This is how low the influence of America has sunk in the Middle East.

First  he ignored the Palestinian rockets fired into Israel from Gaza this morning, as he woke to prepare for a trip to the Israel Museum before heading into Ramallah.

Then ‘Appeaser’-in-Chief Obama spoke in Ramallah, Palestinian Territory, of putting ‘security first’ for Israel…under a banner of Yasser Arafat – father of modern terrorism.

Putting aside the fact that we’re speaking of Israel, what does it say when a President of the United States visits ANY ally, a bordering territory fires rockets at that ally while he’s there, and yet he then proceeds to visit the aggressor and make ‘nice’?!?

Want a BlueCollarPerspective?

Your police chief friend visits you and your family for breakfast, a neighbor drives by at that time shooting into your house…then the chief has lunch at that neighbor’s house.

Now, multiply that perspective times thousands of rockets fired into Israel every year.

(Of course, unlike Israel, you have the luxury of moving your family to another town…)

‘Security first’, Mr. Appeaser…? Under a banner of Yasser Arafat???

You’ve got to be kidding.

Just when you think a political party can’t sink any lower, Harry Reid proves otherwise.

7 Marines died in a night-time training exercise at Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada on Monday, when a 60mm mortar round exploded prematurely in its tube.

And Obama’s toady Senate Majority Leader displayed the Democrat version of a ‘split second’, racing to get in front of the media TV cameras to blame…sequestration.

(Suggesting ill-prepared training or maintenance was a result, and could re-occur.)

Message to Reid…if you’d served in the military instead of playing political science…

…you would know that often training ordnance can be a couple of years old…

…cross-service training exercises are planned months, if not years in advance…

…and you NEVER stand on the bodies of dead Marines to grandstand for your boss.

But then, you are your Master’s boy…and the Senate Majority Leader who has defied Congressional law by refusing to do a budget for the last several years…

…forcing Obama’s sequestration package down everyone’s throat.

Taking ‘gall’ to new heights, you refuse to pass a budget, thereby forcing sequestration on the American military…then race to the microphones when Marines die?

Or, have we misunderstood? Was it a mea culpa?

Are you offering to resign as the cause of the Democrats’ sequestration which may have (as you implied today) contributed to these unfortunate deaths…?

Or (more likely) are you merely trying to deflect blame on Republicans?

Our guess is you’re standing on the bodies of Marines for political purposes…

If so, Harry, you don’t deserve the title ‘Senator’…and calling you ‘scum’ would be an insult to scum everywhere.

Which is it, Harry? Are you accepting blame for sequestration, or posturing for CNN?

Where do you stand, Nevada? Are you proud of this slime representing you? Does Nevada have a ‘recall’ mechanism in their political system?

Just as importantly, does the Senate have the guts to reprimand Reid’s despicable act?

Or does the American Way now include using dead Marines for political props?

When the enemy’s pinned you down and there’s no way to go, you need covering fire.

Covering fire from other positions forces the enemy to duck and return fire, giving those  comrades pinned down an opportunity to move out of harm’s way.

The Wall Street Journal has an article today that talks about Obama’s plan to force federal agencies to conduct ‘global warming impact studies’ before those agencies can approve what they consider unwanted major projects…which will delay and obstruct.

The Journal reviews a National Review blog on that Obama strategy.

But the Wall Street Journal and Stanley Kurtz’s blog fail to follow that Obama tactic to its logical conclusion…Obama is most definitely setting this up to give his Democrat cohort 2014-election ‘cover fire’.

Obama doesn’t need anyone’s approval – he has his second term secured.

But House & Senate Democrats (in office, and wannabe’s) up for election/re-election in 2014 need ‘cover fire’ on such programs as the KeystoneXL project.

Everyone knows it was stalled by Obama, but now continuing to stop KeystoneXL could cost votes in the next election. So, how to obstruct it without appearing to obstruct it?

That’s right…the ‘global warming review’ directive.

Of course a Lapdog Media will assist. Obama will be praised to the skies for signing off on hated projects like KeystoneXL, even as his directive stops them dead in the water.

