This week’s suggested Sunday reads…
Will we be witnessing a new beginning for the Golden State, or a reverse Grapes of Wrath deal? (excepting that, most likely, the modern day "Joads" won’t be setting off in search of work) From the LA Times (via Facebook— H/T Kevin):
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing to completely eliminate the state’s welfare program for families, medical insurance for low-income children and Cal Grants cash assistance to college and university students.
Seems the Governator had a Road to Damascus moment after voters said NO to more taxes and will be
withdrawing a proposal to help balance the budget with billions of dollars of borrowing and replacing it with program reductions.
You know what they say… as California goes, so goes the Nation. Hopefully, "they" are right in this instance.
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Is he finally seeing the light? Said President Obama this week on C-Span:
"you have to be able to stand in somebody else’s shoes and see through their eyes and get a sense of how the law might work or not work in practical day-to-day living."
Phew! Has the president opened his eyes to see the amount of pain and suffering the new Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade energy taxes will cause ordinary people– especially ones that live in northern states needing to heat some nine months out of the year? Sadly, it isn’t so. No, the president, seemingly oblivious to the crushing costs such new energy taxes will place on the middle class, had the above comments for his Supreme Court nominee… who must show what the Magic Obama calls "empathy" for the little people. Too bad it’s so selective…
Read the lovingly written AP story about the anticipated Obama pick here. Did you know that this is a "young president" and that his approach will be "methodical?" Ooooooh–Isn’t President Obama simply dreamy? 
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As usual, Krauthammer is spot-on.
If hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue, then the flip-flops on previously denounced anti-terror measures are the homage that Barack Obama pays to George Bush. Within 125 days, Obama has adopted with only minor modifications huge swaths of the entire, allegedly lawless Bush program.
Indeed. While it appears that in some instances, Obama is undoing everything and anything to do with conservative and/or Republican past practices, in some areas, not so. Because, while he won’t admit it, Bush WAS right on some things. Krauthammer coined the term for the new Obama dance, and illustrates it again this week in his excellent column…
Obama three-step: (a) excoriate the Bush policy, (b) ostentatiously unveil cosmetic changes, (c) adopt the Bush policy
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And under his skin, too. Thankfully…
From Lords86 blog diary at Redstate:
Dick Cheney is in President Obama’s kitchen.
How do we know? Because the White House scheduled a major foreign policy speech this past week for one major reason – to address the concerns about Obama’s recent decisions on GITMO and the release of interrogation memos, raised most prominently by none other than Darth Vader’s twin, Dick Cheney.
When did you ever hear of Bill Clinton feeling compelled to respond to Dan Quayle’s criticism? Or Ronald Reagan feeling compelled to respond to Walter Mondale – before or during the 1984 campaign?
Why then respond to Dick Cheney? Because eventually, even amateurs understand the difference between semi-pro ball and the majors. The few adults wandering the halls of the White House know that Obama has been playing semi-pro ball for the last 4 months, catering to the whims of his far left wing electoral base. In so doing, Obama has miserably attempted to articulate a coherent foreign policy, defined not on what it is, but on what it is not – “it isn’t the Bush Administration.”
Have a great Sunday!!!!