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Truth.

When Obama was offered the authority to make the spending cuts wherever he chooses, anywhere in the government's multi-trillion dollar budget, it was the only power that this power-grabbing president has rejected.

Why? Because with this new power would go responsibility for the consequences of his choices. And responsibility for consequences is precisely what both the Obama administration and the Senate Democrats have been avoiding for years, by refusing to pass a federal budget, as required by the Constitution of the United States.

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If Obama succeeds in maneuvering the Republicans into positions that cause them to lose control of the House of Representatives in the 2014 elections, then as a president who never has to face the voters again, he would be in an ideal position to create a big spending liberals' heaven.

But it will be far from heaven for the economy, with Obama-appointed bureaucrats burying businesses in red tape and job-killing costs, while expanding the size and arbitrary powers of government. We could become the world's largest banana republic.

Obama has three aspects which make the path of the tyrant likely:

1. He has a monstrous narcissism and actively encourages a pseud-religious passion in his followers.

2. He's a socialist, and therefore believes in the totalizing power of government and politics.

3. He's incompetent, and therefore can never solve a crisis and bring a situation into a stable state. Instead, we simply move from one crisis to another.

All these work horribly well together. An incompetent socialist's reaction to failure is, of course, more socialism. A socialist who already believes in the untrammeled power of government and politics is even a bigger believer when he conceives of himself as a near-god.

Obama's Main Goal: Taking Over Congress. Change We Can Believe In turns out to be about little but political power.

Old Washington hands have been scratching their heads about the start of President Obama's second term, with its aggressive liberal priorities and attacks on Republicans. Whatever happened to governing? Well, the answer arrived this weekend as the Washington Post reported that Mr. Obama's real plan for the next two years is returning Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker in 2014.

"The goal is to flip the Republican-held House back to Democratic control, allowing Obama to push forward with a progressive agenda on gun control, immigration, climate change and the economy during his final two years in office, according to congressional Democrats, strategists and others familiar with Obama's thinking," reports the Post, which is hardly hostile to the President.

Posted by: Ace at 01:50 PM | Comments (143)
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Everyone's confirming it. Even the "burns in hell" part.

"And My Condolences to Sean Penn:" Funny, because it's true.

Posted by: Ace at 01:01 PM | Comments (431)
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There's some context here: Oberlin College, alma mater of both Lena Dunham and Michelle Malkin, has a history of girlish freak-outs over hoax racism stunts.

Well, there's some freaking out going on over there now. In addition to some racist/homophobic notes, which already put the college at Defcon 2, someone was seen wearing "a KKK hood," or a blanket, or, as Michelle Malkin tags it, an "assault blanket," and then Lena Dunham tweeted about it and AP just lost its collective shit in a multimedia squee.

Posted by: Ace at 12:34 PM | Comments (188)
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Quick update: I half-recommended Voegelin's book before actually reading it. Now halfway through this particular (long) essay, I think his quest to link gnosticism to Naziism and Communism is a bit of a failure. Kind of interesting, though.

In reading this I've discovered what anyone who's studied philosophy already knew: These guys spend an awful lot of time on "Being." Plato was talking about Being 3000 years ago. Maybe time to move on? Maybe move on to the next step after Being?

No?

We're just going to stay on that, huh?

For how long?

Well, admittedly, occasionally they will shake things up and talk about Knowing.

I've decided to publish my own book on my own philosophical excursions. A tentative table of contents follows; don't hold me to this.

Introduction .......................................... p. ix

Part 1: Being ........................................... p. 1

Part 2: Knowing ...................................... p. 335

Part 3: The Knowingness of Being .......... p. 412

Part 4: The Beingness of Knowing .......... p. 525

Part 5: Real World Applications ............. p. 633

Index ........................................................ p. 636

Posted by: Ace at 12:07 PM | Comments (175)
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As previously reported by @benk84 in the morning headlines, but which I've consciously decided is so important as to merit a second mention (dicks!)...

As I said, it's hard to rely on the word of a hooker, even if she does claim she loves you and would do it without being paid but right now she's a little behind and will have to charge me because Ruy is all up in her shit, because they can be bought.

But this same "they can be bought" principle applies to both Menendez' accusing prostitutes as well as his alibi prostitutes.

The other day the Washington Post reported that "the" prostitutes had sworn in affidavits that they were paid to lie about Menendez.

One problem: There aren't the same prostitutes' whose allegations were aired on The Daily Caller. Though the Washington Post claimed they were (or at least wrote their story to strongly imply that).

In fact, these are other people entirely. And now the Washington Post stealth-edits to make its error go away, without acknowledgement.

A Gallon of Irony Spilled But Not a Drop Splashed on Them: Doc Zero notes the whole tone of the Washington Post piece was chiding and intended as a victory lap over the supposedly-inferior truthiness of competing new media.

They should spend more time trying to be what they claim they are and less time simply asserting it.

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This demonization and fear-mongering crap is really getting old. But, hey, it's the Chicago Way™.

Today's designated villain is, apparently, anyone who thinks the federal government should be able to competently manage a small cut to the rate of increase in spending.

The Obama administration denied an appeal for flexibility in lessening the sequesterÂ’s effects, with an email this week appearing to show officials in Washington that because they already had promised the cuts would be devastating, they now have to follow through on that.

