This and That...

[Warph]

Nancy Pelosi: I Don't Want To Be Speaker Again,
"That's Not My Thing"

(Oh yeah... America seen nodding in approval)

Via HuffPo:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told National Journal she's not looking to fill the role of House Speaker again anytime soon.

When asked by reporter Ben Terris if she'd like to be House Speaker again, Pelosi was quick to reject the idea.

"No, that's not my thing. I did that," Pelosi said.

But not everyone feels the same as Pelosi. President Barack Obama said in April 2013 said it would be "whole lot easier to govern" with Pelosi as House Speaker.

"My job is to make sure we move the country forward, and I think we can best do that if Nancy Pelosi is speaker of the House once again," Obama said during a fundraiser.

[Warph]

Obuma In 2012: Taking "Military Action Unilaterally" In Syria Would Be A "Mistake"

(I would love to hear his explanation for why it is not a mistake now)

Via Daily Caller:
The U.S. now appears like it will act unilaterally to punish the regime of Bashar al-Assad for reportedly using chemical weapons on its own population — even though President Barack Obama said last year that taking unilateral action in Syria would be a "mistake."
Obama was elected president in 2008 promising a new era of multilateralism and cooperation with the world. Just last year he said "unilateral" action in Syria would be "a mistake."
"For us to take military action unilaterally, as some have suggested, or to think that somehow that there is some simple solution, I think is a mistake," he said while taking questions from the press in March 2012.

[Warph]

Mentally Sick Obuma Delivers Statement On Syria...

Immediately Heads To The Golf Course for Round 142

Via TWS:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-goes-golfing_751525.html

After delivering a statement on Syria this afternoon,
Barack Obama jumped in the presidential limo and hit the links.

[Warph]

Horrific! Two Women Gang Raped By 10-12 Nigger Teenagers
Suspects Range In Age From 12 To 17-Years-Old

August 30, 2013 9:30 PM

(Sick, sick, sick!
Two women were brutally gang raped by a small mob of teenagers in Wilmington, Delaware on Thursday.  The women were sitting on a park bench, in broad daylight, when a group of 10-12 nigger teenagers [ages 12-17 years old] walked up to the women and decided to dehumanize them.)

According to CBS Philly,
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/08/30/police-2-women-gang-raped-by-juveniles-in-wilmington-park/

Neighbors near Kosciuszko Park in Wilmington expressed anger and outrage Friday, after learning the details of a brutal gang-rape that happened in the park Thursday.

Police say two women, ages 32 and 24, were reportedly attacked and sexually assaulted by a group of 10 to 12 black male juveniles in Kosciuszko Park at about 6:54 p.m. Thursday. According to police, the suspects, who range in age from 12 to 17-years-old, remain on the loose.

The victims were transported to Christiana Hospital for treatment. ...

The women were released from the hospital Friday, but as of Friday night, police had no suspects and no witnesses.

"The new criminal we're seeing, they're bold, they're brazen, and they have a total disregard for life," said Maria Cabrera, city councilwoman-at-large in Wilmington.

(Apparently, feral nigger zombies do exist.  
And there are a dozen of them still running around Wilmington, Delaware)

[Warph]

The world is watching... an empty podium:
Obuma obnoxiously late for Syria speech
Shows Up 35 Mins Late

(Empty podium for an empty suit...hmmm, how appropriate.  Maybe he had to finish his telephone call to Reggie Love)

[Warph]

5 Ways Obama's Unseriousness Has Been Exposed
by Syria Strike Chatter

by Bryan Preston
August 30, 2013
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/08/30/five-ways-obamas-unseriousness-has-been-exposed-by-syria-strike-chatter/?singlepage=true

Let's count up the ways in which the Syria debate has exposed Barack Obama's utter incompetence and lack of seriousness.

