94 Senators just voted to confirm John Kerry as the next Secretary of State.

John Kerry submitted false testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations committee in 1971, charging Vietnam vets with heinous acts of war crimes during that conflict.

Massachusetts voters have demonstrated ethics aren’t essential – in the past they’ve re-elected a homosexual whose lover ran a prostitution ring out of his home, and a sex-abusing drunkard responsible for the death of a young lady who had the terrible misfortune of being in the vehicle he was driving one late July night in 1969.

So it’s no surprise they’d go for someone with Kerry’s credentials. You might almost say, compared to Barney Frank and Ted Kennedy, choosing a liar was underachieving.

But a Secretary of State represents the entire United States. One would hope that fact would suggest the choices for such position should be held to a higher ethical standard.

Obviously that’s not the case. And now 94 Senators, by their vote for John Kerry, have flipped off every Vietnam veteran in particular, and all military members in general.

With this latest addition to Obama’s administration, the Liar’s Club at 1600 is growing.

Hurricane Sandy victims still living in subnormal conditions and facing another cold front will be comforted to know Obama just announced $155 million in humanitarian aid…

…for Syria.

(No word if Sandy victims of Syrian descent are included…)

When a politician’s re-election and party supremacy are top priorities, how can there be any desire or drive for ‘compromise’ with the opposition political party?

Rush Limbaugh asks a good question; when Democrats claim Republicans – to be successful – should be willing to compromise their positions, do they really expect Republicans should believe Democrats WANT them to succeed? Highly unlikely.

The answer, of course, is that Democrats don’t wish Republicans well…they merely want a general PERCEPTION to be that they wish Republicans well.

Furthermore, persuasive language like ‘compromise’ conveniently hides the fact that its composition is unlikely to help an opposition party, often alienating their base as well.

Other than Rush, very few question the validity of the ‘compromise’ itself.

‘Compromise’? Don’t believe it for a minute!

Not addressing a faulty premise can be costly, even more so when the one making the faulty premise happens to be the polarizer-in-chief of these United States.

Obama’s interview with the New Republic is making news ahead of its February publish date. He blames Fox News and Rush Limbaugh for scaring Republican lawmakers into following conservative ideology, rather than ‘compromising’ with the ‘moderate’ Left.

But his view of the ‘moderates’ happen to be himself, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi, the most extreme liberals in the Democrat leadership roles today.

Basing an argument on a lie makes the argument itself a lie.

The GOP and Fox News would do well to understand they can’t allow this faulty premise, and the inevitable future false premises, to go unchallenged.

And remember what any amateur or professional boxer knows…1) fighting starts when the bell sounds, and 2) jabs, feints, and footwork are part of the fight as well.

Lost in PGA’s Phil Mickelson kerfuffle is the story that another ‘tax dodger’, LeBron James, visited his favorite ‘low-ball’player-in-chief at the White House Monday with other NBA champion Miami Heat players.

(Pat Riley, president of the Heat, didn’t attend…giving ‘flu’ as the reason.)

Much was made of James’s decision to go to Miami after several years with the Cleveland Cavaliers, and many top analysts were more than convinced Florida’s no-income-tax status played a major role in that decision. Yet, no big-media vilification!

Evidently LeBron James has been a big Obama campaign donor. What price, image?

Phil Mickelson take note…if you want the media off your back, we understand Obama is still looking for some big money for future ‘projects’.

Looks like now’s the time to make that high-profile donation investment.

The media will love you for it…

If gun laws were successful, Chicago and Detroit would be Gardens of Eden…

But gun laws aren’t successful, and those gun-violent cities are the daily proof.

Yet gun-control efforts go on, oblivious to such concrete realities. Obama’s at it again, trying to build on a theme that suggests gun-ownership rights are all about hunting.