And his Democrat cohort have their covering fire on these issues going into 2014.

Republicans will need to effectively point out loudly and often exactly how this will play out if they want to neutralize Obama’s strategy.

How many gun crimes have been committed by Law-Abiding citizens?

ZERO.

How many laws have gun-crime Perpetrators obeyed?

ZERO.

What’s the chance your gun control legislation will stop criminals and gun crimes…?

ZERO.

Is there a reason for your existence in the Senate…?

‘The best defense is a good Offense…’

How often have you heard that phrase? More importantly, how often have you wished House Republicans would employ that philosophy? It’s very potent, strategically…

It keeps the opponent on Defense, and allows the GOP to effectively set the narrative.

We all know Obama’s main strategy is to defeat House Republicans in 2014, so ‘Botox Nan’ and her Democrat cohort can rule the House, and finish what they started in 2009.

That said, the question is why isn’t Speaker Boehner going on Offense?

A column ran today on how House GOP’ers can “Keep the Pressure on Democrats”.

Deroy Murdock lays out several excellent scenarios where Boehner & Co. can employ the ‘Best Defense’ by introducing House bills that put Democrats in a bad light, pitting them against themselves, putting Republicans in a good light by contrast.

E.G.; bring up a bill that defunds Obama’s weekend golf junkets, and restores funding for White House tours. Dems must choose – Obama’s playtime, or Girl Scout visits.

Bring up a bill that repeals forcing union ‘prevailing wages’ that gooses the cost of fed-funded projects 22%; use half of savings for debt reduction, the other half for programs that assist disabled children living below the poverty level. Unions vs disabled kids…

Bring up a bill that defunds Obama’s multi-billion $ green-jobs fraud. (As Murdock says, “…at $575,000 per green job created…Platinum jobs is more like it”) Use half of the savings for debt reduction, the other half for Low Income Home Energy Assistance.

Force Democrats to choose between green-money payoffs for their biggest campaign donors…or heating for Grandpa’s apartment in the middle of winter.

Best of all, these aren’t ‘gimmick’ bills – they solve real problems: debt, waste, poverty.

Republican Speaker Boehner has had two years to implement such a strategy. We all know Democrats never hesitate to attack, so what’s Boehner waiting for…?

Is it a lack of Guts? Does the other side have dirt on the GOP to control their moves?

How do you ‘keep’ pressure on an opponent you never pressure in the first place?

Mr. Speaker…?

For those who think Class Warfare rhetoric from politicians ‘no big deal’, Thomas Sowell has an article at National Review Online that might help with perspective.

Boiled down, he condemns the ‘intellectuals’ who constantly try to apply a grand theory to explain group differences in outcome, inevitably leading to resentment and hostility.

He speaks in ethnic and genetic terms, but it’s easy to apply this same commentary to our wildly successful Free Market economic system, now attacked by the Liberal Left.

Put simply, in such a system ‘Opportunity’ is available, but ‘Results’ are not guaranteed.

Some achieve, many do not, for a variety of reasons.

But the Left applies their concept of ‘Fairness’ to stoke fires of envy and rage against the Achievers, in order to build their version of a more acceptable societal order.

Taken in that context, one can argue that there’s a concerted effort being mounted to provoke a new-age ‘Capitalism Holocaust’…using resentment and malice against those who have achieved success…to enable the buildup of a Big Government nanny state.

Sowell’s last paragraphs clarify. Liberals (wrongly) theorize that either genetic determinism or discrimination explain differences in outcome. Their False Dichotomy is that it must be either one or the other, creating ‘racial and ethnic polarization’.

“The false dichotomy…leaves less-successful groups with the choice of believing that they are inherently inferior or else that they are victims of the unconscionable malice of others.” (emphasis added)

“When innumerable factors make equal outcomes virtually impossible, reducing those factors to genes or malice is a formula for needless and dangerous polarization, whose consequences have often been written in blood across the pages of history.”

Thus the dangers of Class Warfare rhetoric, provoking a new-age Capitalism Holocaust.

