Full-Metal-Jacket Weekend Wrap

The FMJWA -a best of the conservative/libertarian blogosphere- is inspired by Stacy at The Other McCain- per his How to Get a Million Hits on Your Blog...

" When someone does you a favor,

find an opportunity to return the kindness."

►Riehl World View- Dan now sees an Obama trapped between his leftist base and center-Right America... and with nowhere left to go -here-

He also makes a direct -and overdue- appeal on the part of all conservatives to John McCain: Please go away -here-

►Moonbattery- Mary tells us how what was supposed to be the "most transparent administration in history" is now shielding his myriad czars from having to bother with testifying on the Hill

-here-

And Van covered Charles Krauthammer's caustic take on Obama's ill-advised assault on Fox News... and how long before this guy goes full-Chavez on us? -here-

►Libertarian Advocate- is dancing-in-the-end-zone as the other networks finally found the spine to stand-up to the Dear Leader... delivering him a nuclear pimp-slap over his unprecedented and disturbing attempt to ban Fox from the WH press pool -here-

►Left Coast Rebel- has Jeb Bush pontificating on the GOP's future again- you know, he's the political genius that called Reaganite principles "nostalgia" a couple months back. Seriously, I don't think anybody's really listening to you Jeb... I know I'm not -here-

►Gateway Pundit- found a spontaneous protest against ObamaCare broke-out at flu-shot line -here-

►The Other McCain- Introverted shrinking-violet Stacy McCain announces the triumphant return of... er, himself -here-... as he's on the road with the Hoffman campaign in upstate NY.

Meanwhile, pardner Smitty holds-down-the-fort back in Atlanta- with a useful swing-state summary/update -here-

►Founding Bloggers- does an excellent summary of Obama's far-left, class-warfare alliance- a Hexagon of Progress (puke sounds here)- Who was it that said "know your enemy"? Whoever it was... good advice, that -here-

►MAInfo- has bus-driver Obama ready to curb-chuck the brave, principled.... and scared Blue-Dogs

-here-

►No Sheeples Here- says something I think we can all agree with: that Team Obama Maoist Anita Dunn has a sense of irony that's simply appalling -here-

►Flopping Aces- finds the Obama White House -smelling a loser- distancing itself from the feeble Democratic candidate in Virginia's Gubernatiorial race... and of course in the most underhanded, Alinskyite way -here-

►Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion- examines a concern troll of the dinosaur media, Joe Klein... who's obsequiously accused Fox News of sedition- perhaps a Nobel -or a medal- will be in order for this one -here-

►And So It Goes in Shreveport- Pat's got Sarah Palin's endorsement of Doug Hoffman for NY-23 -here-

And she's also got the clip of Bobby Jindal on Hannity last night -here-

►Another Black Conservative- delivers a real gem where San-Fran-Nan was cornered on the constitutionality of an individual health-insurance mandate... and of course she tried to just blow-it-off

-here-

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Friday Funnies...w/ Hope-n-Change

-click on any to enlarge-

-thanks Stilton Jarlsberg at Hope-n-Change-

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The Navy's New Pirate Vaporizer

The USS Independence:

A triple-hulled monster,

brimming with weaponry...

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The Independence is the prototype for a new class of littoral combat ship, the design competitor produced by the General Dynamics consortium.

The ship has recently completed sea-trials, and is intended as a small assault transport with a variety of capabilities dependent upon the mission module installed. In addition to cargo or other container-sized modules, the bay can carry four lanes of multiple Strykers and/or armored Humvees, along with their crews.

Propelled by gas-turbine jets, it's officially capable of over 40 knots (46 mph) -even rumored to be able to attain speeds approaching 60 knots- and on-schedule for initial delivery to the US Navy at the end of this year.

Independence can move huge weapons around faster than any ship in the Navy. Ironic that with all that high-tech and high-speed capability, she reminds one of the Merrimac and Monitor ironclads of the US Civil War era in appearance.

Littoral denotes "close to shore", and that's where it will operate, not in blue-water but rather tailor-made for launching helicopters and armored vehicles, sweeping mines and firing all manner of torpedoes, missiles and machine guns.

Pirates would be well-advised to surrender promptly upon initial radio contact- lol.

These ships were designed to be relatively inexpensive at $208 million ... and the navy plans to build 55 of them. The tri-maran Independence-class is the first of a new fire-breathing breed of ship... think of it as a speedy and heavily-armed aircraft carrier for helicopters.

►Wikipedia

►Austral USA

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Libs Caught Pulling a Fast One

Some express considerable surprise at how quickly the Democrats have proven themselves stoopid, misreading their perceived election mandate severely- thus the aggressive legislative overreach and consequent plunging support. They actually thought that most Americans wanted a statist makeover of this country, and are caught offguard by swelling public outrage... but I don't see it that way at-all.