Gun ownership is about security, protection, and the ability to stand as a free man. “An armed man is a citizen; an unarmed man is a subject.” (source unknown)

Attacking followers of Fox News and conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh is merely Obama’s effort to work up his base. He laments the ability of Republicans to compromise on gun rights, but Obama’s idea of compromise would destroy that right.

The Constitutional right to keep and bear arms is foundational to gun ownership; any  law that infringes on that right is an abdication, not a ‘compromise’.

Of course, this won’t stop Obama from building straw issues (hunting), and straw men (hunters), in the hopes that reducing an essential right of gun ownership to a single factor such as hunting will make it that much easier to frame his debate.

The media will help him do it…but will the public…?

The family of a former professional football player filed suit Wednesday against the NFL, alleging ‘acts or omissions’ that hid the dangers of repetitive blows to the head.

Sadly, that player committed suicide in May, 2012. Predictably, nanny-state elitists stepped up their continuing tirade against the violent nature of professional football, alleging (among other things) that suicidal tendencies were one result of the game.

In this day and age, does anyone really not have the intelligence to understand the violent and potentially serious consequences of playing professional football? And, as for the consequences of repetitive blows to the head…ever heard of Muhammad Ali?

Everyone has, and we all saw first hand the results of repetitive blows to the head as his situation deteriorated over the years. So please, try not to insult our intelligence by implying that a college-student-turned-pro football player doesn’t see the danger.

As much as we admire professional athletes on the field, and feel badly when their post-career strain catches up to them, we need to make sure the data being spoon-fed to us by agenda-driven media and elitists are legitimate.

Remember personal accountability? No one forces a player into the NFL.

And cause-and-result analysis? Suicidal tendencies, for instance. Does playing football result in a disproportionate number of suicidal personalities, or are a disproportionate amount of suicidal personalities drawn to playing football?

‘Cuz it’s all a matter of perspective…

(With special thanks to Mark Levin’s Landmark Legal Foundation)

For those of you who may have missed it, Obama shot himself in the foot…

His January 2012 ‘recess’ appointments have been struck down by a 3-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. In a 47-page decision, the judges laid out an extremely wide-ranging ruling that not only negates the NLRB appointments in question, but goes further in restricting the Executive recess-appointment powers.

Anyone who appreciates the Constitution would be well-advised to read this ruling. It is an impressive judgement that truly displays how words such as “the”, “Recess”, and “happen”  have meaning, and cannot be subverted to justify Executive power-grabs.

Ironic, that the man who made the “just words?” speech is finally brought to heel…

…by just 3 words…

Senate Democrat Feinstein introduced a gun-control measure Thursday that would ban over 150 types of guns…unless you’re a ‘government official’…

Specifically exempted are “…weapons used by government officials, law enforcement, and retired law enforcement personnel.”

Setting aside for the moment that ‘government’ tyranny was the precise reason a right to keep and bear arms was made the 2nd amendment of the Bill of Rights, a question almost as important could be…since ‘law enforcement’ types were already specified…

…what defines a government official?

Harry Reid’s secretary? VA hospital daycare workers? CalTrans? City groundskeeper? County park lifeguards? Your mailman? Town garbage collectors?

(Why exempt them? Hey, there’s a reason the phrase ‘going postal’ came about.)

And, even if you’re a bootlicking, fawning sycophant of the party in power, you have to be tired of the daily “except me” legislation forced on you (Obamacare, anyone…?).

Or is that just a BlueCollar perspective…?

Are there any honest, self-respecting Democrats left out there?

Does ‘truth’ from our elected leaders make a difference, when they’re Democrat?

Is this the new norm, rewarding 4 senior State Department officials with paid vacations when charged with ‘systemic failures and leadership deficiencies’…which led to such poor security in Benghazi that four Americans died as a result?

Is this the new norm, Democrats, when the leader of your party sends women out into the mainstream media to lie for weeks, and when asked to explain how those lies can be justified these women have the gall to ask “what difference does it make”…?

Have you sunk that low, when integrity is trumped by blind party loyalty?