In that Perspective, loosely adapting Shakespeare now seems apropos…

‘By the Pricking of (Capitalist) thumbs, something Wicked this way comes…’

The next time you hear how bad Free-Market Capitalism is, ask…

If it’s so bad, why is America the leading world power?

If it’s so bad, how does America give more foreign aid than all other nations…

…combined?

If it’s so bad, how is it our ‘poor’ have such a high standard of living compared to the rest of the world?

If it’s so bad, why is America every immigrant’s destination-of-choice?

And, if you think it’s so bad…how is it you’re still here?

This just in – your veterinarian bills will be going higher, thanks to…Obamacare!

Dr. Dolittle will soon become Dr. Chargemore; as medical device taxes increase per O’care guidelines, vet costs will go up, and, typically, passed on to the customer. You.

Yep, when medical device manufacturers fabricate products that perform dual-use roles in human and animal care (IV’s, syringes, CT scanners, etc), they’re hit with a new tax.

Which they pass along to the veterinarians…who will invariably pass them along to you.

(Veterinarians don’t accept hand-licking from 4-legged patients as payment for services rendered; they prefer a folding-money or ATM version…from the 2-legged owners.)

One can only hope Nancy “We have to pass it to find out what’s in it” Pelosi owns lots of cats…because while Democrat politicians exempted themselves from Obamacare…

…they couldn’t manage to figure a way to be exempt from its hidden costs.

So, in a ‘fair’ world, Pelosi’s cats could end up helping to pay for your CAT scan.

(Updated)

The bogus jobs report is out, claiming a 0.2% jobless rate drop in February.

‘Unexpectedly’ (of course) dropping from 7.9% to 7.7%.

Oh joy, sweet joy…the ‘Obama’nomic recovery is working! Milk-n-honey, flowing again!

Ignore the 130k 296,000 unemployed who lost hope in February, dropping from the job market. (Updated, from IBD reports Friday afternoon. That’s 60,000 more people dropping out of the Labor Force than found jobs in February!)

Ignore the fact that, if the total Labor Force numbers were what they were in February 2012 – just one year ago – today’s unemployment rate would be 8.3%.

And, as everyone (not living in caves, grass huts, or hollowed-out tree trunks) knows, the Obama-Sequester he and the media are blaming on Republicans started March 01.

A BCP Prediction: April’s unemployment rate will ‘unexpectedly’ go back up, and the mainstream media lapdogs…errrr, concerned news outlets…will screech from the rooftops (in unison, of course) “the GOP sequester did it!”.

‘Cuz the media lapdogs…errr, concerned news outlets…are nothing if not predictable…

(Recapping…expect a bogus April jobless report reflecting a bogus ‘unexpected’ rate rise to be blamed on bogus ‘spending-cut’ legislation based on a bogus assertion that ‘the Republicans did it’. Everyone clear on that?)

And, we can’t stress ‘unexpectedly’ enough…

Sue F responds to “Honey I Shrunk the 97%’ers”, expressing her amazement that people don’t wake up to the fact Democrats are not the party of the people…

(…unless it means keeping people on the government reservation).

The BCP take? Republicans need to step up their messaging game.

It’s not about changing every non-believer’s mindset…just change enough of them to win back the levers of power. Republicans have a great message, but a terrible track record at getting the message out effectively.

Consider one HUGE example:

Presently, Republicans control only one-half of the Legislative branch in Congress, but are blamed (by the Left and their mainstream media pawns) for all the economic ills our country’s going through now.

Yet, the Democrats controlled the ENTIRE Legislative branch of government BEFORE and DURING the economic downturn (Jan 2007 through Dec 2011)…

…but out-of-power Republicans were blamed for that collapse then as well!

Sadly, this means it’s not about ‘the message’…but who controls delivering it…

In 2004, at the height of the Kerry-v-Bush campaign, Evan Thomas (Newsweek editor) claimed that the mainstream media Leftward ’slant’ consistently delivers 15 percentage points for Democrats in national elections.

Neutralize that one fact, and Democrats would become a permanent minority.

Of course, it would only take billions of dollars in buying up news-media outlets to neutralize their advantage…know anyone with some spare change?

Anybody got the Koch Brothers’ phone number?