1. Failure to consult Congress. The Obama administration has built no consensus among Congress for any kind of strike. Generalissimo Pelosi wants a strike, but beyond her there is very little appetite for any U.S. action.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/nancy-pelosi-barack-obama-syria-96065.html

Democrats are vocally skeptical. Republicans see a replay of Libya, just a couple of weeks before the first anniversary of the deadly attack in Benghazi. Even Dennis Kucinich is starting to make sense.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/08/28/kucinich-syria-strike-would-make-the-us-air-force-al-qaedas-air-force/

There may be good reasons for striking Syria, but those reasons have not been articulated well or explained to Congress. So Congress in turn cannot explain the policy to their constituents.


2. Failure to get buy-in from the American people. Fully 80% of the American people want President Obama to obtain congressional approval before striking Syria. Only about 9% currently support a strike. But Obama's failure to consult Congress until late in the game has probably left him too isolated to gain the  approval and build up support. Now, a vote in Congress risks a replay of what happened in the UK Thursday — a down vote. That would be seen as a victory for Assad and Putin from Damascus to Tehran and well beyond, all the way to Caracas, Havana and Pyongyang.


3. No draft language for the UN to consider. [2007] Senator Obama warned against U.S. military action taken without United Nations approval. That's a dubious standard — our military is our military, not France's military. President Obama has learned (or is learning, hopefully) on the job that Russia likes to use its Security Council veto power to thwart American aims. Russia's foreign policy is fundamentally amoral, and fundamentally about advancing its own interests — if it can do so at America's expense, all the better. The Obama administration evidently has not even drafted any meaningful language for the UN Security Council to consider. Such language could have been used to put the Russians on the defensive to explain their veto, or at least isolate them, but without any draft language to consider, the UN is rudderless.


4. No military plan, no clear objective. What's the plan for striking Syria, and what's the plan for the aftermath of a strike? If anyone in the Obama national security team has any idea, they're not saying. They have leaked and talked about timing and specific targets, but not about much beyond "punishing" Assad. How do you punish a man who is facing sure and humiliating death if he loses the civil war to his enemies, without putting those radical enemies in power? It would take a very deft hand to pull that off. There is no evidence of said deft hand at work in Obama's Syria policy. In fact, there is no evidence that anyone in Obama's national security team is thinking deeply at all.


5. Lack of credible spokes men and women to obtain buy-in from the American people and the press. The faces of Obama's Syria war policy should not be his former campaign attack dogs. But the faces of the Syria policy so far have been Marie Harf and Jen Psaki at the State Department. Both of them hail from the Obama 2012 campaign. They both have one setting — defend their candidate and ruthlessly attack anyone who questions him. That's fine for a campaign, but wholly inappropriate for a president leading his nation into what may blow up into a world war. They both come across as the hard-edged campaign operatives that they are, not the serious policy advocates that they need to be. Obama's 2012 campaign operatives need to be sidelined in favor of career diplomats who have credibility among Democrats and Republicans on the Hill.

Now, we seem to be going it alone, and timing our attack to occur before Obama heads off to the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia next week. This isn't military timing, it's political timing. The headline talk of an attack is giving the Syrians time to plan their counters more effectively. They can move their targets, place human shields on them, equip Hizballah to threaten or attack Israel, and plan their propaganda following the strike.

This is foolishness. Dangerous foolishness.

[Warph]

Egyptian Security Forces Arrest Family Members
Of Al-Qaeda Leader Ayman Al-Zawahri

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahri

(Hmmmm... I'm beginning to like the Egyptian military, they don't mess around with the Muslim Brotherhood or Al-Qaeda.  Now if only they would do better protecting Christian churches)

Via Daily News Egypt:
http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/08/31/al-qaeda-leaders-family-members-arrested-in-nasr-city/

Family members of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahri were arrested in Nasr City after security forces raided their home on Friday.

The police investigation office announced that with the aid of the national security agency they received information regarding the presence of "Jihadi elements" in a building in Nasr City. They moved in "with the assistance of the special forces and the national security forces. They were able to arrest the accused without any resistance."