In the email sent Monday by Charles Brown, an official with the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service office in Raleigh, N.C., Mr. Brown asked “if there was any latitude” in how to spread the sequester cuts across the region to lessen the impacts on fish inspections.

He said he was discouraged by officials in Washington, who gave him this reply: “We have gone on record with a notification to Congress and whoever else that ‘APHIS would eliminate assistance to producers in 24 states in managing wildlife damage to the aquaculture industry, unless they provide funding to cover the costs.’ So it is our opinion that however you manage that reduction, you need to make sure you are not contradicting what we said the impact would be.” (emphasis added)

Got that?

King Barack I proclaimed that the world would end on March 1, and by God you'd better do your part, Federal Bureaucrat No. 73842135/J.

The King has also decreed that his subjects will no longer be able to visit the Royal Palace due to "staffing reductions". Here's a list of all the employees who were let go:

On a related note, His Majesty feels awfully set upon by those dastardly Republicans who hate him more than they love their country. Or something.

So deeply ingrained is the animus aimed at Barack Obama that conservative lawmakers would rather put Americans out of work, sabotage valuable contracts for small businesses, and eject preschoolers from Head Start classrooms rather than give the president a legislative “win.”

The president himself made that argument Friday while explaining why across-the-board spending cuts could not be averted by March 1, and why he would now spend weeks or months, if necessary, working to get Congress to reverse what he called “dumb” budget policy.

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I'll be out for an hour to get some supplies for the Global Warming Snowfall.

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Yesterday Krugman attempted to lower expectations about his performance in the informal debate, with Joe Scarborough, on the proposition We Need to Reduce our Spending on Entitlements. Krugman, like every other economist in the world, was on the Yea side of this until... Barack Obama needed him to be a Nay. So now he's a Nay.

Here's Krugman reducing expectations:

Well, weÂ’ll see how it comes out after editing, but I feel that I just had my Denver debate moment: I was tired, cranky, and unready for the blizzard of misleading factoids and diversionary stuff (In 1997 you said that the aging population was a big problem! When Social Security was founded life expectancy was only 62!) Oh, and I wasnÂ’t prepared for Joe ScarboroughÂ’s slipperiness about what he actually advocates (heÂ’s for more spending in the near term? Who knew?)

Cranky and unready he was. Newsbusters has some clips. In the first, Krugman announces that citing Krugman From Five Years Ago (that entitlements must be reformed) is an ad hominem attack.

Ad hominem is of course a Latin phrase meaning "Something" (ad) "which destroys my argument and that's not fair you big bully" (hominem).

And then he began interrupting Scarborough with loud sighing and smug remarks (like "Wowwww") just like Al Gore did to Bush, and like Joe Biden did to Paul Ryan. Scarborough called him out for that, and Krugman, the soft-bellied weakling, took his medicine like an obedient child.

"I think I'm going to kill myself."

Gag by Jane D'Oh.

More Video: At the Daily Caller.

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Bill Keller, whose liberal credentials are embossed on red diapers and set in a frame of wood taken from the phone booth where Walter Duranty was contacted by his Soviet handler, had some criticism for President False God.

Our feckless leaders may be incapable of passing a budget, but, boy, can they pass the buck. The White House spent last week in full campaign hysteria, blitzing online followers with the message that heartless Republicans are prepared to transform America into “Les Misérables” in order to protect “millionaires and billionaires, oil companies, vacation homes, and private jet owners.” Republicans retort that the budget-cutting Doomsday device called sequester was actually invented by the White House.

In fact, the conceptual paternity of sequester was bipartisan.

Well, that won't do. So the Sons of JournoList got together for a heritic barbecue. One approving leftist fan called this a "Marvel Team-Up" of the progressives to clean up cleanse the record on the sequester, and remove Obama's name from the record.

It takes a Marvel team-up of three different reporters, from three different news organizations, to perform this elementary act of real-keeping. Meanwhile, Bill Keller can, in one column, undo the work of Harwood, his New York Times colleague.

Sexton comments:

It's not right to call the attacks on Keller a Marvel team-up because there's nothing remotely novel or unusual about it. These same progressive writers and a few dozen others at TPM, Mother Jones, Salon, Maddow Blog, etc. team up constantly. The progressive gang-tackle of Keller--or before that Bob Woodward or Mitt Romney--is about as surprising as sunrise and even more frequent.

The progressive left's network of writers may span different magazines and papers but they usually function as a team, tweeting, retweeting and linking to amplify one another's voices and attacks. For the most part, this happens with little input from anyone who wasn't formerly part of Klein's Jourolist a few years ago. They agree amongst themselves, citing one another for backup, and it's settled.

When the right does this sort of thing it's chastised as the right-wing echo chamber or a sign of epistemic closure. The latter is just a smart-assed way of saying the right doesn't listen to anyone outside their own bubble. That may be true at times, but the attack on Keller shows the professional left has the same problem. The moment anyone--even someone with Bill Keller's progressive bona fides--challenges the group consensus he is a villain who will be taken down in a web of hyperlinks and rhetorical fireballs.

It's also wrong to call this a Marvel Team-Up because none of them have superpowers, unless being an annoying, smug twat is now enough to get you into the Avengers.*

* Note: Tony Stark also had the armor and the genius thing.

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