Obama-Pelosi-Reid and other liberals are plenty out-of-touch with ordinary Americans, to be sure- but if they ever believed that such sweeping, radical legislation had public support -and that this is what people were asking for last November- then why the habitual dishonesty, broken promises for openness/bipartisanship, stealthy power-grabs, the rush towards a vote without reading the proposals, sneaky last-minute amendments, threats to use dubious parliamentary maneuver, a ceaseless propaganda campaign -some of it funded with Federal tax dollars, union bouncers dispatched to bully town-hall protesters, relentless playing of the race card, paid internet trolls... and Alinskyite attacks on any/all opponents?

Does any of that behavior bespeak confidence that America was ready to welcome what they're now attempting to foist on us? Well, ends always justifies the means for the Left, because of-course they know better than the rest of us... but being aggressive, ruthless, and unprincipled certainly doesn't ensure success. The truth is, the Democrats tried to pull-one-over on America... and they got caught.

This is a country that likes a stand-up guy... but not so-much squirelly shell-game socialists who take advantage of our trust. Obama is the opportunist who mistakes good-faith kindness for weakness... not only do you have to back him off, but it's hard to allow the benefit-of-the-doubt (or to like him much) again after that.

Americans have now awoken, and they smell not only the coffee... but a scam... and they don't like it. As the failures mount, they're now expressing that displeasure in no uncertain terms. Sadly, in a time that screams for pragmatism and leadership, Team Obama provides little of either:

► Rasmussen has Obama's Approval Index at a -13%, one-point off his all-time low. Although this figure has proven voliatile, for the first time during Obama’s time in office the index is in negative double digits for seven straight days.

► Seven months after a pork-laden "stimulus" bill was peddled as something that would cap unemployment in the mid-eights, 49/50 states have lost jobs- six million jobs shy of Obama Administration projections.

With joblessness at a 26-year high of 9.8%, it's clear why the Dems seek any GOP support they can scrounge-up for these blatantly non-bipartisan bills... purely for political cover. Trouble is, he didn't get much of that on the ill-fated Porkulus- so Obama owns this piggy, and he's starting to wish he didn't...

►Although we were promised something entirely different, the "stimulus" package has been wholly ineffective... despite its deficit-spiking $800B tab. And the frightening jobs chart looks like it fell-off the edge of the table... -here-

►Support for Obama's top domestic priority- the health care plan proposed by the President and Congressional Democrats- is down to 42%...

54% are opposed.

►The GOP has beaten the Dems in fundraising for the 2nd straight month.

►The Republicans have pulled ahead by five points in the generic congressional poll.

►Obama is now out campaigning/fundraising for his party's future, which he and congressional leaders have brought to the edge of the abyss in just seven months. Breitbart reports that the dollars aren't materializing as much as expected—even with a record-shattering fundraiser like Obama working furiously.

►Two weeks before off-year elections, Dems are facing the prospect of losing hard-fought gubernatorial races in Virginia and perhaps New Jersey, too.

►The Russians and Iranians are making a fool of Obama- as Israel wisely makes plans to go-it-alone

-here-

►Meanwhile, Obambi is a deer-stuck-in-the-headlights re. Afghanistan- with commanders now begging for him to make some/any decision. And as the Boy Wonder diddles and goes to his standard default setting -blame Bush- Dick Cheney sees a man frozen with fear...

-here-

Now doubling-down in his foohardy, diversionary attack on Fox News- the Dear Leader is making himself look still more petty and vindictive with an infantile you-can't-come-in-our-tree-fort chat at the WH- excluding Fox News and other perceived enemies, but including reliable MSM toady Maureen O'Dowd and a couple of the mindless parrots from MSLSD- read about that at Left Coast Rebel... -here-

Another Black Conservative is wondering how a certain knee-jerk bootlick with the tingly thigh didn't make the cut... perhaps the intensity of his Obama-man-crush even gives Barack the creeps? -here-

Stop the ACLU has a look at why Obama is in over his head, sinking fast... while taking America with him -here-.

And the Gateway Pundit has a deeply insecure White House e-mailing MSNBC during their live broadcast to "correct" them- insisting that Jake Tapper's exchange with the Gibster was "not heated"... nothing more pressing, Rahm?

►Riehl World View

►Flopping Aces

►Moonbattery

►Drudge Report

►Breitbart

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WaPo Calls Obama's Ill-Advised Fight with Fox News "Dumb"

They're starting to turn on him now- calling Obama's propaganda offensive against Fox News "Agnew-esque", the liberal Washington Post's liberal Ruth Marcus wrote today:

There’s only one thing dumber than picking a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel -- picking a fight with people who don’t even have to buy ink. The Obama administration’s war on Fox News is dumb on multiple levels. It makes the White House look weak, unable to take Harry Truman’s advice and just deal with the heat...

Where the White House has gone way overboard is in its decision to treat Fox as an outright enemy and to go public with the assault. Imagine the outcry if the Bush administration had pulled a similar hissy fit with MSNBC...

Read the rest in the WaPo -here-

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Update: Wake Up America has Jake Tapper of ABC drilling the Gibster good on all of this, plus Helen Thomas and others' reactions... and of-course the resultant Fox News ratings bonanza -here-