According to state-run Al-Ahram, the two people arrested were Al-Zawahri's cousin and nephew. Two pistols were found in the apartment while several computers were confiscated.

The arrested were transported to Tora prison south of Cairo. The prosecutor general's office referred the incident to the national security prosecutor's office as it falls "under its jurisdiction."

Al-Zawahri was appointed leader of Al-Qaeda international Jihadist organisation after Osama Bin Laden was killed. Mohamed Al-Zawahri, his brother and prominent Jihadist Salafi movement leader, was previously arrested in Giza.

[Warph]

Chuck Todd Of NBC News Lauds Obuma For
"Giving Some Power Back To Congress"

  Chuck Todd        ✔ @chucktodd 
Quite extraordinary: after 30 years of presidents strengthening powers of exec branch, POTUS is giving some of that power back to Congress.11:00 AM - 31 Aug 2013
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(Ummmmm... apparently the man has never read the Constitution and has no idea what he is saying.  It is already the power of the Congress to give authorization; not POTUS.  Already, the Democratic talking points are everywhere on how wonderful the President is to be going to Congress.  Wonderful?  He still says they don't have the authority, he does.  But now that he's boxed himself in and has no other way out, he'll be glad to foist the decision off on Congress.  Ah, fecklessness)

[Warph]

"Lurch" Kerry Was For Waiting On U.N. Inspectors
Before He Was Against It

By  Sterling Beard August 30, 2013

(Oh yeah... Typical Lurch move)

Via NRO:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/357267/kerry-was-waiting-un-inspectors-he-was-against-it-sterling-beard

[Lurch] Kerry seems to have a short memory.


Secretary of State [Lurch] said today that the United States would not wait on the United Nations' investigation of chemical-weapons use in Syria before deciding on a course of action, on the grounds that the investigation "can't tell us anything . . . that we don't already know." In addition, Kerry said that the U.N. "cannot galvanize the world to act as it should" because of "Russian obstructionism."

President Obama "will ensure that the United States of America makes our own decisions on our own timelines based on our values and our interests," he said, unconstrained by other countries' opinions.

While George W. Bush was in the White House, Kerry seemed to place a lot more value on the international community.

During a speech on September 21, 2004, Senator Kerry said that George W. Bush had "rushed to war" before United Nations weapons inspectors could complete their job, a charge he would later echo in the second presidential debate that fall. In the same 2004 speech, Kerry also blasted President Bush for going into Iraq without a "broad and deep coalition of allies."

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NBC poll: Nearly 80% want congressional approval on Syria
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100999169

My View on this: (What's yours, Forum)

Ultimately, the best way to avoid this war is to call your Congressman and do whatever they can to to stop Obuma, up to and including impeachment.  Not much else is going to stop the Devils Clown.

The majority on the Left seem incapable of criticizing Obuma to any real degree, even as he is hell-bent on doing everything that made Bush such a terrible president.  And a significant chunk of the Right will back just about any war, especially one that can be branded as anti-terrorism or anti-Islam.  Given the reality of modern politics [which is nothing more than political tribalism], I don't really expect the bulk on the Left to try to do much here, especially given their general indifference towards or ignorance of the Constitution.  But I am supremely disappointed by those on the Right who also show that they don't really give a damn about the Constitution, at least when it gets them the war(s) they so crave.

So let me be clear: if you support Obuma's actions in Syria, you give up your right to ever posture like you think the Constitution matters.  That is the only question here.  It's not about chemical weapons.  It's not about Islam.  It's not about terrorism, or rogue states, or tyranny.  It's about the rule of law.  And if you support Obuma's taking us to war without the authority of Congress, you don't give a damn about the rule of law.  Period, the end.
...Warph

That's good! 

Democrats and Republicans alike disregard the Constitution here and abroad.