Around The Horn; News Of Democrat Folly
Feb 2, 2010 Political
Spend our way out of recession?
Democrat James Clyburn says we need to spend our way out of the recession (and I thought it was already over):
“We’re not going to save our way out of this recession,” the majority whip added. “We’ve got to spend our way out of this recession, and I think most economists know that.” The Hill
No country has ever spent its way out of a recession and the only economists who believe we can are the ones who do not know what they are doing. You would not spend more to get your family’s out of control budget in order and no one in his right mind actually thinks that it is possible to spend one’s way to prosperity.
Obama awards no bid contract
Barack Obama and the Democrats all screamed about no bid contracts when Bush was in office (that evil Halliburton) though they never made a sound when Bill Clinton awarded that company no bid contracts. Nevertheless, Obama said that practice would be limited and that competition was necessary to keep the cost of contracts down. However, he awarded a no bid to the company of one of his financial contributors.
The recent awarding of a lucrative federal contract to a company owned by a financial contributor to the Obama presidential campaign — without competitive bidding — “violated” President Obama’s many campaign pledges to crack down on the practice, a top State Department official told Fox News. Jammie Wearing Fool
The argument could be made that he said it would be limited so he did not violate a promise. Surely some contracts have to be no bid because some companies are the only ones that perform certain tasks. Of course this is the case with Halliburton but this did not stop Democrats from howling like scalded dogs. In any event, this no bid should never have been awarded. Even if there is a way to prove that it was necessary or proper, the fact that it was awarded to a financial contributor smacks of cronyism. It looks wrong and perception is often reality. The left said that contracts to Halliburton benefited Cheney (they did not) and that was their opposition to the no bids it received. Funny how there is no mention of the Obama no bid award which does benefit someone who supported him…
About those 9/11 terrorists tried in civilian courts
Dana Perino spells out the facts about 9/11 terrorist trials:
First, the only civilian trial of a 9/11 terrorist was Moussaoui who was arrested before 9/11 had even happened and before the President had authorized detaining terrorists as enemy combatants.
Second, Moussaoui had his trial while the entire military commission system was under sustained legal attack by left-wing lawyers, which put all military commission trials on hold. So he couldn’t have been tried by military commission back then any way. Gateway Pundit
This sets the record straight for those who act as if we have tried a million 9/11 terrorists in civilian courts.
And why those terrorist animals should be in Gitmo (didn’t Obama close that place?)
Speaking of terrorists, here is why they should all be kept at Gitmo:
I was a federal prison guard at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. In 2000, I was with a prisoner, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, taking him back to his cell. His cellmate was Khalfan Khamis Mohamed. They were accused of bombing two embassies in Africa in 1998. Later they said that they worked with Osama bin Laden and that they helped set up al Qaeda.
We were back at their cell. It’s only me and those two guys. No supervisors. Just the three of us. Somehow, they slipped out of their handcuffs.
They sprayed me with some kind of hot sauce. I couldn’t see. They pulled me into the cell and hit me — boom, boom. They hit me so much, I swear to God, like a hundred times.
I hit my radio. I thought help would come.
They wanted the keys for the other prisoners, but they couldn’t find them. They were in my front pocket. I used to be big, 300 pounds, and I was laying on them. I gave them my car keys.
About halfway through, they used a comb — thick and long, about 10 inches, with a handle. They’d taken the teeth out and sharpened it like a knife.
They put it in my left eye. It went three inches into my brain. Read the rest and see a picture of the guy who was attacked at The New York Post
Those animals should have been at Gitmo and this would not have happened. Perhaps they need to be water boarded a few hundred times to take away some of their energy.
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Tags: bin laden, dana perino, james clyburn, lies, Obama, recession