes, I’m a little surprised.
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