It's been a good week in politics (and a hearty hello to you DUmpster
divers):

1.  You just thought enemies lists disappeared with Tricky Dick.  Well, they
are back full force as Obama and the ballerina who serves as his chief of
staff paint Rush Limbaugh as Public Enemy Numero Uno (whatever happened to
Osama bin Laden and Bernie Maddof?).  Like the lemmings and intellectual
lightweights they are, all Obama's supporters can muster up to talk about
these days is Rush - just another voice in the market place of ideas that
liberals are so frightened of.  And notice what the lemmings talk about -
his weight, the way he dresses and his past addiction to pain killers -
anything but his ideas.  Howard Kurtz is reporting that since Emmanuel/Obama
have declared a dunderheaded war on Rush, his ratings have doubled.  If this
ratings surge lasts, Limbaugh will soon be pulling down $170,000 per
broadcast.

2.  English Prime Minister Gordon Brown pays a visit to the US and is
snubbed by the Obamas.  Brown brings Obama a pen holder made from wood of
the anti-slave ship HMS Gannet, sister ship of the HMS Resolute whose wood
was used to make the Oval Office desk.  Obama gives Brown 25 movies.  A
hastily thrown together joint press conference takes place not in the East
Room as is traditional but in the Oval Office.  England is our most trusted
and longest standing ally.  For now.

3.  Secretary of State Mrs. Cigar Rodham Willy pledges almost a billion to
nation build in Gaza after Hamas took a pounding there at the hands of the
IDF.  Almost certainly, Hamas will get its hands on this money and buy
weapons with it, which will further escalate violence in the Middle East.
Israel is our most trusted ally in the Middle East.  For now.

4.  Commentators both left and right are commenting on Obama's apparent
addiction to his teleprompter.  At speaking events both big and small, White
House staff arrive early to make sure the boss's prompter is set up and
working.  The effect of the prompter is that Obama rarely makes eye contact
with either the people in attendance at these events nor the people watching
on television.  Watch him and notice that his eyes move constantly left and
right and very rarely look forward; eye contact, which is key to
establishing trust, is rare to nonexistant.  Another effect of the the
prompter is that when it breaks, Obama's soaring oratory begins to
disintegrate into cringe-inducing babble (recall his embarassing,
no-prompter attempt at discussing ashtma during the campaign).  Is our
generation's greatest orator nothing more than our nation's most famous
reader?

5.  On the Larry King show, Liberal talk show host Stephanie Miller accused
Rush Limbaugh of treason and wondered aloud if he should be put to death for
it.  Neither Larry King nor Arianna Huffington gave even the slighest
reaction to this bizarre suggestion.  Since 2003, many liberals - not all of
course, but many, including the kitty-loving Archie - celebrated our every
defeat and mistake on the battlefield.  They post the American body count
with great relish.  They call Guantanamo Bay Auschwitz.  They celebrate the
death of political voices on 911.  But I don't remember Republicans (and
some democrats) doing much more than condemning these comments. Visit the
DUmp and read the weird calls for violent retribution against Republicans.
More than once, I have read that I should be publicly ridiculed, sent to
prison or kicked out in the street and shot behind the ear.  This dangerous
sentiment is now moving into the mainstream.

6.  For those of us who still place some value on our Constitution...Article
I Section 9 prohibits anyone holding office in the US from accepting a title
of nobility from any foreign government or monarch.  How does this
prohibition affect Ted Kennedy, who was just awarded knighthood by Queen
Elizabeth?

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